The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-09-10
-, - OF 4. - ! ~ II. u
The President and MT. FOrney.
MIR. FORNEY,s SPEECH,

That Mr.. John w. Forney did more than
any one else to secure the nomination and
election Of Mr., Buchanan, is admitted BY
every Intelligent man. nd - .,r.,.
The views ofone so able and 50 devotedto
Mr.. Buchanan, are entitled to great eonsid-
Grafton at the hands Of the true Democracy
of the country. - -, =, .,;F,., -. ~,
DIR. Forney attended a meeting of the peo-
pie of Mr.. Haskins' District, at Tarrytown,
New York, on the I'd inst, and made
speech, from which we make the following
extract: ~. ,,.if.,- z.e,,.9 -,...,..---
Ny fcilow-citizens, mnst bc little per-
sonal, because appearing before you as do,
Lam impelled, if not compelled, 10 refer to
aportion of the political history iinlwhich j
have borne Appointment part. My relations
to the present Executive Of the United
States begun with early boyhood, from the
time long before became a yoter,E whenpI
was his intimate confident and friend. From
early youth down to the present hour, or
rather to . period one year ago, sustained
toward Mr. buchanan relations not .aonly of
intimacy, but of more than intimacy. Z Had
he been my father, If his blood ran in my
veins, could not have been more devotedly
attached to him. ApplauseEi believe
that that sentiment and affection was re-
ciprocated. We had tried in our COED old
State of Pennsylvania, for many years to
elect this gentleman to the Presidency. 1t
fell to my lot-born in the country in which
he grew to manhood in the country where
he read law, in the country where he still
has his residence, in that country where he
expects to die-and knowing him thus well,
it fell to my lot to do a good deal of the
hard work incident 10 the fulhiment of the
aspirations of himself and the wishes of his
friends. In 1874, we went to the city of
Baltimore instructed 10 vote for disiin-
guished citizen of your State, Mr. Van
Buren,; but owing TO the publication of his
celebrated Texas letter, the delegation from
Pennsylvania, as is well known, concluded
that Mr.. Van Buren, had forfeited the Con-
fdence Of the Democratic parly,i and thatit
became Us to present our own hyorite eiti-
zen for that high place. We did so, and we
failed. But still in l84S we re-appeared
upon the scene with our fellow-eitizeu, and
there the friends of Van fBuren in this
State repaid US in kind for the good turn We
had served them four years before. Zap
plause] rsa-.. s-4..T .--. ...----1..l
Undaunted We continued 10 organize, and
in 1882 We re-appeared in the same scene
with our iavorite and friend, and we were
again defeated. That seemed to be the last
chance--the last shot in the loeker--if
may use the expression But he was ap-
pointed by President Pierce in 1853 to fiji
u. IL. a
To England. While there he was removed
from the scenes of domestic politics, and
quietly and unobservantly watched the
movements at home pending and succeeding
the repeal of the Missouri line. Mr.. Bu-
chanan had been known for his attachment
to that line. Though in 1919, while a stu
dent of law with Mr. Hopkins, at Lancas-
ter, Pa, he attended meeting in which be
denounced it; subsequently, in. 1877, lie
came. out in his celebrated Berks County
letter, and stated there that the only way to
settle the Slavery question was TO run the
line TO the Pacific, so as To secure TO the
North aud to the South their respective ben
eiits on each side of it proposed by its
original friends. Therefore, it was, that
while at a foreign court, absent from his
own country, his name became peculiarly
the name of the American people, as the
one, that would lead the Democratic party
70 victory again. His old friends ia Penn-
sylvania moved forward, and, again we or
ganized. We saw tue time had come when
our IA rmpion could be presented to our peo-
pie. We repaired to Cincinnati. Rivalries
home rivalries-had been extinguishcd; !;
bitterness growing out of the Missouri line
and the passage of the. ckansas-N ebraska
bin had temporarily removed other candi-
dates from the field, (or so we thought; and
Cass men, Dallas men, and Buchanan men
d, in Pennsylvania made common cause, and
! repaired to Cincinnati for the l4rpose of
I putting this gentleman in nomination.
| When we reached there the first indication
| that appeared was. that the extreme South
! had resolved upon NI. Buchanan anniiliia-
ton. They SAW in him, the light of mo-
derate, Conservative sentiment. Tbev say
! in him, for the first time n public man tho
having been abseut from the country, and
therefore unconsectesl and disconnected from
! the existing rivalries OF the day, would he
compelled from his losition to do jusIce, 10
/ the Northern feeling and to extinguish Sec
tionalisn They did not trust him upon the
! issue of the day. ai lie was not good eDoss..h
! kanssS-Ncbraska man for them; and they
/ foug ht ns, as the history OF that Convention
( viii show, for five long Gays with n bitter
ness and animosity such as political con
! ventions can scarcely rival. ~ isru5
! But he was the only man to rescue the
Democratic party from defeat. lie was the
only maa TO prevent the election of a
Republican, and the only man who could
carry Pennsylvania, for upon the contest OF
that State did the entire tide of battle turn.
From your own State, a similar disposition
was manifested in certain quarters In this
quarter, now, where this disease Of Lecomp-
tonism RACES the most violently, and where
the affection for the Administration is in
dulgcd the most aplenIy, Mr.. Buchanan, re-
ceived nothing but GOODNESS and contempt.
But we nominated him asdreturned toPenn-
\ sylv;,nia, for the first time, joyous a having
/ achieved our long-cherished wish. And
when we returned there, we came with the
full and confident hope that there would be
an end to the difficulty in electing man
whose nature was believed to be so conser-
vative, whose character was believed to be
SO prudent and whose entire record had
been national and constitutional. AT thai
time believe the Republicans themselye:
abandoned the campaign. They looked Up
on his nomination as their death blow
They looked around in vain for a candidate