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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Forney, John Weiss 1817-1881 (search)
Forney, John Weiss 1817-1881 Journalist; born in Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 30, 1817; purchased the Lancaster Intelligencer in 1837 and three years later the Journal, which papers he amalgamated under the name of the Intelligencer and journal. He subsequently became part owner of the Pennsylvania and Washington Union. He was clerk of the national House of Representatives in 1851-55; started the Press, an independent Democratic journal, in Philadelphia, in 1857, and upon his re-election as clerk of the House of Representatives in 1859 he started the Sunday morning chronicle in Washington. Among his publications are Anecdotes of public men (2 volumes); Forty years of American journalism; A Centennial commissioner in Europe, etc. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 9, 1881.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Washington, D. C. (search)
rates, and the Southern members of Congress, in both houses, formed the focus of the disunion movements in the slave-labor States which soon created civil war. Yet, with all this tide of open disloyalty surging around the national capital, the President, seemingly bound hand and foot in the toils of the enemies Map of Washington and vicinity in 1861. of his country, sat with folded hands, and did not lift a finger to stay the fury of the rising tempest. Of him a writer at the capital (John W. Forney) said: His confidants are disunionists; his leaders in the Senate and in the House are disunionists, and while he drives into exile the oldest statesman in America [General Cass] simply and only because he dares to raise his voice in favor of the country, he consults daily with men who publicly avow in their seats in Congress that the Union is dissolved and that the laws are standing still. Confederates destroying bridges near Baltimore. Pennsylvania sent the first troops to the