Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-01-17
From The Pennsylvania, edited by J. W. Forneyl


WHAT FoRSEY THINKS OF THE ELECTION OF
MS Rival, S.Mox CAM.nox.-Forney, the de-
feated politician, is boiling with indignation and
chagrin over his defeat, as the following will at
test. The last paragraph strikes us as exceed
ingly modest.
Yesterday will long be remembered as the
most disagrecable day in the political annals OF
Pennsylvania Corruption has triumphed, VII
lany has been successful, and Cameron, whose
name is but synonyme for all that Is vile and
infamous in politics has been chosen not to rep
resent but to disgrace our noble old common
wealth in the United States Senate, for the next
six years. -.
Despised by every honest man, of all political
organizations; proven over and over again to be
morally and politically dishonest; false IN turn
to every party, to every political sentiment, to
almost every obligation that honorable men re-
spect-a Pennsylvania legislature has been
found weak enough and base enough to exalt
him to seatin the highest political assemolage
of the country. All are familiar with the many
base arts and appliances by which this bold,
bad, cunning man has for years mlnlsterea 10
his ambition.
Destitute Of integrity Of purpose and charac-
ter, neither honest nor capable, utterly nnprln-
ciDled and corrupt, Powerless for the accom-
plishment of any good purpose for any party,
he has long persistently enrolled himself IN the
list oil candidates Tor OnlLeu oEtteS OeIlttoISil'P
without possessing single qualification for that
post, or a single claim of proper character, and
has throughout relied entirely upon intrigue
ard corruption to foist himself upon body with
which he is totally untitled to associate
The cheeks of every true Pennsylvania will
tingle with shame when he reads the proceed
ingS of YESTERDAY, and his heart throb with ln-
lignation at the thought that any party could
have been found base enough to Pander to the
ambition of such man. We look TO the Uni
ted States Senate to rebuke as pointediy and
forcibly as it can, the intrusion of such crea-
ture into their midst
We know that Cameron will he scorned and
despised by every honest and honorable man in
that body, and we hope that, dead to shame as
he is, he may be made to feel that the baseiy
purchased and ill-deServed laurelS with which
he would deck his brow, are filled with thorns
to gOad one who so lily deserves them.
Let him be Stunned moral and political
leper, whose organization is but complication
of foul diseases and corruptions. Let him sit
there, as though he were in a pillory, amid the
Kissing scorn and contempt of the other occu-
pants of that chamber. If the United States
Senator's shall at all permit him to sit among
them, let it be with the understanding that he Is
to be created throughout as such q personlhc"-
ton of inialny deserves.
simon Cameron will 20 to the Senate to serve
no honest purpose, to represent no honest pc.
litical opinion, to discharge no honest political
duty He will go there in quest OF plumber,
ready to bctray friend or foe to gain his ends
He will go there through the aid OF corrupt
means to accomplish corrupt purposes. dc VIII
90 there as ready to sell his own vote and inttu-
ence, as he has been to purchase votes and intiu-
ence to assist him III securing his election to the
Senate.
The democratic party possessed majority
sufficient to have elected their nominee, had all
its representatives remained faithful to their
trust Three members, however, elected by the
democratic party and honOred by its confidence,
have earned an immortality of infamy by bascly
betraying their constituents and their party.
They are William b. Lebo and q. \. Wagon
seller, of Schuylkill county, and Samuel Mem
ear, of York county.
All these men attended the Democratic eau
Gus on Friday night last, and concurred in the
resolution making the nomination unanimous.
Lebo voted for the nomination of Col. Forney.
The honest democracy Of York and Schnylkill
counties, who breathed political life into the
nostrils of these miscreants, supposed they we're
electing honest men, democrats, representatives
who would be faithful to the great cause whose
strength elected them. These just expectations
have been disappointed.
Upon what pretext and for what cause they
have voted TO- Cameron is plain to all. They
have betrayed the Democracy as Judas betray-
ed his master They have made Mainmon the
god of their ilolatry. The tortureS of their own
scared conSclcnceS may not he Sulllclently pun
gent to force them, like Judas, to hang them
selves, but similar political fate will certainly
be reserved for thom by their indignant con-
stituents, and their names become kissing
scorn and reproach throughout the whole Com
InOnwealth.
That Cameron has purchased his election, is
the universal sentiment of all parties How
far the disgrace of admitting him to the Senate
may be averted, as yet we do not know. If the
plain fact, which all men instinctively know in
regard to the means aud agencies by which he
secured his election, can be legally established,
the United States Senate will owe it TO its own
dignity to spurn him from that body.
1t seems that protest hus already been pre-
scented against the legality of the election. Up
on what grounds it is based we do not know
But public opinion will demand that no legal
means be left untried to baulk this debanched
political gamesteT, and snatch from his hands
the ill-gotten prize, which is dishonOred by his
possession of it.
The effect of this transaction upon Mr.. For
ney personally, will be rather beneficial than
otherwise Dear as he has always been to the
Democracy of Pennsylvania, whom he has ser
we'd so long and SO well, he never occupied so
proud place in their affections he does at
this moment Glad as we would have been to
have seen him represent Pennsylvania in the
United States Senate, we doubt not that some
other sphere perhaps of equal honor and use
fitness is reserved for him.
II LENS.