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8. B. BOW, EDITOR A5D PBOI'KIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA., OCT. 6, 1858.
roa JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT,
JOHN 31. READ, of Philadelphia Citj.
FOR CAXAL COMMI3SI03TEB,
WILLIAM E. FRAZER, of Fayette Co.
roa CONGRESS,
CHAPIN IIALL, of Warren County.
TO THE POLLS EAELY !
Let every friend ot the People's Ticket,
who is anxious to procure its success, and the
defeat of the Lecompton-Free-trade Demo
crazy, go early to the election, sec that the
tickets are accessible to all wtio wish to vote,
and remain upon the ground to guard against
fraud by those who have heretofore proven
that they rn.ro sufficiently unscrupulous to re
sort to means the most dishonorable to pro
cure success. "Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty !"
A SECOND ''KANE LETTER" FBATJD.
. That the politics of our country have become
shamefully corrupt, is a truism that no one fa
miliar with our history for the last few years
will attempt to dispute. Forgery, fraud, and
deception have become the ordinary incidents
of a political canvass, and there is scarce a
crime on the catalogue at which theDeringers,
M'Mullins and Carsons, with their horde of bil-lot-box
staffers, would pause, were its perpe
tration necessary to accomplish the success of
their pie-bald party. But infamous as they
have become, and vile as have been their
frauds upon the people heietofore, we were not
prepared Yor their repetition in a canvass for
the high and responsible position of Justice of
the Supreme Court of the State.
The Locofoco papers are publishing what
purports to l-e a letter of Hon. John M. Read,
the People's candidate for Supreme Judge, al
leged to have been written to Geo. M. Dallas
approving his vote for the Tariff of 1846. Se
cret circulars, containing this letter have been
sent to the leading iron masters in various
parts of the State. On an investigation by Mr.
Henry C. Carey, who examined the files cf the
PBjyraan,the facts appear to be as follows:
"On Tuesday, 2Sth of July, 1848, Mr. Dal
las, as Vice President, gave his casting vote
in favor o I the tariff of that year. On Wed
nesday, the 2'Jth, a letter was written by Atba
nasins Ford, signed by him and a number of
democratic citizens, to Mr. Dallas, approving
his vote of the preceding day ; to which Mr.
Dallas replied, fn a letter dated (Saturday)
August 1st ; which correspondence was pub
lished in the Pennsyleanian of Wednesday,
August 5lh. Amongst the signatures to the let
ter ot the 20th of July, the name of John AT.
Retd does not appear,, but there is the name
of John F. Read, a respectable democratic cit
izen, who then resided in Chester street in
Nortk Mnlherry Ward, but who now resides at
A'o. 200 Madison street, and who approved the
conduct, of Mr. Dallas in giving his casting
vote for the tariff of 1846," In addition to
these facts, the -VorA American is "authorized
by John M. Read to say that he was not in the
citv ot Philadelphia when the letter of the
9th of July, and the answer of Mr. Dallas of
the 1st of August, were written, aqd that he
never saw the original of the letter of the 29th
of July, nor did he ever sign it, nor authorize
anybody to sign it for him."
This nefarious and contemptible scheme to J
deceive the people of Pennsylvania as to the
opinions of Mr. Read upon the question of
Protection to domestic labor, is only a second
edition of the celebrated "Kane letter'-' fraud,
by which the people of this State were made
to believe that James K. Polk was a "better
Tariff man than Henry Clay." Truly the star
of Locofocoism must be on the wane, when it
is compelled to resort to the repetition of fraud
eo bold, palpable, and infamous.
We speak by authority when we say that Mr.
Read is in favor of Protection to American
Industry, and fully endorses the platform of
the convention by which he was nominated,
one of the articles of which is as follows :
'That the revenue necessary for a judicious
And economical administration of the Govern
ment, should be raised by the imposition of
duties upon foreign imports, and in laying
them, such discriminating protection should be
given as trill secure the rights of fret labvr and
.American Industry."
Here then is Mr. Read's position distinctly
and emphatically enunciated, and it is upon
this platform that be is to be elected. Let no
friend of Protection to Home Labor, be de
ceived into the support of William A. Porter,
whose whole bistory, antecedents, principles,
sentiments, and conduct pledge him to the
doctrine of absolute free tradt, and the sup
port of the Government by direct taxation I
"But it is fn regard to the course of our
Representative, its his Juturt action, ffhen Kan
sas or any other new state applies for admis
sion that we are now to consider his qualifica
tions, and not to what he has done in the past."
Clearfield Republican.
Yea, you had better ignore it "tlu past"
tetis a bad tale. But how are yon to judge
at the future" tf not "by the past V What
security bare joa that Gillis will joot in "bis
fiRra actios" toe governed by tbe me (40ii)
motives that have controlled him ia "the
'past?' He has deceived you once, and could
bctx elected, would do it again.
. LOOK OUT FOB LYING CIRCULARS
AND HANDBILLS. Locofocoism is unscru
pulous and will not hesitate to resort to despe
rate rpeans to defeat our tiefcei, .
AX OPEU COITFESSIOIT.
"Some men who have heretofore consistent
ly advocated democratic principles, and who
still profess to have an abiding faith in the
doctrines of the party, as embodied in tbe Cin
cinnati platform, seem to hesitate between vo
ting for Janes L. Gillis. and either not voting
at all or voting for Mr. Hall his opponent."
Clearfield Kc publican.
Our astute friend of the Republican seems at
length to have got his eyes opn to the fact
that a large number of "consistent democrats"
in this region, have repudiated James Lecomp-
ton Gillis, and intend to vote for Chapin Hall.
He has been a long time finding it ont we
congratulate him on the discovery. He gives
them a word o" good advice to wit :
"Now to such we wonld say, that if they
will for a moment fairly contrast the position
ol the two candidates, their hesitation must
vanish at once; that is if they really still be
lieve in the doctrines of the Cincinnati plat
form." Xo doubt of it whatever. No "consistent
democrat," who really believes in the "doc
trines of the Cincinnati Platform," could
"hesitate" a moment, for in making the "con
trast," he will find Mr. Gillis firmly planted
on a platform which is its very antipodes ad
vocating a doctrine that is utterly monstrous
and obnoxious to every freeman the right of
an Administration to force upon a protesting
people a pro-slavery constitution. Nor will
the argument of the editor of the Republican,
that Gillis is "note" in favor of admitting Kan
sas "whenever she applies," impose upon any
''consistent democrat" who has brains enough
to read the English language, or tbe 'English
Bill," which Mr. Gillis supported and for
hich bo voted.. That Bill contains a provis
ion requiring Kansas, in the event of her re.
jection of tho Lecompton constitution, to wait
for admission till she shall have upwards of
ninety three thousand inhabitants, and surely
Gillis, having sustained this provision, cannot
take tbe position that be will vote for her ad
mission "whenever she applies," without be
ing as fa'sc and treacherous to that, as be has
been to the "Cincinnati Platform."
This English Bill was a Northern Democrat
ic expedient, and wonld have been opposed by
every Southern Locofoco had it not been for
the provision that Kansas, after rejecting Le
conipton, should not come in as a free State,
but stay out until she should have nearly a
hundred thousand inhabitants. They knew
perfectly well that under it the Lecompton
constitution wduM be crushed out, but they
thought and proclaimed that, during the time
which must elapse before she should have tbe
required population for admission, the people
of the South would have every facility for es
tablisbing themselves with their slaves within
her limits, whilst they could drive the "Nor
thern vagabonds" ofl to newer regions, so that
after all they would bring her ia as a Slave
State. Without the restrictive clause, the
Southern Democrats in Congress would never
have voted for the bill ; and when they did
vote lor it, they fully relied upon the faith and
truth of the Northern Democrats who also vo
ted for it, for the strict observance and faith
ful performance of the stipulation.
And now we are asked to believe that James
L. Gillis, one of the very men who assisted in
getting up this bill, and who supported it
throughout, will abandon the restriction and
trample it under foot. That in shameful vio
lation or his own pledges, iu base contempt
of the obligatory force of bis own measure,
in utter disregard of every principle of honor
he will refuse to recognise the restriction as
involving any binding obligation whatever!
Who would vote for such a pitiful changling,
who will take to-morrow a position directly
opposite lo that which he takes to-day ? Will
any sensible man allow himself to be cheated
duped, swindled and humbugged into support
ing a man who has already betrayed the prin
ciple upon which be was elected, and who, to
fulfil the promises be now makes, must turn
traitor to those who relied upon his truth and
honor? Or rather, we might ask, is there any
man silly enough to believe that James L
Gillis, if elected, will alter his course one jot
or tittle, with regard to Kansas ?
LOOK OUT FOB LIES !
The chances of James L. Gillis mnst be
poor, indeed, when his friends have to re
sort to such desperate expedients as are
now used in this county. We hear that
they arc endeavoring to injure Mr. Hall by
circulating a report that he' was in some way
connected with the M'Kean County Bank
This is a lik a base, contemptible, wilful lie
and we would not be surprised to hear of
other charges equally unfounded, being made
between now and the election. As some of
the friends of Mr. Gillis seem to be so well
posted in regard to Banking matters, perhaps
they can explain a certain operation of his with
$4,000 of Russell & Major's paper.
TUEWOUT!'
No man who has at heart the prosperity of
bis country, will neglect or refuse to turn out
and vote at the election on next Tuesday.
The friends of tbePeople's Ticket have every
encouragement to be vigilant and active. Tbe
prospects of success were never brighter, and
if we be but true to ourselves, the election
w;ll not fail to result in the entire overthrow
of Lecompton-Locofocoism, and the merited
rebuke of the present weak, extravagant and
corrupt Administration. Go to the polls vote
aarly and see that you have the right tickets
Reed, Fbazer, IUll, Feask and Iawur.
We see it asserted that the friends of the
Administration had raised a large sum of
aoney for the purpose of carrying the doubt
ful Congressional Districts in Pennsylvania.
We wond ;r whether any part of it is being
used in this distrct to carry tho election of
James Lecompton. Gillis.
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Jeffebsosi asd Clarion O. K. !-We have
authentic news from Jefferson and Clarion
counties, that the Anti-Lecompton Democrats
are to a man supporting Chapijj Hall, ; and
that his election is certaik ! Let our friends
rally to tho polls, and swell tba majority a.
gasnst Gilljs and Lecompton
GILLIS AKD FEES TRADE.
Now that onr country is in a financially
prostrate condition, it may be well to show
the cause of it. The history of the country
proves that an approach to Free Trade has
always reduced the country to bankruptcy.
All intelligent persons are acquainted with
this fact. How do the parties stand towards
this question at present ? The Gillis Conven
tion in Brookville, on the 20th of Aug. en
dorsed the Cincinnati platform, which speaks
as follows :
Resoleed, The time has come for the people
of the United States to declare themselves in
favor of free seas, and a progressive free trade
throughout the world, and by solemn manifes
tation to place their moral influence at the
side of their successful example."
The People's Convention which met in llar-
risburg, and nominated Hon. John M. Read for
Supreme Judge, and Mr. Frazer, for Canal
Commissioner, passed the following resolution
on this subject :
"Resolved, That the revenue necessary for
a judicious and economical Administration of
the Government, should be raised by imposi
tion of duties upon foreign imports, and in
laving them, such discriminating protection
should be given as will secure the rights of
free labor and American Industry." r
The People's Convention that nominated
Chapin Hall, in Brookville, on the 2-3th Aug.,
passed the following resolution :
"7?eoved, That the true interests or the
Cnion, and especially Pennsylvania, require
a tariff for revenue, imposing such duties as
will afford just and ample protection to borne
labor and relieve us from the financial embar
assments brought on by the ruinous policy of
tbe present Administration."
It will be observed by the foregoing that
Judge Gillis stands pledged for "progressive
Free Trade," and, as a consequence, direct
taxation. Suppose the country is forced into
Free Trade, how Hl the expenses of the
Government be raised 1 By direct taxation.
This is in accordance with the Gillis platform.
Mr. nail stands pledged in favor of a judi
cious protective tariff one that will protect
the free labor of his country from competition
with pauper labor in Europe. Which do you
prefer? The country was brought to bank
ruptcy in 1841, by the approximating freo
trade rates of the act of 1S3C. The protective
tariff of 1842 brought prosperity to the coun
try. Tbercrenne tariff of 1846 has brought
upon us our present general distress in money
matters. Jefferson Star.
THE MUD-SILL SPEECH.
Below is a portion of the famous "mud-sill"
speech of Senator Hammond, ot South Caro
lina. Hammond's object is to degrade north
ern free white labor and reduce it to a level
with the negro slave labor of the south, and
every Lecompton Free-Trade Congressman
that may be elected will act with Hammond in
all matters of national policy :
"In all social systems, there must be a class
to do the mean duties, to perform the drudgery of
life that is, a class requiring but a low order
of intellect, and but little skill. Its requisites
are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you
must have, or you would not have that other
class which leads to progress, refinement and
civilization. It constitutes the very MUD.
SILLS of society and of political government ;
and you might as veil attempt to build a house
in the air, as to build cither the one or the other,
except on the MUD-SILLS. Fortunatelv for
the South, she found a race adapted to that
purpose to her hand. We use them for the
purpose, and call them slaves
The man who lives by daily labor, and who
has to put out his labor in the market and take
tbe best he can get for it, in short, your whole
class of manual laborers and 'operatives at the
Xorlhare SL.1VES. The difference between
us is that our slaves are hired for life, and well
compensated ; while your slaves are hired by
the day, not cared for, and scantily compen
sated. ... Our slaves are black, of anoth
er and inferior race. ... Your slaves are
white, of your own race ; you are brothers of
one blood."
What workingman can read this insulting
language and not feel his blood boil in his
veins? And bow can any man thus stigmati
zed by one of the democratic leaders, vote
with a party of which he is one of the expo
nents? "James L. Gillis is hOw in favor of admit
ting Kansas into the Union whenever she applies.'
Clearfield Republican.
Astonishing magnanimity! After having
done everything to prevent her admission as a
free State after having attempted to bribe her
into the acceptance of the Lecompton Consti
tution by an appropriation of lands to force
it upon her by preventing her admission with
out it' until siie obtains a population of over
93,000 after having exhausted every means
that Locofoco ingenuity could devise to make
her a slave State, and finding it impossible,
"xow" the magnanimous Gillis is in favor
of admitting her "whenever she applies!"
"sow," when defeat is staring him in the face,
he is ready to stultify himself to swallow any
pill, however bitter to give the lie to all bis
former acts and exclaims "don't whip me
this time and I'll never be a bad boy again !"
Was there ever such a picture of abject mean
ness such a pitiful begging for place ?
Alas Poor Bigler ! His excellency, Sen
ator Bigler is actively at work making speech
es for his "right bower," Gillis. who can't do
it for himself. The distinguished Senator
finds that for a man wh is "weak at tbe
knees," he has an exceedingly hard road to
travel, and wishes, we have no doubt, for once,
that he was engaged in a more respectable
business. His speeches are said to be stale
and insipid, as usual, being however very
conrinci'ng that the Senator himself is, as
Sam Weller says, a "veak wessel" Lecomp
tonistn a humbug and Gillis "a lick'd com
munity." We hope be will succeed in reach
ing every township it the district.
REMEMBER ! If yon want to adequately pro
tect American Industry, vote for Chapin Hall.
Bemkmber ! If you desire to show your disap-
prooauon oi tbe corruption and extravagance of
tne national Administration, rote for Chapin Hall.
Remember ! If yon want to rebuke the two
James' Buchanan and Gillis for violating their
pledges made to the people of Pennsylvania in
1856, that they were in favor of popular sover
eignty and "Free Kansas," vote for Chapin Hall.
REMEMBER ! Every vote given to Gillis, the
Lecompton candidate for Congress, endorses Free
Trade and Ruin ! -
Rev ember ! Every Tote given him endorses the
reckless extravagance and corruption of the pres
ent Administration!
Revcvber ! Every vote east for Gillis, will be
considered as approving the Kansas policy of Mr.
Buchanan! - ' -
GILLIS AT HOME.
The Ledger, the Democratic paper in War
ren, publishes a letter from "a life-long Dem
ocrat, one who always stands up for principle,
whatever the sacrifice," dated Kidgway, Sept.
7th, 185S, from which we take the following:
,. "The question is now fairly before the peo
ple of this Congressional district. 'Shall the
Lecompton policy of the Administration be
endorsed shall all the villainies enacted by
Congress at its last session relative to Kansas
be sustained by the people V If we send back
the same tools to Congress tor Mr. Buchanan
to nse, what assurance have we that he will not
commit some grosser wrong, even than that
inflicted upon tbe unoffending citizens of Kan
sas last Winter ? If we do o, tbe Adminis
tration can say, and with truth, that its course
is sustained; and if it is upheld in this iniqui
ty it will be fair to presume that the Chief Ma
gistrate cannot prostitute bis office so low that
he will not be sustained by tbe people. We
have now before us for approval or rejection,
as the Lecompton candidate lor Congress, J.
L. Gillis, who was carried ino office in 1856
on the same principle of Popular Sovereignty
that carried Mr. Buchanan into the Presiden
tial chair. Mr. Gillis made the strongest pro
fessions of attachment to this principle while
before the people asking for their votes ; but
no sooner had he got snugly in his seat, than
he commenced voting against the principle
that placed him there, and he continued to
vote in direct opposition to the wishes of his
constituents to tbe end. This man is now again
asking our votes: -he is using every effort to
secure bis re-election. To this end he is again
making pledges to the people, only to be again
violated should he succeed. To effect this end
the Administration is prostituting its immense
patronage, and money is to be poured out like
water. The illustrious Bigler. although win
cing under Sou'hern thunder," and at this
time "a little weak at the knoes" is engaged
in illuminating the district with tervid out
gushings of onion seeds ! Tbe heavens and
earth are to be moved to save his carcass from
political destruction but all to no purpose,
he is a doomed man. Gillis has no strength
with the people he only relies upon the ma
chinery ot party to save him. What claim has
he npon party If a habitual bolter of party
nominations has claims upon tbe party, then
lit has, but not otherwise. He never yet yiel
ded a hearty support to a Congressional nom
inee f the party ; but has always, with ono
exception, either bolted outright, or given the
nominee the "cold shoulder." In 18-36 he gave
the nominee his hearty support, but I defy any
man to point to another instance of similar de
votion to his country.. lie has nothing to lean
upon in this contest but the arm of govern,
nient. He has no claim upon the people, nor
the party. He will find a terrible tailing od iu
this county, which will units with the balance
of the district to roll up a majority against
him.
"On the other hand, the Republicans have
nominated Chapin Hall, Esq., of your town as
a candidate. With this nomination, under or
dinary circumstance the true Democracy would
have little to do ; but in this instance as we
have no candidate of our own in the field, it is
well to examine his antecedents, and thus
judge whether he would not be preferable to
the Lecompton man, and of two evils choose
the least. Mr. Hall is a man who unlike his
opponent, has not been living all his life for
public office, bit now nppoars for the first time
before the pul.lic. He is emphatically one of
the people, and during a long and successful
business career, biis acquired a reputation for
integrity and financial sagacity, of which he
may well feel proud he is an energetic, unti
ring man, and has reached the position which
he now occupies without the aid ot friends or
fortune, but by bis own indomitable energy.
After stating that Mr. Hall voted against
Buchanan because he bad no faith in his pled
ges and urging that Mr. nail's native energy
is a sure guaranty that his pledges will be re
deemed. The writer continues :
'Aside from this, it will have a salutary in
fluence upon the Democratic party, as well as
a lesson for all time to come, to those in pow
er, that they must not desert the principles upon
which they are elec'.td, and command the people
to follow them. The anti-Lecompton forces of
this county will rally around the standard of
Popular Sovereignty under the lead of Mr.
nail, in a manner that will astonish the min
ions of power, and teach them to respect the
bolters.
COL. F0B3TETS ADDEES3.
Col. Forney publishes in the Press of the
30th Sept., an address in vindication of the
principles of popular sovereignty, and in reply
to the assaults of the Lecompton organs. It
is very lengthy, occupying eight columns of
his paper. He shows how strong Mr. Buchan
an was committed to Popular Sovereignty, as
well as himself and the leaders of the party
generally ; how he had given his hearty and
disinterested support to the Administration,
until Mr. Buchanan turned his back upon those
covenants and obligations ; and that he had
submitted the opening addiess of the Press,
when about commencing that paper, to the Ad
ministration itself, allowing then to make its
expressions of devotion to tbe President even
stronger than he had originally written them ;
that, in order to stand, disinterested and inde
pendent, not a dollar ot the money with which
the Press was established, came from the Ad
ministration, and that, "as the drama in Kan
aas began to unfold itself, the Democratic pa
pers regarded him as speaking lrom the chair.'
Col. Forney then goes vn to give his reasons
for making his Tarrytown speech, as follows:
I will now come down to the causes which
led me to deliver the speech which has elicit
ed such unlicensed abuse from the paid organs
of the Administration, to which organs I will,
in t e proper place, pay my respects. After
Mr. BucnASAS had determined to make his
Kansas policy a test with the democratic par
ty ; after Judge Doiclas had spoken his first
celebrated speech in the Senate, and when
tbe fact bad become notorious that the mov
ing cause of the surrender of the principle to
which we stood committed in 1S-5C was the
threat of secession coining from certain poli
ticians in three or four Southern States, (not
the people of these States, but the politicians
and managers,) the most unexampled pro
scription was resorted to for the purpose of
intimidating those who agreed with Judge
Douglas, and Governor Wise, and Governor
Walker, and to compel them to take sides
with the Administration in its unexpected
metamorphosis.
I returned, after my interview with Mr.
BrcHAXAS, still anxions to maintain friendly
relations with his Administration ; but 1 was
soon convinced that unless I debased my man
hood, and recalled all that 1 bad SJid in favor
of the Cincinnati platform and-the doctrine of
popular sovereignity, I would be called upon
to bear the brunt of "a violent collision. And
from that day, from January np to Sep
tember, when I spoke at Tarrytown, there was
no calumny too vile to be coined and circula
ted by the organs of the Administration a
gainst the journal of which I am the owner
and the editor, and the -gentlemen with w hom
I am proud to co-oporate in this great cause.
Every fiicnd who had been appointed to ol
fice, and who still dared to sympathise with
me, in my struggle for piinciple, was c
jected from place. I was denounced, not
only as false to my party, not only as lalse to
the issues of 1&jG, but 1 was declared "to be
under the pay of ihe Black Republicans;"
and, to cap the climax, the same Administra
tion organs were kind enough to allege that I
had proved myself ungrateful to James Bu
cuXNax by refusing to follow him in his be
trayal of Democratic principles. Appeals
were made to postansters throughout the
country to attack me in my business, and to
leave no effort untried to cripple my enter
prise. In a word, there was an ingenuity of
proscription, a fertility of falsehood, a reck
lessness of persecution, which induced me
more than once to inquire in the language of
Gov. Walker, whether indeed "we were liv
ing in the last year of American Indejendence,
or the first year of the American monarchy 1"
I saw the basest wretches, men who bad nev
er been recognised by the Democratic party
in this State, and who in lb-jb tad scarcely an
opinion to avow, ready to go for t kemost or
Fillmo3e I saw these men not only clotued
with the power of the Federal Administration,
but authorized to spek in denunciation of
men who had created it. I saw the money ot
the Federal Government expended to break
down the regular organization of the Demo
cratic party whenever and w herever that or
ganization was not committed to the scanda
lous Kansas policy of (hat Administration.
I saw Senators turned into speculators in or
der to induce them to desert their written and
spoken promises to the people ; I saw Repre
sentatives purchased to betray their constitu
ents, as a Southern slaveholder purchases bis
slaves; I saw newspapers openly and actively
engaged with me on the side of conscience
and the Constitution, threatened or bought
into silence or acquiescence ; I witnessed an
era of official despotism, and an organization
of official insolence, such as, had it taken
place under an opposition Administration, and
against the Democratic patty, would nave
hurled that Opposition into perpetual oltscun-
ty. it was in vain that patriotic Democrats
in all parts of the Union, North aad South,
East and West, held up their hands in terror
at this abandoned spectacle. It was in vain
that Wise, of Virginia, protested, that Doc
CLA.3 protested, that Packer protested, that
Bascroft protested, that Ktersos protested.
that Knox protested, that the nearest and
dearest friends of Mr. Bichanax protested
the crusade went on. 1 saw the Democratic
pnrty of Illinois, standing under the flag
which marshalled us in the great victory two
vears ago, traduced as traitors to that fl.tg :
I saw Stephen A. Douglas leading the regular
organization of the party to a daily conflict
with the avowed enemies of that party, and
yet attacked frout and rear by the Administra
tion ; I saw Hickman contending against the
mercenary hosts of office in his district, IIak-
ix struggling azainst the custom-house in his,
Montgomery with the regular nomination at
his back opposed by the officials in his, and
John G. Davis upholding popular sovereign
ty in bis, against a frantic horde of mercena
ries ; and it seemed to me that silence on my
part would be grievous cowardice. Accord
ingly I spoke as I did.
So much for the causes which induced me
to pronounce my Tarrytown speech ; and now
for the accusations which have been called forth
against that speech by the hirelings of tlie Ad
ministration. The first to which I shall call
attention is that of the Washington Union.
which, in its issue of September 7th, uses the
following lansnage :
"Our purpose, however, was not to censure
this statement for the want of honor implied
m mating it, iut to denounce it, as we now do
most emphatically, for its unmitigated and to
tal destitution ol all honesty and truth. No
such conversation took place, nor any conver
sation at all. between those parties on that sub
ject. Mr. t orni-y never had the coinage to ad
dress Mr. Buchanan in that strain, and he cer
tainly had not the impudence to offer his ad
vice to the man of whose persona! character
he had been tbe habitual traducer for months
before Lecompton or anti-Lecompton was
thought of.
Aio such conversation." savs the Union, ioolt
place, nor any conversation at ail, Letiacen those
parties on the subject."
1 o these general words I beg to reply by
dates and facts. 1 visited Washington earlv
in December of 18-7, and had an iuerview of
some tnree hours wilh Mr. ItCUASx on tne first
day of the meeting of Congress at its late session.
That such an interview took place is proved
by the fact that it was announced in the New
York Herald and New l'ork Tribune, shotiiy
after it occurred, and in Tub Press on the 11th
of Decerobc-
Not only did tho conversation as detailed,
take place, but, as the many friends to whom
I related it alter I left the Presidential mansion
will rememlier, many other things were omit
ted in the statement which 1 gave at Tarry
town. Among others, the President said to me
"If you and Walker and Douglas will unite in
support of my Kansas policy the people ot
Kansas will vote at the election which is to
come ofl" on the 21st December;" that elec
tion, it wi 1 be remembered, having been cailed
under the auspices of the minority Legislature
for the purpose of putting through the Le
compton Constitution, and was held under cir
cumstances of- fraud and infamy which will not
soon be forgotten. He said further, "I knoiv
that you have the strong side of this question.
1 know that you can carry off the people, but
I appeal to you to stand with me, because, if
1 do not adhere to my new policy. Alabama,
treorgia and Mississippi will probably secede
lrotn the Union." It is probable that the
memory of Mr. Blchasax will be stimulated
when he reads these sentences. As lor the
Washington Union, whether it speaks for him
or not, in the above extract.! am unable to s.iv
If it does, the memory of the President is most
defective.
As to my offering advice to Mr. BrcnAsax,
I have only to remark : while Mr. Wesdell.
of the V a.slnngton Luton, was unknown in the
political world, and while the editors of that
same paper were coining calumnies against the
Fresident, my advice and counsel to him was
not only gladly and kindly received, but earn
estly solicited I spoke as lreely to him at all
times when he was not President, as I did after
his election and his installation.
Another fact in connection with this inter
view with tbe President I may mention, and
it i this : that one or two days after it trans
pired, I returned to Philadelphia, and whilst
sitting in my office in Chestnut street, was
visited by an oldf:iend from Southern New
York, whom I had met in Washington, and
who called on me to say that be had been de
sired by the President to stop over and see me.
and to assure me that he tho President in
tended to make bis Kansas policy a test upon
the Democratic party, and that no man would
be tolerated by his Administration who did not
sr-prove and support this policy.
The Union goes on to say, speaking of the
report of the Cabinet meeting:
"The story be tells of the Cabinet meeting
is. like the account of his own conversation,
wholly fabulous. Wc venture to assert that
Mr. Walker never authorized any one to say
that he insulted the President and Cabinet by
expressing a suspicion that they would behave'
treacherously."
This is a somewhat unfortunate denial, ap-r
pearing, as it does, in the Washington Union,
inasmuch es the report of that conversation be
tween Robert J. Walker and the Cabinet u oj
communicated by one of the editors of the ll'ash
inston Union, on more than one occasion, when
there'was no confidence imposed, and at the time
that editor was the known public cni active ad
versary of the Kansas policy of the -Idmiuisira-tion.
The name of that editor is Col. Si to
M. Johnson. I believe that be is now attach
ed to the Washington Uiiion. If he denies thc
statcment here made, I shall be comjclled tor
make it good by furnishing the name or ame
of respectable witnesses, who were prrscnt
when he described this celebrated interview
tittwcei Governor Walker ami flie Cabinet
and President BrcuASAS ; an! thus, w?!bonV
calling upon Governor Walker, or the Presi
dent, or the Cabinet, I leg to rest this part of
my statement upon the distinguished authority
of the editor of the Washington Union hin;sel!V
Mr. Forney then alludes to the attacks of
The Xew York Herald upon him,apply ing terms
to the editor of that paper far from compli
mentary. He next quo'ed from several articles
that had appeared in The Herald during tho
Presidential campaign, siying that Mr. Bu
chanan once said to him with much excitc
mnt, "Why am I so traduced and "pursued
by this infamous knave ? Have I no friends
who will visit New-York and punish him as
be deserves? His ears should "be taken or!
in the public streets." Subsequent to the e
lection when he Forney had published a
caustic article about Mr. Bennett, Mr. Buchan
an regretted tbe publication, saying, "I dt-sirtj
that Mr. Bennett "shall support my adminis
tration." Mr. Forney then reviews the polit
ical condition of the Union, claiming that all
the Democratic victories at tbe North have
been anti-Lecompton, and concludes by pre
dicting thi complete overthrow of the Presi
dent's rule in the coming election in this State.
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country, that he has opened a Barber fchop. ou
Market street, in i-haw s new row. where he ia pre
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ct. fi. lnj. JtKLMlAII .M)i;ttl.-S.
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