Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1858 — Presidential Interference. [ARTICLE]

Presidential Interference.

The Aew Albany Tribune publishes the following letter,, said to have been written by Mr. Buchan .n to Mr. English, a few days prior to the Congressional Convention in English’s district: Washington, July 25, 1858.’ Hon. Wm. H. English, Dear Sir:—Aware that the convention for nominating a Democratic candidate tor Congress in your district, will convene in a few days, I cannot refrain from expressing the hope that you may be the unanimous nominee of thie convention. If I. lived in your district and had a thousand votes you should-have them ail. Occupying the position you do, I consider it essential that you should succeed in obtaining the nomination. A failure in this would be regarded by me as a rebuke of my Administration. There may be some aspirant or aspirants for the position in your way. If so you may say to them that by giving ycu a clear track they will gain my fajvor and may expect to be provided for in a suitable manner. If nominated I will throw as much assistance into your , district as you may desire. Our friend Hughes, I see, has a hard row to iioe. He will be liberally sustained. Of this you may rest asssured. Youir friend, James Buchanan. Whether the letter is genuine or not. wt\_ cannot positively say, but this much is c< tain: Mr. English did receive a letter fr ■ . Mr. Buchanan, which he read before the P<. oil Convention, and to certain citizens of New Albany the day before the Convention. .He claimed that he received it from ffOld Buck,” and a number of those who heard it read, stated it to be substantially the same as published above. As the Lafayetle Journal remarks, we are fallen on evil days indeed when a President of the United States consents to append his name to such a missive as the foregoiu-g. It is nothing but a corrupt inducement held out to certain pairties to cease their opposition to his private w ishes, ijnd as such deserves to be branded with universal scorn. Its effect in thiis instance- was decisive. When the day of the convention arrived, both the opposing candic&tes withdrew and English received a unanimous nomina- ■ tion, wh“n dverybodv had regarded his defeat as inevitable! It remains to be seen in whatsortof ’“suitable manner” Messrs. Cravens and Sherrod will be “provided for” out of the Presidenitial bounty: and also the “liberal sustenance” that Hughes is to re- ; ceive from the saime source will enable him ; to secure his re-election, in spite of the for- ■ midible odds now arrayed against him.—ffforg.in County Gazette.