White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1866-07-12
Col. Forney 10 Andrew Johnson

Col. Forney 10 Andrew Johnson.
4 Singing Rebake to the President.
Caustic Reminders Of the Inau.
EuratfOn Scene.
The Colonel Threatens to Let Out.
To Andrew Johnson, President of the
United States.
WASHINGTON. d. D.. July 2. 1866.
My DEAR SIR -: Understanding that
you are anxious to disclose certain pri-
vate letters OF mine, written to you before
and since you became President by the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln. and
also that-you are troubled with some DEL
icate doubts as to the exact proprieiy Of
publishing them. l here invite you to
print them in one or oil Of your four Or
gans at the National capital. or through
q more convenient medium. the club or
COMMITTEES representing the "Bresd- and
Butter Brigade" These letters were
written without the slightest conceal
ment. and without the slightest suspicion
that you were about to betrsy the party
that had placed you where you are.
There is charming consistency between
the conscientious promptings that con-
strained 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 organization; and although the prac-
tice is somewhat novel. it will serve to
shed rich light upon the pages of the
historian when he comes to describe your
grateful and virtuous Administration
The following letter. long threatened by
your organs. is at last given to the world,
and reprint it as we'll for the purpose
of acknowledging i. as for the purpose o1
making some comment upon ii:
Nkw YoRk, January 9, 1866.
My DEAR Mr.. President: l have been ir
this city for two days, and now write under ar
impulse which cannot restrain, because fee
to be for your own good and that of the coun
try. take it for granted you are resolved no
to be unmindful Of your own fame, and that yor
will not allow your friends, who heartily sus
tain your policy, to feel that they are without
your aid and encouragement. Whether vol
are a candidate for President or not-and i
not shall be greatly surprised, with the won
derful favor that has crowned your restoration
policy-you should not allow the great Office
to 60 to Indifferent men, or those clearly in tn,
interest Of your foes need not repeat to 70,
that l am now, as ever, for twenty years show
in my writings, and since your great act of pat
riotism in 1860 especially, your open and avt W
ed friend Where am to-day my two news
papers both daily show to the world Hence
in what now say. speak no idle words, bu
mean all l say. The collectors Office at New
York city is post that you should dispose o
outside Of all the politicians; not, mean, t,
defy them, but to select your own man, WHIT
should be free only to help you and serve tn,
Government-one they could neither attacl
nor use. Such a man is = of thi
city. He was elected to Congress in
as Democrat, but, like you, refused to follow
the party into treason. He served short tim,
with great distinction, and resigned on accoun
of i'll health. He was member of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means and won great ap
plause. He is a very able man, educated L
finance, intensely National, honest and indie
pendent, and could furnish millions of security
He has an organizing mind, Eonld make yo,
a party, or fight your battles single handed
He is an Andrew johnson Democrat in short
| write in the knowledge that be would accept
and that his appointment would be hailed will
]. W. FoRNEY.
To the President, &C., &c.
When this letter WIS written there wa.
scarcely Union Republican in the Uni
ted States who did not believe that you
restoration policy included impartial suff
rage to the colored race. full guarantee,
before the return of the rebels, and suct
change in the basis of representation al
would prevent the murdersrs of Ameri
can liberty from resuming their former
power. The only real difference between
you and the Radicals was whether th,
rebellion destroyed the State organisation
or not. l write with the 6les of tn,
Washington Chronicle before me; ant
find that two days after the above lettel
was written Mr.. Trumbull's two bills fol
'the enlargement of the powers of tn,
Freedmen's Bureau" and the other, "fol
the protection Of civil rights" were in
troduced into the Senate in the foil ex
pectation that they would receive you
sanction. 1t was only when the Cop.
perhead and traitorous organs here snd
elsewhere began to speak as if by you
authority against the Union msjorities il
Congress, that the suspicion of the trea
son, subsequently indicated in your veto
of the Freedmsn.s Buresu bill, and you,
disgusting 22d Of February speech. begsr
10 pervade and finally possess the loya
mind Of the country. So fixed was tn,
belief Of the Republican party that yor
could under no circumstances co-operat.
with your slsnderers and theirs, and &C
willing were they to overlook your sus
picious indifference previous to the com.
ing elections in Ohio. Pennsylvsuis and
New, Jersey. that At the period when
wrote the above letter, hundreds of thous
snds cheerfully recognized you Is thsil
political leader, and supposed you inten.
ded to stand firmly BY the subatsptia
principles OF their Organization. Ny owl
conviction was 90 strong upon this sub.
ject thst l need only to refer 70 the ages
of The Chronicle and The Press to prov,
how steadily I resisted tho ides that yor
we're plotting to betrsy your frisnds. and
how. earnestly I-sndesvored to eenvinc,
the country that you had no symp sthy
with the common enemy. In eli my Wis
its to the Presidential mansion. and they
were frequent. it was not until late in
| Tannayv that I heoan rlosrlv In no-oo;,>