Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1861-01-09

gin and form Of our govern nent, and the
construction give 10 the instrument by
shieh it was created. aeemed to be proper
Having the fullest confidence in the just
aess Of the legal and constitutional opinion
Of my dsties. which has been expressed,
rely. with equal confidence. on your undl.
vided support in my determination to exc
cute the laws, 10 preserve the Union by all
Constitutional means, to arrest, if posi-
Die, ty moderate, but firm measure,, the
necessity OF recourse to force; and, IL il
be the will Of Heaven that the recurrence
Of its primeval curse on man fer tse shed
ding of brothers. blood shonld fall upon
our land, that il be not called down by any
offensive act on the par, Of the United
States.
Fellow citizens: The mcneRLous case is
before you On your undivided support Of
your government depends the decision Of
the great question which it involves.
whether your sacred UsiOn will be pre-
served. and the blessings which it secures
to US as one people be perPetuated
No one can dsubi that the unarimity
Nth which that decision will be express
ed, will be such as to inspire new coufi-
iu Republican Institutions, and that the
prudence. the wisdom, aud the eorrsge
which it will bring TO their defence, will
transmit them uLimpsirsd and invigorsted
to our children.
In his Annaal Message, the President
sgai. alluded to South Carolins sfairs,
and in January following. made them the
subject Of special message. This was
followed by the force bill as it wa. called
by the nullifers, and the concentration Of
United Stairs forces Of Charleston.
Notwithstanding their ordinance Of null
lihcstion, aud the enrollnent OF an army
Of lO, 900 men to enforce it. the revenue
continued 10 be collected at Charleston as
usual. aud no attempt, Whatever, was
made to resist the execution OF the laws.
Thus wa. aulliacation and disunion put
down in 1899 by the patriotic hrmness and
manly resolution Of President Jackson.
supported as he was by CLAY, and Webster,
and Benton. and other patriots.
Finding i, impossible to destroy the
Union on the Tariff issue, Mr.. Calhoun,
when he returned home from Congress in
the spring Of 1893, told his friends that
the basis of Southern Union must be shift
ted to the slave question; then all the pa
pers in his interest dropped tariff agita-
ton and commenced on slavery.
To June, 1893, at the first transfer OF
Southern agitation from tariff to slavery.
Mr.. Madison wrote to Mr.. Clay. as follows:
at is painful TO see the unceasing ef
forts to alartu the South, by imputations
against the North OF unconstitutional de
signs on The subject Of slavery You are
right, have no donbt. in believing that
no such disposition ext & in the body OF
our Eorthera, brethren. Their good faith
is sufficiently guaranteed by the interest
they have as merchants. as ship-owners.
and az manufacturers, in preserving a
union with the slaveholding States. On
the other hand, phat madnsss in the South,
10 look for greater safety IA disEnion. II
would be worse than jumping into the fire
for fear Of the frying paa. The danger
from the alarm il. that pride and resent
ment ereifed by them may be an overmatch
for the dictates of prudence; and favor the
project of n Southern Convention, insidu-
ously received, as promising by it's coun-
ellis the best security against grievances of
any kind from the North"
ITO be CONTINUED