The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-07-28
91Mistellarteotts,
SPICY CORRESPONDENCE.
Forney VS.. johnson.

The following correspondence will ex-
plain itself. We submit that at present
writing our Great Accident has rather the
worst of the encounter. no
TO ANDREW JOHNSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNI
TED STATES.
WAsH1NToN, d. G., July 2, 1866.
MY DEAR SIR Understanding that you
are anxious to disclose certain private let
ters of mine, written to you before and
since you became President by the assassi-
nation Of ABRRHAM LINCOLN, and also that
you are troubled with some delicate doubts
as to the exact propriety Of publishing
them, l hereby invite you to print them in
one or all of your four organs at the nation
al Capitol, or though more convenient
medium, the club or committee represent
ing the Bread-and- d-Butter-Brigade." -
These letters were written without the
slightest suspicion that you were about to
betray the party that had placed you where
you are. There is charming consistency
between the conscientious promptings that
constrained you to separate from that great
party and the spirit which now impels you
to reveal to the world your private relations
with those who still adhere to that organl-
zation and although the practice is some
what novel; it will serve to shed rich light
upon the pages Of the historian when he
comes to describe your grateful and vlrtu-
Gus administration. The following letter,
long threatened by your organs, is at last
given to the world, and reprint it as well
for the purl ose of acknowledging it as for
the purpose of making some comments up
on it !:
New YORK, January 2, 1866.
My DEAR Mr.. PRESIDENT have beenin
this city for two days, and now write under
an impulse which cannot restrain, because
l feel it to be for your own good and that
of the country I.take it for granted you
are resolved not to be unmindful of your
own fame, and that you will not allow your
friends, who heartily sustain your policy,
to feel that they are without your aid and en-
couragement. Whether you are candi-
date for President or not-and ifyou are not
l shall greatly be surprised with the Won
derful favor that has crowned your restora-
tion policy-you should not allow the great
Office go to Indifferent men, or those clear
ly in the interests of your foes. need not
repeat to you that l 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 l am to-day my two newspapers
both daily show to the world Hence, in
what now say, speak no idle words but
mean all I say. The collectors office at
New York city is a 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. Such a
man is = : y of this city. He was
elected to Congress in as a
Democrat, but, Ike you, refused to follow
the party into treason. He served short
time with great distinction, and resigned
on account of i'll health. He was q mem
Der of the Committee of Ways and Means,
and won great applause. He is very able
man, educated to finance, intensely nation
al, honest and independent, and could fur
nish millions ofsecurity. He has. an organ
izing mind, 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, y. w. FoRNEY,
To THE PRESIDENT, &c., &c.
When this letter was written there was
scarcely Union Republican in the United
States who did not believe that your res
toration policy included impartial suffrage
to the coloreds race, full guarantees before
the return of the rebels, and such a change
in the basis of representation as would
prevent the murderers of American liberty
from resumng their former power. The
only real difference between you and the
radicals was whether the rebellion destroy
ed the State organizations or not. Iwrite
with the files of the Washington Chronicle
before me and find that two days after
the above letter was written Mr.. TRUMBULLs
two bills fol" the enlargement of the pow
ers of the Freedmen's bureau" and the 9TH
| er. for the protection of civil rights"
were introduced into the Senate in the full
| expectation that they would receive your
sanction. 1t was only when the Copper
head and traitor organs here and elsewhere
began to speak as if by your authority
against the Union majorities in Congress,
that the suspicion of the treason, subse'
uuently indicated in your veto of the Freed
mems bureau bill, and your disgusting 22d
of FEBRUARY speech, began to pervade and
finally to possess the loyal mind of the coun-
try. So fixed was the belief of the Repub-
| lican party that you could under no circum-
stances cooperate with your slanderers and
theirs, and so willing were they to overlook
your suspicious indifference previous to the
coming elections in Ohio, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, that at the period when !
wrote the above letter hundreds of thou
sands cheerfully recognized you as their
political leader, and supposed you intend
ed to stand firmly by the substantial prin-
ciples of their organisation. MY own con-