But when Mr.Buchanan came to the Presidency, Forney, who aspired first to a place in the Cabinet, which was denied him, and then to a seat in the Senate, for which he was beaten--through flagrant bribery, as the story ran--was left out in the cold.

Thereafter he became something of a political adventurer.
The days of the newspaper "organ" approached their end.

Forney's occupation, like Othello's, was gone, for he was nothing if not an organ grinder.

Facile with pen and tongue, he seemed a born courtier--a veritable Dalgetty, whose loyal devotion to his knight-at-arms deserved better recognition than the cold and wary Pennsylvania chieftain was willing to give.

It is only fair to say that Forney's character furnished reasonable excuse for this neglect and apparent ingratitude.
The row between them, however, was party splitting.