Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1859 — BUCHANAN SUING FOR LIBEL. [ARTICLE]

BUCHANAN SUING FOR LIBEL.

It is reported that James Buchanan has sued John B. Forney for libel in using the following language, in regard to the murder of Senator Broderick: “Thus has fallen the first great martyr to the political principles of the campaign of 1856. We ask the arch traitor to those principles if,: in his old age and in the sunset of his life, he can feel that his hands- are clear of the heart’s blood of David C. Broderick!”