The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-10-07
VOL. XII.
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE,
Col Forneys Address in Reply to the Assaults Of
the Administration Organ.

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Mr.. Forney's, in vindication of the principle of
popular sovereignty, and in reply to the assaults
of the Lecompton organs. He intended to de-.
liver the address at public meeting, but the
of his duties has rendered il imnos.
sible. He commences by reviewing the part
he took at Tarrytown, and the causes wbirb
induced him to make the speech be did there
He then alludes to the statement of the INN,
denying the conversation he is represented ia
have had with the President. He saws: Not
only did the conversation take place, bl; MANY
things that we're said were omitted in the Tar
rytown speech. Among other things, the Pres.
ident said If you, Walker, and Douglas, viii
unite in support of my Kansas policy, the p4o.
pie of Kansas will vote for it at the election on
the 2lst of December. know that you have
the strong side of this question, and that YOU
can carry off the people; but appeal 10 you 10
stand with me, because, if | don't adhere to
my policy, Alabama, Georgia, aud Mississippi
Will probably secede from the Union
A few days after this intervieH, a friend
from Southern New York visited me (Fogney)
at Philadelphia, saying that the President had
desired him to assure me that the President
intended to make his Kansas policy a test up5n
the party, and that no man would be tolerated
By the Administration who did not spDrave
and support it." Regarding the Unions az
sertions that his (Forney's) statement of the
Cabinet meeting is false, Mr.. Forney saws that
the report of the conversation between Walker
and the Cabinet was communicated aud de
scribed by Col. Simeon III. johnson, one of tba
editors of the Union.
Democratic candidates for Congress sIl ogsr
the North are pledging themselves to vote ior
the admission of Kansas without regard IN her
The candidate in the Presdept',
district in Pennsylvania takes this position. and
the President is interesting himself actively to
secure his election. But at the South the
President appears in another character. Sen
ator Brown, of Mississippi, in recent speech
at home, is thus reported:
He stated that he called upon the President
before he left Washing ton, and that Mr. Buchep.
an assured him, in the most positive and IN
equivocal terms, that he would appoint no man
to Office who held the opinion that Kansas
ought to be admitted before che had populs.
ton which would entiue her to a Representa-.
tive in Congress, according to the terms OF the
conference bill,) and that he would decap;tae
every Ofice-holder who expressed such a be.
lief"
1t is stated in the St. Louis Republican that
Vice President Breckenridge not only declares
openly that he desires the election oil JUDGE
Douglas, of Illinois, but that he will 90 to iii.
nos to assist him in his canvass, If his services
are needed. And yet the President ia sll
busily ferreting out and executing the Federal
office-holders in Illinois suspected Of sympathy
with Douglas.
The Administration has decided that Collar.
IL Ill -
Jasper county, and every rod of the Fort Wayne
railroad, have been filed up with imported voters
and the Democratic leaders, having counted
their men, say, with knowing wsg of the head
that although Colfax is stronger By thousand
votes than be was two years since when his
majority was 1895, he shall get be beaten!
There is no doubt Of contemplated frauds on a
stupendous scale in Indiana this year. Ind
ana, like most of the Western States, is without
the protection Of registration of its voters
AT Albany, on Saturday, the American State
Committee of New York met There was
full attendance. The Hon. Daniel Uilman and
other outsiders, and ali the State candidates,
except the Canal Commissioned, were present.
The Hon. Ersstus Brooks, of New York, wss
elected chairman, and John G. Eeltmau, OF Al
bany, secretary, when committee was appoint.
ed to organize and conduct the canvass.
Elections are to be held this month in the
nine following States, viz: Georgia, Florida,
Mississippi, Iowa, South Carolina, Psnnsylvs.
MIA, Ohio, Indiana, and Minnesota. The elsc.
tions will take place on the following days:
October 4th-Georgia, for local officers; Flor.
da, for a member Of Congress; Mississippi, for
a member of Congress, to fill the vacancy in
(l1ff ~ l. 4 n
State officers. October llth--South Carolina
for members of the Legislature. The new
Legislature will elect a Governor in place Of
Governor Allston. October l2,h-Penusylya.
MIA, for State officers and Congressman; Min.
nesota, for new House of Representative and
zine Senators. The next Legislature of Mn.
nesota will have to elect U. s. Senator.
The Oregon papers are discussing the exps.
diency of the meeting of the Legislature il
September, in view of the House OF Represent.
atives not agreeing with the Senate on the pas.
sage of the bill to form the Territory of Oregon
into a State. The Legislature adjourned to
September, but 1t is now questioned whether
the Territorial Legislature should be called TO-
gether before the meeting of Congress.
The Charleston Mercury does not favor the
new Southern demand for special laws to pro
-ect Slavery in the Territories. 1t thinks il b.
ready sufficiently protected
" If Territorial Legislature should pa.
avs prohibiting or abolishing Slavery in ler.
-itory, the courts in Territory would declare
hem void. If they should pass laws declaring
hat the laws protecting all other kinds Of prop.
srty should not protect Slavery, they wouId b.
'et aside by the judiciary. AS long as q Ter
,itory is Territory, Slavery under the Consti
ution of the United States must be protected
As property, and the courts of the Territory,
lnder the appointment and control Of the behd
Of the Federal Govern cent, must enforce tn
protection, if the decree of the Supreme Cour
of the United States is enforced"
Hon. Linus b. Comins has been renominstei
or Congress by the Republican Convention for
he fourth district Of Massachusetts.
The Democratic Convention have nominated
Israel I. Hatch for reelection to Congress from
he Buffalo, N. Y, district.
The Legislature Of California will stand as
ollows
Senate-Democrats ..
Opposition IS
Democratic majority
81
Opposition ~
Democratic majority .
Sixteen Senators hold over from the last srs
ZION. Of these, nine voted for the resolutions
nstructing the U. s. Senators and requesting
he Representatives in Congress TO vote for TIE
admission of Kansas with the Lecompton Con
'titution, and seven against them. Nineteen
senators have been elected this year. Oftkem
thirteen are Democrats and six Opposition
wo of the six being strsight-out Republicans
rom San Francisco.