Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1861-01-16


States SOUTH" all the slave States wer
expected to join. but the new confsderscy
10 begin with the South Atlantic Sta ties, o,
even part OF them; and military prepare
ton was TO be made to maintain by force
what a Southern Convention should de
cree.
That Convection was callsd-ths same
which had been designated in the first
manifesto, entitled "The Crisis" published
in the Charleston Mercury in 1885; aud
the same which had been repulsed from
Nashville in 1874.
Fifteen years Of assidueus labor produ-
ced what could rot be started in 1885, and
what had been repulsed in 1874.
A disunion Conoenfion met at Nashville
met at the home of Jackson. but after the
grave had become his home. This Conven
tion assuming to represent seven States)
took the decisive step, so far as it depended
on itself, towards a separation of the
States IL invited the assembling of a
Southern Congress" Two States alone
responded TO that ..appeal-South Carolina
aud Mississippi; aud the Legislatures OF
these two passed solemn acts to carry it
into effsct-Soulh Carolina absolutely by
electing her quota of representatives to
the proposed Congress; Mississippi provi-
sionally. by subjecting her law to the sp-
proval ofthe people.
The Nashville Convention and the South
ern Congress were a failure, SO far as the
attempt was Intended for an immediate
dissolution Of the Union, and ia entitled to
public consideration only as part and
parcel Of systematic series Of measures
calculated and intended to excite Southern
sectional animosity and hatred for the
Union, and sooner or later to precIpitate
them into revolution and civil war.
i No proper understanding can be had of
the present condition of the disunionists,
without a carefsl study of their previous
acts, among which Que Of the most treas
enable. was the Nashville Convention. I"
As specimens of the feelings and princi-
Piles OF The disunioBists at that time, we
give extracts from carefully considered
language Of men high in authority, and
recognized leaders.
"By our physical power" said one OF
the foremost Of those leaders, 1--WE can pro-
tee: ourselves against foreign nations,
whilst by cur productions we can COM
mand their peace or support. The keys
of their wealth and commerce are in on,
hands, which we will freely offer to them
by system Of free trade. making our pros
perity their iaterest-our security theil
. care. The lingering or decaying cities o.
, the South, which before our Revolution
, carried on all their foreign commerce
r buoyant with prosperity and wealth. bu
which now are only provincial towns
sluggish suburbs of Boston and New York
. will rise up to their natural destiny. anc
again enfold in their embraces the riches
! commerce of the world. Wealth, homo
r and power, and one of the most glorious
o destinies which ever crowned great an,
t happy people, await the South, if she bu
$ control her own fate; but, controlled b,
4 another people, what pen shall paint th
/. Infamous and bloody catastrophe whicl
n must mark her failf'
n ln other words, disunion, black monster
}. born in hell, is the only thing which ca
J. save the South from an infamous an,
:. bloody catastrophe. Only dissolve tn
e Union of these States, hand down the glo
t, rious stripes and stars, and establish
y Southern Confederacy, aud the who
|" South will become a garden, blossomin
lie like the rose; peace will dwell within b.
N borders, and her cities now provinci,
4 towns. will rival Philadelphia, New Yor
~ and Boston.
" That is the same syren song that is sur
Of now in South Carolina, and throughout o
$, the Gulf States. and has been persistent
ID iterated and reiterated for the last u
ID years.
to In the South Carolina Legislature,
h, speaker declared: 1--WE must secedc fro
ch a Union perverted from its original pu
he pose, aud which has new become an e
'or gine Of oppression to the South.
he thought our proper course was for this lie
ite islature to proceed directly to The electi
I'd of delegates to a Southern Congress.
th thought We should not await the action
ng all ihe Southern States; bat it is pruds
al for u to wait the action of such States
~ Alabama. Georgia. Mississippi aud Flo
he da; because those States requested us
en- wait.
Of eff we can get but one State TO unite W
IL. US, then we must act. Once being int
W pendent, We should have a strong ally
the England. But We must prepare for sec
lad sion"
ar Another: "The friends of the South,
ing movement in the other States look to
'un action of South Carolina; and he wo,
uct make the issue in q reasonable time, a
to the only way to do so is by secession. Tn
Isl would be uo concert among the South,
States until a bioic 10 struck. He hated 9
the detested the Union, and was in favor
as cutting the connection. He avowed b
self disunionist. If he had the pow
sd- he would crush this Union to. morrow" !"
the Another: "Denied the right or the p,
can er Of the General Government to coerce
en State in case of secession. This State
irs, sovereign and Independent, as sooa as
tile sees proper to assert that sovereignty.
re- Should there be a war, all the
an tions Of Europe would be desirous of
red serving their intercourse with the Sol
by ern States, and wsuld make the effort
hat do so. He thought there never would
tro a union of the South until this State 81,
the the b,oto, and makes the ISSUE"
Another: There is no remedy for II
bers evils in the government; we have nc al
mi native left US, then. but to come out OF
ght government
ten Another: 'He said that he had ado
nent the course be had taken on these weil
epa- matters simply and entirely with the