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

nor, who had carried the flag of Free
-ansas and a Protective Tariff in Penn I
ylyania in so, is perfectly astounded At ,
ne presumption Of the squatter sovcreigns, |
4 attempting to exercise such unconstitu-
onal power. And now, after squatter
Overeignty has been exposed TO be cheat
nd fraud, and was so intended from the
eginnng, yet there are those, who clam
0 be Democrats par excellence, who profess
o believe that the freemen of this country
an be twice cheated and defrauded by the
anne means, aud twice laughed at, derided
md censured by those who practiced the
deception upon them. Have not the pre-
iictions of the Republicans in Sc been
verified? Did we not warn you of the dis
istrous consequences of departing from the
aith? Did we not tell you that squatter
sovereignty was mere temporary expedi-
snt 10 delude, deceive and betray, and that
the leaders of the Democracy, by the repeal
Dfthe Missouri Compromise and the extern
sion of the constitution over the territory, i
intended to follow 1T up by reaserting the /
of John G. Calhoun, which at The !
time were spurned by the Senate and by |
the American people as monstrousf Look |
for one moment to the creed of Calhoun and |
compare 1t with that of the Democracy of
to day. assert that the leaders Of the
Democratic party are regularly following
up, step by step, as the years roll on. the
pathway Of that great apostle of slavery ex-
tension, as ever onward he swept in his
course to sectionalism and disunion. The
stages of rest which he made, the, make,
his points of reckoning and departure they
faithfully note and follow, and the specious
and subtle arguments which were coined
by his fertile brain, in support of his radi-
cal and revolutionary schemes, become
from time to time, standard authority for
the Democracy, and are even adopted as
fundamental in their creed just note
them. On Friday. "hangman's day. the
18th of Feb, AZ Mr.. Calhoun introduced
into the Senate of the United States a series
of resolutions to the effect that Congress had
no right to SO legislate as to exclude slavery
from the territories, that such legislation
would be in derogation of the equality of
the States and "tend directly to subvert the
Union.
These resolutions at the time were de
nOunced as "frebraud." They were 1.-The
first OF their kind" in the history Of the
government, CONTRARY to ITS we'll settled
practice" and characterized as nulliica-
tion." The Democracy were not ready for
what the government had uniformly been
doing for sixty years, was in violation Of
the Constitution. That would be 10 brand
as "perjurers" all the earlier Presidents
and members of Congress, and this they
dared not do. Mr.. Calhoun followed up
these resolutions with a letter which has
become part of the history of the country,
10 which he declares his Intention "to
force the issue on the North" Shortly af
ter this he took an advance step, asserting
that the Constitution with its overriding
controf extended over the territories,
Overriding all the anti-slavery laws which
IL found there and planting the institution
there under its own wing and maintaining
II beyond the power of eradication either
oy congress or the people Of the territory. -
WINE MS lips were quivering with this
last dogma, he departed from earth. The
flowers had not bloomed over his grave be-
lore the Democracy marched up to the
"firebrand" resolutions, took their stand
upon them. but their heads grew giddy and
their countenaDces assumed the pallor OF
death as they contemplated the fearful leap
to the next resting place. Time rolls on
the leaders are active in preparing the pub
lie mind for the grand consummation oil
the highest hopes of the slave power, fol-
the practical realization of a theory inven
ted by the fevered brain Of a giant disuni
onist, and 10 day we behold the Democratic
party not only fully up to the last dogma
of the dying Calhoun, but far in advance
of him, claiming that it is the duty Of every
department of the government to actively
engage In the work of protection. And a.
the Democratic party proper, have thu,
planted themselves upon the most ultrs
ground ever assumed by Calhoun, the lead
ers of the Douglas faction like camp fol
lowers, are scattered along between tb,
"hrebrand" resolutions and the established
party faith, some fully up to it, some hal
way, some for "nou Intervention" becaus,
it nullifies the law against the slave trad,
and gives them achance to steal ringers
from Africa; some for 'sguatter sovereign
ty" because they weuld rather obtain vote.
by cheating than fair means, some "gooc
god, good devil" according to the peculiar
surroundings of the locality in which it i.
their unfortunate condition to be, but al
in the end ifthey hold out faithful destin ed
} for the same disunion port. where the fierce
howl of sectionalism and the black flag Of
slavery welcome their en- trance. And how
plausible the argument used to quiet the
fears of the people and lull them to repose
How insinuatiDg its advocates while steal
: ing away inch by inch their Liberties and
binding them hand and foot to be offered
} up as sacrifice to one of the most despi
cable aristocracies which ever cursed man
} kind All, say they, with the bland smile
of the seducer. it is simply the doctrine oil
the equality Of States, equality of rights
which we seek to establish; surely YOU re.
gard your Southern br -thren as your equal
and would not humiliste him by rendering
him unequal to you in the enjoyment OF
rights in our common territories. y arch "a sed
by the common treasury. Equality oil
Statesi "Oh liberty what crimes are com.
mitted in thy namei" This very equality
} is in fact the most humiliating Inequality,
and its advocates who insidously appeal
to the freemen of the free States to approve
it, are asking them to submissively bow
their necks to the yoke, to grant TO their
Southern brethren rights which at once
make the freemen of the North UNEQUAL
and which robs free labor of its btrthright
Not only this, they ask the freemen Of the
nation to repudiate the idea that slavery is
purely the creature of positive, local enact
ment, to treat slave property as horse prop
erty, notwithstanding our Fathers regarded
it as so peculiar that it required positive
law 10 MAINTAIN It's existence. AND still
more. while by this very doctrine of equal
ity they seek to propag ate and extend sla-
very and for that purpose place the negro
upon the same footing with northern cattle,
they bold on with h. oks Of steel to that
provision of the constitution which counts
five slaves equal TO three freemen in repre-.
sentative in the national Congress. Ifyou
should ask them to blot out that provision
and let the negro stand upon the broad
platform of Equality with the OK. and there.
by silence. their twenty -four slave repre-
sentstion members in Congress, they wou Id
tell you never. All, hs j. mere property in
enslaving free territory aud the multiplied
ton of slave States. bat for other purposes
power in the national Congress; and thus
they would use the negro as mere OK prop
erty to help them to increased political
power and then WELD that power to the
detriment of the very people they now ask
to endorse their subtle scheme of equality
by which it is to be accomplished. say
to my Southern brother go into our nation
al territories, take with you every species
ofproperty which take or claim the right
to take, go there in fact my equal, to enjoy
all the rights which claim to enjoy and
We will dwell together as brethren. But
Go not taunt me with rights additional and
suDerIor the RIGHT tn he " ifh vou m H..