Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-17
The Prospects.

the same aspect as they did three weeks sine
Lincoln's election seems to be regarded as
fixed fact by friend and foe. There is a
unwonted calm in the political world, exceE
in one or two States. In New York, tn
contest is becoming animated. In Pennsy
vania and the neighboring Shtes, there
very little excitement There are two reason
for this: .-... -r ...a jg .i
1st. The character of this election is differ
ent from that of any preceding one. A grave,
more solemn question, pregnant with deepe
meaning to all parties, than has ever befor
been the subject of Presidential contest
save in 1855, now engrosses the minds Of tn
people. But, otherwise than in 1856, thei
minds are now quietly made up; whereas
they were then agitated and irresolute upo1
the new question then for the first tim
brought upon the Presidential tapis.
Cd. The Democracy are dispiritsd, ant
utterly destitute of spark of genuine enthu
siasm. This strips the contest of the outward
demonstrations of excitement which are only
called out when both parties are in goot
fighting humor. But, for all the quiet ant
subdued tone Of the canvass, more documents
are circulated, and more good, solid, usefu
reading and thinking are done on the subject
than ever have been done before.
It is rumored that the Douglas candidate
for Governor has carried Missouri. If 80
Bell stock is henceforward at discount, and
will not rise again. If the Bell candidate has
been elected, we will see few feeble organ.
izations galvanized into life over the country
which will have short, spasmodic existence,
but which will give up the ghost about the
10th of October, when Pennsylvania elects a
Republican Governor. Their defeat IN North
Carolina was fatal blow to the Bell party.
Buchanan's majority there was 1850. In
the election of 1859, the Democratic majority
was only 6,97I, and the Opposition carried
half the Cngressmen. They fully expected
at this election, from the division of the
Democracy and the unpopularity of the
Administration, to carry the State. 1t was a
sort of test vote Of the Bell strength in the
South, and Of the tendency Of Southern
feeling. II now they have carried Missouri,
their triumph there will not make up for their
loss of North Carolina, for everybody expected
them to carry Missouri-even Democrats. In
1857, the Democratic majority was only 334
for Governors loss of $3.50 votes in one
year to the Democratic party. If, with the
Democracy divided, they could not carry a
State so evenly balanced as that, what can
they expect to do in the Presidential canvass? !?
In Pennsylvania, the Douglas Democrats,
headed by Forney, are bent upon forcing their
candidate for Governor, Mr.. Foster, to avow
his Presidential preferences, and it is rumored
that, embarrassed by his position between
two opposing fires from his own camp, he is
about to resign his position. If he does this,
the Breckenridge and Douglas factions will
run separate tickets. The Opposition or the
Peoples Party are firmly united, both on
their Gubernatorial and on the Presidential
ticket. Unlike any other State, the entire
Opposition in Pennsylvania are thoroughly
fused, and act as unit This union was
effected some two years since, and has been
preserved ever since. The consequence is
that there are no Bell and Everett papers and
no Bell and Everett ticket throughout the
whole State. And we predict that there will
be none under any circums tances whatever.
The most that will be done will be for the few
Bell men left to "fuse" with the Douglas men,
and that is their game now. But there are
some Douglas men there who will not aid at
all in that bargain, for the reason that, in that
State, the second choice of the largest part of
the Douglas men is Lincoln - not Bell.
Pennsylvania is one of the surest States in
the Union for Lincoln. -
New York is now given up for Lincoln,
even by that ablest and most genuinely DEM
ocratic of all the papers on that side, the
Satanic Herald. For one whole week-an
length of time for that sheet to
adhere to one assertion--the Herald has
its solemn belief that Lincoln's
election was inevitable. -....
In New Jersey, the half-fuson which has
taken place between the Bell and Breckinridge
men has rendered matters worse than before.
The honest and unpurchesable Bell mon
consider themselves released from any obliga-
ton to support the ticket by the bargain and
sale made by their leaders, and New Jersey is
most probably good for Lincoln.
From Indiana, we have advices that, in the
southern part of State, where the Fillmore
strength lodged in '56, the Fillmore men are
turning out en- masse for Lincoln. This we
have upon reliable authority. With such a
state of facts, Indiana is almost beyond a
doubt for Lincoln. ....
Never were the skies Of any political party
brighter than are ours to-day. Never, for the
last ten years, have the fortunes of our beloved
country appeared so hopeful. In the success
of the Republican party rests the only hope
of this nation for deliverance from certain civil
war. That party seems now about to triumph,
and career Of peace, honor and prosperity to
be heightened out ior the Republic.
E The Democratic Executive Committee
have placed the name of j. M. Elwood upon
the State ticket for Supreme Judge, in place
Grant, declined. This may be regarded as a
virtual confession that the Democratic party
is on its last legs in Iowa. Old "Awful Dis
closures" alias "Lying Jim Elwood" is about
the poorest timber to make Judge of that
could be picked up anywhere. But there is
no danger that he will reach that dignifed
station. He will be worse beaten than when
he ran for Attorney General. two wears AGO,