Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-10-17
WHOLE NO. 944.


our ticfOry-Et IS eloriohs Ohe
We hardly know how to feel over The
glorious result iu this State, aud the State
of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Thst the cleo
tion of Abraham Lincoln il nov secursc
there can be no doubt. aud then To think
that the State Of Indiana is redeemed frou,
the misruie which hs~ long oppressed
the PEOPLE. Let the winding-shsets for
ever enshroud the corrupt remains Of the
Democratic party-let the requiem be sung
and the world say Amen Amen A new
era dawns upon us--a glorious prospect
opens to our rview-prospcrity and happiness
beckons us. and the frresl government that
the sun ever shown upon. erIrrges from
the darkness of modern Democracy into
the full blaze of enlightened humanity -
What care we, or what care- the RePubli-
can party of the local triumph Of the De
mOerscy in this Congressional District
il is swallowed up IN tbe great. the over
whelming victory achieved in three Of the
greatest States in the North. The Kew
stone State has spoken, aud voice has
gone up from the mighty West tha, cannot
be- misunderstood. The most corrupt par
ty that ever cursed free people, has been
routed horse, foot and drsgoon. IL was a
stencil in the nostrils of the people and
they have buried it forever. Douglasism
and Breckinridgeism have both gone down
and on their ruins comes up. redoleut in
youth, roseale in health ADD strong in the
right, the Republican party Possessing
all the good qualities Of the o.d Whig par.
ty. il has about it also the progres.iveness
of the present hour. The days Of our ia
theirs, when honesty and virtue were es--
teemed wOathy of true manhood, are about
to return. Tee little buzzard roost at Tndi
annapolis has been scattered and the great.
er one at Washington will soon be broken
up. Republicanism must and will tri
umph, or our institutions, which are now
giving freedom to 80. 900 90 Of human be-
ings, will decay The Little Giart will
now find ample time to write another es-
say upon his Great Principle OF Popular
Sovereignty, aud Breckinridge will find
leisure in learning that the great North
will not permit Slavery to spread like a
blasting coutsgeon all over our public do
main. Upon this question the irrevocable
decree has gone forth-Slavery. whether
blessing or a curse-Slavery as it is. must
forever be confined to the States where it
now exists, until the people, living in those
States, see proper to abolish it--which
God being just. we hope will not be long.
The exciting problem is almost settled
that the FEDERAL Constitution carries Sla
very nowhere. The irrepressible conflict
between right and wrong is fast drawing
to close. and the right is about to triumph.
But why moralzs. Indiana is redeem
ed and swarm Of greedy suckers who
have been for years living sumpluously off
the peoples labor and drawing cunningly
from the Treasury tit. have now to van
mouse the rancho" aud let honest men ex-
anime into what they have been doing
Henry S Lane the champion of the peo-
pies rights will soon be our Governor, and
our State Legislature, thank God, is Re-
publican. There is much use for an abie
Committee on Ways and Means this Winter.
What will no become of the Democrat.
ic party is not difficult To determine. Ii
will be beaten both in the North and in the
South-it is most emphstically out doors,
there is thunder over hra anI it is rain
ing-let it continue to pour.