Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-10-07
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.,1rv,s EXPOSITION.

'anblication of Forney's Tarrytown
having called down upon him the
# sundry government officials, he
do long reply, in which sundry
;otures are drawn. We have room
b. the following;
and Shoulder Photograph Of the
Washington Onton.
u,;on goes on to say, speaking of the
e the Cabinet meeting:
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story he tells of the Cabinet meeting
u' ,bs account of his own conversation,
sbnlous. We venture to assert that
f.Itor never authorized any one to say
" ;;nsnIted the President and Cabinet by
,nc a suspicion that they would behave
bsrously."
!, as il does, in the Washington Union,
I,sss as the report Of that conversation be-
RopERr j. WALKER and tie Cabinet acas
1aiufed by one Of the editors Of the
I;sgtOn Union, on more than one occasion,
G5ys ras no confidence imposed, and at
as that editor r0S the knoUn public and
cIwsary Of the Kansas policy of tie
.agbatioa. The name of that editor is
simeon NJ. johnson. | believe that he
attached to the Washington Union
Isnies the statement here made, | shall
'npelled to make it good by furnishing
,ae or names of respectable witnesses
rsre present when he described this Gel
H. Interview between Gov. Walker and
Ehbnet, and President Buchanan and
4 without calling upon Gov. Walker, or
President, or the Cabinet, | beg to rest
Dart of my statement upon the distin-
il ID authority of the editor of the Wash
Il Union himself.
4 tngth Portrait of james Geraon
Bennett.
Gong those who have volunteered to sup
cir ready abuse OF the Tarrytown speech,
ice the editor of the New York Herald,
riamOus James Gordon Bennett. Ad-
1g, as | do, mixed audience, because,
|sume, this statement will be read by men
parties, | am sure that | commit no Of
when | recall public attention to the
|er in which this man conducted his news
during the campaign of 1856. A long
i shame, life frightened by no single
Of virtue, Il life Of seltishness, of ieal-
Of ostracism, was fttingly illustrated
b columns Of his newspaper during that
,5rabe struggle. Absent in Europe when
Buchanan returned from England, Ben.
:ame to New York shortly after aud cast
I to see which of the great parties had the
chance of success. Finally, his years of
d of james Buchanan obtained the mas
and he placed himself in the hands Of
Tends of tremont-whether or not for a
.ieration | am unable to proce.
is man had grown rich in career of
1y. His attacks upon personal charac-
lis terrorism over actors and actresses,
ackleSs intrigues against business men
luslness interests, all com bined, had fiji
is pockets, and he now aspired to a re
able representative position at some for.
court. 1t is stated that when he applied
ch a position under the Administration
esdeat Pierce, his petition was secuted,
e became the assailant of that Admins
n. How he toied to defeat Mr.. Bu-
III, the columns Of his journal will show.
eemed to have abandoned all remorse.
gents penetrated every section of the
/; they hung about Lancaster, where
Buchanan resided; they fingered at
lngton they were in the South and in
,orth, and all talked the same way and
in the same common calumnies. There
not fabrication, no matter how vile,
did not find ready circulation through
,lumns Of the Herald. The most sacred
s we're exposed to the public eye.
early life of Mr.. Buchanan, his init
confidential relations, and especially
,0rtion which he himself has most sedu.
hidden from notoriety, was ruthlessly
ARE to the vulgar gaze. This jackal oi
resS, who grinds his enyenomed tooth
into the grave itself, tore up the cerc.
Of the innocent and helpless dead, and
into the eyes of the startled public, Sc
which even Mr. Buuhanan's friends did
are to allude to.
,Taph Of .Ur. Bachauam cuttiug off
-Nr. Bennctt's Ears.
. Buchanan said to me one dhy, taking
le New York Herald, while | was on
TO Wheatland, Why am | thus to be
lced and pursued by this Infamous knave?
G ! no friends who will visit New York
punish him as he deserves? His ears
ID be taken off in the public streets!"-
er saw Mr.. Buchanan more excited than
aa Oh this and other occasions, under
etts unlicensed and cruel slanders, and
eve that 1T is to my prudence and com,
N that Bennett Is this day permitted to
Broadway with his long ears on his
head. | well remember how, after the
lign, the first impulse of the Democrats
er the Union was to have a settlement
he New York Herald. That paper had
ded all its influence and a good deal OF
onts money in trying to defeat Mr.. Bu-
n.
graph Of Mr.. Buchanan embracing
Mr.. Bennett
ousands of Democratic editors through.
le country felt that Bennett deserved to
1stigated, and at the solicitation of a
er of distinguished men, then in Phila-
ia, | sat down and prepared a somewhat
ie article. showing him up ip faithful
}. MIR. Buchanan astonished me by cal
my attention to this article, and COM
ed of the proprietor Of the paper for