Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-10-31
from onr Chicago Correspondent.

CHICAGO, Oct. %, 1860.
Nh. ExPREss: Although not very pune
tusl correspondent during the past summer
have been no inattentrve observer OF thu
progress Of events in Indiana. She hat
covered herself all over with glory. fully
redeeming the pledges made in her behalf
at the Chicago Convention. And now, as
we stand at this milestone in the history
Of our political progress, with mallet and
chisel nscribing 1850" upon it, and JUS
may profitably cast look backward over
the road we have travelled, and forward to
that which lies before us, aud note some OF
the signs of that progress.
A revolution has transpired in a FIRST
class political power, having thirty mil
lions of people Such events are not Who'll
| ly unknown in the worlds history; but
does that history furnish its p paralleIi In
the days of Alexander. Caesar and Napo-
leon the powers Of the earth did little but
"revolve." But these were revolutions
of force. Social revolutions also have
occurred, by which an inferior or subject
race has achieved its own emancipation,
and has in turn, subjugated its Cypress
ors. But they, too. have been achieved by
brute force. They furnish no parallel
This people by its own voluntary choice,
without force or violence. has achieved a
revolution in the form of its eiuilisGtisn.
The mission of the American people is
the planting of empires. A little more
than ohe-half the territory We now own is
organized into states. We are like the farmer
we'll to do in the world, having a growing
family. living on well improved quarter
section, but owning another adjoining,
which is as yet unfenced and unbroken.-
He intends that it shall be home for the
younger children, or those yet to be born,
and now. while he has the power to do so
he does what in him lies TO prepare it for
their future abode. This is what we as a
nation are now doing With the unoccupied
nalf of our domain.
There is such a thing in civilization, as
we'll as in theory, as predestinatiou.-
Whatever we may hold respecting this te-
net, in theology. all will agree, presume.
to the doctrine of free agency in civil pro
gress... II the faith of Calvin involves an
inexorable destiny that of Calhoun does not
The teachings of the latter eliminates in a
decision of the Supreme Court. 1t embod-
led his political philosophy, speculation
became reality, and theory gave place to
fact. Under its operation all this territory
was predestinated to the wrath and curse
Of political condemnation.
But the revolution that has transpired
has reversed that decree, and the same ter
ritory is now predestinatedto political sal
vation. The American people have de-
,ided that in the form of civilization which
Is to prevail ia these unborn empires there
Is no retrogression towards barbaris n; but
that the original American idea, that which
gave vitality to The overturning of t776 is
10 be in the ascendant. They have deci.
ded that an inferior race either amalgama-
ted with, or subjected to a superior is not
good thing. They have arrived at the con-
clusion, whether wisely or not, that com
merce, art, science. literature and religion
will be better promoted by its exclusion.
The statesman who shapes his policy
for the present only is not worthy the
name He whe adopts the "don't care"
policy touching those great movements
which are to continae their course while
time lasts is wholly unfit to be trusted
with their direction. The people have
found that fact in the verdict just render
ed. A member of the Irish Parliament,
wearied and out of patience with the clam
or, as he termed it, in behalf of "posterity,"
asked: What has posterity done
for usf He was not more justly obnoxious
TO ridicule than is he whose course OF poll
cy, (if that which is nothing can be called
a course) is, to let the future take care oil
itself Political predestination is politi
cal necessity. The ordinances of 's7, and the
Missouri restriction were the instruments
in the hands OF a providence almost di-
vine, those of the fathers, which preceded
the march Of civilization and determined
its character. A new providence, within
these last years, having no kindred with
divinity, and scarcely any with humanity,
has supplanted the power. one
before to pre- occupy the seat OF empire
But the decree is changed. The people
have spoken. Voz popuR, uoz Del.
rest,