The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-10-12
EXTRACTS FROM A SPEECH
Delivered by John W. Forney, at Cleve-
land, Ohio:
MR.. GREELEY.

And the candidate crowns the surrender.
Cheers 1 speak of Horace Greeley with
sincere affection and respect. l honor him
as the veteran of my profession-the ablest
of living journalists; and when discuss
him it is only as public character, only
as one who I fear has thrown "away a
pearl richer than all his tribe He is the
living realization of the Scriptural prayer,
"Oh, that mine enemv would write book"
for what he has written would make hun
bred book. [Cheers.l And all this libra
ry had but one theme-hatred of the Dem
ocratic party, its ideas, its projects, and
its candidates. Where can you find such
a treasure of facts against the Democracy
as in the files of the first Weekly New York
En-, in 1885; his great campaign paper in
1910; his Almanac, and invaluable Daily
Tribune? [Cheers.] When he was nomi
mated made, him in one sense, the Political
Editor of THE PRESS. [Laughter.] No
need for me to write in defence of any one
of the measures Of the Republican party
or of General Grant, or in eulogy Of Grant
himself, or, if you please (had not that day
gone by with me-, IN denunciation of the
South. All these, in far better English
than I can command, we're at my disposal
in the Tribune [Cheers. call this the
most curious scene in the drama. They
could not have made it more so than if
they had nominated Frederick Douglass
himself [Cheers.] When Daniel Web
ster said that he was older than Methuse-
lab, because he had seen what Methuselah
had not-viz: the magnetic telegraph, the
railroad and the locomotive, and Hoes
fast printing press-he never thought of
the miracle of the Democrats running Mr..
Greeley as their candidate for President,
or of Mr.. Greeley being ready to forget all
that he had written against them. Laugh
teri But will the old hardshell Demo
Gratis be as willing to forget this volumi.
nous and uuequalled record? 1 think l
see such leaders as Charles w. Carrigan,
Florance Bingham, Justice George w.
Woodward, ex Postmaster General James
Campbell, forgetting what Mr.. Greeley has
printed in imperishable Saxon. And in
deed, if had to choose between being the
unrecanting editor of the New York Tri-
bune, with all its isms and gyrations, es-
pecially from 1860 to 1871, and being the
candidate of party for President that
could not be true itself and believe in me
at the same time, would hold on to what
had come warm from my heart and soul,
and reject what was fatal temptation
alone. Loud cheers.1 No! Mr.. Greeley
cannot forget what he has done SO well
and so hcnorably. Then great thoughts
were the offspring of his most conscien-
tious hours, the children of his happy days,
now grown into sort of gospel, casket
of maxims as dear to American statesmen
as if they had been inspired. [Cheers.
As we'll could Scott have forgotten Waiver
ley, or Byron Childe Harold; or Robert
Burns the Cotter's Saturday Night, or
Francis S. Key the Star Spangled Banner,
as Horace Greeley ignore his noble teach
ings, in the New York Tribune. [Cheers.
AND YET HOW HE TRIES TO DO 80.
have seen SO many great men spoiled
by the eager hunt for the Presidency, so
many proud hearts broken, and have read
so many splendid essays on this theme in
the New York Tribune that never dream
ed Mr.. Greeley would place himself in the
same gallery. [Cheers.l Not to speak Of
John Tyler when he left the Wings in 1S41,
or of Andrew johnson when he left the
Republicans in 1866, nor to recall what