Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1860 — Forney on Buchanan's “Treason." [ARTICLE]

Forney on Buchanan's “Treason."

We extract the following from a pungent article in the Philadelphia Press, on what it terms “the great treason” of tiie present Administration: “If, in the midst of this canvass, any’one bad dared to . rop'iesy that before the close of Mr. Buchanan’s Administration the- two Governors of the two Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, appointed by himself, would interpose their veto in order to defeat the law of the Legislatures of those respective Territories abolishing slavery, he would have been denounced as an enemy and «ridi -.ulcd as an impostor. And yet what have we seen! Within the last few weeks Saintieb Medary, Governor of Kansas, and Samuel VV. Black, Governor of Nebraska, no doubt instructed by James Buchanan and his Cabinet have came forward lor the purpose of giving a practical evidence that the ten* thousand pledges mule La the nume of Mr. Buchanan, in iSSG, and based upon. Iris ownt voluntary committals, have-all been falsified,, himself leading che way, to show that be did. not mean what ire said, and that his whole object was to betray the popular sentiment. The excuse for this treason to principle is as bad as the act itself. The President and his myrmidons, mot couteut with Uyiug in the face of his record, and the record of the whole Democratic party in ao-w set up the mo ns row 3 allegation that the Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Slavery exists in tho Territories, and that* because it doeo so exist there, it must be protected by the Executive, or by Congress. In the very face of the most autl*orifativo declarations to the contrary, this idea is sought to be interpolated, into, the Democratic creed: and the very met* who do so are conscious that they are p*tVin«» a gross insult upon the Supreme Court of tho United States, and- demoralising that tribunial in the affections and confidence at the peo- . pie. Douglas organ at Washington denounces Col. Forney, as a “traitor and trader in politics,” aud gives people to understand that ita Presidential candidate nnd that gentleman have parted company. The truth is, Forney has too much honesty, or at least too much self-respect, to follow Douglas in his repeated “doublings” and I eratic windings. Cincinnati Uaiclle.