Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-09-06
MORNING LEADER.
SPEECH OF COL. JOHN ". FORYEY.

| permitted 10 appear DclOre You as one 10 paTtl-
cipate in the ceremony which has just been an
nouneed, the nomination, as the Peoples can
didate, of one of those trlbunes who stood up
during the late exciting session Of Con- ress for
an undying principle. / am gratiied, further,
nv fellow countrymen, in being able to bear,
here in your presence, my personal tribute to
the courage, tire independence, and the consist
ency Of the gentleman whom you have thus for
mally placed before the people for reelection
/ [Applause.l
! Having taken some part in the controversy
/ which is not yet closed, and having been pres
ent when various attempts UeTe made to close
/ It, at the seat Of the Federal Government, saw
| Mr. HAsEIN; | saw him tried, not only by the
/ frowns and threats Of power, bot its biandish-
/ msuts, too, and there never was moment from
/ the beginning to the end Of that struggle, in
| which that man quailed OF falteTed. Il required
/ upon his part uncommon courage, sustaining
| the peculiar personal relations that he did to-
wards the Executive TO resist the combined infiu-
! ences. It required great independence, and
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 should
keep constant watch over himself, IN that great
political center where public virtue Is constantly
being sapped, where the public man Is CONSTANT
ly in danger Of being betrayed into the hands of
his enemies. It required on his part that he
should bear himself well; not only that he
should be able 10 resist the influences Of power
but to be able TO stand without suspicion Ap-
| plause.J He came from district which had
not Only given him a large plurality, but which
had given 70 Mr.. Buchanan decisive vote
! And 10 no man, ! fancy, has Mr.. Buchanan been
more indebted than to Mr.. Haskin for the man
ner in which the Democratic party in this vicin.
! ity rolled up the vote that gave TO the Demo-
cratic candidate, in 1856, his entire success
His personal devotion to the character of the
/ President, the fact that the President recipro-
Gated all the devotion, or pretended to recipro
cate all the devotion which Mr. Haskin himself
manifested, rendered him, of all men. the man
upon the whom the President might RELY in
conducting the affairs Of the G, yernment at the
Federal Capital He did not 20 to Washington
10 betray principle He did not 90 to Wash
ington to direct the candidate OF his choice lie
saw this Administration, which he had thus
toiled TO elect clothed with fonr years ofpOwer
with unbounded patronage, presided over, as !
| have said, by his personal friend, and Cabinet
filed with gentlemen towards whom he bore
I the most intimate relations. What reason, then,
had he TO do any other than right What in
dueement was there, upon the part of Mr.. Has
kin, to take any other than an honest course
therefore saw INV lGAEON ClLlLtLss N0U 10
well to present him before his constituents FOR
another trial Yes, you not only do WELL but
you would have done III If you had not done
so. And 1 say now that when the time comes
when a public man IN the North is not sustain
cd, after having done what this man has dIne
when the time comes when the people of this
or of any congressional district shall refuse to
do honor to such a man, then We shall have be-
come in these regions race Of cOHards and
slaves. [APP!ausel
I must be little personal, fellow citizens,
because, appearing before you as do, am i'm
PEELED, if not compelled, to revert to a portion
Of tic political history in which have borne a
/ prominent part My relations to the present
| Executive of the United States began with my
/ early bOyhoOd. From a time long before l be.
came voier, when was his intimate, conf
dant and friend in early youth, down 10 the pre-
/ sent hour, or rather down to a period one year
ago, / sustained towards Mr.. Buchanan relations
not cnly Of intimacy, but Of more than intima-
| CT. Had be been my father, if his blood ran
in my veins, l could no. have been more attach
ed 10 him. believe that that sentiment OF
affection was Teciproeated. We had tried, in
our good old State Of Pennsylvania, for many
years, TO elect this gentleman to the Presiden-
/ sy. 1t fell to my lot, born IN the county in
which he grew to manhood, in the county where
he read law, IN the county where he still has
/ his residence, and where he says he expects to
/ die, knowing him thus well, It fell to my lot 10
do a great deal of hard work incident to the full
| fllment Of the aspirations of the man himself
and the aspirations Of his friends. In 1874 VIC
went to the city Of Baltimore instructed to 90
for a distinguished citizen Of your State, Mr
! Van BureH. But owing to the publication OF
the celebrated Texas letter, the Democrats of
Pennsylvania, as Is well known, concluded that
Mr. Van BuIen had forfeited the confidence of
the Democratic party, and that it became US to
present our own favored citizen for that high Of
fee. We did SO, and we failed. But stia in
! 1913 we re-appeaTed upon the scene with our
| fellow citizen, and there the friends of Mr. Van
| Rurcn, IN this state, repaid Us II Kind Tor the
good turn we had served them four years be-
fore. [Laughterl Undaunted, we continued
to organize, and 1852 we reappesred upon the
same scene with our favonte and friend, and
were again defeated That seemed to be the
last chance. the last shUt-if / may be permit
I'd 20 use the e1pressiOn-in the locker But
Mr.. Buchanan was appointed by President
Pierce, in 1883, 10 fill the high and important
mission Of Minister 10 England and while
there be was removed from the scenes of do.
mestic politics, and quietly and observantly
watched the progress Of events at home, pend.
aAAl4 GAINNI4lAAL AAAG u AAAG liesuuI
Compromise line Mr.. Buchanan had been known
FOR his attachment TO that line. In 1919, while
a student AZ law, Mr.. Buchanan had attended
a meeting at Lancaster, Penn, in which he de
nOunced it. But subsequently,, in lS47, he came
out in his celebrated Berks County letter, and
stated the only way 10 settle the slavery ques-
ton was 10 run that line 10 the Pacific, so as tc
secure TO the North and the South the benefit
upon each side of 1t, as proposed by its origina
friends. Therefore It was that while at a for
eign court, absent from his own country, hi
name became peculiarly the name TO which the
Americas people as the name which would lead
the Democratic party to victory. Again hi,
Democratic friends of PENNSYLVANIA moved
forward. We saw the time had come wher
our candidate and champion could be pre-.
sented TO the people. We repaired tC
Cincinnati All home rivalry had beer
extinguished. The bitterness growing out of the
repeal Of the Missouri line, and the passage OF
the Kansas Nebraska bill had removed from the
field all other candidates. so We thought The
Cass men and the Dallas men in Pennsylvania
made common cause to present this gentleman
for nomination. When we reached Cincinnati
the first thing that appeared was this;-Ths
South, the extreme South, had resolved upon
Mr. Buchanan's annihiatiOn They saw in him
\ type Of the moderate conservative sentiment
They saw in him, for the first time, a public
man who, having been absent from the country
and therefore unconneeted and disconnected
from the existing rivalries Of the day, would be
compelled from his position to DO justice 10 the
Northern feeling and 10 extingui>h sectionslism
They did not trust him upon the issue Of the
day. He was lot good enough Kansas-Ne
braska man for ttem, and they fought US, as the
records of that Convention will show, during
five losg days, with bitterness and animosity
such as political conventions can hardly rival
He was the only man TO rescue the Democratic
party from defeat. He was the only man tC
prevent the election Of Republican He wa:
the,only man who could carry Pennsylvania
and upon the contest in that State did the entirS