Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-08-29
Voorhces in Yirginin

pleasure. IL is interesting. certainly not
however. as literary production, ID. as
very good stump speech 1t is one of
those efforts that might be spoken. but
ought never to have received the i'm
mortality of printers ink. 1t is an effort
peculiarly sophomorical in its style and in-
fsted in its diction. In short, if il was
intended as literary effort, it fails TO pos
sess the least possible merit. Ifit wa. in
tended as tpploftical stump speech, in
which the school boy lore of Greece and
Rome is exhausted. then it is an admira-
BILE performance. doing great credit to Mr..
Voorhees, profound research and extensive
acquaintance with the classic ages In
this latter light we must view this produc. |
ton. and as a classic stump speech, reflect
ing the sentiments of the author on some |
of the issues of the day. We have few
words TO say.
1t will be recollected that this address
was delivered before Southern Institu-
ton of Learning. at time when Mr. Voor
bees was sustaining the pro slavery doc
rriBes of the present administration, and
fighting the new issue Of Popular Sovereign
ty as advocated by Mr.. Douglas. It was de-
/ livered before an audience which adhered
1 to the monstrosity the he STAKEHOLDER had
the right to take his slave as any other
property into the public Territories. 1t
was delivered before an audience Of slave.
holders, and though Mr.. VOORHEES, was
Northern man, having bean bern and renr.
ed in Northern Free State, still his sub
serviency to the slave power, induced him
to advocate, o. that occasion, doctrine
which, if he adheres TO now, will drive
every honest Democrat in this Eres-
-iOnal District from his support
On page 25 of this address, where the
orator is speaking OF State Equality, occurs
the following sentences:
"fhat each State of this Union affords
its citizens an absolute equality in every
respect, under the American Constitution
with the citizens of every other State is a
fact founded upon the spirit of Justice
which controlled the foundation of this
confederacy. This kind of equality is an
especial object of assault in these DAYS of
degenerate patriotism. The greedy ava
rice and iusatiate demands of the de-
seendants of bigoted and specializing class
now seek to absorb the right to think. the
right to act, and the right to possess and
| enjoy, for, and in the place of, and to the
exclusion of all who exist outside of their
malignant circle. This fact constitutes the
paramount evil of the hour. These AFRO
CANT assumptions must be rebuked, crushed
and destroyed or this Union is no longer
Union, and will perish as a wonderful ev
idence of what genius and patriotism car
create, and what the restless and corrup
fanaticism of man can destroy"
"on the land, in the broad Territories
on the high seas and wherever American
citizens may rightfully go. there goes ais
an absolute equality IN the enjoyment @
life, liberty and property"
It will be seen that Mr.. voorhees, speak
of an absolute equality in every respect TN
. der the Constitution, and instances as a
e evidence of that equality the right of al
to take their property into the territories
II The Significance Of this sentiment become
prominent, when il is known that III
shareholders. and Mr.. Voorhees, himsel
o regards 4 negro slave as pTopery-s mer
chattel. This IS the very quinte.senee {
: Southern e-slayeryism-the most ulr
doctrine advocated by Breckenridge Den
: ocrats, But Mr. Voorhees, in that pander
ing, eriuging, lickspittle spirit which 5
! charaeterixes this whole effort. could nc
stop A. merely advocating the most ultr
pro slavery doctrine, bu; must hit the en-
tire North broad slap in the face. Il
: calls Northern men tile greedg dsseendqR
$ ola 5igoied and specializing class" thus COT
i Notwithstanding the sons of the Purita
fs.hers, from the descendants OF ,hos
!. whose bread : earned by the sweat
al other mems brows IL is wonder he di
e not call Us mud sills." greasy mechar
/. ics,'' '.hirelinss" and white slaves
All, Daniel ynrr unmauly pandering
~ Southern pFeiudics, and your abuse OF yor
own home aud If the people with who
i. Won have been reared and nurlured inl
b. manhood, we fear will recoil upon 20
to with terrible effect The youngster VII
- goes from his fathers house. and as SOC
e. - be gets among strangers denies his pI
reutage aud the place Of his nativity. III
n very much such chicken heart, as he WI
he cursed and swore just before the coo
es crew
bit IL is it'll. Strass- that a young mai
l9 hailing from one of the free States Of II
r great North. where the stern PuritaDic
hit virtues of our fathers and their descent
10 ants have made those States what they ar
ne the boast Of civilization and of the worl,
o, II is a little strange that this young MAJ
or when beholding the rapid Development
as those Northern States under the inhneut
T. of free labor, and the slow progres of II
al Southern States under the inf Ience
" slave labor, cOrld find nothing better
he say of Northern men and their principle
ht than they we're the descendants ola bi9sf'
a. and sgecuiating class" and that their arr
can't assumptions MUST be rstuked, crush
Is and DESTROYED" 1t is little strange tn,
re a man from the North should thus tall
'e and it is maryelously strange what an il
at fuence the aristocracy Of slavery has upo
ID the weak nerves Of some men. AS they al
" proach it, they are fattered by the SCUM
is of"massa'' and tickled into raptures at I'll
n. attentions of "Cufse" They feel exalte
" that some one Is heir servant, and as
:, compensation for this delightful sensatio
:, they are ready to renouuce all thsir tru
is manhood.
.. We wonder how mauy Of the "desrend
N ants Of this bigoted and Specializing class,
:, of those men whose arrogance must b
ia rebuked and crushed" because they dar
If say human being is not property an
that the STAKEHOLDER has not The Constitu
q tlonal right to take his slave outside Ia
. Jurisdiction Of he law recognizing slave
| ~, and into free lerritory-we say "
l. ~onder how many OF this elias 81 men Il