Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-10-10

any event.
Then. IL few Southern Ststes have n
right to seceds; il nearly the whole
South - against disunion; if those VIII
are running one sectional candidate coul'
find no decent apology for breaking al
the Union in consequence of the success
Of another sectional candidate: IL il 4
wrong TO make concession TO treasonabl,
threats OF disunion; il by making such
concessions we should foster aud not crusl
the trca ,on-why should we. who hav,
stood so long mid way between the ex
tremes. battling against both and for out
own principles of conservatism. break oui
lines all at one. admit that there 10 no mer
Il in our own orRanIz ,tion. and go over "a
an obnoxious aud ancient adversary TO be
80 completely absorbed as TO have no di.
trict name or place hereafterf Such an
act would be without pRlliaiion or apology
Our Kentucky friends should recollecl
that in their State tie Douglas elem e nt
Is TOO weak TO stand up by iteelf aud make
hight against anybody. Its conscious i'm
becility causes IL 10 look around for some
ally by whose aid it can infict n wound
upon Mr.. Breckinridge aud his friends,
while It's malice and desperation prompt IL
10 strike with any weapon that may be at
pon OF Know-Nothingism," IA they have
so often called il. Aud IL our friends there
can make this element useful by absorbing
It into themselves aud inducing IL TO come
to their support. il is all we'll enough
They may thus destroy il and thereby
make themselves stronger Bat 10 our
state we are the weaker element, aud if we
show that We are as ready, from any cause,
TO lay down our principles aud disregard
the professions OF our whole lives, as the
Douglas men of Kentucky have done, and
go over To them, zoe are The party 10 be ab.
soroed. The stronger may absorb the
weaker 10 kentucky-but can the weaker
absorb the stronger hereH
Hence, TO my mind it is clear that this
u question Of life and death with con.
servausm in Indiana. We have stood
hrmly and manfully for long time-yield.
ing nothing to the defiance OF either of our
adversaries-becaus we thought our
friends 10 the slave States needed our assis.
lance 10 rebuking alike the slavery agita.
tors OF both North aud South. But now.
ali at once-as suddenly as il we were
surprised by fash OF lightning from a
clear sky-these sane friends, for whose
oeneht we have so firmly maintained our
stand, counsel US to give way, disperse and
demoralize our little army, and openly ac-
knowledge before the world that what we
nave been all along proclaiming, to Justify
our separate existence as party, is "mere
leather and prunella They have certain.
iy yielded too readily to a sudden impulse
"a frequent fault Of the most generous
natures. But, upon second thought, they
cannot fail to see that when they have thus
DESTROYED nm 4
lett no check TO the unlicensed war of fac
tions, and the eye Of Omniscience alone
can see the result.
MS picture is not overwrought. We
profess to believe aud have constantly de.
clsred that the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise was the cause of the renewal of
slavery agitation after the compromise of
1881, aud that it was the means of piyino
increased strength to the Republican party
This was ground upon which we justified
our organization and the establishmen of
the constitutional Union party. as set forth
by those who inaugurated the movement
In the last address which was issued by
our Central Executive Committee AT Wash
lngton, in August last, it is repeated in
strong aud emphatic terms. Aud acting
upon this idea we declared In our late
State Convention that We would fuse with
neither of the other parties. Mr.. Douglas
is the author of this repeal. IL was his
hand that struck down a ''canonIzed" com
promise aud opened again the fl Iod gates
OF passion. and we are now asked to reward
him by our confidence and votes for the
act. More than that, Mr.. Hendricks voted
with him TO repeal the Missouri Compro-
mise, and we are asked to vote for him
also, to wipe out ith a single ballot every
word that we have said in condemnation
Of the act, slultify ourselves and give both
Office and adula,ion to the author of all the
mischief. esteem Mr.. Douglas and Mr..
Hendricks very highly, and would readily
defend either of them. as have done NOR.
than once. against unmerited assault. /
would go as far as any man living to
oblige our friends of Kentucky, but il is
impossible for me to consent that tn. hon
or OF our little party may be tsrnIshed. A
1t has always przed its honor more than
office, am unwilling. for one, to barter il
away now for the mere promise of success
which may turn out to be delusive. II our
party ever shall prevail. desire to see it
dc so by virtue of its principles, and not
by becoming the ally of Democracy and
the authors of the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. IL Its principles are worth
ANYTHING they are worth maintaining
Through good and evil report" II they
are not, let us say so at once and openly
renounce them at the bidding of our Ken
tucky friends, and go right over to one or
the other of the sectional parties and help
along the agitation of slavery aud the
work OF dissolution That would be the
inevitable eff-ct, though ] know they are
the Inst men in the world to advise such a
course if they could foresee the result
Their zeal has outstriPPed their judgmsnt.
Suppose we vote for Mr.. Hendricks,
and our votes are necessary to elect
him, what is gained by it? 1t would
not give Douglas the State unless we
should vote directly for him, rs our
Kentucky friends desire us to do. We
shall then have given to Democracy a
perpetual existence in the State, and
have bestowed our highest Office upon
a gentleman who voted to repeal the
Missouri Compromise; and then il
after all, Lincoln shall carry the State,
we shall have the consolation of know
ing thst we are just in a condition to
be laughed at aud to feel that we have
acted like children who have been
tempted by mere bauble to play the
truant.
Everybody must see that it will dc
Douglas no good in this State merely
to vote for Hendricks. We will have
to vote for him too, to effect the OBJ
ject desired by our kind friends ir
Kentucky. Can we do that with honor
We have some men in our ranks whc
have been Democrats, and who have
acted with that party, who can do SC
without feeling any compunction. Blu
if any one of those who have beer
Wings from honest conviction can d.
so, they and l have not learned Wing
gerry alike 1 will not do it if every
man in the Stale does. j helped {,
nominate Mr.. Bell, and shall vote fo
him and nobody else. Now. if all th'
Bell men in the State do so, Doulga
will have just AS many votes, whethe
Hendricks or Lane is elected Governor
To help our Kentucky friends there
fore, we must vote for Hendricks an
Douglas both.