The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-15
Forney ON His Last Legs-Ffis Latest Fa-
bricatton In Regard to the President.

Forney ON His Last Legs-His Latest Fa-
IRRIGATION in Regard to the President.
The Philadelphia Press, conducted by John
W. Forney, and owned by nobody knows whom,
is evidently in the last stages Of decay, and the
end of its brief and inglorious career may be
daily expected. Douglas, having recanted and
returned into a probationary communion with
the democratic party, has withdrawn the supply
of funds on which the Press mainly relied; and
as the opposition party would have nothing to
do with Forney or his paper at any price, it
was apparent that there was nothing to save
them from extinguishment But Forney, who
az chief butler in poor Pierce's kitchen cabinet,
learned to be quick at resources, hit upon q
plan the other day which, he 6attered himself,
would get his paper into some notoriety, and
stave of, perhaps, for little while longer,
the inevitable day Of doom. In commenting
upon the Terry Broderick duel in California,
he INDUCED in some insane rawlings against Mr..
Buchanan, called him an arch traitor, and asked
if he could feel that his hands were clear Of the
hearts blood of David c. Broderick. Of course
nobody would be foolish enough to attach any
Importance to such absurd nonsense, much less
the President, who knows Forney's weakness,
and really commiserates the poor fellow; but
yet statement has been telegraphed from
Philadelphia to the journals of this city, to the
effect that the President has notified Forney Of
his intention to sue him for libel
1t is hardly necessary to say that there is not
| the slightest foundation for such q statement.
| 1t emanated from Forney or some of his
| friends, and had only fer object the CIV
| ing him and his paper some little nsto-
riety. No sensible person, however, can be
| gulled by such transparent dodge. Setting
| aside the great improbability of a President of
| the United States going into court of justice
to wrangle with petty newspaper paragraph
ist like Forney, on account of some offensive re-
mark, we know personally that Forney is the
| last man whom Mr.. Buchanan would stoop to
notice in such way. The feeling predomi-
nant in Mr.. Buchanan's mind in regard to For
ney is one Of pity. Forney had been aprotege
| of the Presidents, had been helped along and
| set up in the world by him. and had always
| manifested that degree of gratitude towards
| his benefactor that was to be expected under
| such circumstances. But when, few years
| ago, he was so led away by his in0rdinate
vanity and self-conceit as to imagine that he
| should get seat in the United States Senate,
| or, failing in that, seat In the Cabinet,
and when, disappointed in his ambitious views,
he turned and bit the hand that had caressed him,
| Mr.. Buchanan looked upon him in the light Of
a monomaniac and entertained no sentiment
for him but one Of pity. Forney continued to
vent his spleen against the President, and the
President continued to commiserate Forney.
We are sure that the ridiculous insinuation in
regard to responsibility for Senator Broderick's
| death did not change in the slightest degree
| this feeling. and we are convinced that the
President still pities his former protege
Inordinate vanity was the rock on which
poor Forney's bark foundered. Because he
was told by little clique of admiring Office
seekers that his clap-trap balderdash political
articles were fine writing, and because
be had got the fat berths Of Clerk of the
House of Representatives and chief butler in
Pierce's kitchen cabinet, he imagined that he
was really man of mark and ability. He
| now realizes, perhaps, how egregiously he was
selfdeceived but still, as the drowning
man will grasp at straw, SO does he now
fabricate this invention about Presidential
libel suit in the delusive hope that he will be
thus able to keep his head little longer
above water. 1t will not do. Douglas and
that set do not want him; the opposition party
would not have him at any price; and he can
not expect that the President will again re-
store him to favor. The only thing he can dc
now, in the little time left him, is to compose
bis epitaph and retire quietly into that OBJ
security for which he was destined by nature
IMPORTATION OF INDECENT PIcTuREs-AN In