The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-30

object 1t is another proof that free sellers |
and abolitionists united are the principal friends
Of an administration which was carried into
power by the force of the compromise and Union
sentiments of the country.
The Stool Pigeon Candidate for the Clerk
ship.
We are still told that Col. FOrney's chances
Of success are good. The Washington press
still speaks confidently Of his election This
surely cannot be. There cannot, surely, be
stool pigeon majority in Congress. That honor
able body cannot contain a hundred members
who approve of enticing man to drink in order
to draw from him confessions involving the
honor of defenceless woman. There cannot
be majority that would associate with man
who had acted as agent to suborn evidence for
such purpose. There cannot be majority
that would deliberately testify its approval of
such practices by promoting their author to q
post of honor and trust No; we will not be-
lieve that even half the representatives Of
the American people hold manly honor so
cheap as to overlook such conduct as that Of
Col. Forney. If he is elected it can only be
from On ignorance Of his antecedents. And lest,
from any accident there be single member
who has not read that all important exhibit
the Forney Letter-we again republish it for
their benefit -
COL. FoRNEY TO GEORGE ROBERTS.
lPRIvAIEl PHILADELPHIA. Jan rs 1850
Our friend Forrest is nos here and Is about to apply
fer from ss VIE DE mas su eah "a. oI cSosen
keep them quiet and xoud nave done STILL but for the
folly in c-psnrpg i'm for leaving her. 1t is really az:
tuhtp hon hal f,acop IN
his friends for ali that time but it is SO, nevertheless
The facts are briefly these Eighteen months ago.
while playing in Cincinnati, he caught Mrs in very
squivocai position with young man in his parlor.
she protested Innocence, ano he let it pass BY loving
Orleans srd New York. After they had reach
90 home and had been there for te he found
ing Of though not signed BY young man viii ii
she alluded to in terms the mott anorous and unms
taktabie.
TIE language alluded to her swhte arms that wound
about his neck ITO the bssf hours they had spent
Together" and the letter had BEN kept memento
until it quite well Upon this evidence with
other contrmatory proes he intends applying TO our
Legislature for o oivoice.
But you in position to serve him in manner
he win forget The perfon who wrote to Mira For
rest and in whose company she detected is George
Jan ieson, playing in New Orleans If you don't
know him. you can, the editor of leading paper, soon
What FORFEIT row desires to cinch the nall to obtain
in way, admission from Jameson. named you
to him safe .oy and intelligent iriend and he
win forget whstever you may Go for him in this to
lie suggests that you NIGH. Institute intimate relations ,vih
IT, ana then induce him either in your presence in com
any % admit as Thing De proud Of his aion ,cah
,nn ol h. ss'' 1"0 l0S''y =
80 harm VIII come to Tim; he is game too small for
porant oay as sdipr an Injured man in getting re isyed
from nov hateful bond "a. IAN you manage .nis
osssful, will warm endesr you to Forrest.
n,sssnt by be viii srend half he worth to he
relieved from it This matter must be kept secret Above
for troubrg YOU in regard to It. Nv ardent atsscbment
to glorious Forrest must be NY excuse Now, wontyou
II would help in the matter, probably, to know
that John Green, the actor, now In NeS Orleans -
You your dis crsticn in letting him know
This letter is sSJ,esssd to YOU with the knowledge Of
Forrest
tunity to look about you with kind regards am,
1e esa Pese ~ ysT Es very Hu JUN
It was this letter. as everybody knows. which
ruined Forests case. A thrill Of horror per-
vaded court and iury at the bare thought of 50
base plot and from that moment Forests
hopes were completely destroyed. If such
were the effect Of the letter on the character Of
the man who, after all, stood in the back
ground, and might not have been cognizant Of
the atrocity of the scheme by which his syco-
phant intended to carry out his purpose. what
impression must it leave on the minds Of honest
men with regard to John w. Forney?
One has only, in fact to consider what would
have occurred had the writer and the recipient
of the letter been men of equal honor and equal
delicacy. and the propositions it contained been
executed faithfully. Just fancy Roberts, as
the editor of q daily paper" intriguing to make
the acquaintance OF the poor actor whose popu-
larity depended in measure on his criticisms;
inviting him to bar-rooms- perhaps to dinner
there, finding that :" he was fond of glass;"
plying the bottle, watching his companions
face with fiendish craft, and dexterous)y turning
the conversation on bygones and past loves