Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-11-14
Col. J. ". Eornex.

Col. j. Wa Forney.
This gentleman. the editor of the Philadelphia
Pennsylyanian leading democratic paper. and also
prominent candidate for the Office of clerk OF the
House of Representatives, made speech recently in
New York, in which he is said 10 have used the ex
preston that Re would vote for the worst democrat in
preference to the best whg. In card in recent
number of the Pennsylvania, Col Forney says: 81
did not say that would for the worst democrat
in preference to the hest whg. saidand The phrase
is which have used too often to be forgotten
that would vote for the worst democrat politically, ih
preference TO best wing politicaHy Mr.. Fs express
sion has been seized upon accusation against
" locofocosm" in general, and our good Fayetteville
neghbors of the Observer, are out in eloquent denun-
Citations of ii. As we understand it, according 10 Mr..
Forneys explanation, nothing very wrong
in the matter. In voting for political officer, where
political principles are concerned, shallalways
vote for democrat irrespective of personal conslera
tons We think that there is more safety, politically
in even the weakest man of our own party than in
the strongest of The opposite, for the weakness
OF democrat may be only negative evil, while the
strength of whig may be exer,ed in posi-
lively injurious to The principles in which believe
AS we have before said, we would, in matter nvolv-
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Ter enemy, if we could endorse his opinions. than for
our best friend with whom we could not agree We
are not responsible for Mr. Forney, ror any other
member of The democratic party but feel it posi-
tive duty. which we both to ourselves and our
party, TO repe snch groundess insinuations against
the personal honesty honorable feeling of all demo-
Gratis, which freely INDUCED in by the great
ority of the whig press Our Fayetteville coempora
ry TO act on the supposton that, because MIR,
Forney is democrat he must necessarily be rather
low, unprncipled fellow This is all miserable
sense. Recent elections have shown that ma joTity
of the people, in nearly every State in the Union.
democrats-a majority of the members of the U. S.
Senate are democrats So of the House of Represen.
tauves-so of the Governors of the States, of whom
only two out of tEirty-one wings. Under this
state of things the arrogant, contemptuous tone oil
some whig presses, is libel upon the country-a Ii
bel upon TIE people, and should be frowned down as
such
We will here attend TO assertion which We find
ierated and reiterated and that is that the Democrat
ic preponderance depends on the foreign vote, One
consideration will show how far this is from being true
If the democratic preponderance depended on the for
egn vote, the democratic strength would lie at the
North which receives the whole Of the Irish and Ger
man emigration. Such. however, is not the The
whg strength lies at The North where all line foreign
vote is cast. The democratic stronghold is at tht
South where the number of foreigners is almost nom
lna. In truth the democratic majorites nearly al
ways larger in purely native communities.
Some Of these remarks may appear irrelevant but il
truth they not, and little reflection will show tina
they are not We have not before the copy of th'
Pennsylvania containing Mr. Forneys first notice o
this matter, would publish it. The matter nov
stands thus: Mr.. Forney denies that be used the OBJ
noxious expressions attributed 10 him. The New
Herald and its reporters swear that he did We have
therefore, Forneys acord against Benefits oath. w
believe the former and so will every one who know
!. ANYTHING about the parties in question.