Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-11-07
From oar Cnicago Correspond nI

CHICAGO Nov L. lSbO.
Mr.. ExPaEss.-I bag leave to say few
words about disunion. The Douglas organ
Of this city like the N. Y. Herald is filled
with sensation articles setting forth the
lminent danger to the Union if Mr.. Lincoln
shall be elected by the people. An editor
ial iu yesterdays Times and Herald, with
the heading IN full.faced capitals Dan
gers from LipcOln's election" leads of
thus:
Every mail, every tele grsph brings u.
more alarming accounts OF the state OF The
Southern MUD The s ,uthern people
have generally despaired of the defest OF
Lincoln for the Presidency. They openly
declare that all hope Of succor from Moth
rrn conservatism is at an end. They are
beginning, for the first time, TO look in the
face the practical triumph of the enemies OF
their section and their institutions"
After ventilating near a column Of gas
consde in It's usual style, it winds up with
the following:
! 1t is therefore useless, il not wicked, to
blind our eyes 10 the real consequences
which may flow frcm our acts. Every
evidence we can gather tends to establish
the fact that Llncoln's election involve
the safety of the Republic and the peace of
the country"
! Ihava TO disposition to treat lightly so
serious subject. Unless my own hear
deceives me. there is no political consider
| alton hold SO dear as the union of thest
States. But let US for q moment consider
the real import of this threat. Its. plain
Iy this: IL majority OF the people Of these
States, by their own free and voluntary
choice. acting according TO law. aud the
| r.quIremeuts of the constitution, cleo;
heir President, the Union shall be die.
solved.
/ am sorry to say that do not expect to
vote on Tuesday next. Business will de
rain me from my Indiana home. and
hall, for the first time since l was ole
enough, fail to vote for President. But
sill say this: II l believed that threat TO b.
true, no earthly consideration should pre-
vent me from travelling four hundred and
sixty miles to deposit my vote on that day
for Abraham Lincolpl Suppose, for M
msnt. we tolerate the idea that we are {.
withdraw from the polls, aud withhold thu
expression of our choice, to save tn,
Union What pext2 Will it be any bet
ter four years hencef or eight, or sixteen
or ever2 What is involved 10 this de-
mand short Of the most odious of all des
potisms? Suppose we were to yield ant
save the Union )" would it be Union p
A Union implies equals. What kind o
equality is tbisf
, What sort Of man would he be, VIII
would temporarily yield to this threat t.
save himself. and transmit this despotisn
to his children? The next thing woul,
! expect of him would be to hear him dis
e cussing the chastity Of his mother.
These sensation articles are but tn
echoes of Mr.. Douglas speeches made al
o over the country. Herein he is like tn
iucendiary who sets your house on fire. ant
: : then runs into the street crying "6re
, freii'' There is fearful responsibility
l resting, not only upon the author Of thi
y incendiaryism. but upon those who hay
been tanning the flame until, according {
their own declarations, We are upon til
brink of ruin. II there be such a senti
i ment among our Southern brethren az the.
y pretend, they have manufactured IL, b.
: falsely misrrpresentiug Republican doc
= trines and aims.
e 1t is probable that the pretencss Of dan
j ger are mostly as false as the misrepre
' sentations which have caused them; but
/ they are true, there is 30 much the NOR
n reason that we meet tho danger while "
" can. and not like cowardly cravens dodg
y il. to let It fall with redoubled force upo
e our posterity. Let it come, the sooner III
'' better, ] rest,