Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-11-28
Sppeeh Of Hon, LYMAN Trumbull
DELIVERED AT SPRINGFIELD GEL
EBRATION. TUESDAY EVENING
NOVEMBER DOTH.
Special Dispatch to the Missouri
Democrat.

| oRiNGflkLD, NOV ~.
FELLOW CITIZENS: IL is meet that Re
publicans should make merry and be glad
for the spirit Of liberty, which with our ru-
lers was dead. is alive again; and the Con
stitution, ord aiued to secure its bless ings.
which was lost sight Of. is found. In view
Of the recent political triumphs, Illinois
| Republicans have especial reasons for con
graduation. In common with their polit-
ical brethren throughout the Union. they
| rejoice 10 the general result which secures
to the country a Republican President, who
we trust and believe, is to bring back the
| government to the policy of the fathers,
and thereby restore the fraternal feeling
which existed between the different Sec
tions of the country iu the purer and bet
ter days Of the Republic. In addition to
this, they have the satisfaction Of having
secured a Republican Legislature. aud
thereby Republican United States Sena-
tor, aud the power to enact the necessary
laws to prevent illegal voting. aud to give
every part of the State, according To pop
ulstion. its proportionate share in the leg
islation OF the State. And more than this,
| We Illinoisans have especial reason to
loice in the fac; that the standard bearer in
this great political contest. who has led ths
Repu blican hosts to victory, is our own fell
low citizen-thc pure. incorruptible, pa
triotic and talented Lincoln, than whom
the Constitution in all its parts has 10
more faithful supporter. nor the Union
abler defender. Bet while we rejoice over
a victory SO complete. let il not be by way
of triumph over political opponents. for we
are all by whatever name called, brethren
OF a common country, and infested alike
in guiding the Ship Of State through
the per,lous wavs of these tempestuous
times as to bring it to haven of peace
and safety Rather let us rejoice over the
success Of the principles we advocate, the
maintenance of which we believe essential
to the preservation Of our free Institutions
and the perpetuity of constitutional liber-
ty.
Mr. Lincols, although the candidate of
the Republican party. as Chief Magistrate,
viii neither belong TO that or auy other
party. When iuaugurated, he will be the
President of theIcountry, and the whole
country. aud, doubt not, will be as ready
to defond aud protect the State 10 which he
has not received solitary vote against any
enroachment upon it constitutional rights,
as the one in which he has receivsd the
largest majority. While they, by whose
votes he has been designated as Chief
Magistrate of the republic. will expect him
! to maintain and carry forward the princi-
Piles on which he was elected, they know
| that in doing so, no enroachment will he
made on the reserved rights of any of the
States. They know that the Federal Gov
ernment is one of delegeted powers; that it
can do nothing except the authority for the
act can be found In the instrument which
created it, and that all powers not confer
red reserved to the States, or the peo-
pie of the State.
Hence, when their political opponents
have charged them with Abolitionism, or
attributed co them a desire to interfere with
slavery in the States; or some fanatic has
| insisted they ought to do SO, the reply has
invariably been that the people who made
the Federal Government did not think
proper to confer on it such authority, and
| it has therefore no more right to meddle
with slavery in State than il has to inter-
fere with serfdom in Russia. Nor are the
people of the non-slaveholding SlatesIn
any way responsible for slavery in the
States which tolerate it, because to that
question they are sworn to each other
/ independent government. / have labored
in and for the Republican organization
| with entire confidence that whenever it
should be in power, each and all of the
States ould be left in as complete con-
troll Of their own affairs, respectively, aud
at as perfect liberty to choose and employ
theii own means o. projecting property
and preserving peace and order within
their respective limits, as they have ever
been under any administration. Those
who have voted for Mr.. Lincoln have ex-
pected, and still expect this; and they
would not have voted for him bad they ex-
pected otherwise Iregard it as extremely
fortunate for the peace of the whole coun-
try, that this point upon which the Republi-
cans have been SO long aud so persisteuly
misrepresented, is now TO be brought to a
practical test, and placed beyond the pos
sbility of doubt. 1t should be matter OF
rejoicing to all true Republicans that they
will now have an opportunity of demon
strating to their political adversaries and
/ the world, that they are not for interfering
with the domestic institutions of any of the
States, nor the advocates of negro equali-
ty nor amalgamation, with which political
} demagogues have so often charged them
When this Is shown, a reaction will assur-
edly take place in favor of Republicanism
The Southern mind even will be satisfied
the rights Of Northern mea will be respec-
tsd, anil the frsternal feeling existing in
t olden times, when men from all parts o.
. the country went forth together to battle
lot a COmIuOu cause against a COIDiuOu Gu
2 emy, will bs restored. Disunionists, per
: Sc, of whom unfortuD ately there have beer
few In the coustry for some years, un-
D derstand this, and are now in hot haste tC
get out of the Union, precisely becaus'
they perceive they cannot much longe
maintain an apprehension among th'
= Southern people that their homes and fire.
j. sides and lives are to be endangered b,
: the action of the Federal Government.
With such, Now or never" is thei
i maxim and hence they seek to infame th,
e public mind by misrepresenting the object
n and purposes of the Republican party
with the hope of precipitating the South
ern Safes into position from which the
l. cannot, without dishonor, afterwards re
d cede. well knowing if they delay till afte
n the new administration is inaugurated an,
tested, il will furnish no cause for thei
d complaint Secession is an impractiblli
'e ty or rather an impossIbility. The Con
ID stitution provides no way by which
i State may withdraw from the Union n
~ way for the dissolution OF the Governme1
it creates. The General Government in
terferes but little with the individus
rights Of the citizen. except for protection
Is Il is chiefly felt in its benefits and its bles
.ir sings, and not in its exactions. If ever
n reueTdl OnlCcf lu OOulu OdiOllud WCiC
resign, their Offices remain vacant, and il
, Legislature declare the State out of th
10 Union, it would all amount to little exceI
x to inconvenience the citizens of that Stat
he So long as the State did not interfere wit
the collection of revenue on the seaboar'
the people in other portions OF the UDio
Us would Rot be in the least incommode
"a. What is the South Csrolina army to
when raised Whom is it to fghtf Mar
ifestly if it commences a war on the I'm
VS. ted States officers engaged In collectir
=, the revenue, it becomes the sggressC
-" This would be revolution and making W
o. without a cause for South Carolina max
rus no complaint against the present reyen
re. laws. Is she prepared to thus become I
sggressor7 The only use can see for b
Nc Minute Men is that they will enable G
ing people the more readily to suppress al
uprising in their midst, which their mi
aid representations Of the purposes of the +
publicans may have encouraged. She co.
plains that the fugitive slave law is q
the executed in some of the States. This,
al = h.