Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-02-08
Two ;, ,bre, Of The pisuuiou States Of

the South are now eendiDg COMMISSIONERS
from Legislature to Legislature for the ex
press purpose of inducing as many as pos
sible Of the Southern States to enter into q
special and distinct alliance with each
other with reference to dissolution of the
Union or some other measure of resistance
to the North or pretended protection to the
South. We believe that nearly alaor quite
all OF the Democratic organs south OF US
strongly approve this policy, and recon-
mend that it continue to be prosecuted
through the South everywhere.
In view Of these things, the Philadelphia
Ledger calls attention to fact, which
ought, at a time like this, to be better
known, or at least more regerded than it is.
That fact is that the Constitution OF the
United States expressly provides. THAT no
State shall enter into an alliance, treaty or
confederation" and adds subsequently,, in /
order to prevent all misunderstanding I
about the matter. that mo State shall, /
without the consent Of Congress. keep |
troops or ships of war in time OF peace, or
enter into any agreement or compact Nth an
ether State. or with foreign power"
Commenting on this, Judge Story gives
as 4 reason for the prohibition, "that il
might lead to combinations injurious to
the general interests, and lead them, the
geographical or sectional character. Lou.
Jour.
Mr.. Toombs the traitor, United States
Senator from Georgia, thinks the South
should not wait for overt acts (the election
of Republican Presidency but meet the enc
my at the threshold and drive him back or tear
dOun the pillars Of the temple Of Liberty and
operphsim all in common ruin.
There is in many Of the Southern States
of this Union a baud Of hot-headed msrce
nary men. who, in order that they may ad =.
vance their individual interests, are con-
tinually plotting treason against this gen.
eral government. They are now sending
their emissaries into the different States Of
the South and endeavoriDg to influence the
minds Of The people against the federal
government. They actually propose to
trample the Constitution under foot, and
organize on its rurs Southern confeder-
acy.
In the Congress Of the United States
those men are represented by Toombs o.
Georgia, Clay of Alabama, Smith OF Vir
ginia, Davis of Mississippi. and Others
These men are impelled to this by tn,
basest aud most mercenary of motives
The price and value Of their negroes
their unholy desire 10 traffic in husar
!, hesh-their unmanly ambition to live
life of luxurious ease by the bread earned
. from the sweat of another mans brow-th
qualification of unworthy aristocratical ant
5 dictatorial feelings. All these, combined
, with grovelipg ambition which seeks Il
r check the prosperity Of the masses, in or
der that self may be promoted, and regard
, ing human progress, as an essentia
s draw back to their individual greatness
b. are the incentives to this disunion move
{ ment. Are not all such men enemies b
the public veal, and traitors to the com
0 monwealth 7
9 The Sd section of the Sd article OF tn
e Constitution Of the United States reads q
] follows:
: Treason against the United States shall
consist only in lsvying war against them
or in odhering 10 their enemies, giving then
aid and comfort"
Are not those men plotting TO subver
the Federal Constitution, and are they no
enemies" to the States and nation Z W
think so clearly, and az such they shoul
immediately be arraigned before the tribu
nails Of the country, and tried for treason
Aaron Burr never sought TO do moie, tina
they are now seeking to do. Seuther
eonfederacy was the most IL was ever SUP
posed he desired to organise, aud yet 70
: that he was arrested and tried for troason-
treason against the General Government -
: Why is not the same energy exhibited now
on part Of the powers at Washington 2
! Simply because the President OF the Uni
ted States is a Democrat and all Of thos
I, Southern disun,on traitors are Democrat
!, --great leaders IN the disuniop Democrat
: party. They are the men who will centre
. Tho Charleston Convention, and who no,
govern with an imrvrious will James Bus
bsnsn.
"rresson does never prosper what's the reason
Q Why, whsnit prospers, none dare cell II tres
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