Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-12-19
TERREHAUTE. INDIANA. DECEMBER l9. 1860.

$ Institutions. But this is no time for sver,
y ing from any OF those great principles G
u human rights which are embodied IN Il
Declaration Of Independence These M
the foundation stones on which the Unio
was built They constitute its stability :
o Begin to yield these to the rapacious an
} inordiuate claims, not Of the South, but {
Southern secessionists. and you can nc
: tell when or where you will stop. What
ever by the declaration Of our principles
whatever by honorable compromises
: yielding no principle ofright. we can do t.
assure the conservative South, that th
heart Of the whole North is loyal to til
Union. aud beats with warm fraternal af
lection for them, We may we'll do. Blu
with those restless spirits who. ever sine
1882, have been seeking an occasion TO dis.
solve the Union. and who are the chief IL
stigators of the present public discord
there can be no compromise nor any peace
except that which will grov out Of theii
perception ofthe fact that their schemes are
understood, met and foreTer overthrown.-
No restoration of the Missouri Compro-
mise, DO repeal OF obnoxious Northern
laws will satisfy the dirunionists. Their
determination is TO control or destroy the
Union. | will tell you row you can secure
4 wit H. -.
National territories, end rsn to it the por.
tails of the free States, wherever tle Amer
ican flag waves her Sroad f>l6s, there let
it be known that slavery 10 legalized aud
maintained. proclaim all lsbcT, wnetn er
white or black, seivile, aud rii idis-
ness noble, and then, renounc;ng ell ellie.
glance to liberty, evear allegiance enew to
a universal and national slavery. opo you
will have occurred pcace-tae peaco of
death. For Liberty is tie soui e Ams-ics.
Take that away ana tas boay liea-Sescs-
full. Ali how sadly peaceful, subject to
quick corruption and decay.
You will have secured peace; e;-but you
| will not have saved the Union. For in
these days when Cod is walking through
the world tearing down all old, rotten,
worm eaten institutions aud governments,
when the despotisms which for strength
seemed like granite piled on granite are
shaking to their foundations, when the ma
| tions that have long sat in darkness ere
seeing great light, wren tae apparently
imnovable despotisms in Italy are at last
overthrOvn, and TURKEY is dropping into
decay, and Austria and Russia are begin
ming to feel the ground tremble underneath
them, and even from the Mountains OF
| China there come the notes of Freedom tri-
umphant, though it be Of Freedom but
half civilized yet ecnquering despotism
more barbaric--this nge' in which in all
quarters, OF the globe God is showing the
inherent veakaess OF all forms of govern
ment not founded on the law of love-this
is no time To go back toward despotisns To
make our own naiioa more stable and Sc
cure. III We are to preserve the
Union we can do SO only by
preserving intact those eternal aud i'm
mutable principles Of human rights in
which the infant republic was preserved In
the midst of its enemies aud was after
wards led through the wilderness as by
pillar of cloud and of fire.
Let us see 10 il that we who have been
walking with natural pride in our unex-
ampled national prosperity, that hnve been
exulting in our liberties and inveighiHg
against the despotisms of other lands. lie,
US see 10 it that in this age OF the world
when all nations are focking together
summoned by the clarion note of liberty
we desert not It's banners and enlist among
it's enemies.
Especially are not wo of the West to b
driven by the fear of temporary CONNER
cial distress into the ebnegation Of thos'
PRINCIPLES Of liberty which are the founda
, tioc of all our wealth. 1t was the free in
I stitutions Of America which summoned Il
our shores that host Of emigrants who hav
, hewn our forests, built our railroads. cul
tivated our prairies. and 10 whom the Wes
, owes its unexampled growth and its con
, sequent prosperity. Let US not kill h
goose which leya the golden egg.
The truest friends Of the Union are thos
who stapd most unhinehlngly by the lay
/ of liberty. believe they the trues
friends of the Souta too. For the South i
, not of one mind tn this matter. II is ful
| of noble, christian. pstriots. iovero of thei
, country, ioverB of tneir follow men, lover
r Of liberty. lovers of God. men who lik
, this platform of slavery proPagandism q
little &c you and /. Their hands are tie
: aud their mouths are closed. Tho truei
| friends OF the South are not those who wis
' to yield :ae most 10 the eVer iucreasin
: repecitv OF tire Soutnc!a extremiste, bl
4 tlo5s Vac dcc,aTs TO the client South
!. "Brethro,. lovers, frienGs, 80 nrs Jet FIRE
, and b7 tae grace o. Gci ond u aeed
I through tns I'D Of .ao vaolo power o. u
9 United ocv,rnr ,at, -ou shall be preserve
10 from tao echemeo ofthoss trsitors who wit
,e mad ambition FL, reakiGc ., hursi y
.t into ut,ss rnd isset-ievsblc :a:i.r lr. Va
5. cey in his lew yors speech said tnat Il
= Republican President wss elected. in .s
Ii wears tneTs ucula DO IN anti-sls-sry par
in in the South: Where 10 that snsi-slave
Q, party coming from2 It will rot grow o
Or Of the stonos, o. Tue stumps OF tho corr
rt felos. it ia true, because there ara nsp
the South not ioy earnest. Liberty -iovi
II meu, who need enly tao opportunity
ty crystalline into . party. Tae true way
III save the Union is, to give thio sentiment
to the South an opportunity to deveIopo al
10 declare itself.
eo There are two vs-s OF nesting tho ds
IN gers which at present Go most undo abted
'e' environ us. Tie one the wa c. tiose W
70 stand on tiptoe end poer "a .er as possi'
no into the future that they may aisco'
Is what is coming forth from it, cnd then
policy and by all shifts snd contrivan
les seek to prepare for it. But the days Of p
IN. phetic vision are passed. And prophe