Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-02-01


u The Baltimore Patriot, in a very en-
thusiastic article in favor of Edward Bate.
for the Presidency, uses the following Ian
guage:
But who is Edward Bates, that We should
presume To offsr him to the Opposition for
ces az the ONLY man, OH whom they car
unite with the certainty of success
He is noble disciple of the Immortal
Clay:
He was the second representative II
Congress from Missouri, and by his cours,
in the public councils. won for himself ,
wide fame and lofty name as a sound apc
conservative legislator and profound states
man:
He is not politician:
DE Is Statesman Of the Clay. Wits
School, as he himself avowed in his speecI
which he made in Baltimore in 1856 q,
the President of the National Wing Con
vention:
He is sound Constitutional lawyer. and
expounds the Constitution in the spiri
and meaning of the fathers:
He is an interrupted and incorruptibl.
citizen. whose personal and official intee
rity has never been called in question, and
whose high sense Of honor is unimpeached
and unimpeachable:
He is just and good man. fearing God
and friend to law and order:
His platform of political principlesis IN.
Constitution aud the Clay Wing construc.
ton thereof:
His public speeches. both in and out q,
Congress. bespeak the Statesman of en-.
larged and sound views, the accomplished
scholar. the eloquent orator. and the man
of that hard sense, as Mr.. Webster used n
say. which is now so much needed in pub
lie life:
He is not facile man but firm and fix-
ed in bis purposes, and inexorable, as all
executive officers ought to be, in the dis.
charge of public duties, of the true extent
of which he has an almost instructive ap-
probation:
He knows mo South, no North, no East
no West" as the great Clay once said: is
a citizen Of a slave-holding State, and has
nothing sectional about his public or his
private life:
Heis opposed, as Mr.. Clay was, to the
doctrine Of the right Of peaceable secession
and is for preserving the Union, now ana
forever, one and inseparable," against all
conspiracies to overthrow il, GENE from
whstever quarter they may:
He Is in favor of excluding the slavery
question from politics, and treating IL in
all its aspects from a Constitutional poiot
of view, by rigIdly executing all the Con
stitutional provisions and laws upon the
subject: ~
He is for the rendition Of fugitive slaves.
and il the present laws be not effective, he
il for amending them until they are:
He 10 for leaving the people Of the Ter
ritories free TO form their own institutions.
and for admitting new States into the I'm.
ion. either with or without Slavery, as they
may elect:
tic occupies Mr.. Clsy's ground, that the
Constitution does not carry slavery into
the Territories ex pyoprio pigors, and that
Congress has no power either 10 abolish or
establish slavery IN the Territories:
He is slso opposed to all interf.reucs BY
the Federal Government With the institu-
tions Of the several States:
He is for protecting the Territories and
States from all invasion, whether foreign
or domestic, as Mr.. Madison and Mr.. Clay
werr:
He is against the revival Of the African
slave trade:
He is in favor of an honest aud econom.
icsl administration OF the Government:
he is for aprotecnve revenue-tariff. the
Of rivers aHd harbors, and the
of Pacific Railway.
He is, In fpe. opposed 10 Locofoco men,
Locofoco principles. and Leeofoco doc.
.rinss. just as Mr.. Clay was.