Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-12-26
The ReaI Cause

VIZ S'AAO Sousu. A"ey soy u 10 oeCaub'
the Legislatures of some of the NortIer
States have passed Personal Liberty Bills
aud thOss bills conflict with the Fugitive
Slave law, aud are northumberland
yet some OF those very bills were passed
long before the compromises of 1850, some
OF them do not conflict with the Fugitive
Slave Act, and those that do, have been
aud will be declared, unconstitutional, in.
operative and void. No slave holder ever
lost.his slave by virtue Of any Of those laws
and South Carolina and Georgia, was new
er effected by them in the least. But says
the South, the Republican party is en- alb
olition party and intend to abolish slavery
in the States where it now exists. This
assertion is wholly gratuitous and no in
telligent man either North or South of
Mason and Dixon's line, can belIsve it. III
IS true Southern politicians presist in pro-
claiming it, and Northern men who are
caught in the South are deprived of life,
on account Of it. Still the assertion is IN
whole and 10 part untrue. The North
says those Southern disunionist, are op-
posed tol the further extsntion of slavery,
and they have elected Pres ident who fa-
vors that doctrine. Ia this psrticu-
lar the South is right. the Rspub-
liesps North are opposed to the ex.
tension or expansion of slavery--they
have elected their President on this issue
and we have but little doubt he will act
zealously with Northern sentiment in this
particular. 1t is here where the Southern
shoe pinches. It's the coufining Of a To-
cal institutitution to its legitimate bounds,
and the election Of constitutional Presi.
dent mainly by northern votes, that SO
greatly .exssperates the South.
They have so long had their President
so long have they controlled all the places
Of trust and profit in this governmept-so
long have they frightened the North into
compromise and acquiescence, that they
hope to do so again, and il not they will
violate their plighted faith to the Federal
compact and oven that which has made
them what they are. What grieves the
South the most, is, that the Republicans
have elected their President. They do not
particularly fear Mr.. Liueoln's policy will
interfere with their rights or their institu-
tiohs. In fact they know that it will not.
They know he is an unflinching patriot
and an honest man, but their patriotism is
of such an emsculate character, they can not
consent to live under Republican admin.
istration. How they are going to help it,
is now aa important question. They will
most certainly have to endure Republi-
can administration for the four years after
ths 4.h day of March, or they will have to
do worse. Mr.. Lincoln will be inaugurated
at that time with the usual ceremonies, al
the City OfWsshington, of "thougb the heav.
ems fall" Ifthere are enough traitors in
the land 10 prevent it, they had brtter be-
gin marshalling their forces.
AS we have said, the South dislikes no
thing so much, as the eeliOn Of Abraham
Lincoln They know there is no dough il
his face of such consistency, that it can b,
moulded right or wrong TO suit the dircc
tion it may be tn ned. And then they d.
not like his plebisnism amt an aris
tocrst-is not one of the F. F. s C.'s no
F.F. G.'s nor even one Of the T. F. VS.
This is rather CALLING 1t lie true. It sting
in tender place we know, but then Nj
Lincoln is one Of the F. FPS of Indiana an
Illinois, and is not that good enough W
have an aiistocraey in the West which W
think is almost equal to that of ths Soutl
While theirs is one OF cotton and negroe,
ours is one Of rails aud brains. Will
theirs disdains labor. ours springs fror
honest toll. While theirs is of the funk,
toady, codhsh stamp, ours is the true ari'
tocracy of genuine msnhood-the nobilit
OF honest, virtuOIs. intellectual action
= Then can not those Southern nabobs endu
a little of Hoosier and Sucker aristocracy
1t will not hurt them to take some. ar
they will like il better after they get a
customed 10 IT. We ere impressed wi
the idea that there is more aristocrac
= (and how eur Republican education 10,
u that word) 10 mauliug rails, than picki
d eotton.-in building fences than whippi
- negroes-in surveying fields than visit
: saloons. .---in being than 10 protesting to
honest.
i. But it is here, in this little nutshe
y where may be found the punetum saliens
y Southern opposition to Mr.. Lincoln an
Republican Administration Behind
be their bluster and declarations this is
a. prime cause. 1t is their pride that is hu
m bled and 1t futters like wounded bird
ss They know that Mr.. Lincoln could not
terfsre with any of their rights or with tt
81 peculiar institution if he should SO des
70 for they have both the Senate aad Supre
II Court at their command. They can
OF vent the passage of any law they do
ls want, but they cannot prevent Abrat
e9 Lincoln from taking possession OF
"a White House on the 4th day OF March.
me this is the ''ground of their offending."
81 The South must get accustomed to
ga appointments The government pat'
of age is about to pass, perhaps forever. {
nj. her, and che will have to be content.
people do not keep pace with the prog
of the age and she must suffer the col
you ouences While she has bsen sleep
of- the great North has bean vide awake,
on II the scepter has departed from her.
I''a ought not 70 eomplaia. 1t will not
l'an hard to "come down" the second time
''iii ia wonderful how We become accusts
'ef- to "taking back seat"
our II the disappointed politician o
South intend to dissolve this Union
,pat der that they may still retain power
s.I. lord il over q servile and oppressed pc
80, why be it so-the work may not be o
,.,., pleasure or profit, and the eonsumm
,s.s may be more difficult than at 6rst q
pated. South Carolina. has psrhsp
this time, declared herselfout Of the Q
Cor. but that don't make her 90. Their
-. other interests TO be consulted outs