Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1861-01-09
The TOryIsm of the Terre EEaute
IournaI.


zens Of this city to batch of disunion
sentiments. Perhaps We had better say
the tory editor of the ournal. for eviden tly
of late it has two editors. Cookerly's par
tisan feelings only wink at treason, while
the sub rosa is an out and out traitor-a
full fedged tory-a covered defler OF pa
triots-an encoursger of rebellion and an
alder aud defender Of treason. He, who
ever he may be. is nothing more, nothing
less. He has more tory than patriots blood
in his veins, and the love of country which
burned in the hearts of our fathers fer free
dom aud American liberty, coursed slug
gishly through the veins OF his ancestors
for King George the III.
We venture to say there is no paper
north Of Mason d Dixon's line, and but few
south Of it, that so boldly and defiantly
defends the rebellion of South Carolina, as
does the Terre Haute Journal. 1t is warm
ly the excuser of this treason and zealously
the advocate of traitors.
While the flag of the Union is trsmpled
under foot by this re5ellious mob, and the
Palmetto flag is raised over the United
States Arsenal. the Custom House, Post
Office. Castle Pinckney and Fort Moultrie
and defiance is flung in the teeth cf the
Federal power, This unpatrio,ic scribbler
for the Journal, turns his unbaked dough
face TO the North. and says ''yes. this fabric
seems 10 be follin9, and the temple is tumb'inS
into rum and you Republicans ofthe North and
your contederafes hare done the dirty JOB"
Was there ever such an excuse for trea-
son or rebellion offered by pretended
American citizen? While General Wool. -
whose patriotic letter will be found in en-
other column-and General Scott and ex-
Secretary Cass and patriots all over this
broad land are condemning this South
Carolina rebellion, denouncing he treason
and hoping for the opportunity of punish
ing the traitors, the sub rosa of the Journal
says, that South Carolina has done nothing
but "refuse to bend the knee to brutal
insane, and fanatical crew Of Abolitionists
who have, for thirty years kept The people
Of this country excited about negroes aud
negro rights. This is the whole story"
Is this the whole story you blind parti
san bigots IL that all there is in the fact
that this very hour an officer of the United
States. with handful OF U. S. soldiers, is
besieged in. an American Fort by rebels
against the American Constitution? Is
this all there is in the fact, that at this
very moment, batteries are being erected
around Fort Sumter, an American Fort,
belonging to the Federal Government, by
congregated host of rebels who declare
their unr ltered determination to dissolve
this Union of States? Is all this, only
because the rebels "refuse to bend the knee
to a brutal, insane, and fanatical crew oi
Abolitionists? 80 si.
BY Abclitionists we suppose the Tory
writer means all who voted for Mr. Lin
coin. OF course he does, for who could
expect quasi traitor to call things by THEN
right name. We ask this defamer of the
North, this reviler of his own home, to
point us, if he can, to one single act of tbs
North that has worked a hardship upon
South Carolina. Point US, if he can, to
oue single law enacted by Northern
State that has worked injurious to South
Carolina or her Institutions We ask this
misrepresen,er. of Northern sentiment and
Northern feeling, to point us. if be can, t,
one single act of the Republican party
where the constitutional rights of any o
the citizens of South Carolina have beer
interfered with. Point US secret traitor o
forever after hold your peace. Stop you
defamation of Northern patriots-tell tn,
truth. or in times like these, learn to hols
your tongue. -
In speaking Of this rebellion and in hi
efforts to excuse the treason, the writer 70
the Journal. or the editor, or whoever h
may be. says:
"The history Of human depravity, a
exhibited in the affairs Of nations, ha
never exceeded the baseness of this anti
slavery crusade against the rights, tn
peace. and the material interests of ou
Southern brethren. But the day of reckon
ing is approaching, aud the American peo
pie will hold these vile miscreants to
strict responsibility.
All it is the North then, that is thres,
eping to destroy this Union 1t is tn
men who voted for Mr.. Lincoln, who pull
ed down the Stars and the Stripes au,
run up the rebel flag over Governmen
Forts and Custom Houses, is itf It is Re
publicans whose depravity the history q
+ the human race knows no parallel, is it
/ II is We, Of the North-we, the liberty
loving and freedom extending ireemen
! the Northern States, whose "baseDess" hs
so effected the rights, the peace and II
material interest Of cur Southern brethren,
Ina. they are driven 10 the acts Of treaso,
The traitors themselves say. that such
not the fact They say they have dete
mi ned. for more than twenty years, to dii
solve this Union They say they on
made pretext Of the election Of Mr. Lii
coin to carry out their reasonable design
They say they dislike this Union and il
tend to destroy II. They say they do tn
in order that South Carolina may bscon
enriched, and Charleston be great con
mercial city II there is truth in the
avowals-in the declarations of the
prominent men aud their leaders. what h
the ''miscreenfs of the North to 10 with
What have We done what has the Nor
done p what has any individual done
what has the Republican party done, th
! ustifes the editor of the Terre Haute 10,
pal To become the defender Of the Sou
, Carolina rebellion ud the excuser of Sou
: Carolina traitors.
True Arr IN WAR Col. Peard, ga
{ baIdi's Englishman," says Of rife sho
r ing in battle: "Mins, if ever you 60 ri
$ shooting, use your rife in scientific m'
r ner. Resollect always not TO Kill "
b man but to wound him; then II takes t
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