, 1860-10-30

On the day before the late election in Penn
sylyania, IN extra Harrisburg Iatrio d Eaio',
wis sowed broadcast over that State, contain
ing what purported TO be . speech lately dcliv-
q Lincoln E7eetor for said State-said extract
consisting Of the most bcastly and scurrllous
abuse of our fellow-citizens Of Irish or German
birth So coarse and foul IN exhibition Of
sheer b1ackguatdism we do not remember else
where to have read and, as Gen. Henry VIII
son, U. Senator from Massachusetts, was ad-
yertised to speak at Honesda1e the night be-
privately INSURED that he WIS the Wilson who
had made this brutal speechi
We took OCCASION to expose the forgery,
showing that there was no John u. Wilson on
the Lincoln electoral ticket In Massachusetts- -
no person OF that name being known to the
Republicans Of that State. And as we under
stood that the Courier des Etats Ents had Civ,
en- this vic forgery currency among The
Frcnch-spcaking population Of the entire
Union, NC called on that paper to retract md
atone for the injustice it had done.
In reply, the Courier insisted that the speech
In question was actually made by a Republican
not BY Lincoln Elcctor for Massachn-
setts," however, but BY some one In indiana;
We happen now, to have the evidence required
to refiltc the fabrication in that form. We
copy the following letter from the last St. Jo-
seph Valley Register, edited By the Hon. Schuy-
lcr Co1fax, H. C., and published ut South Bend,
Indiana:
SOUTH Bend. Ind, Oct. 1G. 16Go.,
Dz4n srR; 1notiec IN last saitn,5day'e For.gn. a
Indiana, In 1855, By John n. Wilson, which con-
tains number Of ecur1i!ous and insulting attacks
on Foreigners and which pretended speech IL being
zcus against the Republican party. The same pub.
licatioa was made by the Democratic papers ofthls
State in 1858 was il that TING candidate for
Site 5ae to es 1f
hare been uade>, on the day that this eame John
II. Wilson spoke there.
In the very town where is charged that he made
forgery. and q .cieked fabrication Of political oo
ntnft. He also stated that he saw before him In
that crowded aseemhiase, hundreds Of both pardee
any man Qf any party to rise and sov before them
that he had ulfsrtd any such sthftments a. Ieofe a.
cri5td to hin. Not a man denied AIs statement
thsre 8R 'es maae saR' esae asSSt =
tpsseh, aad t2at i eantatned 70 ne statement
forgery. gotten up for political e1ect; and which
| thus exposed and branded az It Was On the ret5
sis sc. -saEv honorable man should b aehamed t
bring up again for po.tt.tat sna5.
Need 70 cdd one wofd? It seems thai
| the speech which this Nr. Wilson-who was
| never Member Of congress nor 0thcrWsst
t enthusiastically did mike, and which serves
| rs the foundation for this forgery, was made
ut Salem, Ind, in 1855-that the forgery upor
him now circulated obtained currency In 185$
and that this Mr. Wilson spoke in that yca1
at that very Salem, where this abusive speech
| was alleged to hare been made, mud then ane
there solemnly and publicly denied that he eycl
uttered any aspcEsion on Adopted Citizens
| and dared any one to contradict him, which NJ
one saw f't to do; on the contrary, several re
| spectab1e citizens Of both parties united IL
| testilying that the speech he actually did maxi
there In 1855 contained none Of the offensive
sentiments attributed to him In the forger.
then and now so atrocionsIy circulated.
How long will Adopted Citizens le dupei
By forgeries like that here exposed! Hop
long will the Courier ds E1dts Cnis lend itsel
to such base uses! For, be sure that 80 Ions
us forgery can be made profitable, Sham Dc
mooney will pcrsist In 1t,