The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-10-08

light in the eyes OF the whole country, 1t Is
but fair play to give him a hearing-and
this, without any necessary reference to
considerations of a mere political or parti-
zan character. The case is one which
largely involves the personal honor of the
Administration--anda as such, we do not see
how ii can be hushed up or cried down as
but the coinage of "forger, the fabrica-
ton of a ''convicted calumniator. There
is, for example, a cireumstantiahty and a
minuteness of detail in regard to certain al
legged declarations of the President, avowing
his readiness to betr;Iy the Kansas people
into the hands of the Southern fire-eaters,
which must be met with something more
substantial and convincing than epithets
and personal retorts. If the Union has any
rebutting testimony, then, we h,,mbly sub
NIT, it cannot bring it forward moment
too soon.
The competency of the witness nobody
can doubt. OF all other men in the world,
John W. Forney probably knows most OF
and about James Buchanan. They were
bosom friends for years and years. The per-
sonal and political attachment of the two
has been proverb. No servant cFer clung
closer to the fortunes of master, than the
editor of the Press did to the now President
of the United States. When Mr.. Buchanan
was absent in England, as Minister at the
/ Court Of st. James it was Forney that was
especial custodian OF his interests here. 1t
was Forney that 'spOke like thunder on
his side in places and ut times where but
for that thunder, it is more than probable
that the house of Lancaster would have
given way before the pressure of rivals who
were here with their adherentS TO speak for
themselves. The PcnnsyiUanidn proclaimed
him at frst-nay, almost its only choice for
the Presidential succession, at Cincinnati; !;
and when the aspirations and hopes breath
ed into that proclamation were at length
fully realized, the world could not wonder
that as some. slight recognition of the ser
vices of a man who had done so much to
make a President of him, Mr.. Buchanan
should, at subsequent period, nave exerted
his influence to the utmost at Harrisburg to
! have him in turn chosen to the United
I States Senate. se
! Indeed, at one time, there was strong
! probability that, as still more significant
mark of the Presidents personal esteem, he
would be called to place in the Cabinet.
/ 1t not appearing that Mr.. Forneys aspira-
/ tions pointed in that direction, however, the
! Liverpool Consulship-one of the most lu-
| crative and desirable in the gift of the gov
! ernment-waS next rendered him. In short,
| as things went on, for a while, if ever there
was Kings favorite at Washington, that
/ favorite was John W. Forney. We recall
! and emphasize these facts Simply to enforce
I what we say-that no Dlan in the country
! is better qualified to speak of Mr.. buchanan
as he was and is, than the editor of the
4 Press. He is not to be hissed out of court
/ therefore, i'll a storm of simulated contempt,
nor to be cried down by the servitors of the
Palace. If his specifications can be answer
/ ed, let them be met as fairly and squarely
as they are made If they cannot be an
/ swere6l, then let the servitors of the Palace
( ''let fall their blows ON vulnerable crests, ~
/ and reserve their epithets for mon of less
/ political principle, and of less personal in
dependence sag i,h
/ We have endeavored, and shall still en-
( deavor, to give the President the benefit OF
/ the doubt in much of what Mr.. Forney has
/ charged; but We are in duty bound to add
that the whole course of Mr.. Buchanan on
! the Lecompton question--his variations
! from the Cincinnati popular sovereignty
| chart--his refusal to redeem his pledges to
the people of Kansas, and last, but not least,
| his humiliating' recognition of the ''jackal
of the press, - s'whose ears ought to be
taken off in the public streets; all these
things, we say, give to the articles of inl-
| parchment, we are sorry to say, an air of
reality and truth it is impossible, as yet, to
| ignore.