The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-09-22

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lreemen, vyte for the continuance Of such mer
in Office?
j. w. FOrney and His Speech AT
TarrytowN, New Work.
This production is as destitute as anything
can be of argument or reason. 1t is the stale
material ofthe aboitionists often confued and
as often rehashcd by abler hands than Forney
But its shallow commonplace is somewhat re-
lieved by the bitterness and malignity of its
spirit. Forney avows himself with the aboli.
tionists, body and soul. lie does not play the
hypocrite now. After whining for eighteen
months about his devotion to democratic prin-
ciples and the ingrattude. with which he was
Gated, after coaxing all the money and all tie
patronage he could get out the democracy on
the pretence that he was democrat and meant
to remain so--he takes occasion to tell the de-
mocracy publicly, in speech corrected and re-
vised by himself for his own paper, that "there
would be no God in Heaven if the ballot
box did not damn such a party in October next.
1t is in this insolent, profane, and vulgar style
that he announced the deception he has prac-
ticed on the credulous democrats who gave him
the means with which lie started his piratical
paper. This open declaration Of hostility to the
be, with plenty Of flattery for the opposition
He coaxes the know-nothings, lawns upon the
black,re republicans, and plays lIckspittle to Hor-
ace Greely.
1t was to be expected also, that an apostacy
SO gross as Forney's should be signalized by
more than the common amount of that false
hood which renegades always delight in. lie
could not prove his qualifications for the new
political association to which he aspires with
out pay ~ u6wn his -7TSAta -7TTSAAtacorrbution to the
common stock of personal slander against the
President But the following statement, which
we give just as he gives it himself with his
own account OF the "cheers" and the daughter"
with which it waa received shows that he has
Giry won the affections of his present co-wor-
81 went to Washington When got there
[ said to my old friend, Mr. Buchanan, For
the first time in our lives we are at variance;
having followed your lead thus far, now find
myself deserted WELL said he, cannot you
change, tooF Laughter. III can afford to
change said he, why cannot you afford to
change, too? (Renawed aughter) IF you,
Douglas, and Walker will unite in support (
my policy, you will not hear whlmper Of this
thing: it will pass by as the summer breeze
| SAID to him, We differ; very we'll; with an
administration surrounded by offlce-seekers,
living all the time in an atmosphere OF flattery,
foil wed by thousands of men who expect office
and who say to you you are right, Mr.. Buchan-
an, we are down upon our bellies in the dust,
please to walk over us and trample upon u.s. and
we will be content and happy; you may be-
Iieve that your policy is right, but tell you,
Mr.. Buchanan, that there Is still, small voice
in the hearts of the people that instnctivcly re-
jects and abhors fraud-and this is fraud and
dishonor. | do not claim to be more honest
than other men; have, as all politicians have
done many things which may not spare 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 own words and be-
come the slave ofpower. But then, Mr. Blu
chanan you must tolerate these differences of
opinion. Gen. Jackson tolerated difference OF
opinion among his friends, Col. Polk toleraed
difference Of opinion anon his friends, as you
are aware, for you differ with him upon the
subject of the tariff, and yet you remained in
his cabinet; Mr. Pierce tolerated differences of
opinion. And here you are; the men who car
ried you into the place you now occupy having
c,o ~ La,, ,IoI L.
patronage which has been rendered them under
foot, because they desired to serve independent
ly Here they are, asking to be tolerated in
the indulgence ofan 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 we will make it test at the ballot box.o
Now, let it be remembered that this is given
as private and confidential conversation be-
tween Forney and his "old friend" the Presi-
dent, and Forney himselfis the man who re-
peats it on the stump amid the 'cheers' Of the
Presidents enemies. Forney knew that the
abolitionists there present would swallow it
greedily as thing calculated to bring the char
acter of the President into disgrace and con-
tempt. Is any man who will publish con-
versation under such circumstances entitled to
belief? Inanother part Of the speech he says;
"For myself, i could descend to the business q
p,eblislny- private letters, Icould,,' &C. In what
school ofmorality did he learn that there was
difference between the baseness Of publishing
private letters and the baseness of repeating
private conversation? Did Mr.. Forney ever
hear Of a man who descended TO either without
becoming an object ofpublic contempt?. ~
Our purpose, however, was not to .censure
this statement for the want OF honor implied in
making it, but to dsnounce it, as we now dc
most emphatically, for jts unmitigated and to-
tai destitution ofail honesty and truth. Nc
such conversation took place, nor any CONVEX
sation at all between those parties on that sub.
ljSct. Mr.. Fornsy never had the courage tC