Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-22


thsreabouts; ana ere was here h ill-hsalth.
/ said, eI do not want 10 make any trouble Il
have no quarrel with Mr.. Buchanan L
know he will do right as TO the pledges made
during the campaign and in his inaugural
address, and do not intend TO make the
mistake Of warning upon him for PERSONAL
considerations. He hes chosen to violate his
voluntary promise 70 me but II Mrs. For
ney agrees to il win 60 abroad aud get rid
Of the whole thug ! wish 70 say here
that at that time had no purpose, In case
went abroEd, Of accepting the ten thousand
dollars offered me previously by Mr.. Wen
dell. The matter was referred 10 her, and,
as expected it would be, It was unhesiiat4
ingly and Indignantly declined. then
prepared 10 establish my newspaper
All the money which had saved under
the Administration Of General Pierce
was spent; exhausted ell my resour{
ces in the campaign, and / was eomPell1
ed 70 call upon a few friends that had
to assist me in raising the means to estab-
lish my paper Mr. Buchanan himself, when
he saw that / was resolved 10 do it. said
"You cannot establish Democratic paper in
Philadelphia, and sustain It, | told him |
thought could; IT, had.any ability in the
world il was for that. Up TO that period we
had a good many papers but we he'd not had
a progressive Democratic paper there, and
never anticipated any difficulty with him. |
had hopes that ! might so conduct the paper
myself as TO be enabled to secure the patron
age OF the Administration, and the confidence
Of the party. The money that was subscribed
for that paper was raised by gentlemen out
side Of the Administration Mr.. Buchanan
himself offered, through Judge Black, one
or two thousand dollars, which declined,
not desiring to be under any obligations 70
him. Now that was any applicant for pub
lie printing in the departments, is wholly
unfounded That would have taken the
Postoflce blanks at that time is true. | am
a practical printer. was reared in G print
ing office; and thought if that were offered
to me, as it was constantly offered, it would
be perfectly consistent with my trade and
my paper to take IT. but as to my ever ask
ing for it, or taking any steps to secure il,
with my present recollection the charge is
most unfounded. Before starting my paper
prepared my Introductory address, in which
l asserted the principles Of popular soYer-
eighty fully; and so cautious was not TO
get into difficulty with the Administration
and the party, that | submitted that sd-
dress to Judge Black in proof-sheets, telling
him that If my illusions to Mr.. Buchanan
were not strong enough, he should make
them stronger; and he did amend that
opening article; so | started my paper
Previous to the establishment of the pa
per, which was started on the first day Of
August, 1857, Judge Black wrote me let
ter in which he stated that / should con-
tinue to adhere to the principles Of popular
sovereignty, and that the Administration
would adhere to it. The paper was
started, and its columns show how little /
was affected by patronage or by disappoint-
ment, because | stood by every measure
OF the Administration as fast as they
were evolved, continuing to make a
strong point upon the popular side Of
the Kansas question all the time. We had a
Governors election going on. Governor
Packer was the Democratic candidate, and
David Wilmot was the Republican candidate.
Governor Packer planted himself firmly on
the principle Unpopular sovereignty, and by
that more than by any other means succeeded
in completely defeating Mr. Wilmot. Imay
say that The Press was his most efficient ad-
hOChlG III tliAl NhuA pttAEh. DilolNl1 DctOAN AAN
election-T do not recollect the date, but
everybody knows the time-the Oxford and
McGee frauds in the Territory of Kansas were
exposed. / took strong grounds for Coy
ernor Walker and Frederick P. Stanton in
my paper, and continued steadily TO sustain
them.
Mr.. Robinson And opposed those frauds ?
The Witness. Yes, sir; / opposed the
frauds / had at that time a correspondent
in Washington, Mr.. MeElhOne, who was col
lecting information for my paper, and he gave
me the very first intimation that my oonrse
met the Misrepresentation aftha Administrafian
IN that respect BY writing me letter; but
had become so fully committed to that line of
policy that to abandon it would be TO disgrace
myself This was source to me Of very
great pain, because l then saw that, unless
was tolerated in standing by that which ]
believed 70 be right a difficulty with Dir
Buchanans Administration was inevitable
In the subsequent alIsir Of LecomptOn, which
Iregarded as q somewhat logical result of the
rejection of these frauds-that is, the op-
position of Governor Walker and Mr.. Stan
ton to the LecOmptOn policy of the Admins
tration-I was on their side; and think
may say that before Judge Douglas bad taken
his position publicly, my paper had an
nounced its course, and maintained itsteadily
to the end. ! came to Washington very
anxious to be on good terms with Mr.. Bu-
chanan. This was, ! think, after the Post
Office blanks had been disposed Of; and
told him that had been committed to this
policy, and that it was impossible for me to
change. He said he had changed his course
because certain Southern States had threat
ened that ifhe did not abandon Walker and
Stanton they would be compelled either to
secede from the Union or take mp arms against
him. told him that liberation was all that
we required; he could maintain himself in
changing his course, but |, single individual,
could not. l wanted to be permitted to diff
fer on this, sustaining every other part Of the
policy ofhis Administration, to which he re-
sponded, No; that he intended TO mako his
policy test in the Democratic party said /;
Mr.. Buchanan, if that is the case we shall
have to defend ourselves in the best way we
can Subsequent to that we had what con-
ceiVe to be a series of prescriptions, such as
no civilized country has ever seen exercised
upon Independent men; and tO0k up arms
in my State against those prescriptions
That Is about all that I think pertinent to my
relations with Mr. Buchanan. The rest is
public Any other questions which you have
to ask am ready to answer.
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