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Correspondence of JAMES K. POLK
FROM JOHN W. FORNEY
Pennsylvanian office Phila.
March 12, 1849
My Dear Sir,

According to promise you will find enclosed the nine articles on Oregon, which you expressed a desire to have.1 There was one of the numbers that could only be obtained by being copied from our file; and this was done by a beauteous lady, one of your staunchest friends.

That you may live long and happily, and that you may daily witness new proof of the success of your measures, is the sincere and ardent wish of . . . .

JNO W. FORNEY

ANS. DLC–JKP. Probably addressed to Nashville.

  1. 1. Polk’s and Forney’s letters, if any, not found. Enclosures not found. Forney probably refers to a series of articles, detailing and defending the administration’s actions regarding the Oregon Country, that appeared in the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian on October 1, 3, 7, 15, 20, 23, and 28, and November 19 and 26, 1846. Though written by James Buchanan and, in at least two cases, approved by Polk, they were published unsigned and worded as if by the newspaper’s editors.

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