Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-03-07
IN fares the land, to Fastening lille prey,
Where wealth accumulates. and men decay. -

hen where in Ireland. in italy, in Poland,
II 10 Hungary, has any ruler prepared for
generous aud confding people disappoint-
nents, disasters and calamities equal to
hose which the Government of the United
! portion of the continent Of North Ameri-
al
In the nineteenth century. the |
IRA of the worlds greatest progress, aud |
while all the nations but ourselves have |
been either abridging or altogether sup |
pressin g commerce in men; at the very mo
ment when the Russian serf is emancipa |
ed, and the Georgian captive, the Nubian
prisoner and the Abyssian savage are lifted
upon freedom by the successor of Moham-
med; the world. progressed in our be
half by our early devotion TO the tights of
human nature, as no nstiou ever before en-
gagged its respect and sympathies, asks, in
" onder and amazement, what all this de
moralization means9
The Senator excused the North for per
hitting many things, because the people
wished to preserve the Union. and to it the
loyalty OF the slave States.
The Republican party embod-
les the popular protest and reaction against
a policy which has been fastened upon the
nation by surprise. and which its reason
and conscience, concurring with the reason
and conscience of mankind condemn.
Ofthe mission and destiny Of the Re
publican party, the Senator said:
The choice of the nation is now between
the Democratic party and the Republican
party. know of only one policy which
it has adopted or avOwed, namely: The sG-
cling Of The Territories Of the United States.
if possible. By constitutional and ldiofl means,
from being homes for Slavery and POlygamy.
Who, that considers where this nation ex-
lists, of what races it Is composed. in what
age of the world it acts its part on the pub
lie stage, and what are its prominent insti
buttons, customs, habits, and sentiments,
doubts that the Republican party can and
will, If unwaveringly faithful to that policy
and just and loyal in all beside, carry it
into triumphal successT To doubt is to be
uncertain whether civilization can improve
or Christianity save mankind.
As to the threat that if the Republican
party should succeed in electing a Presi
dent, the Union would be dissolved, he
said:
do not certainly know that the people
are prepared to call such an administra-
ton to power. know only, that through
a succession of floods which never greatly
excite, and Gibbs which never entirely dis
courage noe, the volume of Repubicanism
( rises continually higher and higher They
are probably wise whose apprehensions ad
monish them that it is already strong en-
ough for effect.
Hitherto the Republican party has beer
content with one self intorrogatory-ho 7
many votes il can cast? These threats en-
force another-has it determination en-
on gh 10 cast them? This latter question
touches its spirit and pride. am quit
sure. however, that, as it has hitherto prac
ticed self-denial in so many other forms, i
will in this emergency lay aside all inpa
thence of temper, together with all ambi
ton, and will consider these extraord mar,
declarations seriously, and with Jus
moderation.
What are the excuses for these menaces
They resolve themselves into this, that th
Republican party in the North is hostile 4
the South. But it is already proved to b
a majority in the North; it is, therefore
practically the people of the North Will
it still be the same North that has fol
borne with you so long and conceded t
you SO much? Can you Justly assume tina
affection which has been so complying ca
all at once change to hatred intense and in
exorable2
The Senator here discussed the question
which of the parties was most proscriptiyt
He repudiated the idea that the Republica
party had secret and Interior designs. II
said it was impossible that such design
should exist.
J, As to the elevation of the white man:
What warrant have you for supposin
that we should carry negro equality anon
you? We know, and we will show you.
you will only give heed, that what GU
system of labor works out, wherever
works out anything, is the equality q
white men. The laborer in the Free State.
no matter how humble his occupation, is
white man, and he is politically the eous
of his employer.
The Senator AIMED the Free States, say
ing:
do not array them in contrast with tn
capital States. am no assailant of States
country-the best of them not so wise an,
great as | am sure it will hereafter be; tb
State least developed and perfected amons
them all is wiser and better than any For
eign State know. Is it then, in auy. O.
in which, of the States / have namec
that negro equality offends the white man !
pridef Throughout the wide world, wher,
is the State where class and caste are 81
] oh h, a
and every one of them? Let the Europear
immigrant, who avoids the African as /
his skin eXhaled contagion, answer Yor
find him always in the State where labol
Is ever free. Did Washington, Jefferson
aud Eenry, when they implorea you to re
linquish your system and accept the on,
we have adopted, propose to sink yor
down to the level Of the African, or was i
their desire to exalt all white men to a com
mon political elevation?
OF the right of the South to It's own sys
tenn the Senator said:
But we do not seek 60 force, or even f.
intrude, our system on you. We are exclu
ded justly, wisely and contentedIy from
all political power and responsibility il
your capital States. You are sovereign
on the subject of Slavery within your owl
borders, as We are on the same subiec
within our borders. II is we'll and wisel,
SO arranged. Use your authority to main
tain what system you please. We are no
dislrustful of the result. We have wisely
as VIC think, exercised ours to protect ant
perfect the manhood of the members of tn,
State The whole sovereignty upon do
nestle concerns within the Union is divi
ded between US by unmistakable bounda
rIes. You have your fifteen distinct parts
We eighteen parts, equally distinct. Each
must be maintained in order that the whole
may be preserved. If ours shall be assaiI
ed, within or without, by any enemy, OF
from any cause, and we shall have need
we shall expect you to defend il. Ifyour.
shall be So assailed, in the emergency. nc
matter what the cause or the pretext, Of
who the foe. we shall defend your sover
eighty as the equivalent of our own.
We can not, indeed, accept your system
Of capital or its ethics That would be 10
surrender and subvert our own, which we
esteem to be better. Besides, if we could
what need for any division into States al
all2 You are equally at liberty to reject
our system and its ethics, and to maintain
the superiority of your own by all the for
ces of persuasion aud argument. We must,
indeed. mutually discuss both SYSTEMS
Especially must we discuss them. since we