Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-04-04

to be extended, but to be tolerated aud pro
! iected only because Of aud so far as ils ac
/ tual presence among Us makes that tolera
tion and protection n necessity. Let al
/ the guarantees those fathers gave it, be no
grudgingly. but fully aud fairly, main
/ tained. For this Republicans contend
aud with this, so far as know or believe
they will be content.
a FEw WORDS TO rHE SOUTH
And now # they would listen-as l sup
pose they will not-I would address few
words TO the Southern people / woule
say to them: You consider yourselves
reasonable and Just people; and cohaide
that IN the general qualities Of reason anc
justice you are not inferior to any other peo
pie. Still, when you speak Of Us Repub
licans, you do so only 10 denOunce us al
reptiles, or at the best, as no better than
outlaws. You will grant hearing TO pi
rates or murderers, but nothing like IL to q
Black Republicans In all your conten
tions with one another, each Of you deems
an unconditional condemnation Of Black
Republicanism as the first thing to be at
tended to Indeed. such condemnation OF
Us seems to be an indispensable prerequi-
siie- license, SO 10 spcak--among you 10
/.
Now, can you or not. be prevailed upon
to pause, and TO consider whether this is
quite Just to us. or even TO yourselvesI-
Bring forw ard our charges and specifica-
tions and then be patient long enough to
hear Us deuy or justify. ! Iou say we are
sectional We deny it, That makes an
issue: aud the burden of proof Is upon
you You produce your proof and what
- - - A..
euce ~ your -ection-gets no Voies in your
section The fac, is Substantially true;
but does IL prove The issuel If ID does,
than in case We should. without change #
principle, begin TO get votes in your sec
tion. we should thereby cease 10 be sec
tional. You cannot escape this conclusion.
aud yet are you willing to abide by III
II you are, you will probably soon find
that we have ceased To b. sectional, for
We shall get votes IN your section this
very year You will then begin to dis
cover, as the truth plainly is, that your
proof does not touch the issue The fact
that We get no votes in your section, Is a
fact of your making and not Of ours. Aud
il there be "A fault m that fact that fault is
primarily yours, and remains so until you
show that We repel YOU by some wrong
principle or practice. II we do repel you
by any wrong principle or practice, the
fault is ours, but this brings you 10 where
you ought TO have started--tO a discussion
OF the right or wrong Of our principle. If
our principle, put in practice. would wrong
your section for The benefit Of ours, or for
any other object. then auf principle, aud
we with IL, are sectional, aud are Justly
opposed and denounced as such. Meet US,
.1x.st.
eiple, put in practice, would wrong your
section; and so meet it as il it were possi
BILE that something may be said on our side.
Do you accept the calenge? NoI Then
you really believe that the principle which
our fathers who framed the Government
under which We live, thought so clearly
right as to adopt it, aud in dorse it again
and again, upon their Official oaths, is in
fact. so clearly wrong as 20 demand your
condemnation without a moments consid
Grafton.
wAsuIScTON's FAREWELL ADDRESS.
Some of you delight to fauLt in our faces
the warning against sectional parties given
by Washington in his Farewell Address
Less than eight years before Washington
gave that warning, he had, as President OF
the United States, approved and signed an
act of Congress, enforcing the prohibition
Of slavery in the Northwestern Territory
which act embodied the policy of the Gov
ernmeDt upon that subject, up to aud at
the very moment he penned that warning
and about one year after he penned it be
wrote to La Fayette that he considered
that prohibition Il wise measure, express
ing 10 the same connection his hope that
we should some time have a confederacy
Of free States. Bearing this in mind, and
seeing that sectionalism has since arisen
upon this same subject. is that warning q
weapon in your hands against US, or in oul
hands against youY Could Washington
himself speak, would he cast the blame oi
that sectionalism upon US, who sustain his
policy, or upon you, who repudiate it3 We
respect that warning of Washington, and
we commend it to you, together with hi.
example pointing to the right application
Of it.
VINO ARE THE coSsERvATIvEsI
But you say you are conservative-emi
nentlv conservative-while we are revolu
tionary. destructive. or something of tn,
sort. What is conservatism Is it no
/ adherence 10 the old and tried against thu
new and untriedf We stick to, contenc
/ for, the identical old policy on the point il
controversy which was adopted by ou
/ fathers who framed the Government unde
which We live; while you with one accord
reject, and scout, and spit upon that ole
( policy, and insist upon substituting some
! thing new. True, you disagree among
yourselves as TO what that substitute shal
be. You have considerable variety Of new
propositions and plans, but you are unan
inous in rejecting and denouncing the ole
policy OF the fathers. Some of you are 70
reviviDg the foreign slave trade; some fo
a Congressional slave code for the Terrific
ries; some for Congress forbidding the Ter
ritories to prohibit slavery within tbei
limits; some for main ntaining slavery in th,
Territories through the Judiciary; some 70
the "gur-reat pur-in-ciple" that "if on
man would enslave another, no third maj
should object" Enthusiastically called "Pop
ular Sovereignty" but never man anon
you 10 favor of Federal prohibition OF sla
very in Federal Territories, according t
the practice Of our fathers who framed th
Government under which We live. Nc
one of all your various plans can show
precedent or an advocate in the centur
within which our Government originated
Consider, then. whether your claim of cor
servatism for yourselves, and your charg
of destructiveness against US, are based o
the most clear and stable foundations
VINO MAKES THE SLAVERY QUESTION PROM
KEST
Again. you say we have made the sls
very question more prominent than il Iol
melly was, We deny il. We admit ths
it is more prominent, but we deny that "
made il so Il was not we, but you, VIII
discarded the old policy of the fathers
We resisted. aud still resist, your innOvi
vation and thence comes the create
prominence'of the question. Would 20
have that question reduced to its form'
proportionsf Go back to that old polio,
: What has been will be again, under IL
same conditions, If you would have II
peace Of the old times, re adopt the pr
cepts and policy of the old times
ABOUT ISsURREcTIoS AND JOHN BROWN.
You charge that we stir up insurrectiol
among your slaves. We deny it; and VIII
is your proof2 Harper's Ferry Jol
Brown John Brown was no Republica
, and you have failed to implicate a sing
Republican in his Haiper's Ferry enterpri;
! If any member Of our party is guilty in th
/. matter, you Know it or you do not know
4 If you do know it, you are inexcusahle
= not designate the man and prove the ia,
8 IL Won do not FuoxV IN Won are inexcus al