New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-22
FORGERY CHASED UP.

On the day before the late Election 10 Pennsyl-
yanis, an extra Harrisburg Patriot & Union was
sowed broadcast over that State, containing what
purported to be speech lately deliyeredin Massa-
chuse,ts, BY one John NJ. Wilson, Lincoln Eteetor
for said State-said extract consisting of the most
beastly and scurrious abuse of our felow-citizens
of Irish or German birth. So coarse and foul an
exhibition of sheer blackguardsm we do not re-
member elsewhere to have read; and, as Gen.
Henry Wilson, U. S. Senator from Massachusetts,
was advertised to speak at Honesdae the night be-
fore that election, the Germans aud Irish were pr-
vately assured that he was the Wilson who had
made this brutal speech
We took occasion to expose the forgery, showing
that there was no John NJ. Wilson on the Lincoln
Electoral Ticket in Massachusetts, person Of
that name being known to the Republicans of that
State. And as We understood that the Courier
des Fiat, Unis had given this vile forgery currency
among the French-speaiug population of the entire
Union, We called on that paper to retract and
atone for the injustice it had done.
la reply the Courier insisted that the speech in
question was actually made by q Republicau-not
BY "Lincoln Elector for Massachusetts,, how
ever, but by some one in Indiana We happen
now to have the evidence required to refute the
fabrication in that form. We copy the following
letter from the last 81. Joseph Taey Register ed
tied by the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, N. c., and pub
lished at South Bend, Indiana
SoUrE BEND, Ind, Oct &c. 1860.
DEAR SIR no:e in LAST Saturdays Forum, speech pur-
porting to have delivered at Salem ludaus Ia 1892 by
rflaua audin
smiling attack, on foreigners and which pretended speech
being by the Democrats to our Adopted Citizens
sst the Republican party The same publication was made
h, the papers Of this State In 1885, at that
time and to be Salem
The very town which this speech alleged to have been
msde on tie day that this Johu b. Wilson spoke there
In the yer, town Il tua he made this speech
In 1855 M WILSON branded rifle Forgery and rieked
fabrication Of pofiea opponen He also stated that he
bsore him In that crowded embe hundreds Of both pattes
who had heard bis speech 10 1855 aud he challenged any man
anu 1dtv 10 rise and before them that nc had uttered any
such ,epfnenf a. dserbed him. Not man denied his
.amen On the contrary number of the most resPecsabe
citiz. Ms there made adar hh published at the time
tag that they heard NE whoIe Of the speech, and mdfh
contained sue statements hdterer There can be no doaot
that was vile forgery gotten political effect and which
Tim and the spot every hon
orbe man should ashamed ssan for polite ends
Yours truly JOHN II. HARPER.
Need we add one word? 1t seems that thespeech
which this Mr.. WilsOn-who was never Member
of Congress nor otherwise enthusiastically did
make, and which serves as the foundation for this
forgery, was made at Salem, Ind.,'in 1855-that
the forgery upon him now circulated obtained cur
rency in ls5S--and that this Mr. Wilson spoke in
that year at that very Salem, where this abusive
speech was alleged to have been made, and then
ard there soemny and publicly denied that he ever
uttered any such aspersions en- Adopted Citizens,
and dared any one to contradict him, which no one
saw fit TO do; on the contrary, several respectable
citizens of both parties united in testyng that the
speech he actually did make there in 1855 con-
tanned none Of the Offer sive sentiments attributed
to him in the forgery then and now so atrociousy
circulated.
How long will Adopted Citizens be duped by
forgeries like that here ezposed' How long will
the Courier des Etas Unis leud itself to such base
uses? For, be sure that so long as forgery can be
made profitable Sham Democracy will persist in it.