Wabash express., 1860-12-19
TERRE HAUTE, IND.



Will CIR representatives, in Congress
have the necessary amount of"bsck bone,'
10 maintain uDninchingly the great doc
.rines Of the Republican party is a ques-
lion often asked Although South Caroli-
n threatens dissolution and many South
srn politicians favor the threat. still the
majority of the people of the North are
firmly resolved to stand by their Princ'-
plea. let the consequences be what they
may. The ubpatriotie bluster Of fire-esters
and the sraitorous inclination Of the Presi-
dent. does not shake the unyielding faith /
Of The people in the correctness OF the Is
sues upon winch the late contest was made
That slavery is alone the creature ofmu-
sieipal regulation they are fully convinced,
and that it should net be extended beyond
ite present limits they have not the least
doubt. chat our vast public domain Is
free and should always remain so, they
believe now, as they did before Abraham
Lincoln was elected President. The right
Of those issues the people will not surren-
der, have not the least disposition to sur
render, will fgtft rather than surrender.
II the South has been agrieved by the
North, the grievance should stop. If any
Of the rights belonging to the South have
been denied her by the North, the Federal
authorities .hould see that those rights are
restored. If some of the Northern States
have passed uuconstitutionsllaw thereby
iuisrfsrins with the constitutional rights
Of eitiseps of Southern States, in Justice to
themselves, those laws should be repealed.
II Southern masters have been prevented
from capturing their runaway slaves, the
persons thus preventing them should be
punished, and the constitutional right Of
the master to take the fugitive back. should
not be questioned. But if. upon the great
issue of the extension or non extension of
slavery, the South has been defested, over
whelmingly defeated at the ballot box. she
must aequiesce-she must give up The
arbitrator of American freedom, the ballot
box, has been apr esled to. and the ques-
tuops involved in the campa gn Of 1850 are
settled in favor Of the republicans. and
until the same power rsconsiders and re-
ssttlrs il, the decision 10 final. Threats OF
secession cannot change it-secession it,
self can not change it and revolution can
not do it. II We abandon the sovereignty
OF the ballot box, there lie no resort left but
the Sovereignty Of the sword. The is
sues settled by those silent bits of paper
% they fall into the. ballot box, can only be
unsettled, by the addition of powder and
BALL.
Will the representatives Of the Republi-
can party in Congress, have the back bone
sufficient to stand firm aud be true to the
great victory they have so lately achieved
Is often asked, and we answer, in ourjudg-
ssent, they wiu j! Let the South have all
her rights but let the North have hers al so.
The representatives of Republican senti-
ment at Washington cannot, dare not yield
by way Of compromise, any Of the issues
involved in the campaign Of 1860. Those
issues were either right or wrong. II
wrong, they should be abandoned. but il
right, never compromised. The people
have decided. at tho ballot-box, that the
doctrines enuDcisted at Chicago are right,
and until. at the ballot boz, they change this
decision. those Questions are settled. How
great principles can be compromised, we
have never been able to determine, and
how an adjustment of present difficulties
ess be made with traitors to the present
Union, We are equally .unat le to see. Let
patriots meet patriots upon common
ground and compromise all that can be
compromised, but for Union men to meet
those who are in favor of disunion-for
lovers of this Federal compact to meet
those who are seeking to tear this com
pact into fragments. and expect an adjust
nsnI Of present difficulties, We think is
fslly. Teonbs and Iverson and Wigfall
should be, "No compromise with traitors" !"
Stevens aud Benjamin and Bolts are pat
rists. and with hem patriots from the
Gsrsh should meet aud adjust all grew
apces. The halter and the sword for dis
unionists-compromise and amicable ad-
juslment of difficulties, for patriots.
Our Representatives in Congress will
and must stand fru. The people, whose
servants they are. are firm, unyieldiug .us
bending to this Southern blast.
Let the South state her grievances With
out PassIon-show the Nor when and
where her rights have been trsmplrd oD.
without, at the same time, insulting u.s.
Let all bullying b. laid aside, all brvsdo
dismissed, all the mock heroic dispensed
with, and the mlsunderstandiDgs now so
disturbing our common country, may b.
settled seti ed properly. consistently AID
patriotIcally.