Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-08
The Washington Union on Forney.


The Washington Union of last Saturday
treats of FoRSEY's "vindication.'' in an arti-
Gle of a column and half We expected to
see the little man of the Press, incontiDently
demolshed-but there is nothing of the kind
The organ of the administration seems to have
found nothing in the "vindicationr worthy o.
serious refutat;on. 1t says:
The vindicetion is a very lame affair. II
will disappoint all the expectations that had
been entertained concerning it, and the deal
ers in penny literature. who had given heavy
orders for what they expected would be a
"senSatiOn" paper. viii be the chief losers by
the publication: for the men who thought ii
would be rocket will find il only stick
and those who expected an '''nfernal ma
chine" that would blow everything up sky
high, will find nothing but package of con-
fections in the shape of bonnie boIcie,
though it is three months in advance OF Christ
mas and Santa Claus annual advent. There
il abundant d tai of private conversation in
the "Vindication;n but there arc no private
letters. In this resp ct We are disappointed.
1t had been hrutcd about that among the
private letters to appear would be that Of the
President 10 Governor Walker, written while
the Governor was in Kansas: and we sincerely
hoped that that famous letter would at last
We desired the country to see il. we We're
delighted at the thought that the people were
about at last TO see this letter; but it has
come up missing, and we are disappointed and
grieved."
The Union then proceeds to explain wherein
the President has made the test of democracy,
and AYERS that there has been no issue made
by the organs of the administration with any
member of the party on the original merits
OF the Lecompton question since the passage
of the English bill. Nobody has been at
tackled or denounced but those who were
either in open alliance with the black repub-
iican party, or those who were continuing to
denounce the action of the democratic party
al the last session of Congress as an attempt
to perpetrate fraud, swindle and cheat
1t scouts the idea that because Messrs. ORR,
STEPHENS, ToOMBs, Brown and GREEN think
Dougl a better man than Lincoln, the course
of the Union is rebuked thereby; and con-
cludes thus:
sBut it is useless to refute in detail the
craZiness and folly of so reckless, weak, and
wish-wash a production. The personal fea-
lures of it are more prepOsterous than its
conceit that he is in some sort the rival in
position and importance of the President of
the United States His document has the
style of proauncianento. 1t rivals in its
windy and ludicrous display of personal
vanity the documents which giddy Mexican
chiefs have been ia the habit of putting forth
against each other on the eve of pending rev.
olutions. Its author evidently fancies himself
the Zuloaga Of lettering administration,
hos. 1ar thn toto hatra II or
the trenchant blows of his own rhetoric. In
his eXhiIarated imagination aud vanity, the
issue is Comonfort or Zuloaga, and he expects
soon to hear a cry from the people down
with Buchanan. up with Forney.' Is there
no way OF curing the unfortunate man of his
melancholy Authorization? We have seen
Julius Caesars, George Washingtons, and
Queen Elizabeths, Gagged within the walls OF
mad-houses, Boosting of their measures and
Issuing their orders right and left; but we
have never before known such characters to
be permitted to go at large and to publish
their featS at President making and Cabinet
forming and their solemn conferences with
the rulers of the land. in grave and serious
earnest, in the newspapers"
This is substantially the answer of the Ea-
isa to FORNEY's ..vindication." 1t certainly
amounts TO very little. The general truth of
what FoRNEY alleges is tacitly admitted. es-
pecially in reference to his personal inter
course with the President. In respect TO the
private letter it is said Mr.. BUCHANAN addressed
TO Gov. WALKER in Kansas, the UAioa puts
on bold front, and desires its publication.
There are hundreds OF thousands who will
unite with the Union in that desire. Will not
FoRNEY comply?