Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-31
Pennsylvania.

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The following private letter is from leading
and well-informed citizen of Pennsylvania.
Itputs to the winds all fears that Lincoln will
not carry Pennsylvania by heavy majority
PHILADELPHIA, August "a, 1850.
'FRIRND G. III the Bell men run astraight
electoral ticket, they may poll 1o, 900 votes in
this State-not more. One-half that number
will be in this city. If they att-mpta fusion
with either Breckenridge or Douglas, or both,
they will lose one-half their whole party
Whenever they attempt to turn the Bell men
over to Free Trade, the rank and file will
break by platoons.
"The fusion made at Cresson, by the State
Committee, was one-sided affair. 1t will
fall dead. The live Douglas men refuse to
join in it, and have since called their State
Committee "a new Douglas Committee), and
made new ticket, taking only such from the
Cresson ticket as will vote only for Douglas.
There are ten who are considered straight
Douglas men. On the other hand, if those
ten refuse to pledge themselves to cast their
votes in accordance with the fusion resolutions
of the State Committee, they will be displaced,
and new men put on. There 10, therefore, no
fusion in Pennsylvania, and can be none.
ut matters not, however. You can most
confidently rely upon it, that Lincoln will poll
from ten to twenty thousand more votes than
all Others combined and his plurality will be
over $4,000.
"The Bell men are utterly demoralized in
the Fest. They have sold out to Douglas
bodily in New York, to Breckenridge in New
Jersey, and in Pennsylvania the most of the
leaders would sell to either Breckenridge,
Douglas, Houston, or the Devil, if they could
only make it pay. They have thinned their
ranks of honest men to great extent, and
soon they will be down to pitiful handful
of political mendlcants, whose favor all parties
will shun. A. ="
49, Henry Clay said, in 1850, of the power
Of Congress in the Territories:
"The power, then, Mr.. President, in my
opinion-and extend it to the introduction
as we'll as to the prohibition of slavery in the
new Territories does erist in Congress"
Of Gen. Cass' original Squatter Sovereignty
doctrine, which Douglas admits he stole from
Cass, Mr.. Clay said:
:'Mr. President, shall not take up the
time, of which SO much has been consumed
already, to show that the clause which gives
to Congress the power to make needful rules
and regulations respecting the territory and
other property of the United States, conveys
the power to legislate for the Territories. l
cannot concur with my worthy friend-and
use the term in its best and most emphatic
seuse-my friend from Michigan (Mr. Cass),
l say cannot concur with the honorable
Senator, though entertain the most profound
respect for the opinions which he has advanced
adverse to my own; Tut must say that,
when point is settled by all the elementary
authorities, and by the uniform Interpretation
and action Of every department of our Gov
ernment-legislative executive and judicial
and, when that point has been settled during
q period of fifty years, think that, if we are
to regard anything as fixed and settled under
the administration of this Constitution of
ours, it is the question which has thus
invariably and uniformly been settled"
If there be anything that renders the
doctrine Of total depravity too palpable for
controversy, it is this claim Of Douglas and
the Locofoco orators that Henry Clay
endorsed Squatter Sovereignty.