Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-01-18

ventilation given 10 Mr.. Wabash, IN your
paper of the 18th.
tie must be very sincere friend Of union
indeed. who can eoolly sit down in his
Office and calumniate individuals. and mis-
represent the proceedings Of public meet
ing of his fellow citizens. and that too over
an anonymous signature. through the col
umns OF paper published in distant
part of the State. ar r
The very lifeliks rortraiture Of the mis-
chief maker. sketched by yourself. pre-
cludes the necessity Of saying any thing
about him personally at present; when he
has Sufficiently viewed and admired him
self in the glass which you have so truth
fully held up to Nature, il will be time
enough to sketch few more of his pecu-
liar traits Of character. AT present | pro-
pose to say few words To the point more |
Immediately interesting the public.
That meeting was called for the purpose
of organizing political party. With due
Difference to the signers Of the call. who !
are among cur most respected citizens, the |
fact cannot be disguised that a majority of
Republicans were not favorably impressed
with the matter which it contained. The
first meeting did not come off as advertis- |
! ed. At the second, the originators OF the !
movement had it all their own way-and
a committee was appointed to report to an
adjourned meeting. At that meeting n
series of resolutions were reported. not so
Objectionable for what they did contain, as
for what they did not contain: although
they were quite lengthy; SO much so, that
there was general desire to adjourn, and
have them printed, to enable people to vote
upon them more understandingly; this
was objected TO on the ground that il that
course was pursued. "the whole thing
would fzzle ont" The great mistake in
this matter appears to have been the idea
that it is within the power of man to make
something out Of nothing; that political
party could be formed and maintained
without any fixed principles. without any
dehrite course of policy respecting the
question which now agitates this country
from its centre to its EXTREMIST limits.
Probably there was not a single Repub
lican present at that meeting. but what de
sired most heartily, a union OF all the ele-
ments Of opposition to the present mad and
fratricidal policy of the miscalled Demo
cratic party.
The only question with them was, rs TO
the principles upon which The union was
to be formed they were not DESTROYS of
occupying the position of the silly ostrich,
who places bis head in the sand, forgetting
all the while that its body is exposed
They were solicitous for union, but it was
union upon principle, sincerely beiiev-
ing that any other union, would end ulti
mately in disaster and disgrace. They
form a very imperfect idea of the positive
forces that now enter into the politics of
the Nation who immagins that negative men
or negative ideas, are any longer TO control
: our public affairs. Politicians are very
prone to try to serve two masters. God and
aud Mammon; but the time is ceming
when they will find that political Jordan, a
hard road 10 travel. The Slave power is
positive all the time; positively in favor of
Slavery. and positively determined to ex-
tend il, by fair means or foul; at disregards
all csnpacts and all compromises that
stand in the way Of it's grasping avarice,
and its inordinate ambition.
In times past its friends were wont TO
apologize for IFS existence, blaming the
mother country for it's introduction, and ad :
hitting that it was a curse to both white
and black races. Now it's different-now
they mai ntain that slavery is the natural
and normal condition of the laboring man
: and vaurtingly compare their human chat
tells with the free laboring population of
: the North. They maintain that Slavery
is in itself right and just. alike beneficial
TO the enslavers as we'll as the enslaved.
! They proclaim their intention not only
. to perpetnate il " here it now exists. but al
so to establish it throughout the entire
J territory which is the property. Of the
Union, and to maintain it there in spite of
Territorial laws; aye mors-they demand
that Congress shall pass laps for It's profee-
) ton; they demand a slave code for those
! same Territories that had been secured to
t Free Institutions by the Compromise Of
1920, re affirmed in 1850; aud threslen dis
union and civil war. unless their demands
+ are complied with; more than that-threat-
en- disunion il the voters of the country
dare TO exercise their rights as freemen
| and elect President adverse IL their de
. mands.
They maintain that Slavery is the rule
and Freedom the exception; thus reversing
the policy of our fathers
In view Of these aggressive demands,
what is the plain duty Of the Republican
partyf Undoubtedly to stand firm And
it does stand, firm and strong; il has an
active, reliable majority in Is States of the
Confederacy TO- day. and friends, wherever
Freedom has a friend; it is eminently ma
tioual, eu.inently conservative; in it are
concentrated the hopes Of the Republic
. It's friends make 40 disunion speeches in
, Congress; calm in conscious rectitude, they
stand firm. while the angry waves of fac
ton surge around them. and the opposite
party belch forth threats Of disunion and
civil war. t@-A
The Republican party maintains the
policy Of the fathers and founders OF the
Republic; il maintains that Freedom is the
rule, and Slavery the exception; We do
not propose to interfere with Slavery in
the States; on the contrary we are pledged
TO maintain every constitutional right in.
violate; but we do propose to protect
the Territories from its blighting and
whitening curse /: this is one Of the essen
tisls that we cannot aud never will surren
der; we are anxious for uaion aud harmo.
ny, holding out the hand of fellowship to
all who choose to unite with us 10 this
high and holy duty. IL matters not what
a mans antecedsnt- may have been, SO
that he will now stand with us in uDbOld.