Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-03-29
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after the publication Of Colonel Forney's
:" Jameson and Forrest letter." the great ma
jority of the Virginia representatives in Con-
gress would not support him, and he revenged
himself by removing virginian, who was
much esteemed by that delegation, from the
Office of Librarian of the House Of Represent
atives. So also, after the connection of Col
Forney with the " Union," the Virginia Sena-
tors, Messrs. Mason and Hunter, with their
friends, Messrs. Atchison, Butler, Bright and
others, would not and did not, vote to give the
Senate printing to the Union, but conferred it
upon its then enemy, but present coadjutor,
the Sentinel Not daring then to wage war
upon such powerful and distinguished men,
Col Forney determined to smother his rage,
and "bido his time"
Accident ere long affording him an opportu-
nifty to hit General Atchison severe blow,
by sending Governor to Kansas, who would
oppose all his movements, and favor those Of
his enemies, he embraced that opportunity,
and sent his friend, Mr.. Reeder, of Pennsyl-.
vania, to take charge of the interests Of Kan
sas. No one can have forgotten the most full
some and ridiculous eulogy which Governor
Reeder pronounced upon his friend, Colonel
Forney, for procuring him the appointment;
and all Missouri will attest the faithfulness Of
Governor Reeder's opposition to General Atcb-
ison, and to the Missourians in Kansas.
1t is now the turn Of Senator Mason to re-
ceiye g hit" 1t has been forcibly given. We
shall see how it will be borne
Last week the National Intslligsncer ad-
mitted, that its editors had seen the official
letters of the Secretary of the United States
Legation at Madrid, but it exonerated Mr..
Perry, the Secretary, from all agency in fur
nishing sight or knowledge thereof and in
reply to the Union, it subsequently exonerated
the State Department "by the most unreserved
disclaimer"
This ought to have satisfied any honest friend
of the Secretary of State his clerks, and of the
Secretary of Legation. And probably they
were satisfied, but 1t does not satisfy the Union
The Union says:
"If the Intelligencer meant by this unreserved
disclaimer to say, that the copy handed to its edi
tors was not the copy in the State Department, it
would have been as easy to say so" &c.
The Union is thus trying to cast suspicion
upon the Senate Committee of Foreign Rela-
tons, of which Senator Mason, of Virginia, is
the chairman Is not this ats o6pious intent
The disclaimer of the Intelligencer is sun
as it regards Mr.. Perry, and as it
regards the State Department; the skirts of
the administration were cleared. A sight of
the papers therefore was obtained, clearly, from
another quarter. 1t struck the Union, that an
or breach Of trust might per-
haps, through the admissions of the Intelligen-
Ger, be pinned upon its enemy, Senator Ma
son, so it did not remain content with an excul-
patton of the administration, but it wished to
know, whether the editors of the Intelligencer
did not see THE COPY which is in the State De-
partment2 The Union well knew that "the
copy" would only have been intrusted to the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, by the
State Department. In other words, the inquiry
was SO framed as to work an irreparable in
jury to Senator Mason, If the Unions suspicion
was well founded, and if the Intelligencer
should disclose the factl The game of the
Union was a safe one; it might win, and could
not lose; for if the Inteligenoer remained ST.
lent, Senator Mason would be injured by tho
suspicion If the Intetli9encer should incul-
pate Senator Mason, he might be ruined, and
il it exonorated him, the Union would lose
nothing
Such is Forneyism, and such its tricks. II
would unhesitatingly destroy leading Demo
cratic Senator, if it could do SO, and if at
any previous time that Senator had refused
him public patronage governmental pap For
this same ignobie cause it aids abolitionism in
Kansas, and opposes General Atchison and
slavery there. And yet at the very moment
when appointing Blairs and Reeders when
opposing slavery and southern interests in
Kansas through government appointees, and
when seeking the destruction Of the Atchisons
and Masons Of the South, the Union claims to
be southern paper in sentiment, and rolls up
its blood-shot eyes in holy horror, solemnly
warning the South against trusting the Know
Nothings Thank God, the people Of Virginia
and the South begin thoroughly to compre-
bend the aims and conduct Of the Blairs, For
neys, and Reeders.
Blair has gone to Missouri, Whitfield Is APP
pointed to a position in the mountains, and
Reeder is Of course on the spot, to defeat, If
possible, the efforts Of Atchison and his friends,
on tomorrow, the day Of election in Kansas
Are not these gentlemen, the Blairs, Forneys,
and Reeders, most reliable and even splendid
champions faithful and persevering
friends Of the SOUTH II such conduct towards
General Atchison; IL such an attempt TO ruin
Senator Mason; il the Punishment Of Whit
field; If the mission Of Blair to Missouri; IL
the vigorous and inscriptions opposition Of
Governor Reeder to the interests Of the South,
and to her friends--if all these things, coupled
with the resolve Of the Forney andPierce De-
mocracy in Ohio, "to eradicate slaoery," win
not open the eyes Of the people Of Virginia to
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