Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-04

surrounded him us with avail of FIRE; and who I
had carried him forward into the Presidency |
after twenty years Of hard, unremitting, and
chivalricstoil. FOrmyself, / have only tossay |
that although Bennett has accused me of many
things, he has yet to speak of me as shameless.
" and as brutality as he has spoken of the Presil
dent of the United States
WHAT BUCHANAN SAID TO SENATOR BROWN.
The Washington Union and other Lecompton
organs have expended great indignation agaInStl
what they are pleased to call the publishing of
private conversations. / conferred with Mr.. /
Buchanan rs with public man on public
question. That which he has told to me, he
has, doubtless, said in substance to hundreds of
others. He made no secret Of his change of
front. He made no secrettof his desertion of
Walker. He made no =secret-of his personal
hostility to- Douglas. Senator Brown, of Mis-
sissippi, has, within few weeks past, published
to the world conversation with the President,
which, if true-and it has neither been denied
nor denounced places every LecomPton Reps
resentatiye in Congress, running in the free
States against the English bill, in fearful posi-.
ton. The words are significant, and will
quote them.
In referring to the conference bill, Senator
Brown is reported by the YicksbuTg CIiss.)
| IRtig to have said:
"That he called on the President before he
left Washington, and that Mr.. Buchanan as
sured him in the most positive and unequivocal
terms that he would appoint no man to Office
who held the opinion that Kansas ought TO be
admitted before she has a population which
would entitle her to representative in Con-
gress, (according to the terms of the Conference
billO and that he would decapitate every Office.
holder who expressed such a belief
Mr.. Forney then says that Mr.. Buchanan's
statements before court of justice, under oath,
regarding the charges against Forney would be
as follows:
...All these charges are baseIy false. Forney
is under no obligations to me-not one. The
obligation is all on the other side. / never help
ed him pecuniarily but once in my life, and that
! debt he has repaid to me with compound inter
est. BE has spent and sacrificed more money
! for me than am worth to-day, Inever hada
blood relative that was half as devoted to me as
Forney. never assisted his family. He
started his first paper in Lancaster, twenty-five
years ago, withonta copper from me. Hebought
the Penasyl rGniHn with his own hard.earned
means, when / was the most unpopular public
man in Philadelphia; when both people and
| politicians were against me; when my own
| friends could have been put into an omnibus;
and he peTSevered in working for me till he was
q ruined man, and went to Washington to re-
| trieve his fortunes which he would have done
had he not foolishly giyenup everything in the
world but his wife's property, to support me,
rather than have it said that lie left General
| Pierce with pockets full. Besides, never was
of any assistance to Forney in Washington
/
ways against me; and was, elsewhere, power.
less to help him. He was elected to the clerk
ship because he had been handwriting editor
and an honest man; and when he got there he
thought of nobody but me, and filled his Office
| with my friends-thinking of me first and al
ways. He was my true, constant, unselfish, ro-
mantle friend. 1t won't do for you, Bennett,
Pryor, Walloch, and Wendell, to talk about the
/ Forrest letter and such nonsense. l know For
ney better than all of,you; and even if were
disposed to have you abuse him, have too of
| ten defended him, and knew his heart too well,
to be made party to your abuse of him now.
| Yes, not only upon the Forrest letter, but upon
every act of his life that concerns the public,
there is not an accusation now made against him
that does not recoil with tenfold force upon its
authors, and assist instead of hurting him.
His remarksup the Washington Union are
as follows:
So may rest this part of the case with the
President Gentlemen, you must begin your
indictment from December of 1867. You can
not go back of that period without shooting
your arrows over your house and striking your
master ~
The Washington Union claiLls to be, and
doubtless is, the organ of the National Admins
tratlon. The day has gone by for repudiating
the Uuion. It is as much part of the Admin
lstratlon asitheC Cabinet itself; and yet through.
out the entire South, among the most earnest
friends OF the general policy Of the Administra-
ton, among the most ardent advocates of Le-
comptonism in all its chameleon shapes, there is
but one sentiment of the contempt and condem-
nation of the course of the Washington Union
in regard to Judge Douglas. Even those who
are indebted to the administration for patronage
in the South are compelled to denounce the war
upon the gallant senator inlI Illinois In Indiana
where the animosities to Judge Douglas ara SO
notorious, the accompanies are forced by pub
lie opinion to repudiate the policy of the Ad-
minlstration and to denounce the Union Near
~ allthe Administration papers in:the West and
In the Northwest excepting only those sustain.
led by the money of the people in illinois, trample
under foot alike the English bill and The Washing
ton Union. Now, then, if the Union is the or
gan of5the administration; lift is the recognized
reflex. of the opinions OF. the President and Cab.
met, what is the irresistible deduction from this
extraordinary and extended reputation OF the
Gaton Clearly and unequivocally that this
administration, as said at rarrytown is on the
eve of being Tylerized. Tie prescription. of
Douglas, and the test of the English bill, are all
hat the Administration recognize as remaining
or the immortal creed of the democratic party;
and these the whole democracy indignantly re-
ljectl The Union, speaking for the Adminfstra-
ton, stands by and sees secret organisation IN
the south, prepared, under the lead of distin.
guished agitators, to undermine the foundations
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