New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-05-05
HON. JOHN FORSYTH AND PRESIDENT BU-
CHANAN.

CHANAN
The Mobile Register Of the Sd inst is an interest
ing ISSUE inasmuch as it vouchsafes to the eyes OF
outsiders glimpse of the inner official life of the
Court at Washington. It contains the expose which
Hon. John Forsyth the late able and active Minister
to Mexico, makes Of the treatment he has received
at ths hands Of President Buchanan, against whom
he lays sustained charges Of gross duplicity, false
hood and general unfairness Of dealing, and from
whom, straightly orthodox though the writer has
always been he withdraws his fealty but still avows
himself an entire Democrat, he does not hold Mr..
Buchanan to be the Democratic party, and asserts
that he would be 10 Democrat himself were he to
endorse all the measures and shortcomings Of the
Administration. Mr.. F. says that there is a" gulf
of cold dstrust " between the President and his
party, and though he has met hundreds of Demo-
Gratis, from New Orleans to New York, he has yet
to meet the first one who does not regard the Ad-
ministraton as lamentable failure. He found that
he bad, on bis return from Mexico aside from any
personal grievance, to take sides between the Chief
and the body Of the Democratic party.
He was charged by the Presidents central organ
The Constitution with declaring war against the
Administration, but had occasion to resort to his
personal grievances as pretext for he only Joined
the party which consulted its safety and its honor In
not holding itself responsible for the weakness and
treachery which had ured its head from the standard
of pledges and principles which he, as one of the
committee helped to bear to him from Cincinnati to
Wheatland. No party could survive popular e!ec.
ton bearing upon its back such an accumulated
weight Of inanity and violated pledges as this Ad
ministraon would heap upon that which elevated it,
After considering, as a politician, His Excel
leney James Buchanan, and denouncing his Admins
tration with singing severity in welturned rhetoric,
the distinguished States evidence analytically con-
siders him merely az man, and does not leave the
Sage Of Wheatland character enough to up in bust
with Yankee tinpeddler, for he shows him to
wear double face and WELD forked tongue, and
to be alike false to honor and to gentemanly proprety
DESTROYS of displacing Mr. Forsyth yet fearful of Of
Tending the Southern Rights branch of the party
which that gentleman represented, he kept him dal-
lying in and to and from Washington for eight
months after his return from Mexico putting off an
explanation from day to day, with the evident intent
of worrying him into resigning his ministerial BERTH
All this time American interests in Mexico were un
represented though in the most critical condition,
and the Administration permitted them to suffer for
the sake of getting rid of gentleman who deserved
such treatment that it might reward another with
| his vacant place.
|
President, detailing the circumstances of their con-
necton and the treatment he had received asking
the reason aud an explanstion-wbich letter he pub
fishes with another similarly addressed-and the let
ter came back to him endorsed by Mr.. Buchanan
Disrespectful ungrateful and absurdy unfounded!n
He publishes extracts of letters addressed him by the
Administration while in Mexico, which express the
greatest trust and confidence in him to him was
Gjad }ba fasE of hpv laro cI;ca aof
Mexico, with authority to offer therefor fourth of
what the Mexcans asked for it, and though the ne
gotiation failed dispatches advised him that the Presi
dent was entirely satisfied with the manner in which
he had discharged his duty and had scarcely hoped
for another result and finally, when he about to
leave the country the Administration wrote him
" 1t was deemed proper to send vessel of war to
bring you as public manifestation of the regard Of
the Government for your firm and truly American
conduct under the critical circumstances in which
you were placed!' So it would seem that there
was no other reason for the treatment of Mr.. F.,
other than that his place was wanted for fayorite
| The Administration, through its organ, now ex-
plains that Mr. Forsyth not sent back because of
his odor with the liberal party of Mexico charging
him with having sympathzed and encouraged the
zuloaga movement; but everybody knows this to be
untrue, and Mr. F. charges it is direct fasehood
stating that he enjoyed the confidence of the leaders
of the lberasts in very high degree, and that for
four months his house the refuge of the cheiest
of them and who would have been sacrificed by the
spies constantly watching his residence had he gone
forth. This gentleman was Don Miguel Lerdo de
Tejada the first man of the party. To Mr. F. was en-
trusted the military chest of The Liberaist army while
the battle was going on, Cen. Banco having at
tackled Mexico with 5000 men, and it was to his no
torious sympathy with that party that he was in
debted for the hostility and hatred Of the zuloagats
which resulted at last in forcing him to break of
relations with that Government.
Altogether Mr.. Forsyth makes out clear case Of
unworthy dealing on the part of Mr.. Buchanan, ant
the denunciation of his Administration by one who
has ever been after the strictest sect Democrat
must carry great weight in expedlting the crisi
which threatens a disbanding of the ranks headct
by mere partisan leaders, to be followed by re
organization of politics generally and recognition
of new issues, probably Of strongly sectional char
acter. He has always been Southern Rightest, but
deferring to the nationality platforms of the party
has been powerfully instrumental in whipping TIN
rank and fe of Georgia and Alabama, who acknowl
edge him leader with their own sympathes, int
the traces prescribed by National Conventions.
few more such eminent mutineers and they vii
carry with them the larger mass of the party South
and great will be the split, the noise and confusion
the downfall Of trading politicians, and the uprsiu
of an honest, patriotic public sentiment. So mot
it he.
BE- Official proceedings of Board of Assist
, mt Aldermen third page.