The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-08-27
what will the Convention do /,

The following article Is from the VALLEY
Blade. the Editor Of which il lite long
Dem )crat.
A Democratic state convention has been
called. 10 meet on the 18th OF September
next. There is much anxiety felt as TO what
that convention will do The anxiety is not
az TO whether this or that man may be nom
mated for this or that office. but what course
will the convention adopt in the shape of
resolutions. y Democratic state convention
was. recently held in Indiana the resolutions
were absolutely disgracelul. We say just
what We mean. They were disgraceful &c
those engaged in framing them. disgraceiul
TO those adopting them, and insulting 70 the
great Democratic party. We do not mean
any particular resolution. nor the language
used i'm al.y or all OF them, but We mean the
half-hidden sympathy and respect for the re-
belion aud it, Infamous actors which charac-
terize the whole series. We speak of what was
not said. as well as what was said. When tho
unfortunate, crazy and criminal John Brown
committed his raid into Virginia. and was
arrested, tried and buag, the Democratic
parry, with commendable zeal and patriotic
iervor, denounced that rebellion and its &C
tors, and instfed the horrible and speedy
execution that they received. In the spring
Of 1861, there a not Democratic town,
county or state convention held in any part
of the free states, .that did not make the
John Brown treason the subject of special
and unrcsoryed denunciation. But what was
John Browns raid, in comparison with the
monster rebellion now raging atthe south.
aud CONFUSING the entire nation Where
arc those Democratic thunderbolts tha. we're
hurled at John Brown and his score OF crazy
criminals Z Was the Democratic armory ex
| hausted in that effort Have they no light
ming with which TO strike JEFF Davis and his
followers l. the Democratic party 40 re-
duccd in circumstances that IL has To fall
back upon is old lbut good and threidbare
resolutions about the abulition.sts. and the
Republicans. and negro equality We do
not, by any means forget. nor Is our l1dg-
ment less severe in condemning the hepuo-
icals aud the aboltionisis. for the part they
have taken. both since and before the rebel
ion. We never can forget and never can
forgive the recklessness with which they
pushed extreme measures calculated 10 pro
woke i'll feeling and produce sectional hate
But when We hear men who call the mselves
Democrats, and who ought 70 know what tho
term democrat implies. say that the Re-
pupicans or abolitionists produced this war
forced this war on the south. We feel iha
such men are eithor too ignorant TO be ar
guei with. or are deeply sympsthlznl
with the rebellion that they have Loaf then
reason.
There j. no act upor record committed b,
the north. by the Democracy. Republicans
or A bolitionists. that can be tortured into :
justification, no matter how slight. for thi
bold aud infamous rebellion. The rebel
themselves do not pretend that such an act
state or national had been committed. ans
when we find Democrats in state conven-
tons. or in speeches. seeking in conduct o
the north excuses and palliaIioDs for th'
rebels. We feel that IL The good honest ol'
Democratic party was capap'e ola nausea
il ought at once TO throw these creatures up
They are worse enemies TO the country thar
the rebels they by their speeches and reso
lations tell the rebels that there are men We
al the north VINO want TO wear the collar q
southern masters.