The Kanzas news., 1858-11-06
FoRNEY ON BUCHANAN.
photographs Of the President and some Of
his Friends--by one who has sssiept and
played cards with fheEn.,, -

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We have heretofore announced that Col.
Forney had Buchanan on the disseeting
board again. His entire address appears
in the Philadelphia Press of Thursday,
September 3Oth. We make extracts of por-
tons of it:
WHY FoREEY AND HIS FRIENDS REBELLED.
TCoi. Forney commences by laying down
the principle that when man or a party,
sclemniy pledged to certain well defined
doctrines or fundamental principles, formal
ly repudiates such principles, that to rebuke
such dereliction is the part of exalted pa
triotism; and that when James Buchanan
turned his back upon the Popular Sovereign
ty doctrine of the Cincinnati platform, and
upon his own volunteered and oft repeated
pledges of fidelity to that platform, he re-
leased every citizen from obedience to the
new and heretical creed which he had set
up as model of Democratic orthodoxy
Yet Mr.. Forney and those who act with
him, desired, while respectfully protesting,
to occupy position of honest and respect
able difference, rather than fly into fresful
passion and indulge in wild and unnatural
opposition. This could not be tolerated by
the Administration. It was only when the
reality was forced upon their minds, that
such disagreement with the President and
his Cabinet was to be made the pretext for
political ostracism, and the pretext for per-
sonal prescription of the most offensive
character. that the independent spirit which
lives in tie bosom of every free-born citi-
zen, took fire, and those who had thus kind
ly and respectfully protested. seized the op-
portunity boldly, and everywhere, TO de-
nounce the arrogance and the insolence
which attempted to outrage them before
their county. eH.
THE ADMINISTRATION ENDORSES FoRNET's S
POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY DOCTRINES.
Col Forney denies that he was a candi-
date for cabinet Office; declares that he
was not rich enough to take Office at the
hands of the President; and, In the opin-
ion of the latter, he was not Southern enough
to take possession of the national organ,
from which, with abundant prospects of
becoming wealthy man, he had volunta
rily retired, in 1856, to assist Mr.. Buchan-
an to a nomination for President. Mr..
Forney publishes an extract from speech
which he made on the 4th of July, 1857,
arguing in favor of submitting the Constr
tuition to the people, and two days later re-
ceiyed letter from a distinguished member
of Mr.. Buchanan's Cabinet, heartily ap-
proving the sentiments he had uttered, and
inclosing an article from the Washington
Union taking the same view of the subject.
Among those now most anxious, says
Col. F., to consecrate the great betrayal of
principle by the present Administration, on
the Kansas issue. is the Hon. jeremiah S.
Black, Attorney General of the United
States, position which he would not occu
py to-day, and he knows it we'll, but for the
very anti-Lecompton Democracy against
whom he is now constantly, cosrsely and
calumniously railing.
ORIGIN OF "THE PRESS"
The next statement is in regard to the
origin of The Press, the salutatory of which
was sent to Washington, "allowing them to
make its expressions of devotion to the
President even stronger than he had orig
inally written them. Not dollar of the
money with which The Press was started
came from the Federal Administration
The paper supported Mr.. Buchanan's Ad-
ministration and received its applause till
the Kansas drama began to unfold itself in
the shameful desertion of Walker and the
removal of Stanton, when it refused to en-
dorse this movement and was accordingly
placed under the ban of the Administra-
ton.
HIGH-HANDED TYRANNY OF THE ADMrEIsTRA
TToN, IN ATTEMPTING TO ENFORCE THE
LECoMProN sWINDLE -
After Mr. Buchanan had determined to
make his Kansas policy test with the Dem
oeratic party; after Judge Douglas had spo-
ken his first celebrated speech in the Senate.
and when the fact had become notorious
that the moving cause of the surrender of
the principle to which we stood committed
in 1856, was the threat of secession coming
from certain politicians in three or four
Southern States, mot the people of these
States, but the politicians and managers,
the most unexampled prescription was re
sorted to for the purpose of intimidating
those who agreed with Judge Douglas, and
Governor Wise, and Governor Walker, and
to compel them to take sides with the
Administration IN its unexpected metamor-
phosis.
returned after my interview with Mr..
Buchanan, still anxious TO maintain friendly
relations, with his Administrator; but I
was soon convinced that unless I debased
my manhood, and recalled all that had said
in favor of the Cincinnati platform and che
doctrine of popular sovereignty, would be
called upon to bear the brunt of q violent
collision. And from that day, January
1913, up to September. when spoke at
Tarrytown, there was no calumny too vile
to be coined and circulated by the organs of
the Administration against the Journal of
which am the owner and the editor, and
the gentleman with whom am proud 10
cooperate in this great cause Every
friend who had been appointed to Office, and
who still dared to sympathise with me. in