Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-08-01
For the Express.
Tho Douglas Ratification.


indiana and Illinois would make a mani
estation respectable at all events, IN re-
.poose to the efforts to get up large meet
ing : the length of time il had been adver
tised, the number Of speakers to be 10 at
tendance and the report that Mr.. Douglas
himself VAS to be here, had supposed
sufficient to attract an immense throng
aud obyiate the necessity Of hiring recruits
meeting was not near what | had right |
TO expect from hearsay of the mighty gath
ering Of hosts that would come off that day |
and make the welkin rug for Douglas and
johnson. know have always been told
that great allowance must be made when
Democracy speaks, that there is generally
large margin to come aud 90 upon, and
10 not be too credulous in believing every
thing Democracy says, unless you have
some reliable means OF knowing its truth
but somehow, did believe there would be
a multitude here on Saturday, and if had
not been here TO see, would have taken il
as a matter Of course that there was
One thing appeared TO me very certain.
that there Wa going To be II Democratic
gathering from the extensive row OF whisky
cribs at the speaking ground.
OF the long list of speakers advertised,
but one appeared. Gov. Hammond. There
was nothing in his speech worth noticing,
a. il was ia the style Of great many
Democratic speeches we hear now days,
good deal spoken but not much said l
believe he did say something about our
having gone up from Is to 80 States, the
"Star Spangled Banner" aud "Denocracy."
The only point he dwelt upon was, that
the election of Bright aud Fitch was right.
| At this stage of ihe proceedings enthu-
siasm was at a very low ebb notwithstand-
! ing there was a portrait of Douglas in full
view. aud it was announced that some
/ drums that had been in Mexico during the
war were present, and perhaps Democrats
would like to hear drums that were in
Mexico when members Of Congress were
voting against the soldiers Thus was at
tempted to be renewed the we'll proven lie
that Mr.. Lincoln voted against supplies TO
the soldiers in Mexico a charge that is
we'll known to be false by the record, and
was proven a lie by a Democratic witness
in Mr.. Douglas presence at Charleston in
1858.
In accordance with this exhilaratng in.
vitation up came four drums and the
drummers close behind them, upon the
stand. Now Mr.. Editor, it is not worth
while for me TO say any more, for you can
well imagine the effect Of such position
upon rural drummers, and you may conf
IDENTIFY rely upon it that il sheepskn neve
did before, it did upon that occasion ge
Hail Columbia.
Perhaps it was appropriate music for tn,
crowd. Perhaps the instruments wer'
we'll chosen having been in the Mexican
war they were suitable to remind us tina
for the honor and glory of his countr,
upon the fields of Mexico, and triumphin,
over the enemy, IN every contest, he wa
cour;martialed upon drum head b,
Democratic partisans, for nothing unde
the sun but to tarnish his lsurels and &c
grade him before the nation and after
wards to show their further hatred of th
; noble old chief and his forty years viclo
rious services to his country upon the bat
tie field. the Democracy elected over hin
for President the fanting Pierce.
The next speaker was Mr. Beach, of In
dianspolis, who endorsed the repeal Of th
Missouri Compromise. The Consequence
Of that repeal were not worthy of remark
BY way Of illustrating the hypocrisy o
Democracy he said much in favor OF tn,
people settling questions touching SLAYER,
to suit themselves but said never wore
about Democratic Governors in Nebraska
aud Kansas having vetoed, by Democratic
orders, the will Of the people as expressed
by their Legislatures prohibiting SLAYER,
IN those Territories. He did not say
once that Democracy is now keeping Kan
sas out of the Union because her peopl
have settled the question against slavery
y and Democracy has shut the door Of tn
Union upon her because she asks to com
= in as free State. Neither did he say on
! word about the designs of Democracy t
: thwart the will of the people of Kansas b
copying names from Cincinnati Busine.
> Directory, and attempting to pass Iher
. off as the names Of legitimate voters i
! Kansas. so as to fssten slavery upon tn
. people of that Territory He was remark
ably quiet upon these points when speak
n ing of the right Of the people to settle sue
> matters.
He was equally as silent in reference {
the monstrous doctrine of Herschel V
johnson, the Douglas candidate for Vic
President, who avows The sentiment tina
"CApIrAL SHOULD OWN ITS LABOR" thu
making the bones and sinews of the labor
ing man the property Of the man of capital
This principle OF the Douglas candidat
for Vice President, in conjunction with III
fact that Democratic papers in the Sout
are advocating the enslavement of WHITES
makes it too important matter to be over
looked accidentally but policy may for
lid their saying anything upon il at pre-
sent. The laboriug men of the couutr,
should be "wide awake" upon this subject
for Democracy msaps just what it say
when it calls them "mud stills" "greas,
mechanics "ilthy operatives" and ma
teTisl 10 make "slaves 4"
Mr. Beach furnished US with the bril-
liant idea that the proposition that "al
men are created free aud equal" is very
Objectionable since il became part of thu
Republican platform, aud that it mean,
the political equality OF the blacks with
the whites. presume il means no more
in the platform than it does ia the De clara.
ton of Independence. where it has quiet
ly reposed for eighty four years. and