Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-04
he first annual message. December. 1e5f. Re

says
Icannot forbear an expression in justice both
to Governor Walker and to Secretary Stanton,
that no men ever started forth with more pat
riotic intentions than they did,, and yet as we
have seen, the one was shamefully deserted in
the very crisis Of the game, and theother as
shametully removed, andsan attempt made to
turn him adrift upon the world poor man,
after he had Sacrificed splendid professional
position at Washington to accept subordinate
position in order to serve the man with whom
he bad been5associated from the administrator
of James &. Polk until the final struggle at
Cincinnati IN 1856, and to whosescanse he had
always given the warmest and Interchangeable
support.
Mr. Forney then comes doWn.to the causes
which led him to deliver the speech which has
elected so much opposition from the admins.
tration, which, he describes rs. follows:
Appeals were made to postmasters throughout
the country to attack me in my business, and to
leave no effort untried to cripple my enterprise.
Ina word, there was an ingenuity of proscrip-
ton, a fertility of falSehood, recklessness of
persecution, which induced me more than once
to inquire, in the language of Governor Wa lker,
whether indeed we were living in the last year
|of American independence, OF the first year of
the American monarchYa' Z saw the basest
wretches, men who had never been recognized
by the democratic party in this state, and who
in 1856 had scarcely an opinion to avow, ready
to go for Fremont or Fillmore-Is saw these men
not only clothed with the power of the Federal
Administration, but authorized to speak intle-
nunciation of men who had created it. 1 saw
the money of the Federal Government expended
to break down the regular organization of the
Democratic party whenever and wherever that
organization was not. committed to the scandal
Gus Kansas policy of that administration. Isaw
Senators turned into spectators in order to in
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promises to the people; saw Representatives
purchased to betray their constituents, as a
southern slaveholder purchases his Slaves; saw
newspapers openly and actively engaged with
me on the side of conscience and the constitution,
threatened or boughtinto silence or acQuieScence;
witnessed an era of official despotism,s and
an. organization of official insolence such
as, had 1t taken place under an opposition
administration, and against the democratic par
ty, would have hurled that opposition into per-
petual obscurity. Itwasin vain that patriotic
democrats in all parts Of the Union, North and
South, East and West, held up their hands in
terror at this abandoned spectacle. 1t was in
vain that Wise, of Virginia, protested that Doug
las protested, that Packer protested, that BAN
croft protested, chat Ryerson protested, that
Knox protested, that the nearest and dearest
friends of Mr.. Buchanan protested-the crusade
went on. saw the Democratic party of Illinois
standing under the flag which marshalled US in
| SAS g. SAA NASIOl SnO JGhIa aSOf FGIuOuCGQ as
traltorous to that flag; | saw Stephen a. Doug
las leading the regular organizationgof the party
to daily conflict with the avowede enemies of
that party, and yet attacked front and rear by
the Administration; 1 saw Hickman contend
| ing with the mercenary hostsof Office in his
district, Haskin struggling against the custom
\ house in his, Montgomery with the regular
nomination at his back, opposed by the officials
in his, and John, G. Davis upholding popular
sovereignty in his, against frantic horde of
mercenaries; and it seemed to me that silence
| on my part would be grievouS cowardice. Ac-
cordingly spoke as did.
he then alludes to the statement of the Union
denying the conversation he is represented to
have had with the President. He says: "Not
only did the conversation take place, but many
things that were omitted in the Tarrytown
speech. Among other things, the President said:
IF you Walker and Douglas will unite in-sup-
port of my Kansas policy, the people of Kan
sas will vote for it at the election on the 2lst of
December know that you have the strong
side of this question, and that you carry OFF the
people; but Iappeal to you to stand with me, be.
cause, if I don't adhere to my policy, Alabama,
Georgia and Mississippi win probably secede
from the Union rs
"a few days after this interview, a friend
from southern New York visited me (Forneyl
at Philadelphia, saying that the President had
desired him to assure me that the President in
tended to make his Kansas policy test upon
the party, and that no man would be tolerated
by the administration who didnot approve and
supportit."
The story he tells of the Cabinet meeting
is, like the account of his own conversation,
wholly fabulous. We venture to assert that
Mr.. Walker never authorized any one to say that
he insulted the President and Cabinet by ex-
pressing suspicion that they would behave
treacherouSly."
This is somewhat unfortunate denial, ap=
pearing, as it does, in the Washington Union,
inasmuch as the report of that conversation be.
tween Robert j. Walker and the Cabinet was
communicated by one of the editors Of the
Washington onion, on more than one occasion,
when there was no confidence imposed, and at
the time that editor was the known public and
active adversary ofsthe Kansas policy of the Adj
ministration. The name of that editor is Colo.
mel Simeon n. Johnson. believe thatlieEis
now attached to the Washington Union If he
denies the statement here made, I shall be COM
PEELED to make it good by furnishing the name
or names of respectable witnesses who were
Presentwhen he described this celebrated inter.
view between Governor 4Yalkeranl the Cabinet.
and President Buchanan; and thus, without
calling upon Governor Walker, or the President,
OF the Cabinet, / beg to rest this part of nv