Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1859-08-26
Col. FOrney's Speech.

Al recent meeting OF tne dhtl-Duchdndf
Democracy of "od Berks," Col. John W. For
ney was present by invitation, and delivered
one of his characteristic speeches. In ALA
ding to the venerable occupant of the Presi
DENTAL chair, the Colonel said:
'sLet me call your attention TO the CHIEF
cause of this state of affairs. The county OF
Berks has never been friendly to James Bu
chanan. 1t distrusted him in the days of 1884,
in the DAYS of 1888, in the days of lsI4, in the
days of ls4s, and in the days of 1852. Why
was this He certainly had intellect; he
certainly had high personal character; he
certainly had distinguished himself in the
| nations councils as an able statesman. No
man denies to him these attributes. Why,
| then, was it that the honest Democratic yeo-
manry of Berks county alone mistrusled him!
II 1t was because the descendants of these
very Revolutionary leaders to whom | refer
red, had convinced you that he was unsOund
in the faith of the Democratic party
He then tells them how Mr.. Buchanan was
absent in England, and thus had escaped a
commi,tal on the Kansas Nebraska bill, how
he had pledged himself 10 Popular Sovereignty
in 1856, and how in 1858 he had forced all
honest Democrats into opposition to his Ad
ministration.
"They misunderstood US entirely. We
have no terms 10 make but these. Give us
the principles we ask and give us the man,
and we will unite with you; we carry the
Jewel, the heart of the Democratic party.
Come then, TO US stand up with US for them,
and we will unite with you; but come tenn
pest, and night, and disaster, we will not unite
with you upon the basis of the policy of this
Administration. The day for milGsops has
gone by. Laughter and applause.] The day
of PROMISES before and lies after an election
has gone by. [Renewed applause.] The day
for cowardly public men has gone by; the
day-and let me say it looking my gallant
friend Major Schwartz, full in the face-the
day for the tribe of the genus Of CLANCY Jones
has gone by, and gone by, thank God, for
ever"
He then turns to Senator Douglas, whom
he extols as the very quinlessence of Demo-
cratic Popular Sovereignty. who ought 10 be
and must be nominated at Charleston in ls6u.
and concludes on the next October election
as follows:
"One word more: We have duty TO per.
form IN October next. The Administration
has placed its Stale ticket upon plain and
distinct platform. II tells you that every man
who votes for John Rowe and Richardson L.
Wright votes in favor of its platform, which
declares that the people of the Territories
shall have no right TO control their own affairs
in their own way, and that if they take vote
upon the slavery question and abolish slavery,
Congress must intervene to put them down,
and uphold that institution against their will.
| have to say for myself that | shall refuse to
vote for that ticket and hope that every
Democrat who stands upon the platform OF
State rights, and believes in popular sovereign
,y and the justice of the movement We have
and carried on, will do the same.
Let fossils and fogies complain, if they choose,
of this action; they will submit. There will
be no difficulty about that; and after we have
defeated the Administration upon its platform.
-. can come together in 1850 upon the old