The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-08-18
A.Rnsc ForgrfY.


We stated last week that The following Orged
letter would appear in last weeks cadiz Rrpb-
Loaa. It appeared with considerable comments.
To show what desperation the opposition are
driven to, We give the letter as sample Of their
mode Of warhre:-
WAH1SGroS, Judy %, 1858.
DEAR Sin: Aware that the convention for
nominating a Democratic candidate Tor Con
gress in your district, will convene in few
days, | cannot refrain from expressing the hope
that you may be the unanimous nominee of the
convention. III lived in your district and had
a thousand votes, you should hvve them all.-
Occupying the position you Go, consider it eS-
sentiai that you should succeed in the nOmina-
tion. \ failure in this would be regarded by
me as a rebuke Of my Administration. There
may be some aSpirant or aspirants in your way
IL so, you may say to them that by giving ycu
a clear track they will gain my favor, and may
expect to he provided for in a suitable manner
lf nominated will throw as much assistance
into your district as you may desire.
Our friend Hughes, ! see, has hard row to
hoe. lie will tc literally sustained. Of this
you may rest assured.
Your friend,
JAMES BrcuANAN.
Hon. WNI. II. ENGLIsu.
The Washington St,tcs, a paper that was op-
posed to the President on the Lccompton qucs-
ticn, thus speaks of this forged letter.
The Black Republican journals are thorough
lv devoid OF nanliness or honor TO publish such
letter. On the face oft we see it is forgery.
Though probably not originating with the view
to produce the had result it certainly must pro
duce, If not promptly denounced and exposed,
the use made OF ii by the Opposition is quite
ch .ractcrlslic of their mode Of warfare. Now,
is it at all likely that the President would lay
himself open to the dennnciation the appear
ancc of such letter would produce? Is it like
ly that man in his position, and at such pc
cuiar juncture in the history of our politics,
would write such letter with the knowledge
that there were ten chances to one it would bc
published? Such letter would have to be
shown around among the politicians. and from
its nature, would destroy that which it ostensi-
bly, was destined to effect. No, it is clear Mr..
buchanan never wrote that letter, or anything
like it. 1t is a base forgery.
The Washington lpioa thus speaks Of this
base forgery Of the opposition:-
FORGERY AS A PARTY WEAPON.
We have not tn, slightest belief in the world
that the letter going the rounds of the cpposi-
ton journals and copied exultngy in the Phil
adelphia Press, purrorhng to be by Mr.. Buchan-
an to Mr. English, of Indiana, has yet deceived
single man. 1t bears on its face unmistakabe
evidence that it is base forgery, we had almost
said too gross to be malicious. No man knew
better than the editor of the Press that it was
forgery 1t has been circulated by the oppo-
Siton accompanied by many expressions oil con-
filencc in its genuineneSs They all know that
in doing so they become parties to fraud, and
yet aided to impress the country with the idea
that what they we'll understood to he miSera-
bic Roorback was in reality the production of
Mr. Buchanan'S pen.
The reader must not infer that, because we
notice the circulation Of this forgery, we do so
to rescue the President from its effects. We
saw it in the papers, but it was too grossly
mean and transparent that we did not feel call
ed upon to notice it, Its general publication
however, makes it the work of the republican
press They have adopted it as their own, and
made it part OF their system Of universal de-
traction. Every paper that has published 1T
to the table as a counterfeit has adopted it. 1t
has, therefore, passed from the first rascal that
first started it to. the multitude OF rascals who
are now using it as political cheat What
should be said of party and party tools wEo
can stoop to the use of such low devices to er-
feet their purposes? Who can estimate the
depths ofmoral degradation into which nation
would be plunged that would confer its offices
Of trust and honor upon such men! 1t IS an
Swered that it is merely a transparent trick.
which the commonest sagacity could not fail to
detect? So it was; but the very boldness of the
forgery prevented its exposure, and the republi-
can press seized upon this omission as license
to circulate it for political effect. We repeat,
it is now their forgery. They have made it
their own. We pin it to their backs that it
may advertise their designs and their utter de-
morazation as IL party. They may make the
most Of it and of every other fraud they are
trying to impose upon the country. 1t is evil
IDENTIFY in their way; and we warn the dcrnoc-
racy by this reference TO it that they have to
fight an enemy, not only without political prin
ciples, but without til, least moral restraint.
Even after that black republican paper in dis.
guise, the Philadelphia Press, had published the
above letter as genuine, its own Washington
correspondent Occasional" as homy as he is,
had to pronounce it, forgery thus:-
Tine letter purporting to have been writer
by Mr.. Buchanan to English, of Indiana, is no
doubt gross forgery. You were right in sug
gesting that it was mere electioneering card
1t contains phrases very like the President:
STYLE but it is impossible that he could havt
made an open offer Of patronage to induce any
mans nomination to Congress There vii
doubtless be public denial. That the perpe
traitor OF the forgery may be brought to justice
is my earnest wish.