Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-02
The Next Congress.

The Republican party has lost the next
House of Representatives that is to say,
while it will undoubtedly be the strongest
party in the House, it cannot obtain clear
majority. The late elections in Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana have settled this matter
So Mr. Lincoln will enter upon the admins
tration of the Federal Government without q
majority of partizan supporters in either
House of Congress, though we have strong
hopes that in the second House of his term
he may have u majority. The worst thing
about the loss of the House by the Republicans
will be the infiction of another Speaksrship
contest.
We think this fact-that Lincoln's party
will not have control of either branch of Con-
gress when he enters the White House Ought
to disarm all fear at the South that any of the
ultra designs with which the party is charged
will be undertaken. Lincoln would not have
the power to set all the slaves free, and turn
things topsy turvy at the South, If he had
ever dreamed Of so doing. This every intel
ligent man knows; but then it wouldn't do
for the Union-savers to say so, as that would
spoil all their stock in trade.
D@- Here is the New York 7ribuns's
notice of an infamous falsehood that ha
twice been published in the Douglas organs
of this city, and has gone the rounds of the
Democratic press, without finding one hon
est enough to repudiate the base lie:
The PARTY OF FoRGERY.-We were in
Honesdale, Pa, on Monday, when an Extra
Edition of the Harrisburg Patriot and Union
of Saturday last was freely distributed
throughout that borough, as we presume it
filled with eIectoneering matter, intended to
publicans generally, but appealing especially
to the prejudices and fears of the adopted
citizens. Among this matter, was what
purports to be an extract from a speech at
a Republican Mass Meeting by John NJ
Wilson, one cf the Lincoln Electors of Has
Sactusetts. Said extract was made up of
the most blackguard, beastly abuse of our
German and Irish voters, representing them
as british, idiotie, drunken, blear-eyed, in
capable of intelligence, judgment or decency,
&c. How many votes were made by this
Roorback, we cannot of course say proba-
bly, none in Honesdale, where the fraud was
promptly exposed in a large Republican
meeting by reading the list of the Lincoln
Electors from Massachusetts and showing
that there was no John NJ. WILSON, no Will
son at all-on that list while the care
full abstinence from stating when and where
this Lincoln speech was made, combined
with the manifest forgery in regard to its
being the work Of Lincoln Elector, stamped
it with indelible ear-marks of villainy. But
in other sections where the Republicans
we're not so wide awake as in Houesdale,
md where they bad not at hand an unques-
tionable list of the Lincoln Electors of Mas
il doubtless deceived thousands
into voting the Fusion ticket
Ought such swindling to prosper?
We understand that the Courier des Etats
Unis has diused this forgery among the
population of the whole
country to the extent of its circulation
md we cannot doubt that the German organs
If Fusion have been equally busy in its
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