Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1857-01-27
Mr.. Forney's Defeat.

oulliio Lie IIoSiutHlidl CalNpdlSnS VIC
took occasion to review the acts of Mr.. t
Forney from the period of the celebrated
Forrest case down to the time of his po-
litical agency in the management Of the
Pennsylvania State election. We felt
then, as we do now, towards this political
satrap. His management of the State
election of Pennsylvania by frauds, the
buying up of woes with money raised
from the Democratic circle In New York,
as well as in Pennsylvania, all tended to
secure the election OF the keystone State
TO the Democracy, aud the result OF that
State election decided the issue in regard
to the Presidential. NJ. Fornev las re-
ceived his reward for the pure and dis
interested services rendered. Backed
even by AIr. Buchanan's Influence, it has
been OF no avail. His friends nominated
him for the Senate, and the Legislature
rejected him, electing General Simon
Cameron, by Il vote of 81 to IS, Mr. Fos-
ter receiving votes. The rage and in
dignation excited 10y this ignominious de-
feat of the wire-puller, pipe-layer and
manager, of Mr. Buchanan's tIection-
for 1t cannot be denied ii was mainly ow-
ing to Mr.. Forney's agency that Kr. Bu-
chanan trlnmphed-in his own darling
State, as he once called it, shows the ter
rible blow his ambition has received from
the uncertain party he was leader Of
The Pennsylvania, the organ of Mr.
Forney, comes out writhing and lashing
with the fury of a lion. The keystone
Club are l." In arms" against the traitor
Mddletown Bank notes are alluded to as
having paid the corruptionsts for their
votes. Petitions 10 the Senate, indirna-
ton meetings, and fire and fury. are the
order of the day in the Keystone State.
lis of no use repining; General Came
ron is Senrtor, and Fornev must now dry
up his tears and bear his defeat with the
air of a philosopher. and look for &" better
luck next time As sample of the
= howls of Forney's organ, we extract
that part of the Pennsvlvanian's com
ments on the cause of Forney's disastrous
defeat, as we'll as the proceedings of the
Keystone C]ub, the predictions of one of
lis members being too good to be lost =
Milwaukee American
TIM BUzzARD'S FEAsT-Yesterda
will long be remembered as the most dis
graceful day in the political annals of
Pennsylvania. Corruption has triumphed
-villainv has been successful, and Cam
eron, whose name is but synonvma for
ali that Is vile and infamous In politics
h 5 been chosen, not 20 represent. but to
disgrace our noble old Commonwealth in
IN the I. :. Senate, for the next six wears.
Desplsed by every honest man. of all DO
litical organizations proved over and
over again TO be morally and politically
dishonest false, IN turn, to every party
TO every political sentimental almost
every obligation that honorable men re-
sPect-a Pennsylvania Legislature has
been found weak enough, and base
enough, to exalt him TO a seat in the high
est political assembiage of the country -
All are familiar with the many base arts
and appliances by which this bold. had
cunning man, has, for years, ministered
to his ambition.
That Simon Cameron owes his election
to corrupt means no man doubts The air
has been poisoned for months past with
rumors of his Vaccinations. His emissa
ries of corruption have been dispatched to
many quarters of the State. and his
friends have boasted repeatedly that he
had purchased, as meat is bought in the
SHAMELESS, enough miserable monev-loviur
traitors to secure his election. The Dem
ocratsWho voted for him could by no pos
sitifly have had any other than a corrupt
motive to sustain him.
The effect of this transaction ,lnon Nh.
Fomey, personally. will lie rather ben
,hcial than otherwise. ID, ar as he has
always been 10 the d, mocracy OF Penn
syivauia, whom he has spry. 4 so LONG and
80 well, he never occupied SO proud a
place IN their affections as it does at this
moment. Stricken down 10y the shame
less treason of three wretches. whose We
nal hearts are dead to every ennoblipo
sentiment, and who will be remembered
hereafter, only to be despised, and by the
factious spirit of other mrn from whom
the ID, moCracy had right to exDpct Let
ter conduct, he is beyond the reach of
their power, and can well afford to des-
pIse their opposition. His fame VIII gain
but new lustre from their course, and his
hold upon the hearts Of the people of
Pennsylvania be but strengthened and IN
creased. Glad as we would have been tn
have seen him reprt sent Pennsylvania in
the United States Senate, we doubt not
that some other sphere, perhaps of equal
honor and usefulness, Is reserved for HIM.
We regret the result of the Senatorial
election yesterday, because it entailed dis
honor and disgrace upon our Common
wealth, and, if Cameron is allowed to 90
into the United States Senate, because
mat body itself will be dishonored by his
presence. We regret it because the De-
mocracy have been taught that they have
hurtured III their bosom base miscreants
who have rewarded their generous conf
dence with the vilest baseness and perfid-