Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-07-11
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Congress met in Philadelphia. it becam'
apparent there must be selected Com
mander in Chief for the American army =
In that very Congress there was gentle
man, whose skill and experience as al
officer, whose great talents and excelIen
universal character commended him {,
every one." John Adams "had no hestita
tion to declare" that this gentleman wa
the right man for the "imPortant post
There was much opposition to this move
ment on part of ambitious leaders. but the
people-the sovereign power in Republl
can form of government favored il. and in
the month of June IT'S Mr. Johnson oi
Maryland, rose and nominated George
Washington for the station OF Commander
IN Chief of the Continental army. 9TH,
election was by ballot. and was unani
NOUS . The people outside OF Congress
were for Washington. and he took comma I'd
of the army. This was in times of ouI
country's peril The voice of the people
was about being straRgle and they were
tion without representation had been forced
upon them and Great Britain in her AFRO
gsnce had determined to take from her sub
iects, some of their inalienable and consti
tutional rights. The war that followed
was long and bloody, but under the leader
ship of Washington the right trinmphed
and this people became free.
In 1860 when the second Republican
Convention met at Chicago, it became ap
parent there must be selected standard
bearer for the Republican army. There
were many good and competent men wIl-
ling to take the responsible position All
over the country there were Generals who
had achieved laurels upon the political
battle fields. Many had grown grey in the
service and were famous in all that pertains
TO skillful warfare. But there was one man, =,
"Ioh0se great talents and excellent uniUersaI
character commended him TO every e."-
Upon him, by the most singular combina-
tion of circumstances we're the eyes Of the
members of that convention turned aud
when he was put in nomination by those
who knew him best, a spontaneous out
burst of popular applause echoed TO his
name, and when he became the lea der,-
the Commander in Chief-a popular en-
thusiasm spread all over the country, such
as has hardly ever been witnessed before.
The institutions of the country had fallen
into corrupt hands and the voice of the
people was being strangled and their reve
nues were being sqaandered in the most
corrupt manner and for tho most corrupt
purposes, The right of free people TO a
voice in the formation of their domestic
institutions was ignored at the Federal
capital, and the arrogance of the Demo.
cratic party had taken from the sovereign
masses some of their inalienable and con
stitutional lights. In this state of affairs
the honest, incorruptible aud Intellectual l
private citizen Of Illinois, Abraham Lin
coin, was, almost by one common impulse,
selected to lead the Republican army to
victory, and as Washington led the Cont
mental troops during the war of lndepend-
ence to "conquering and to conquest" SO
will this second Washington lead the Re-
publican army in 1860.
The christian world. and the thioking
world, since the days that George Wash
ington was a member OF the second Geuer-
al Congress which assembled at Philadel-
phia, have declared and believed that the
Divine Ruler Of men and of nations, point
ed him out, as the proper man to lead our
Revolutionary fathers. and out Of the dis
c0uraging circumstances which then sur
rounded him, bring into existence tEis glo-
rious fabric of constitutional liberty. The
patriot and the philosopher. the men of
the world and of the church, have all be
Iieved that there was more than the wis
dom Of man in all this. Ii is universally
conceded that no other man then living
va So peculiarly fitted for the exigencies
Of the times as George Washington II was
dark hour in the history of this country
and IN the history Of mankind, when he
tir>t 'uusheathed his sword in defense OF
the right.
We are no fatalist--no general believer
IN a special Providence. We believe much
10 the self-reliant effort of the individual
man. We have an abiding faith in indi.
vidual aud independent achievements, yet
we must believe, and do believe that there
is an intelligent God, who is not, at all
times, wholly unconcerned in relation tC
with all our Christian faith, that, the sam,
God who indicated George Washington {,
lhe Continental Congress as the right mai
To lead the Revolutionary army, directed
the minds OF the delegates who assembled
at Chicago towards Abraham Lincoln a
the right man to lead the Republican
forces, and that under his leadership vic
tory is as certain, as there is truth in th
Christian faith. We bslieve too that il
order that this shall be, the God OF Abra
ham has caused dIsseDsions to rise u
amoig our enemies and bitter aud unre
Ienting feud is at this very time in activ
operation between them. "a house div
ded against itself cannot stand" and tn
Democratic party, immoral IN its iDfiuen
ces, corrupt in its acts, wicked in It's praC
tices, ruinous in its policy and destructiv
m its tendencies must fall, aud like Luci
fer. "falI to hope no more forever"
HALy FARE TRAIN The Terre Haute
Alton Rail Road will run train to an
from this city on Tuesday the I7th inst
the time when CAssIUs NJ CLAY is to az
dress the people. at half fare rates. Tn
will certainly induce hundreds to atten
from the West, who otherwise would b
be here.
We hope a similar arrangement can
made oo all the roads
" The Republicans of Sugar Cre'
Township, will meet at the Townsh