Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1859 — The Great Libel Case. [ARTICLE]

The Great Libel Case.

The telegraphic contradiction of tire report that Mr. Buchanan was about to prosecute John W. Forney, editor of the Philadelphia Press, for libel, iff consequence of a charge in that paper that he was responsible for Broderick’s death, has brought out tho following from Forney himself: “We desire to state, upon the best authority, that during his late visit to Lancaster the President was free and frequent in the declaration of his determination that, on his return to Washington, he would consult Judge Black about prosecuting the editor of the Press for a libel in consequence of that article. We have now in our possession letters from prominent Democrats in Lancaster, written while the President was sojourning there, stating the fact in question in the most emphatic manner. “It Air. Buchanan desires more direct evidence of the fact that he did threaten a prosecution of the editor of the Press, because we demanded to know whether he felt his conscience clear of the blood of David C. Broderick, it will be forthcoming.”