The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-03

New York CassOm.Hoose.
The National Republican Of yesterday
finishes rorney. Andrew johnson ia q
dangerous man to pick . quarrel with.
His organ psrtakes Of his bellicose nature.
and lets down upon Forney in the follow.
Ing refreshing style:
At the very time that the pure. minded
Brook farm" socialist (Dana) was stri-
wing for the spoils, the immaculate Forney,
the Secretary of the United States Senate,
went to New York, and, as he says, moved
by ian impulse he could not restrain"
addressed Andrew Johnson as "My dear
Mr.. President" advising him to dispose OF
the custom-house "outside Of all the poll
ticians," and asking him to confer It upon
his Forney's) friend--"a Democrat''
We purposely leave out the name Of the
candidate mentioned in Forney's letter
because he, perhaps, is not to blame lot
the shortcomings or long grasping OF his
pure. minded and highly patriotic friend
Forney. The letter is now published be-
cause Forney has challenged it, and be-
cause it exhibits specimen of sublime i'm
pudence and unparalleled hypocrisy never
before equalled anywhere, and never here
after to be excelled. We submit the letter
itself. Read it, and then read an "Occa-
sional" letter printed daily from the same
pen, and wonder at the infamy OF the
author:
NEW York, January 2, 1866.
Nv Dear Mr.. President, Il have been in
this city for two days, and now write under
an impulse which cannot restrain, be-
cause I feel it to be for your own good and
that of the country. take it for granted
you are resolved not to be unmindful of
your own fame, and that you will not al
low your friends, who heartily sustain your
policy, to feel that they are without your
aid and encouragement. Whether you
are a candidate for president or not, and
if you are not, shall be greatly surprised
with the wonderful favor that has crowned
your restoration policy, you should not
allow the great office 60 to indifferent
men, or those clearly in the interests Of
your foes. need not repeat to you that
am now, as ever, for twenty years shown
in my writings, and since your great act of
patriotism in 1860 especially, your open
and avowed friend. Where / am to-day
nv two newspapers both daily show to
the world. Hence in what ! now say
speak no idle words, but mean all
say. The collectors Office at New
York city is post that you should
dispose of outside Of all the politicians;
not, mean, to defy them, but to select
your own man, who should be free only to
help you and serve the Government
one they could neither attack nor use.
&c n Il Of off a
elected to Congress in = as Democrat,
but, like you, refused to follow the party
into treason. He served short time with
great distinction, and resigned on account
of ill health. He was member of the
Committee of Ways and Means, and won
great applause. He is very able man
educated to finance, intensely national,
honest, and Independent, and could furnish
millions of security. He has an organizing
mind, and would make you party or fight
your battles single-handed. He is an An
drew Johnson Democrat, in short. / write
in the knowledge that he would accept,
and that his appointment would be hailed
with JOY by this whole community.
Yours, truly, j. W. FORSEY.
To the President, de-, dc.
But if that is not enough, you shall have
more, says the organ to Mr.. Forlley. Come
up on the witness stand, sir:
|. Did you, or did you not, write to any
person slice the election Of Lincoln and
johnson in substance that if Hamlin had
continued Vice President you would have
resigned, because he took your patronage
away and gave it to Sergeant-at-Arms
Brown
2. Did you, or did you not, since the
election of Lincoln and Johnson, write any
influential person congratulating him upon
the prospect of the revival of the Demo-
cratic party, and urging the necessity of
taking from the existing United States
Senators, who were original Wigs and
FreeSoilerS, the power they now possessl
3. Did you, or did you not, write to any
distinguished official, then about to com t
into power, pleading, if not "begging,"
with him to employ as his confidential
"privatc secretary" 4 man of y0,r se!cc.
ton ?
4. Did you, or did you not, write to any
person after the election of Lincoln and
Johnson fully endorsing Andrew Johnson
as q Democrat, fully endorsing Andrew
Johnson's restoration policy, and welcom-
ing him, in substance, as the coming leader
of certain political party?
s. Will you, or will you not, relieve the
holders of any letters containing such as
sertions, or declarations, or sayings, from
the obligations imposed upon them because
such letters bear the words "private and
confidential
The letters referred to above have no
connection whatever with the impudent
letter of Forney's which appears elsewhere
in our columns to-day. Impudent, incon-
sistent, and hypocritical as the custom
house letter is, it is .politeness compared
with the epistlcs written by him shortly
after the election Of Lincoln and Johnson.
The reader will understand that each
question relates to letter actually written
by the vile reprobate Forney.
AS if this were not enough, the organ
quotes from the National hteligencer the
following paragraph concerning Forney's
SON" chip of the old block" evidently !:
Dis,aissed.-Captain Philip R. Forney,
Fourteenth United States infantry, IA son OF
Colonel John W. Forney,) was recently
tried BY court-nartial at San Francisco,
California, and dismissed the service. The
charges of which Captain Forney was found
guilty were disobedience Of orders and
conduct unbecoming an officer and gentle
man, The sentence Of the court has been
confirmed by the commanding general.
VINO IS He ?-Forney's paper of yester-
day says that a citizen of Richmond writes
to Representative briggs, Of Michigan,