The Kanzas news., 1858-11-06

\ cPPiaeu lot sucn position under the admin
istration of President Pierce, his petition
was secuted, and be became the assailant of
that Administration How be toiled to de-
feat Mr. Buchanan the columns of his Jour
| nal win show. He seemed to have aban-
! doned all remorse. His agents penetrated
teyery section of the Union; they hung about
Lancaster, where Mr.. Buchanan resided;
ithey fingered at Washington; they were in
the South and in the North, and all talked
the same way, and rioted in the same COM
mon calumnies-- There was not fabrica-
ton, no matter how vile, that did not find
iready circulatiun through the columns of
the Herald. The most sacred secrets were
iexposedl to the public eye The early life
of Mr.. Buchanan, his intimate confidential
relations, and especially that portion which
he himself has most sedulovsly hidden from
notoriety, was ruthiessly laid bare to the
vulgoF gaze. This jackal of the press, who
grinds his enyenomed tooth even into the
grave itself, tore open the cerements of the
innocent and helpless dead, and shook into
the eyes of the startled public the secrets
which even Mr.. Buchanan's intimate friends
did not dare allude to.
At the time these arti-
cles appeared, Mr.. Buchanan said to me
one day, taking up the New York Herald,
while l was on visit to Wheatland, ssWhy
am thus to be traduced and pursued by
this infamous knave? Have I no friends
who will visit New York and punish him
as he deserves? His ears should be taken
off in the public Streets I never saw
Mr.. Buchanan more excited than he was on
this and other occasions under Benefits un-
licensed and cruel slanders, and believe
that it Is to my prudence and compassion
that Bennett is this day permitted to walk
Broa fway with his long ears on his Scotch
head. [ well remember how, after the cam
palgn, the first impulse of the Democrats
all over the Union was to have settlement
with the New York Herald. That paper
had expended all of its influence and good
zeal of Fremont's money in trying to de-
feat Mr.. Buchanan. Thousands of Demo
cratic editors throughout the country, felt
that Bennett deserved to be castigated, and
at the solicitation of number of distin-
guished men, then IN Philadelphia, ] sat
down and prepared somewhat caustic ar
ticle, showing him up in faithful colors.-
Mr.. Buchanan astonished me by calling my
attention TO this article, and complained of
the proprietor of the paper for publishing
IL told him that I had myself written it,
and that / had written it because it was de-
manded by common decency, and by ordi-
mary respect for the men who had been ira
duced in that journal, and especially for the
thousands of struggling editors throughout
the Union who had regarded the Herald as
his most Infamous, relentless and savage
enemy. ''Well,' said he, II regreet that
have written to the proprietor of the paper
about this article, but / desire that Mr..
Bennett shall support my Administration"
can now perceive the man who was thus
wiling to court the most abandoned and
mo5 infamous editor upon the face of the
eardh-the man who was thus willing to
procure the support of James Gordon Ben
nett, after he had poured the vials of utter
and inconceivable wrath upon his head, and
after be had traduced the South betrayed
the Republicans, and been rebuked by the
result of the eiection-was even at that day
resolved in his own mind to turn his back
upon the gallant men in this city and State,
who had surrounded him as with a wall of
fie, and who had carried him forward into
The Presidency after twenty years of hard,
u,remitting and chivalric toll. For myself.
have only to say, that although Bennett
has accused me of many things. he has yet
to speak of me as shamelessly and as bru
tally as he has spoken of the President of
tie United States! ie s5
AL THERE Is LEFT OF THE DEMOCRATIC
f. CEEEDi ia fsa
The Washington Union claims to be, and
doubtless is, the organ of the National Ad-
!ministration. The day has gone by for re-
tpudiating the Union. It is as much part of
the Administration as the Cabinet itself
IL The prescription of Douglas.
as the test of the English bill. are all that
the Administration recognise as remaining
lof the immortal creed of the Democratic
party; and these the whole Democracy in
dig1antly reject The Union, speaking for
| the Administration, stands by and sees a
secret organization in the South, prepared,
| under the lead of the distinguished agitators,
10 undermine the foundations of the fairest
fabric of free government ever erected by
the hands of men: The Union, speaking
for the Adn1iaistration. 6eholds the ffGgraat
/ attempts to revive the Odious traffic IN slaves.
and to set at dqfance solemn treaties soith for
| eigss Poacers: The Union hears calumnious
Southern assaults upon the President and
the Cabinet, And yet has the Union no
word to speak in complaint or .condemna-
tion of The one or the other of these exhi-
bitions! All its faculties are employed in
the ostracism of gallant men in the Free
States who follow the renowned flag of the
Democratic party. and stand upon the ac-
cepted platform of the Democratic party,
and refuse TO yield up the principle to which,
as honest Democrats, they were pledged
This is the work of the organ of James
Bucil&Ran af sfs.s Has
AIMS And OBJKcTs OF TIE ADMINISTRATION.
II When Mr.. Buchanan was elected 10 the
Presidency I had hoped. from his pure char
acter and great statesmsnship, that his tour
years Presidential term would form one OF
the proudest eras of American history and
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