Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-11-05
SPEECH
OF
GasHI. 5OEEN w FOEgNEY
AT
YoNKERS, NJ YORK., ON THE
23D uLT.

Il am glad to appear for the second time IN this
Congressional District. Ny first appearance
under circumstances some what memorable, /,
or at l3ast the remarks then made at larry
town have contributed, If not to my reputation,
ce-tainIy to nay notoriefy They have been
printed moro widely, and abused moro extcn-
siyely, l think than the remarks of any one
man occupying 50 limited a space IN the public
mind. They were made deliberately, listened
to patiently, aod am here tonight 10 say that
have nothing to re .ail. loud cheering
Intended necessarily to be personal, from
the fact that l in some sort was the repre-
sentative OF an au,agonlsln TO great betrayal!
of principle, sought, Gu the occasion referred
IN, to set forth my own case in defending the
principle, aud 10 so doing it became my duty
to expose what | conceived to be an act of the
most monstreus duplicty Of Which annals cou-
tained record. In this appeal citizen
Of the United States Undertook to artaign the
President Of the United Statos for a betrayal
of trust, to set forth the causes which led to
that betrayal, to depict the consequences Of
snch an act, and TO invoke the punishment
of the hallot-box upon that betrayal. [L6M
cheers If when such principle is involved,
il when snch principle Is deserted the peo-
pie do not respond in tones of indignant de-
nunciation, there is no use in having free
government. Hence it was thar / told the
people who were then present that old Penn
sylvnnia, on the l2th Of October, would pro-
nounce by memorable majority against the
cause of her once favorite SON., James Bu-
chanan. [Cheers.l And lwent home to mike
this promise and prediction good, and as you
have seen, nearly 10000 majority has been
given against the Leeompton swindle, and
against the conduct of the Federal Adminis-
tration. Loud eheers.l | am here tonight
to sag thst the promise then made, unlike some
other promises, has been made good. [Cheers.I
am here to render an account of my steward
ship, and to say that Pennsylvania has pro-
nouncea a verdict against the President Of the
United States. TGheers. Contemplate, for
moment, the magnitude of this result; look
upon it 10 all its proportions, aud you will see
it, like some mute orator, encouraging the iu-
dependent aud rebukng the subserYieut and
ireacherous public servant we shall have no
more ircaeheries 10 he North after this verdict
[Great applause.l There will be no more
awards going TO Washington to bctray gcu-
erous constituency hereafter. ECheers.1 There
has, as yet been no issue so clear as this, none
so direct; no rebuke so emphatic, no principle
50 we'll understood as that which was tried Oh
ne 18th of October in dear old Peunsylvania
Loud cheers.l We did your work here your
election now is a mere matter of form the
ordinary duties of voting and recording votes
will be performed but old Pennsylvania has
made the path clear for you. Great applause |
That is the native State of the President--in
shat State he grew to manhood---in that State
he has been repeatedly nominated for the high
Office which he at last attaned--tbat State
gave him the majority which rescued him from
defeat in other quarters; and it was Iro-
per, there was poetic significance in the fact
that the State which gave him all bis celebrity
should at the same time bring down the proud
usurper that the State which was his political
birth should become his political grave
Cheering long and loud.l In 1856, Penn
sylvahia gave large majority for Mr.. Buch-
anan, and year after she gave Gov. Packer a
majority of 10000; and 10 the present con-
test the issue was distinctly made and we'll un-
derstood, no man was more conscious of this
than the President, and he strained every nerve
to secure Pennsylvania as an indorser of bis
policy. In all my life / have never seen such
prostitution of official patronage. In by gone
days when the Wing party came into power
they turned out the Democrats and when the
Democratic party came into power they turned
out the Wings but never before has such
prostitution of patronage and official station
been known as in the late election in Pennsyl-
vania. Not only was the money of the people
expended by hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, but the Administration resorted to the
most extraordinary processes, using this pat
ronage and this money against its own political
friends, or rather against those who stood by
the principle of the Democratic party, which
gave power to that Administration. In the
district represented by Col. Florence, the regu-
lar vote was overwhelmed by an imported army
Of Office holders. Some $500 men were in the
Navy-Ysrd alone, where not more than 500
are required Every branch Of the public
service was drawn upon for the purpose of
contributing to this immense horde of merce-
naries but notwithstanding this you have the
result before you, of Is Democrats who were
elected in 1856, but five have been reelected,
while instead of the balance ten open and de-
clded opponents of the policy of the Federal
Administration have been returned. Loud
eheers-l And of these five, three of them
agree with me. Some of these names are
familiar to you, but the gallant old German of
Berks County may not be SO familiar to you.
Berks County has always borne a peculiar re-
latoa to the Democratic party In Berks
County the regular nomination has always
passed current, aud hence it was that Mr.. J.
flancy Jones was elected. He took into his
aad he could do anything, and by singular
'lueination that he was not representative
iton free county, but that Bcrks County
was somewhere in South Carolina or Alabama