Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-10

Inc cnlef use OF PhOenlx'S article, IN 0u
estimation, will be to shew how weak fac,
the strongest shelving of one of their bes
informed and ablest men can put on the actor
and the prospects of the Bell and Everett
party, at the present time. ..-.. 81
| We have one word with Phoenix as t.
''fusions." He thinks that they are all right
1t may be so for his party; but to an ordinary
party, that has any settled principles, .
fusion which should pledge it, in certain
contingencies, to vote directly for party
which held directly contradictory principles
to its own, seems to our common eyes as
nothing more or less than corrupt bargain
and sale.
Now, as to Phonix's predictions. His
calcu' alton, in brief, is this: By an alternate
fusion with the two wings of the Democratic
party, New York will be lost to Lincoln. Bell
will gain enough in the South to run second
best. The election will 60 into the House,
and then either the Lincoln and Douglas men
will 60 for Bell, or there will be no election,
and the Senate will choose between Everett
and Hamlin, and Mr.. Everett will be our next
President. Now, this is very nice calcu-
lation, but 1t depends on several small con-
tingencies, which we are afraid will fail to
meet our friends ardent expectations:
1st. He assumes that Bell will carry
Virginia, Kentucky, half of Georgia by a
fusion ticket, and part of New Jersey ditto
35 votes none of which he has the remotest
chance of carrying. In Virginia, the Breck-
inridge party is the strong one; the Bell and
Douglas parties together will need to unite
their full strength to beat it. This is impos-
sible, for fusion there, as in New York, will
result in driving off enough voters from both
parties who refuse to be bargained and sold
to give the victory to the opposite party. The
same reason that will give Lincoln New York,
according to Phenix's own Judgment will
give him New Jersey, and Breckinridge
Georgia and Virginia.
I'd. He assumes that Douglas will carry
Pennsylvania, and he bases the opinion upon
the fact that Buchanan had s2,s09 majority
over Fremont, and that 10000 American
votes will be cast for Bell and Everett. 1t is
true, Buchanan had $4,000 majority over
Fremont, but he had only 1925 of majority
over all. Since that time, the addition Of
Hickman, Campbell, and host of followers,
to the Republican ranks from the Democratic
camp, and the hopeless division ofthe Douglas
and Breckenridge men, have thrown both
wings of the Democratic party into decided
minority. Add to this the facts that the
opposition is fully united on State ticket,
and have been for three years; that there is
yet no Bell electoral ticket in the field; that,
with one or two exceptions, there is no Bell
and Everett press, and we think that the
probabilities of Phonix's 10000 separate
vote for Bell and Everett ticket will be seen
to be very small Pennsylvania is as sure for
Lincoln as Vermont; so is New Jersey, and
the probabilities are that he will carry Illinois.
So that our answer to Phenix's calculation
is
1st. This election will never trouble the
the House. Mr.. Lincoln will be elected by
the people. .H
I'd. If it does, Breckenridge and Lane will
be second best, and the House will not elect,
and JOE LANE WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
Sd. There is no probability in the world
that, in the House, the Republican States
would support Mr.. Bell. He IS an out-and-out
slave code man in his principles. We quote
the words of Senator Clemens, one of his
prominent supporters in the South. In his
letter to Mr.. Hooper, dated July 6, 1850, Mr..
Clemens says:
1.-THE following is the second resolution
adopted by the Seceders at Charleston, and
re. affirmed at Baltimore
q. .Rssolued, That it is the duty of the
Federal Government, in all its departments,
to protect, when necessary, the rights Of
persons and property (slaves) IN the Terrific
- and wherever else its Constitutional
authority eA.-' -'ds' -,,.,,x INN pos,r,o,
'Now, THIS IS PRE-. :, rvv W.. ps
TAKEN By MR. BELL, MORE THAI -
AGO." =. ..-,...-.
That is, the famous slave-code resolution Of
the Seceders' Convention at Charleston,
which the Douglas men could not swallow,
and which Ben. Samuels said "would drive all
the Democrats at the North into the arms Of
the Black Republicans" and for refusing to
adopt which the fre-eaters seeded from the
National Convention, and made platform oi
their own with this as the principal plank
THIS VERY ULTRA ,PRo.sLAvERY RESOLUTION
which split the Democratic party, = prse'ssl3,
the position taken by Mr.. Bell, more than ten
gears ago." Everybody knows that the wore
property" in that resolution, meant sIao'
property, and it was so understood IN tha
Convention. That is the reason that it pro
duced such a disruption. Now, nobody vii
idream that the Republican States in tn