New York July 14. 1856
Private
My Dear Mr. Tyler
I have carefully read your letter by
copy, and hope it is correct. I don't think I could
make any improvement in its composition. It is too
well written for that. I send you a copy by this
afternoon's mail, another three copies.
I am sorry after all that I have been
compelled to put your letter in the news department,
and not in the editorial columns. But I have written
upwards of a column of an editorial in reference
to it. You will see in the Citizen an letter from Mr.
[?] which accounts for your letter being
[?]ed out of the editorial pages, for there would
but humbly be [?] forth. You will not I
feel assured be jealous that Mitchell should
take precedence in a paper like the Citizen - the
paper founded too by himself. His letter will I hope
do good to the Irish Cause. You would perhaps
have the kindness to get the Pennsylvanian
and the Richmond Enquirer to refer to it if not
copy it, and credit it to the Citizen. That
too will help you. I am much obliged for
your offer to get those papers to copy your letter

from the Citizen. I had a private letter from
Mr. Mitchel. He will soon write regularly for
the paper. At best I expect so from his letter.
I know not whether all Mr. Buchanan's
friends will like the article on "the question at
issue". I think however, they ought, for in
my opinion it will do more good than a partisan
article from a personal or political
friend. Under the circumstance of his not
yet having any explanation of the
speech which I assume you has done and
continues to do him very great injury. This
is not mere conjecture. I speak from good
data. I have had numerous letters from
influential questions pitching into him;
and I have no doubt I will soon receive letters
pitching into myself for what I have said this
week on his behalf. I know a priest
of great influence who is down on him
most wrathfully. If Mr. Buchanan does not
think it advisable to make some direct
explanation to [?] the false impression,
I think if he would authorise you or some
other friend to do it for him that great
good would be affected.

I will advocate his election of course. But
for his own sake he ought not to be under a cloud
which himself and himself alone can dissipate,
provided that the sentiments attributed to him
are really not his.
Don't imagine because Freement has no
strength in Pennsylvania that he has has none in
New York state. Quite the contrary. The
Tribune Times, [?], and Evening Post
all on one side are a formidable power.
A great democratic daily paper ought
to have been started in this city long ago. The
course of the Herald afforded a fine
opening. The Daily News has no ability in influence.
There ought to be a two cent paper. It is now
almost too late to get up a daily paper for the
campaign.
It seems evident that Freemont has been
a Catholic till lately, and perhaps still is if he
be anything. What is the [semantic] story about
his marriage, or how was it that he came to
be married by a Catholic priest, if he was a
Protestant at the time of his marriage? The
New York Express of Saturday last (Fillmore

organ) has a very damaging article about his
being a Catholic, that is damaging with his
own party.
Please write to me as soon as possible
on this subject on which I asked your advice
and friendly offices. I may say I have made
up my mind to start the [?] of paper I
referred to independently of the campaign, but
would devote it more particularly to the
Democracy till the election, if assistance
were given me either in money, or in what
would answer equally well by the purposes of
so many thousand copies of each impression
of the paper at wholesale price. [?] this
the National Committee [?] to do for their
own [?]. You [?] with the machines I
[?] common I could push the
circulation rapidly and it would do
immense good at a very small cost. I had
some notion of going on to Washington with Gen.
Haring [?] my position and cleared the way
in the Citizen by this first article I can come

[?] [?] from time to time; and need not make
any further reference to the London speech unless
I should be made so happy as to be [?] to
refer to it so as to explain it away.  Mr. Buchanan
has no room left now to stand upon his dignity,
if he has done so before, as the Citizen has declared
in form of the democratic candidate
independently of that matter. You have seen
[?] in almost every number of its papers,
in the Citizen as well as in the editorial
paper I defend this southern institution. Thus
do I help the cause.
I wish at your earliest liesure you
would make me out a list of southern
papers which you would like me to send
the Citizen of this week. My exchange list
in the south is not as extensive as it
ought to be. Do you think it imprudent
that I should go on telegraph me on
receipt of this.
Yours faithfully
J. McClenahan

John McClenahan
"Citizen" office
New York
July 14/56