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

The address of Forney occupies nearly eight
columns of his paper, and is intended as ansin
ertens0 review of his connection with, and with
drawal from, the present Administration. He
brings in many other incidents to illustrate the
position of himself, his friends and his enemies.
We have only space for few of the main pas.
sages. We should have had this document for
last Saturdays paper, had the mails done their
Wonted duty.
FoRNBY's DEc1ARAT1oE OF INDEPENDENCE.
The American people have little or no sym
pathy with the personal griefs Of public men.
When Martin Van Buren, arrayed himself against
the Democratic party, the Judgment that con-
signed him and his supporters to ebscurity was
that which grew out of the scarcely denied belief
that they were animated by purely selfish mo-
tiyes There was no great principle in their
contest, as the subsequent and present position
of most of the leaders in that diversion clearly
demonstrates. But when an individual or
party, solemnly pledged to certain well-dehned
doctrines; committed to particular fundamental
principles, formally and on the sudden repudl-
ates these doctrines and deserts these principles
then case is presented which renders n rebuke
of such an example au evidence Of the most ex-
allied patriotism. To illustrate-when James
Buchanan was put forward ut Cincinnati as the
representative of the conservative sentiment of
the Union, he accepted the nomination in the
spirit in which it was rendered, and every sue.
ceeding act up to November and December of
1857, the more deeply committed him to the
principles laid down and asserted in the plat
form of the party upon which he stood. But
notwithstanding the blnding force of his own
volunteered declarations in this behalf notwith-
standing the written, printed, and spoken
pledges to adhere to and maintain the leading
principles of his party, he soon resolved to turn
his back upon these covenants and obligations
Now, / claim that when he formed that resolve,
he on the instant, released every citizen from
obedience to the new and heretical creed which
he set up as the model of Democratic ortho-
doxy. twas, therefore, not from thoughtless
impulse, but from a deliberate and heartfelt
conviction, that conceived it to be my duty to
maintain the attitude in which he and the Con-.
vention had placed mean attitude, which,
with more than million of Democrats North
and South, gladly assumed, under the earnest
and conscientious belief that from it must flow
the most glorious results for our common coun-
try. There was no fragrant act of disorganiza-
ton. When we saw that he was prepared to
mould policy at once abhorrent to our feelings
and repulsive to our convictions-ato once in Vio-
lation his own solemn pledges and ours,andin
contempt of the entire record of the Democratic
party; STILL with all the traditions Of that party
in our memory, and with all our personal attach
ments to him, we preferred rather to occupy
position of honest and respectful difference, than
to fly into fretful passion, and iudulgein a wild
u.
civilized Government on the face of the earth,
intelligent men in this age would have been
tolerated in so sincere and manly a difference
with power; and twas impossible to conceive
that in this country such n difference would be
regarded as an act of treason to the administra-
ton, and a declaration of war upon party 7obl-
cations, by the5very man who had himself as
sisted to erect and to sanctify the altar upon:
which we continued to offer our devotions. 1t
was only when the reality was forced upon our
minds, that such disagreement with the Presi-
dent and his Cabinet, was to be made the pre-
text for political ostracism, and the pretext for
personal prescription of the most offensive char
acter, that the independent spirit which lives in
the bosom of every free-born citizen, took fire.
and those who had thus kindly and respectfully
protested, seized the opportunity boldly, and
everywhere, to denounce the arrogance and the
insOlence which attemptedto outrage them be-
fore their country. AS one of those who first
sought to maintain these convictions as to prin-
ciple and to duty, and who had felt, in the
worst forms, the malignant intolerance referred
to, tIresolved to overlook the Shiny sycophants
and paid politicians, the pensioned and pur-
their systematic attacks, and to vindicate N.Y.
selfas against their masters. An invitation to.
l'speak to the friends Of Hon. John B. Haskin of
New York, furnished me seasonable and ac-
ceptabe opportunity.
Forney defends himself against the charge of
violating "the sanctities of private correspon-
dence." He further explains how matters and
things once stood.
Whatever personal disagreements may have
taken place between the Chief Magistrate and
myself after his election-and am not here to
lift the veil that hides them from the public sight
and only refer to them in so far as those no now
profess to be his organs may compel Tue, and.
even then without the violation of any of the
sanctities of private correspondence and private
lile-one thingis known, not merely to thu world,
but to Mr.. Buchanan himself: intended, fully
6eIiering in his public pirtue and his der0tioa to
the Democratic party, and, ADORE all, to tie
great principle o. popular Sovereignty, s0hich
he SoHs elected to maintain, to signdtiee myself
by 9iping to his policy, and himself an ardent,
eDeetice, and, Inlay Be permitted to sag, dis
interested support No man better than him.
self knew, and knows, that it had been the am
bition of my life to be associated with aninde-
pendent newspaper. No man better than him
self knew, and knows, that had always been
FESTIVE as an organ of Administrations and that
in coming back into my profession, preferred
to give to the world, and to Pennsylvania, an
evidence OF the integrity of my intentions, and
another proof of my personal devotion to his
political fortunes. will not conceal that 1 was
ambitious to sustain him without being in the
slightest possible degree dependent on him; but
while this was so, was DESTROYS of protecting