The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-09-16
sneecb OF Holm w. Forney.


Speech OF John w. FOrney.
The following is the address Of John W.
Fofney, OF Pennsylvania, before the anti-Le-
compton Congressional Convention, held in
Tsrrytown, New York:
Fellow CITIZENS feel gratifed in being
able to appear before you as one to participate
in the ceremony which has been annouaced-
the nomination, as the peoples candidate, of
S..se CT he tribunes who stood up during the
whole exciting session Of Congress for an
undying principle. And | am gratihed fur
ther, in being able to bear, here in your pres
ence, my personal tribute to the courage, the in
dependence and consistency of the gentleman
whom YOU have thus formally placed before the
people for reelection. Having taken some part
In the controversy which is not yet closed, and
having been present when various demands were
made at the seat of the Federal Government,
| saw Mr.. Haskin tried, not only by irowns ana
the th,eats of power, but by its blandisnmen's
too. And there never was moment, from the
beginning to the end of that struggle, IN whlch
that maa quaed or faltered. lCheers.i 1t requlr-
ed on his part gentlemen, uncommon courage
sustaining q peculiar personal relation, as ne
did, to the Executive to resist these comoiheu
influences. 1t required great independence anu
great self-denial to tear himself Loose from those
with whom he had been thus closely associated;
and, more than all, it required that he shou'u
keep constant watch over himself, lest IN that
great political center, where public virtue Is
constantly sapped, where the public man is con,
stantly in danger of being betrayed, he should
fall into the hands of his enemies. 1t required
on his part that he should so bear himself as TO
be able to resist the influence OF power, ana oe
able 10 stand without Suspicion. he came from
a district which had not only given him large
plurality, but which had given to Mr.. Buchanan
q. IN mai m
10 say. is Mr. Buchanan indebted than TO Mr..
Haskin for the manner in which the Democrat
ic party in this vicinity rolled up the vote they
gave to the Democratic candidatei In 1906, HIS
active exertions, his personal devotion to the
character of the President; we feel that that
candidate reciprocated (or pretended to recipro-
oate) all the devotion which MIR. Haskin HIM
self manifested, rendered him of all men the
man upon whom the President might rely IN
conducting the affairs of the Government at the
scat Of the Federal Capital. He did not 60 to
Washington to betray a principle, or to desert
the candidate Of his choice. He saw this Ad-
ministration which he had thus toiled to elect
with four years of power, with unoouhded pa
tronsge. Besides, as | have said, ne was hlsl
friend. The Cabinet was filled with men to-
ward whom he sustained the most intimate re-
lations. What reason, then, had he TO do any
thing but the right? What inducement was
there on the part of Mr.. Haskin to take any
other than an honest courses say, then, my
fellow tiEens, that you do we'll in placing him
before his constituents for another trlai lCheers
and applause Yes, you not only do well, Out
you would not do we'll if you did not do So
But say now that when The time comes that
public men in the North are no, sustained VINO
have done what Mr.. Haskin has done-when
that time comes-that the people OF TINS Con
gressional District, or any Congressional DIS
trict, refuse to do honor to such man, then we
become in this region race OF towards ana
slaves. [Cheers and applause My fellow-ciu
zens, | must be little personal because, aP
pearing before you as do. | am impelled, II not
compelled, TO refer to portion of the political
history in which have borne prominent part
My relations to the present Executive OF the
United States begun with early boyhood, from
the time long before became voter wnen
was his intimate confident and friend From
early youth down to the present hour, or rather
20 period one year ego, sustained toward
MIR. Buchanan relations not Only of intimacy
but of more than intimacy. Had he been my
Esther, il his blood ran in my veins, could not
have been more devotedly attached to him. APP
plaaseI believe that that sentiment and alice
tion was reciprocsted. We had tried in our
good old State Of Pennsylvania, for many years
to elect this gentleman to the Presidency. III
fell to my lot-b0rn in the country In which ne
grew TO manhood, IN the country where he read
law, in the country where he still has his resi-
dence in that country where he says he expects
to die-and knowing him thus we'll, 1t fell to
any lot to do q good deal of the hard work IN,
,cident to the fuIfllment of the aspirations OF
h,mself aud the wishes of his friends. In lo44
we went to the city of Baltimore instructed to
vote for distinguished citizen oil your own
State Mr.. Van Buren, but owing to the publ
cation of his celebrated Texas letter. the delega-
tion from Pennsy lvania, as is we'll known, con-
cluded that Mr.. Van Buren, had forfeited the
confidence of the Democratic party, and that it
became us to present our own favored citizen
for that high place. We did so. and We failed,
But still in leiS we reappeared upon the scene
with our fellow~citizens, and there the friends
OF Mr. Van Buren in this State repaid us IN
kind for the good turn we had served them four
years before. (Applause. Undaunted we con
tinued to organize and in 1882 We Ieappearsd IN
ihe same scene with our former friend, and we
were again defeated. That seemed to be the lasl
ehauee-the last shot in the locker-if may
use the expression. But he was appoinIed by
President Pierce in 1853 to 6ll the high and ina
portsnt mission of Minister to England. While
there he was removed from the scenes oi domes-
Ie politics, and quietly and observsntly watch
ed the movements at home pending aud sue
seeding the repeal Of the Missouri line. Mi.
Buchanan had been known for his attachment
10 that line. Though in 1919. while student
.t-law with Mr. HOPKINS at Lancaster, Penn.