Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-10-24
VOL. XIX. NO. 46
Treason in the Cabinet at Wash
! ington.

From the Louisville Journal.I
Should Abraham Lincoln be chosen
President by the people of the United
States, on the 9th day of November
next, and should Yancey and his fol-
lowers attempt 70 carry out their
avowed and reasonable designs. il
will become the duty of James Buch-
anan to order their arrest, and in the
event of their conviction of treason.
TO sign thewarrant for their execution.
lie has sworn 10 do this. Will he do
1t! We are not sure that he will not
connye at an attempt to lay this
Government in ruins. He is bad
enough-is he bold enough? But
while we are not entirely sure as re-
CARDS the President, we think we may
be entirely sure. if reliance can be
placed on credible testimony as to
avowals, that one at least, and perhaps
two, OF his constitutional advisers are
consplrators, at this moment, against
the perpetuity of this Union and
would lend all the power of the FEEDER
al uoyerment, so far as in them lies.
In furtherancs of its destruction should
they be bafiled in their selfish designs.
We are sure, so far as reliance can be
placed on credible testimony as to
open and repeted avowals, that one of
the chief officers in the Department
OF the Treasury at Washington, who
has the entire confidence and is reear-
ded as an exponent Of the sentiments
OF the head of that Department.
man matured in years, who has had
seat upon the bench Of Georgia and
IN the Congress of the United
States--that this man has repeatedly
declared, within the last two months,
that tits the deliberate and organized
plan ofthe Governors of the cotton
States, upon the election of Abraham
Lincoln 10 the Presidency, at once to
convene the Legislature of their re.
spective Common wealths, declare a
Republic of the South, inaugurate
John G. Breckinridge as its first
President, and pronounce confiscrtion
oil the property of all opponents A
deliberately organized, we'll mattred.
well considered PLAN-not a mere
scheme or probable purpose; and TO
this plan this high official gives his
hearty and cordial concurrence, and
avows 1t as his belief that "God AL
mighty Himselfno longer desires the
Union 10 be preserved" and thinks
therefore. no doubt, that in conspirirg
TO rend it into fragments he is doing
God service!
We are not informed that the Sec
retary OF the Treasury has as yet in
words avowed his views and doiuo So
boldly as has the traitor he retains in
Office; but the circumstance of such
retention, aud the intimate personal
and political relations between the two
leave no one TO doubt that the sub
altern is but the mouthpiece of the
chief. The name of the official 10 =
whome we refere will be given to any
one authorized TO ask il, as will as
the name afthe very responsible gen.
tleman to whom his treasonable ayow-
ais were made. Whether such a man
should be continued in high Office
when men merely suspected of sym.
patty with Douglas, or Lincoln, or
Bell, are not deemed fit for the lowest,
is question not difficult to answer
yet hundreds of such men fill the de-
partments at Washington, and daily
receiving appointments, while scores OF
oiflceholders only suspected Of be-
ing suspected" of being anything but
Disunlon Democrats having been and
are being removed.