Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-09-12
WHOLE NO. 939.


Gov. corwin's speech.
Gov. Corwin addressed n large audience
at Mr.. Farringtou's grove IL the southern
snvirons Of this city, on Wednesday Th'
occasion was not inte"ded a. a poiitica
demonstration. but the people OF the coun
ty came in by thousands to zee aud heal
this great man. Every person had fol
years read and heard Of "Tom CorwiD.
but he had never visited Terre Haute be-
fore 10 u public capacity. The boys aud
the men, the mothers a1d the daughters
were anxious to hear him. and they assem-
bled in the shady grove. and he entertained
them for over two hours with "Tom Cor
win" speech.
We will not attempt to give even an out.
line ofthis great effort. How can our fee
bic pen describe the thrilling eloquence.
the biting sarcasm, the keen wit. aud The
overwhelming. unapproachable ridicule 7
What pen can do justice to that wonderful
face. which speaks whsn the tongue is vi
lent,-which is a speech Of itself, aud fore
shadows the coming thought. ere il finds
uiterance from the lips.
We have never seen large audience so
we'll entertained--each individual was
sPelI-bound during the entire speech. and
occasionally, when the eloquent old man
warmed up To full sense OF the magnitude
Of the great Issues he vas then discussing.
he gave expression TO the most glowing
and fervid eloquenes. IL was not the elo-
quence Of mere words, not the eloqaence
of defamation. but the eloquent outgush-
ings Of patriotic thought-the sublimity of
ideas and action. How refreshing it
was TO hear one, who had come down to
US from the times when great men lived,
tell what were the opinions of Jackson, Of
Calhoun, of Adams, of Webster aud of
Clay upon the great issues now before the
American mind. as he had received them
from their lips. II was the past speaking
with the tongue of life to the present. 1t is
well that such men as Mr. Corwin consents
togo among the people aud explain TO them
Whist innovations are now being made by
designing demagoyues upon the established
ussges Of the general government and the
practices of the fathers OF our country
how they were seeking to iuaugurate
nav policy. giving new interpretations to
the Federal Constitution and perverting
the plain teachings of that instrument it,
self. How to be a sovereign people they
must now be "squDtier soyereigns," and to
gratify the ambition of young aspirants To
the Presidency human slavery must be
Government, unless prohibited by pOsifiUe iaD.
How. after more than a hall century Of
continued legislation by the National Con
gress for the common Territories, it was at
last discovered that Congress had no pow
er to thus legislate. How. in accordance
with the opinion Of all ages aud all times
the universal opinion of the men who
wrote our Constitutions aud built the frame
work Of this Federal Government, it was
established that human being. although
he was black was no less human, no less
man, but now We are to be told that negro
man is property in the same sense that a
horse, a COW, an ass or a mule is property.
We are now to be told, that slavery is nation
al and freedom confined only to those local..
ties, where there are positive laws which
say that one man shall not be master over
another-that throughout our vast national
domain. wherever the stars and the stripes
shadow one foot Of American soil, there the
clank Of the letters which bind the slave
Can be heard, and the crack of the whip Of
lordly master driving him to his task
Theseiare new doctrines gotten up for spe-
cial occasion intended alone to advance the
interest Of some ambitious aspirant for the
Presidency, and it must,have been encour.
aging TO every one present, to hear Gov.
oorwin expose all this. and expound with
mastery clearness the true meaning of the
Constitution and the policy of the doc
triues taught by either wing of the Demo
cratic party.
We wish we were able TO give our read
ers every word of Mr.. Corwiu's great
speech, but we can not. and can only say
that his effort here advanced greatly the
interests Of the party in which he is such
a shining light. and make our people love
him more. from having seen and heard
him.