The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-01-01
Forney for T'enia nfsm. i.

Mr.. FoRNEY is not satisfied with imagln-
ing that he saw the lovely watering places
of Scotland in sailing up the Mersey to
Liverpool, or with his grand discovery that
it was the present Emperor of the French
who caused the remains of NAPOLEON the
First to be removed from st. Helena to Paris.
The one, as freak of the mind, and the
other, as proof of stupendous ignorance,
would have been sufficient for any ordinary
blockhead, but both will not satiate the
craving appetite of the double-dunce of
Washington and Philadelphia.
Renown or notoriety he must and will
have; and what cannot always be gained by
learning, and merit, and an independent
spirit, may be won by effrontery, shallow
ness and mean and fawning soul. This
is FoRNEY's consolation; and, while others
are only famous, infamous he shall be.
Many little amusements hes Mr.. FoRNEY.
Misrepresentation, garbling, moral obliqui-
~, scayengerian abuse, are taken up in turn,
and when Radical and anti-Radical are
weary of the play, FoRNEY takes hand in
the round game of Fenianism. He has
plans, forsooth, that will bring victory to
Fenianism in less time than THADDEUs STE
VEINS can frame new supplementary bill;
he has schemes that require no green flags,
no armies, no rihed gun, but which will
snuff out the British candle as quickly as
guillotine might slice off the head OF re-
fractory citoyen; he has tricks that 60 far
beyond those of every monkey that ever
was born, from that of the little SAvoYARD TO
De CHA1LLu's new monstrous gorilla. And
there is one Fenian plot more wonderful,
more magnificent, and moro absurd than man
had ever before conceived, and that plot was
born in the skull of foolish, fanatical FoRNEY.
This gallant stay at-home suppressor oi
the Southern rebellion recommends that
the Fenians should land on the Isle OF
Wight, and kidnap the Queen and her
Court. He regrets that it has not been
done before, and says it would be easy
enough to run light steamboat up the
Solent and drop down upon Osborne House
and its inhabitants. With royal hostage
in possession, "what splendid bargain the
Fenians could have made for Ireland-se-
curing her independence at least, if not
compensation for rhe miserable past"
So FoRNEY is fool as well as u knave!
With no sincerity, no courage, no self-sac-
rifce to offer his own country,-he becomes
the oracle and adviser of people who long
for freedom. The advocate of white slave
ry,-he processes to be the champion of the
liberties of Ireland. Afraid himself to war
upon en,-he counssls a gallant and chiv-
alrous nation to war upon widowed and
broken hearted woman.
And FoHNEY does not remember that the
time is past when the fortunes of England
were held in ono single hand, and broken
sceptres were the signs of ruined king
doms. England woula still grow in wealth
though she did lose her oseen The Ir:ah
could not compel their Saxon neighbors TO
grant them independence though FoRNEY's
plan were successfully tried; and they
know, better than FoRNEY Can know, that
no country ever won its liberty by dciag
that which would set the prejudice of the
whole world against it, and that no nation
of brave aud heroic men, such as the Irish
are, would wish to avenge their national
wrongs by waylaJing and insulting wo
man,-whether Queen or peasant, milk
uaid or duchess, village belle or dame Of
high degree.