Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-09-08

Room Scenes-He Lays Open the Present
Administration.
On Thursday last, a great Anti-Lecompton
meeting was held at Tarrytown, New York, at
which speeches were delivered by John w.
Forney and Hon. John B. Haskin This speech
appeared some days ago in the New York pa
pers, and should have appeared incur paper
ere this, but for the press of the general news
upon our columns. It. however, loses nothing
by leisure, and will, for that matter, do to cut
out, lay up, and keep for the campaign of 1860
We give the more material parts of Forney's
speech. On being introduced to the meeting,
he proceeded to review the campaign of 1856,
and among other things, to relate
WHAT MR. BUCHANAN SAID AND FELT.
No man felt more deeply in reference to Kan
sas than did Mr.. Buchanan. No man talked
more freely about it. In his letter of accept
ance of the nomination and in the speech he
delivered to the Committee upon it in his par
lor at Lancaster, Cat which happened to be
presently he laid stress upon the great principle
that the will of the majority should prevail
| Why, he said to me thousand times, "The
South must vote for me, and the North must be
secured and the only way to secure the North
is to convince those gentlemen that when get
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people in Kansas. am now 66 years of age
| have reached that time of life when cannot
have any ambition for re election, andifI have
the only way to secure it is to be strong with
my own people at home. watched this strug-
gle from my retirement in London; l have seen
what conceive to be the mistakes of others.
am not responsible for the administration of
President Pierce; therefore, will inaugurate a
new system; l will show to these gentlemen
that Pennsylvania President will stand firm in
the pledges of Pennsylvania gentleman and a
Pennsylvania Democrat"
WHAT MR.. BUCHANAN SAID TO Ron. JOHN HICKMAN
FoRNEY, after relating his efforts in the last
campaign to carry Pennsylvania, said of Mr..
BUCHANAN:
He sent to the traduced John Hickman, in an
adjoining county. He told him through his
friends and agents: ''You, Mr.. Hickman, occupy
peculiar relation; You voted for the Topeka
Constitution; you denounced the Kansas-Nc-
braska bill; you, too, were opposed to the re
peal of the Missouri Compromise line; the Demo-
| cratic party of your district have nominated
you; the Republicans like you, they believe in
you. Now, want you to take the stump, and
go before your people, and pledge me, james
Buchanan, that | intend standing by, and if
necessary dying by this principle of Popular
Sovereigntv.'
PRIVATE LETTERs-MR. CoBB-wHAT WAS SAID
~ oOUIdEhS MEN WnO CAME To STUMP PENN
sYLvANIA.
For myself, if could descend to the baseness
of republshing private letters, | might fill a
volume with similar pledges from similar au-
thority. Why, gentlemen, when the distin.
guished Secretary of State. Mr.. Cobb, who from
having been superfne Union man, has been
converted into fre-eater, equal to Mr.. Chau-
bert himselC-when Mr.. Cobb came into Penn
Sylvania, and travelled our State from end to
| end md ~ N tAlki0H RI
delighted audiences all the time, what was
the burden of his theme? Why--Popuar
Sovereignty. would take the Army and the Ma
Wy, would use every power of the Federal
| Governmental would surround the Territory,
| but what the people should vote, and by their
vote the destinies of the future State should be
decided Whenever a Southern orator came
into Pennsylvania and called upon me, said
to him: "Now, Sir I have but one thing to
say to you: we have but single thing before
the people; every day is making the campaign
more and more doubtful; every day is making
the popular feeling more and more intense;
Mr.. Buchanan himself feels that everything
depends upon the prudence, the sagacity, and
the spirit of concliation by which this cam
paign is conducted, and for Gods sake be caro-
full what you say about Kansas; leave your
violent Southern feelings at home; you must
not come to threaten; you Governor johnson,
and you Mr.. Scott of Richmond, and you Mr..
Extra Billy Smith, and you Mr.. Secretary
Floyd, all of you, must remember that if you
lose this battle here, you lose it altogether; it
will be your loss, aud therefore you must al
low US to manage it in our own way And
they did acceed to that policy, without any pro-
lection, and gladly. There was no deception
in that fight, at least so far as was concerned.
| sowed the state with private letters and pri.
vate pledges upon this question. There is not
county in Pennsylvania in which my letters
may not be found, almost by hundreds, pIedg-
ing Mr.. Buchapan, in his name and by his
authority, to the full, complete and particular
recognition of the right of the people of Kan
sas to decide upon her own affairs. Zap
plause.l
MR. BuCHANAN's SELECTION OF KANSAS COVER.
NoR-oNE PoRTENTous MEMBER OF TIE cABI-
! NET.
When he called upon Mr.. Walker, and ask
ed him to proceed to the Territory, Mr. Wal
ker said to him, why, Mr.. Buchanan, that
would finish me forever; it has ruined every
man who has gone there; it will ruin me- I
have reached that time of life when | cannot
afford to risk all my prospects, and probably
the peace and happiness OF my family" And
he said further, as if gifted with Knowledge
of the future: 81 cannot run the risk of being
most probably betrayed and deserted by the
Administration that appoints me-" Mr.. Ru-
chanan said to him, s'Mr Walker, if you will
go there, you will settle this question in a few
weeks, Everything is ready; here arc your