Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-11-21
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livery palIiOI Is iOoklog Win mucn IN
terest to the result of the storm which dis
unionists have excited in some of the
Southern States. IL is strange, yet it il
true, that up to this very hour the South
ern masses are deceived as to the opinions
entertained by Mr.. Lincolo upon the Sla-
very question, or the doctrines advocated
by the Republican party. They are. and
have been. misled by venal and corrupt
press. that has for partisan purposes i'm
posed upon the common understanding of
its readers and instilled into their minds
the most erroneous notions of the policy
sought to be inaugursted by the party
just coming into power. The Democratic
press throughout the North, has been for
months. telling the South tn at the Rspub-
licsn party is an Abolitionist party-thst
when it gets into power it will abolish
Slavery in the States-th at the Republi-
cans we're followers OF John Brown and
regarded the negro the equal of the
white mao. Upon these strings they have
played, until the excited South, fearing for
their peculiar institution become aroused
and will now, if not prevented, dissolve
the Union heretofore existing between
these States. 1t was The Northern Demo
cratic press that sowed the dragons teeth,
and it is now reaping the whirldwi
1t. aud it alone, has stirred up storm
that may require giants arm to suppress.
BY its Misrepresentation unparalleled
lying aud unblushing assertions 1t has led
Southern Democrats to believe that the
Republican party, was organization
whose greatest end aud aim was the abo-
lition Of Slavery in the States where it ex-
lists. The Republican press has protested
against this from the very start. Mr.. Lin
coin has denied that he ever entertained
any such opinions. Republicans all over
the land pointed the Democratic party to
their platform of principles, to the speech
es of their most distinguished men aud to
their press for a denial of these charges
against them. Every platform which the
Republican party adopted in any State,
denied these charges against them. Every
speaker who spoke from the stump, denied
them, and the Republican press ali over
this entire country denied them. But the
Democratic platforms went on lying about
this mstter. the Democratic speakers con-
tiuued to fslsify the truth in relation to
this matter, and the Democratic press, fer
the meanest of partisan purposes, contin-
ued to misrepresent it hourly. daily, week
ly and yearly.
In this wholesale misrepresenting of the
principles of the Republican party, none
was more Jealous than the editor Of the
Terre-Haute Journal, and no speakers
were more false to the truth than those
who canvassed this Congressional Dis
trict. They labored to misrepresent and
gave their influence in flaming into flame
the excitement which now disturbs the
minds of large portion of Southern Dem
ocrats. And now, when the storm which
has been raised by these men. is assuming
alarming proportions, the same fellows
can party, and the sectional" principles
| they advocate, aud the sectional" Presi
dent they have elected. With an audsci-
ty that is wonderful, presumption that
is contemplate, the editor of the Jodrnal,
in bis article Of Wednesday, attempts this
very thing. He charges the Republican
party with creating the tendency to dis
union, which prevails so extensively at the
present time, in some of the Southern
States. At his door and the door of his
partisan friends lies the responsibility Of
all this trouble. Had they acted during
the campaign just passed as true men
should have acted, all of this difficulty
would have been avoided. Had they told
the truth in relation to the doctrines sdvo-
Gated by the Republican party. the danger
which uOw threatens this Union would
have been averted. II this Union is to bs
dissolved because Mr.. Lincoln has been
elected resident, the crushing response
bility OF the act rests upon the shoulders
of the Democratic party-and they have
done it from the most impure and mercena
ry motives When they saw power pass
ing from their hnnds. they resorted to ev-
cry expedent to stop it. and as misrepre-
seutation was the most congenial, they in.
dulged in it the most.
The Republican party stands who'll,
and entirely free, from. in any way. being
the cause ofthe dIsloyal movements now $,
prevalent in some Of the Southern States
, If The South has shut it's eyes and its ear
to what Republicans themselves said ant
wrote in regard to the doctrines which the,
advocated. why, it is their fault, not ours
If the South has believed all that tn
Northern Democratic press has said abos
the intentions OF the Republican party, j
is to be pitied, perhaps more than censur
ed.
The Republican party is not now, no
has it ever been, al Abolition party. Th,
Republican party does not now nor will
it ever seek to abolish slavery where it lie
gally exists. But the Republican part
does now. and will ever oppose the ex
tension Of human slavery into Free Terri
tory. and if South Carolina or Georgia. o
. Alabama, or any other State, does not Ink
4 it, they, or it, will have to-make The most Q
2 it,
MopERsIzED-MADEE ELEGANT. Much az
miratiou has been elected from persons