New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-17
Y..,s.r From Err. Tsuehnnan'

letter From Nkf'
IT. s Editor Of The Ner-York EfenHg fo'
SIR: In THE NEw-YoBK TRIBUNE OF yc''cl'
d,vI read with no little surprise an eA''' I'm
rr,ss Post, (Which do not sce) s'in5 ~
tlgt the Cincinnati Democratic CONVENE" "'0 --''
mot " Nav, y had come to Geaa O.'' y" '',' 0''n
inc before Mr. BuchananS nonIA".l''' a." Id" "u'
joarncd until the next morning. % -, ~, p'osP.0'
- o,l NICE, only 70 adjourn sae a'f but mat IN the
= - s.,.,,o,oents we're made To secure his
-. ., soon As the Convention should reos-
-. :. oo,seopence Of pledges given by his friends.
-. NJ these pledges according to the article
,., D., was openly ayOWed By Judge Black
=, e,or Of the Convention, immediately after
~, n,mjpstion According TO it:-"A silence
,og for few moments, as if the Con.
,euttn was anticipating something prepared when
rodre Black Of Pennsylvania (aiterward Attorney
General under Buchanan in his place aud made
set speech. in which he preceded to depounee
.Abol,onsm' and Black Rcpublicarsm' very
freely aud to argue TINT The States possessed under Inc
Constitution the right Of secession. lie went ilrhef
End tod the Convention that if the nominee was
elected and a Black Republican should be elected as
his successor he Mr. Buohananl would do nothing TO
interfere with the exercise of it, This pledge was
ample and was accepted by the Southern leaders"
YOU will doubtless be astonished to learn that Judge
Blc1 alterward Nh BGchaneu's Atsrney-General,
bv whom this pledge is alleged to have been made and
through whom the evident purpose now IS TO fasen
II mon Mr.. Buchanan not Degc'e 10 tic CiHcig-
mai cJgreRtoa nor he hin 800 miles Of Cincinnati
drs, rs session. Instead Of tlis lie was at the very
tine performing his high official duties as Judge OF
TIE Supreme Court OF Pennsylvania.
I,may bs added that from the date Of General Jack.
sons message Of January 1863 against South Carolina
~.
sage December lsCO and indeed ever since, no pub
lie man has more steaGflsty and uniformly opposed
these dangerous and suicidal Leresies Than Nj. Blu
ehauan Had any person. in OF tie Convention
dared to make pledge in his behalf on this OF any
other subject, such act would have been condemned
aiew days thereafter by the Of his letter accept
ing the nomination In this, after expressing his thanks
fcr the honor conferred, lie says that Deeply sensible
Ofhe vast and varied responsibility attached to the
siaiion especially at the present crisis in cur Affairs
'lnr esaHg refaiaed from s,ekig tie aouaotios ,ier
by rors or Setd;r and this statement cp1a,,ealy true
few words in regard 10 The alleged dead lock in /
he Cincinnati Convention at the time OF its adjourn
meat on the evening of the 9TH of June fourteen
ballots had been taken for candidate. 1t appears
ffomis proceedings, officially published that each
of ,he,s bllotings, Nr buchanan received plurality
Of the Convention but not the required twohiids. On
the fourteenth and last ballot of that evening the
stood ~ for Buchanan Is for Pierce 90 for Douglas
snd 8 for Cass This being the state OF the case when
she CoV, enton assembled the next morning the New
Hampshire delegation withdrew the name Of General
Pierce and the Illinois delegation withdrew that of
JUICE Douglas in obedience TO instructions from home
by telegraph ON the day before the baotng bad cen.
nenced. After this the nomination of Mr. Buchanan !
seeme, to be matter of lie had never heord
Of dead lock" in the Convention anything like IT,
until be read the article in The Post.
II may be proper TO state that Col Samuel w. Black
Of Petersburg was delegate 10 the Cincinnati Con
ven.ion from Pepnsylvania and being well known as
re'r nd eloquent speaker shouts were raised for
= &c from him. Immediately after the nomination
". uounced To these he briefly responded in al
sble and enthusiastic manner From the identity of
their snrnames had this response reported with the
proceedings contained the infamous pledge attributed
% judge Black or anything like it, nigh, in char
itv have inferred that the author Of the article had
merely mistaken the one name Tor the other. Iuf
there I, nothing In what Col. Black said which affords
the least color for any such mistake.
Col Black afterword sealed his hostility to Secession
with his blood At an early stage of the war; he fell
mo,,av wounded on the field of battle, while CALAMITY
leading on his regiment against the Rebels.
loub, not you viii chcerully do me Justice by pub
fishing ills letter and woud thank YOU for copy Of
tie paper containing it. Yours very respectfully
JAMES BUCHANAN
gl,od,nd near Lancaster. May ". ls65