The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-07
j. w. FoRNEY AND HIS SPEECH AT TARRYToWN,
NEW YORK

OF argument OF reason LII ID the stale material OF
the aboloniss often conuted and as often rehashed
! by ADLER hands than Forney. But its shallow com
monplace is somewhat relieved by the bitterness
and malignty of its spirit. Forney ayows himself
! with the aboitionists, body and soul He does not
play the bypocrite now. After whining for eighteen
months about his devotion to democratic principles
and the ngratitude with which he was treated
after coaxng all the money and all the patronage he
could get out the democracy the pretence that he
was democrat and meant to remain so-he takes
occasion to tell the democracy publicly, in speech
corrected and revised by himself for his paper,
that 81 there would be no God in Heaven if the
baotbox did not damn such party in Octo
Der next" 1t is in this insolent, profane, and
vulgar style that he announces the deception he
has practiced on the credulous democrats who gave
him the with which he started lis pratt
cal paper This open declaration of hostility to the
democratic part is accompanied, as it should be,
with plenty of aattery for the opposition. He
coaxes the know-nothings, fawns upon the black-re
publicans, and plays lckspttle to Horace Greeley.
| 1t was to be expected also, that an apostacy
gross as Forneys should be sgnalized by more than
the common amount of that falsehood which rene
| gades always delight in. He could not prove his
qualifications for the political ASSOCIATION to
which he aspircs without paying down his full con-
tribution to the common stock of personal Islander
against the President But the following statement,
which we give just he gives it himself, with his
own account of the CHEERS" and the laughter
with which it received, shows that he has fairly
won the affections of his present coworkers in the
business of detraction and calumny
! ~ went to Washington When got there / said to
my old friend Mr. Buchanan, For the first time in
lives at variance having followed your lead thus
far, now find myself deserted WELL, said he, can
not you change toor laughter If afford to
change said he, why cannot you afford to change tool
Renewed laughter If you, Douglas, and Walker will
unite in support of my policy you will not hear whim
per of this thing it will pass by the breeze
said to him, We differ very well with admins
tation surrounded by office seekers living all the time
in atmosphere of hattey, followed by thousands of
who expect office, and who say to you you are right
Mr. Buchanan, down upon bellies in the DUST
please to walk and trample upon and will
| be content and happy you may believe that your
| policy is right but tell YOU Mr. Buchanan, that
there is STILL small voice in the hearts of the people
that instinctively rejects and abhors audand this
| is fraud and dshonor / do not claim to be
| honest than other men l have, as all politicians
have done many things which may not square exactly
with the rules of religion and right and which regret
having done but this thing will not do. Renewed
applause have reached the years of manhood and
cannot go back to Pennsylvania and eat my words,
| and become the slave of power. But then, Mr.. Bu-
chanan you must tolerate these differences of opinion.
Gen. jackson tolerated differences of opinion among his
friends; Col Polk tolerated differences of opinion among
his friends, you aware, for you differed with him
upon the subject of the tariff and yet you remained in
his cabinet Mr. Pierce tolerated differences of opinion
Aud here you are; the who carried you into the
place you occupy having refused your favors and
having ramped the patronage which has been rendered
tn linda,
IDENTIFY Here they are asking to be tolerated in the in
diligence Of an honest opinion. Applause The reply
| to that was Sir intend making my Kansas policy
party test Well; sir said regret it but if you make
it test with your officers will make it test at the
| baot-box. = (.
Now, let it be remembered that this is given as
private and confidential conversation between For
ney and his cold friend" the President, and Forney
himself is the man who repeats it on the stump amid
! the cheers" Of the Presidents enemies. Forncy
knew that the abolitionsts there present would
swallow it greedily as thing calculated to bring
the character of the President into disgrace and
tempt Is any man who will publisha conversation
| under such circumstances entitled to belief In
another part of the speech he says ''For myself If
could descend TO The business Of publishing private letters
I could,' &c. In what school of morality did he
llal ttefe WAS uHicfcHC6 DeIWeeH INC DaSe-
of publishing private letters and the baseness
of repeating private conversation? Did Mr.. Forney
over hear of man who descended to either without
becoming an object of public contempt?
| Our purpose, however, not to censure this
statement for the want of honor implied in making
| it, but to denounce it, as we do most emphit-
cay, for its unmitgated and total destitution of all
honesty and truth No such conversation took Mace
any conversation at all between those parties
that subject. Mr.. Forncy never had the courage to
address Mr. Buchanan in that strain and he certainly
had not the mpudence to offer his advice to the man
of whose personal character he had been the habit
ual tradueer for months before Lecompton or anti
Lccompton thought of.
Beyond the malice which prompted it, the motive
of this contemplate SANDER is easily discovered.
Forney thinks it would be glory enough for him land
so it would) to have question of veracty with the
President even if the President should convict him
of falsehood. lie hoped that Mr.. Buchanan would
be induced to come down and personally notice him
by contradiction. Failing in that he could at all
events boast that the President of the United States
had associated him with Douglas and Walker and
made him one Of the triumvrate upon whose sup
port the success of his administration depended.
But he has missed it in every way. The whole story
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