Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-08-22

VIII the Union be dissolved AZ Mr..
Lfneola IL elected President
The Charleston Mercury said the other
day:
1.-THE Presidential election turns upon a |
single fact. 1.-THE northern psorls believe
that the southern people will dissolve their !
connection with them should the Black |
Republican party succeed in elsetiug Lin |
coin to the Presidsney-Lincoln viii be de
fsatsd. Should they, on the contrary. be-
lisve that the southern people will submit
to Black Republican domination by the
election Of Lincoln to the Presid.ncy-Lin.
coin will be elected"
The Cincinnati Commercial says: The
Mercury is mistaken. The scsrecrow of
disupion has been presented TO the imssi
nations of the people Of the North too ma
ny times for it to make any impression
upon them on this occasion. Ii is neces-
sary to End out now. whether the doctrine
that the Constitutional election Of a Presi
dent, is cause for the dissolution of the
Union, has in any State Of the Union a
| majority Of supporters. minority class
| of a minority section of the country, can
DOT master the majority by the threat OF
disunion. IL the Union is to be dissolved
| 10 consequences Of any Constitutional act OF
the people, il is desirable that the fact
should be known certainly the people Of
| the North will not shrink from the perform
auce Of any duty in consequences OF any
threat And the Mercury need give itself
no trouble in the way Of conjecture. Mr.
Lincoln will be elected next President oi
the United States, aud will be inaugursted
and 90 to work in the National Capital
Now the question ia !: What do South Car
olins d Co. propose to do about it I
We find the following from the Chsrav
Gazette, copied into the Charleston pa
pers:
"WILL TEE SoyrH SsBNIr This ques
ton 10 continually ringing in our ears
Will the South submit to Black Republi
can rulef Will she permit the inaugura
ton OF Lincoln and Hsmlir We will an
swer by asking another questioO-ou9t
the South to submitf We think she ough
!, not. and trust she will not. II her slave
are worth preserving-if she would defeH
and perpetuste her civilixation-hcr bloo'
bought freedom, she cannot-shs must NJ
submit.
And it 10 time the Southern people, il
dividually, were asking and snswerin
} this question. The probabilities now Al
that Lincoln will be elected isdsed, it
almost reduced to a certainty that he vi
be- With the material sid that be is r,
tceiving from the Bell and Douglas faction
in the South, il 10 morally certain that
will be elected.
Under these circumstances, and with a
almost certainty that the question must
met and answered before the 4th of Marc
next, common prudence would dictate th
lit had better be answered at once. Ye
the Southern people. if they act wisely, wi
lose DO time in determining their course
action. 1t would be worse than folly,
would be downright madness, to procrsi
tinste-to put of till tso late the eonside
alton of the matter. Once let Black X
publican administration get possession
The purse and the sword, and it will be
difficult Job to vrest it from them. Bett
far to prevent than to remedy the evil"
This is an exceedingly pertinent srtiel
We commend ii to the careful consider
ton OF those whe hold the doctrine pr
claimed by Mr.. Fillmore at Albany in l55
" that the triumph OF that which he W
DIT pleased to term a sectional orgaDizatI,
(snd which was geographically section
party would justify and require dissol
N ton of the Union. The triumph of tn
be organization 10 at hsnd. This fact is P
tent to all observers. Now, ia the U ni'
OF to be dissolvedf III so, when aud by VIII
process f-snd how much Of it is going
70 dissolve