Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1858-09-17
A CHAPTER IN DEMOCRACY BY ONE
WHO KNOWS.

DhNhtRilail ONtH Ills elpCllOn To
the labors Of John w. Forney, the editor Of
the Philadelphia Press. How he has treat.
ed Mr.. Fornoy is private matter between
those two gentlemen, but how Mr.. Buchan.
an has played ''fast and loose" in the LIE.
compton business is a matter which concerns
the whole country. Mr.. Forney-than
whom no man ever was more intimate with
another than he with Mr.. Buchanan, socially
and politically-has, in a speech lately
made in Westchcster County, N. Y, given
the public and the private course of Mr..
Buchanan on this subject.
MR.. FoRNEY's SOCIAL AND POLITICAL 1STr.
MACY WITH Mr.. BUCHANAN.
MIR. Fornoy said--I must be little pcr.
sonal, fellow citizens, because appearing b.
fore you as do, I am impeled, if not com
PEELED, to revert to portion of the political
history in which | have borne prominent
part. My relations to the present Exeeu.
tive of the United States began with nv
early boyhood. From timo long before
became voter, when | was his intimate
confident and friend in early youth, down 10
a period ono year ago, l sustained towards
MIR. Buchanan, relations not only of intima.
cy, but of more than intimacy. Had he
been my father, il bis blood run in nv veins
[ could not have been moro devotedIv at.
tached to him. | believe that that senti-
Gcnt Of affection was reciprocated. We
had tried, in our good old State VI Pennsyl.
vanla, for many years, to elect this gentle.
man to tho Presidency. 1t fell to nv lot
born in the county in which he grew to
manhood, in the county where he read law.
in the county where he still has his residence,
and where he says he expects to die, know.
ing him thus well, it fell to my lot to do n
great deal Of hard work incident to the ful-
tIment Of the aspiration of the man himself
and the wishes of his friends. In 1914 wo
went to tho city of Baltimore, instructed to
90 for distinguished citizen of your State.
Mr.. Van Buren. But owing to the publi.
cation of the celebrated Texas letter. tho
Democrats of Pennsylvania, as is well
known, concluded that Mr.. Van Buren, had
forfeited the confidence of the Democratic
party, and that it became us to present our
own favored citizen for that hich ofIico-
We did so and we failed. But still in
l848 We reappeared upon the scene with
our tellow-citizen, and there the friends Of
Mr.. Van Buron in this State repaid us in
kind for the good turn we had served them
four years before. Laughter.1 Undaunt.
ed, we continued to organize, and in 1852
wo re-appeared upon tho samo scene with
our favortc and friend, and were again de-
teated. That seemed tho last chance. the
last shot-if may be permitted to use the
expression--ln tho locker. But Mr.. Bu-
chanan was appointed by President Pierce,
in 1858, to ill the high and important mis-
sion OF minister to England and whiIo there
he was removed from the scenes of domes-
tic politics, and quietly and observantly
watched the progress of events at home
pending and succeeding the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise line.
Mr.. BUCHANAN FOR AND AGAINST THE MIS-
souri, COMPROMISE.
Mr.. Buchanan had been known for his
attachment to that line Tn 1910. while n
student at law, Mr.. Buchanan had attended
q meeting at Lancaster, Penn, in which he
denounced it. But, subsequently,. in ls47
he came out in bis celebrated Bucks coup,v
letter and stated that the only way to settle
tho slavery question was to run that line
to the Pacific, so as to secure to the North
and the South the benefit upon each side Of
it, as proposed by its original friends.-
Therefore it was that, while at n forcion
court, absent from his own country, his name
became peculiarly the name to which tho
American people looked as the name which
would lead the Democratic party to vic
tory. Again his Democratic friends of Penn
sylvana moved forward. We saw the timo
had come when our candidate and cham
pion could be presented to the people. We
repaired to Cincinnati. All home rivalry
had boon extinguished. Tho bitterness
growing out of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise line, and the passage of the
Kansas Nebraska bill had removed from the
held all other candidates, so we thought
The Cass men and the Dallas men in Penn
iylvania made common cause to present
his gentleman for nomination. When we
cached Cincinnati tho first thing that ap-
oearod was this: The South, the extreme
South, had resolved on Mr.. Buchanan's an
,ihllation. They saw in him a type of mod !
'rate conservative sentiment. They saw in
lim, for the first time, public man who.
having been absent from the country, and
therefore, unconnected and disconnected
rom the existing rivalries of tho dav, would
70 compelled from his position to do Justice
o the Northern feeling and to extinguish
ectionalism They did not trust him upon
he issue of tho day. He was not good
nough Kansas-Nebraska man for them.
nd they fought us as the records of that
Convention will show, during five long davs,
With n bitterness and animosity such as po-
ltieal conventions can hardly rival. He
vas the only man to rescue the Democra-
ic party from defeat He was tho only
nan to prevent the election of Republican.
lie was the only man who conld carry Penn
vlvania, aud upon the contest in that State
nd the entire tide of battle turn. From
our own State a singular disposition was
in certain quarters; in those
uarters where now this disease of Lccomp-
onlsm RACES most furiouslv. From those
uarters Mr. Buchanan received nothing bat
oldness and contempt. But we nomina-
ed him. We returned to Pennsylvania af-
or that time, joyous in having achieved
ur long desired wishes; and when we re-