Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-23
mr. Buchanan,s Madeira.

Forney's Press uncorks several walls Of fun
upon the President for being too partial to Me-
dary-not that product of the island which
has decreased fifteen hundred per cent-but
of the Ohio vintage. The Press has the fol
lowing comments upon the recent report OF a
new appointee to the grave of Governors -
Our excellent President Mr. Buchanan,
has taken il into his head that the sovereign
State of Ohio should he called the .island of
Mad"ira;" that everybody worthy of his fay-
or should be called Medary; that Mcdary
should be appointed to all the offices, and
that nobody Int Medary shonId get any place
whatever. We always knew that Mr.. Bucha-
nan was fond of good glass of nutty old
Madpira-the Wager Madeira-the r igart
Madeira. the regular Madeira Of the old school
But, then. there must be an alt rative we
cannot live on fish all tn time we cannO
drink Madeira all the time A change now
and then is good for the strongest cOnstitu-
ton; even the Turk must rest from his indul-
gences. Not so. however, with Mr.. Presid Mt
Buchanan. He has fallen dead in love with
Sam M dary--or as they syllable il in Ohio
SammeGary. Our worthy Executive has no
eyes for anybody else. He sees Sam only; be
drinks in Medary alone. Vain TO remind him
that tn re is such statesman "a William AL
len in ChillicOthe; that Dave Todd lives near
Cleveland; and that old Pennsylvania is full
OF representatives in the Buckeye State-the
President sees Sam and longs f r Madeira on
ly. The fact is, this liking for Sammcdary j.
a charact Tistic of our new Majesty James
for Sam has been the opponent of the aforesaid
james all his political life. He has hated
him with double-head and double bar
relied intensity. He has hated him in the g.
neral and in the detail. H has written him
down for years. He has ours, him dtorial-
ly, delegatOrially, and corporcally. He has
mathematical him at the church door, at the
tavern door, at the pnst-office door. and at
every door. He damned him at Baltimore
in 1874. in 1913, and in 1852. He dam
ned him at Cincinnati in lS56-brcOming
temporary Chairman of the Convention. of
which he was a Delegate, and lahoring
TO sponge out the B Ichanan minority 10y
applying the majority rnle-and finally
be W t-blanketed him before the election.
giving Ohio 10 Fremont by a rousing vote.
Hence this President regard for Sammpdary.
He has been the most consistent opponent
that Mr.. Buchanan ever had. even in Ohio.
And this is his title To consideration.
The moment Mr.. Buchanan came into pow
er h. made IAN the Governor OF Minnesota
The duties of that Office b, ing discharged af-
ter a fashion, and the Territory becoming a
State, Sam was translat into the posi-office
at Columbus, a snuggery worth som" four or
five thousand per annum. which he still holds.
The Governors chair of Kansas becoming
vacant. there was no other person from Ohio
iii Ia fill it hut Sam. and accordingly il is pu-
blicy rendered TO him And this in less than
two years. The virtue of enmity, and the
worthlessness of friendship. are not oft so
well illustrated. Medary is neither a Solo
mon in wisdom. Gle TO in 0ratory. Bay of
Bayard in versalty.nor a Wllberforce in mo-
rality: but having done his best to prove his
hostility to the President. he has thereby won
alike his affection and his regard.