Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-04-11

nc OF lCOU opens mucn more
encouragingly and brilliantly for the De-
mocracy, than that of 1856. We have
made good start, and must. and will
win the race, IL ve but do our duty
Journal.
"Yes sir-ee," you have made capital
start-it must be very "encouraging"-
your prospects are decidedly brilliant" I"
Whistle neighbor. whistle loud, long and
encoursgingly. You are passing through
the political graveyard of your party
whistle aud keep your courage up. If
you do your duty. you will succeed. there
is no mistake Of that. But your duty is to
leave party which yo1 know to be cor
rupt-abandon the doctriues you know 10
be humbuggery--commence telling the
truth. and join the Republican party. and
this being the duty" Of all men who would
be honest. if persisted in by you neigbor,
We have no doubt you will eventually
"win." Nothing else will save you.
The campaign of 1860 opens encour-
agiugly" does 1t Very, and particularly
in Harrison township. in this county and
throughout the State, SO far as heard from.
The echo Of the battle from Connecticut
must also be encouraging TO the Democrat
ic party. There is no telling how easily
some men are encouraged. Whistle Cook
erly-you are now going through grave
ysrd-whis,lc, keep if possible your cour
age up
For the further encouragement of our
Democratic friends. we will here make
few predictions. There is not one single
State north of Mason d Dixon's line, that
the disunion Democracy can carry this fall.
Upon the great issues OF the day,-those
issues which lie closer 10 the American
heart than all others The doctrine, that
in this Republic, freedom is national and
slavery sectional the doctrine that Afri-
can slavery is the creature of positive law
that the Federal Constitution per sc can
not. and never was designed by the faith
ers, to make one human being a slave to
another-that il is a Constitution giving
freedom 10 all men, aud in the absence of
all law to the contrary, every human being,
within the jurisdiction of this Federal
Government is free :. free to go and come
as he pleases. Upon all of these great and
fundamental doctrines, the pro slavery,
disunion Democratic party. is wrong
wrong in general and detail, collectively
and individually. Being wrong upon
issues so important as these, how can
there be a hope of success The party
may carry some Southern States, but not
one in the North The sceptre has de-
parted from judah, and Shilo will never
come The settled policy of this general
government will forever be against the
extension Of slavery, and the Democratic
party which favors it's extension will be
defeated, routed, dispersed and eventually
disbanded. This is prophecy. neighbour
a peep into the future, and we are no seer
if it does not come true. This modern
Democratic party, will grow weak in the
precise ratio that the people become intel
ligent. Light, when it blazes out from
the east to illumine the world, strikes first
the mountain tops, then the hills, but
eventually it streams over the whole val
ley. making bright and glorious every
thing and everywhere. So the advance
ment Of great principles. few minds,
the Pyrannees Of thought, catch the first
glirnmerings of light, and handing it down
from great to small, eventually the whole
people are eDlighteaed, and one common
understanding pervades the masses. We
have to be educated as regards principle
as well as anything else. Tha. which may
at first blush seem wrong, when carefully
considered, often is shown to be right, and
just in the ratio that the people think aud
are informed, do they reDounce modern
disunion Democracy and embrace true Re-
publicanism.