Daily Los Angeles herald., 1880-10-06
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Col. John w. Forney, In bill
great speech at Pittsburg, on th'
18th Of September, struck . mum
her Of remarkably fine politica
kqt t.notes-such, indeed, ss will
o6mmend themselves to all men
Irrespective of party. Col. Forney
has. In his public career, always
besn = man Of high impulses.
Thousands OF Democrats, who did
mot follow Col. Forney out of the
Dsmocratic }party, nevertheless
heartIly deYfecated Mr.. Buchan'
ans policy. Eorney has not beer
less willing to revolt Rspubli'
can excssses than he showed Sfis:R,
self to be rscAlcitrant under q high
pressure pro- -slavery administra.
tlon. In his Pittsburg speech be
presented the overshadowing Issues
of the times in which we live thus
and they are crystalized truths:
The circumstances OF the present
struggle are so peculiar, aud the
SEASONS for the election Of General
sncock to the Presidency 90 com.
1ding, that mere partisan war.
1afo must cease in the presence of
groater and more permanent CON.
Gidoratious. The flrst is, that all
honest men In this country desire
poace over the whole land; the
second, that the philosophy Of our
practics and cur history renders .
ohanRe OF administration the
prayer Of = large majority Of our
Doople. Before two such impulses
. these, mere invective amounts
TO nothing. They are the twin
eonqusrors OF the present; they are
the great prophets OF the future.
There is not q household in the
land In which these joint impulses
are not operating now. Peace with
our own forgiven people is reli-
glon; change Of party rulers, proved
too frequently to be corrupt and
dishOnest, 10 a necessity; and /
stand here tonight as the plain
representative Of these two ideas,
speaking my own thoughts strong.
Ii, because l feel that they ara the
och0ep .0f your own.
! I'll am In antagonism to the Re.
publican organization of the pres
out day, ~ / clearly avow myself
10 be, am not, therefore, in
outAgonism to the great ideas
of the Republican creed. These
are immortal; they are 80 invinci.
bic that they have conquered every.
thing; and to-day there is not
segment OF = political faction
bat denies that the abolition OF
avery was right, that universal
t6fage was the true logic of q
t..as revolution, that universal
1lhtessty and forgiveness were the
'opiendid evangelism that we'll be.
anne > great people, and that II
would be the sheerest malice and
The basest population n, after In
'oegpoTating the pardon Of our own
o08uding countrymen Into our
0onsti Tuition and laws, we should |
turn about and attempt practically
- disfrancbise those we had for
m1von. How natural, In view OF |
6uoh = history and euch a surren-
6oF - this, that, after the war,
1ltor the settlements Of the war,
o1tef the grand forgiveness of Mr..
EAnooln and bis great successors,
\ should come back to my own DO.
lItfonl household, where I find all |
tho ideas for which / contsnded |
(USin9 the last twenty-five years
oto61a1ly adopted and honestly oar
NJ ct For indeed, gsntlemenI
~ 0olb partless while the RspubIl-
- 16ccslneg oon never die, while
Cn1c o41 llborty and pardon are
oVogle61t4g, meFo organization 10 .
lont ~ temporary thing; aud /
VlIon I 1ook 20 the men who Iead