The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-31
Disgraceful Attack Upon the President
The Special Message.

Tho SPoo1al messo8os
The proceedings in the House of Represen-
tatives on Thursday were of the highest i'm.
portance. The President sent in message,
one of the boldest, most manly and straight
forward State papers in the archives Of the
republic, and the House, after a sharp debate,
referred the document to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
The message of the President refers espe-
cially to the resolution introduced by Pennsyl-
vania Covode, which called for special COM
mittee to investigate certain vague insinuations
and mysterious inuendoes against the Execu-
tive. Objection was made to the resolution at
the time when it was introduced, on the ground
that its statements were vague and unsatisfac-
tory to the last degree; but it was adopted by
the republicans, with the assistance of the For
ey-Haskin clique This disgraceful personal
attack upon Mr.. Buchanan has not been with
out its parallel in the political history of the
country. In 1929 80, General Jackson being
inpower, an attempt was made to control his
administration by clique of hungry office
beggars and broken down politicians. The
grand old man sent them to the right-about-
face with as small ceremony as he showed to
the British or the Indians. They then joined
the opposition and assisted the wings in getting
up series of attacks upon the President,
which kept the whole country in state of ex-
element altogether unparalleled. Allied with
the wings and disappointed democrats was the
immense money power welded by the Bank
party, and the outside pressure upon Old
Hickory was tremendous. Party spirit has
never run so high since. The dis.
putes between the Jackson and anti-Jackson
men were so acrimonious as to result in per-
sonal rencontres and street fights in several
cities North and South. No limit was put to
the blackguardism with which the President
was assailed in Congress and by the opposition
press. The seeding democrats were led by
Duff Green, whose Telegraph answered the
same purpose of Forney's Press of the present
day. Even the person of the President was not
sacred, and the greatest excitement was created
al w. 49, 80 - scene on board of
steamboat, when some tool of General JacK-
sons enemies menaced the old hero. All these
attacks, instead of injuring General Jackson,
increased his strength with the masses, who
rallied round him in great numbers. His ad-
ministration was sustained at almost every cleo
ton, and by a series of bold and brilliant
measures he routed all his enemies, sweeping
them out Of his path like so many insects. The
grand result was that, although General jack
son was chosen positively on the one term
principle, and Notwithstanding the fact that it
was one of the cardinal principles in his politi-
cal faith that no President should be a candi-
date for reelection, yet he was compelled to
run again in spite of himself, and was triumph
antly returned for second term.
Now, the Forney- Haskin clique, and the
black republicans in Congress, are pursuing
with Mr.. Buchanan the same game which the
wings and disappointed democrats tried on
General jackson thirty years ago. When Mr..
Buchanan took Office, he found he had not
places for all the hungry beggars that sur
rounded him, and as they waxed clamorous or
impertinent they were quietly set aside.
Among these unsatisfed men were Forney, Has
kin and the others of the same clique, who call
themselves anti-Lecompton democrats, but who
are really nothing more than republicans of a
dirty hue, part white and part black, with the
latter predominating. They could not rule Mr..
Buchanan, and now they serve Mr.. Seward.
The republicans use these allies as the Pope
manages his Swiss troops, giving them occa.
sionally little plumber, like the printing job.
Forney 4 Co.'s hostility to the President is
entirely personal, as has been proven by seve-
raj demonstrations, such as the drunken spree
in the streets of Washington, after Forney was
elected, and when he abused the Executive
like a pickpocket and drew down upon the
House, which permitted such conduct to pass
unrebuked, the well-merited denunciation of
the leading journals at home and abroad.
On the other hand, the republicans have
trumped up their committee, in order to make
political capital and divert the attention of the
people from the real issues involved in the
coming struggle. Knowing full well that not
title of evidence can be brought against the
President, perfectly aware that the record of his
two-score years of public life is entirely i'm
maculate with their eyes open to the fact that
James Buchanan stands to-day entirely free
from the shadow of suspicion upon his public
or private character, they do not dare to 60 as
far as the enemies of General Jackson did,
and bring in bill to impeach the Presi-
1.-THE only way in which he can be con-
stitutionally reached by Congress. So they
get up mock investigation upon manufactured
charges, not 30 clearly defined as to be sub
jects for analysis, but still creating bad i'm
preston. 1t is very mean, miserable, skulk-
ing, dirty political trick, which could only
have originated in the small minds of the small
men who get into Congress nowadays, when
they ought to be saving wood or making rail-
ways. The fault about Mr.. Buchanan's course
is that be has been too good, too generous, too
magnanim0us with such fellows as Forney