Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1856-07-30


any of the stump orators in this State cay.
that il certain things happen. this Union will
be dissolved. That IL Mr.. Fremont should
succeed to the Presidency the whole South
would back out" from the Union. Well. sup-
pose they did. IL would not be ten days until
they would seek 10 back in again. There
i no disposition ON part Of the North. to dis.
solve this Union. 80 Northern man ever
thought Of such thing. and while the great
majority Of the American people are north Of
Mason aud Dixon's line. still that majority
has not the least desire that the bands which
hold together th. confederation Of States.
shall be severed. suppose. however. that the
slave States in order to protect their peculiar
institution" should conclude to organize
separate government. IL would not he twelve
months. until her slaves. by thousands. would
cross the line which would divide them from
the free States. aud there being then no "ru-
gilve Slave Law" this species Of property.
would be an entire loss 10 their masters. And
not only So bat the North, now opposed TO n
dissolution. would be over.run with free ne
groe-. aud while one government would lose
it, property. the other would be flooded with
useless population. The politicians Of the
South. ia all probability. are in favor Of dis.
solution. but tho commercial mcn--those
whose factories convert their cotton ipto fab
rics 10 be worn. and whose ships whitcn the
seas. do not for one moment entertain such a
thought. While place and power might thus
be attained by the ambitious demagoguc. the
men upon whose shoulders rests the weight of
our institutions. are not going 10 sacrifice all
their Interests. ip order that unscrupulous
par,isans may gratif, their unholy desires.
This idea of dissolution Of the Union does
not come from the great Horth. with her i'm
mense majority and rapidly increasing power.
Its people are willing 10 live on terms of ami
ty aud reaceablc relations with their Southern
the South. who in effect say. yield 10 US our
wishes and our desires, or we will withdraw
from the common brotherhood :" Well, il the
majority must thus yield or see this Union dis.
solved. we inclined 10 think. the minority
will have TO be permitted 10 slide out The
umph in certain line Of policy. she will 90
by hcrsclf-she always. and at all times. has
said "let the majority govern"
Then If the majority Of the American peo
pie are opposed to the extension of slavery
North. and al The balloi-bex they so de,ermi ne
where can the South find n sufficient excuse
not TO acquesce? II the South succeed in this
Presidential controversy. and the Americas
people thereby decide that slavery should be
extended over territory secured 70 freedom by
the Compromise of our fathers. then. we have
not the least doubt. but the North will acqni-
esce. and bidc her time for another conflict. al
the ballot box. This government is one where
the majority rules. and whenever the minority
refuse to recognise that principle. then indeed,
i this no Republic. We have not lived very
long but even in our life time we can remem
Ter several occasion. wher il we had believed
the cry Of demagogues. this Union was on the
eve Of political dissolution Hot-spurs of
the South. and dough faces of the North, have
+ in their excited fancies. many times seen these
States torn and severed by civil dissensIons
/
emblem. reduced To one half their number
/ They have created a Northern and a Southern
coufedcracy-run an imaginery line through
the tomb of Washington. and fsnccd in their
vain conceit, that promotion Was just within
their reach. Bat these fancies have all. time
and again vanished. and now the scare
crow" Of the dissolution Of this Union. has
ceased to have any weight with men Of sense
and old maids have almost forgotten to 90 in
10 histories. v hen they hear il mentioned.
The stability ofthIs Union. thank God doc.
not depend upon the wish of hot Drained par
tixsns. but il rests upon the moral and poli,i
integrity Of the honest masses II is their gov
ernment--it is the sweat of their brows thai
has made Il what IL j., aud il is their industry
that viii advance aud protect IL. It was III.
viii Of patriots. and not dcms 7ogses, that wrest
ted our institutions from the mon narchial grasy
of George ITI--it was their blood that redden
ed The field Of Bunker Hill. Of Monmouth an,
of lorktown. and their sons will never con
sent that this glorious heritage shall be dis
severed. until they. all Of them. are consulted
The memory Of Lexington belongs equally Il
the South az we'll as does that of New Orlean
20 the North. The Evolutionary history O
this country Is one-the interests Of the peo
PIE arc one-the graves of our fathers belon
to us "a one people-our destiny i one. an,
,he Union ofthesc States arc on. and izdissslu
bls. The crcakine Of demasogncs 10 the contra
: ~ notwithstanding.