Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-12-05
WHOLE NO. 95l.
cen. Jo,euh r.ane,s Letter.


Gen. Jo. sph Lane the defeated Breckin
ridge candidate for the Vice Presidency
and as clever a man "a ever killed Mexl-
car OF run a Hst boat. has written a letter
in reply 10 certain eentlsmen who desired
to knew what. in his Judgement. "would
tend TO preserve our institutions AID our
Government The letter dates Wash
ington D. C. Nov goth isGO and j.. I" say
it all in word. upworthy a1y nan VIII"
aspired TO be the Vice President of the
United States.
Speaking Of the equality ofIhe States e
says
"Haye We not reached point IN the
history Of our Government when IL may
be said with truth that this equality has
been seriously menacsd. IL not impair
ed or destroyedf Never was proposition
more plainly put nor al issue more direct
ly made. shan that upon which the people
have lately rendered their verdict. Shall
the people Of all the States possess and
enjoy equal rights aud privileges ia the
common Territory of our common country.
By majority almost fabulous Northern
sectional party have determined that the
people of the Southern States shall not go
into the common territory snd carry their
property with them that no mOre States
recognizing property ia slaves (as did
twelve of the thirteen original States
shall over be admitted into the Union
IL is not remarkable that a man who has
been, for months, an exPonant ofthe views
entertained BY great party, should be 20
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advocated by the party that has just cleo
ted its President. IL Joseph Lane does
not know that the Republican party. as
party, has never advocated the doctrine
"thst DO more slave States shall be admit.
led into the Union," some kind friend
ought, in mercy, to inform him Of that fact
The Republican party maintains now, and
has ever maintained, that the people Of a
Territory 3when they come to form State
Government, have right then to determine
the character Of their domestic institutions,
subject to the constitution. We have new
er seen the proceedings of a respectables
convention of Republicans held in any
State Of this Union, that advocated the
doctrine Of, no more siaue STATES. The 9TH
Resolution of the Chicago platform reads
as follows: "That the maintenance invio.
late Of the Rights of the State: and espec-
tally the right of each State TO order aud
control its own domestic institutions ac-
cording to it's own judgment exclusively.
is essential to that balance OF power on
which the perfection and endurance OF our
political fabric depends" Is not the doc
trine clearly recognized here. that State
has the "srelusioe right to order and con-
troll its domestic institu ions2 We think
so, and Gen. Lane ought TO have kuown so.
Gen. Lane is again mistaken when he
says, that the people Of the North "have
determined that the people of the Southern
states shall not 40 into the common Terri
tory and carry their property with them"
The people of the North have never deter.
mined that the people Of the South
shall not carry their property into the com
kind Of property which Northern man
carries. or drives, aud pulls with him into
the public Territories when he goes there,
but he is willing the Southern man may
carry. drive or pull with him But IL Gen,
Lane recognizes the negro man as proper
ty" like wagon, horse, an ass or mule
then ths North takes issus with him and
the South, and denies that he is such
property The North denies that the
South ans right to take its negroes into
the common Territories-n negroes Who 10
the computation for representative purpo
ses. vote aud help make laws. The North
- willing the South shall have all tn,
rights. privileges aud immunities which
are enjoyed in common in the common
Territories. but nothing more. nothing
less.
This new doctrine, recently started b,
shareholders. that q negro man. is a mer,
chsttie, and that the master has the righ
10 take his ehattle wherever he pleases
will never be Submitted 10 by the North
never, though secession. dissolution ant
civil war rock the pillars Of this Fedora
Government from capital to base and
line Of demarkation sewers, for all time :
come, the free from the slave States. Free
dom is national and slavery is sectional
Here the North and the Southern slave
holder separate and every day makes th
separation wider and wider. SLAYER
must bs confined 10 the States where
now exists controlled by State Sovereigr
ties. or there is no peace in this goveru
meat. The great doctrine that slavery
pre-eminently creature Of municipal tl
aiation. cannot. will not ever be given U
by the freemeu Of the North; aud the 9th
er belief. that it is injurious 10 the best il
terests Of the white man that il be exten'
ed. is equally as dear to freemen.
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