Washington telegraph., 1856-04-16
THE OPPOSITION.

with which to fill their political journals, |
as is the effete conglomerate, portion of
which, at the North, rally under the BAN
ner of the Nebraska bill, because Messrs.
DOUGLAS and RICHARDSON have told
them that it is the best measure to ensure
the extension of freedom ever passed,
while their brethren In the South sing
paeans to the same bill, because they are
told by designing demagogues that it is
all the South can desire, and that, upon
the enforcement of the provisions thereof,
the South must depend for her future
security, and the recognition of her rights?
With not even the semblance of any other
positive reason under the canopy of Hea-
ven, for asking support and continuance
in the high places in the land, than the
introduction of measure which even now
promises to fail utterly in accomplishing
the purpose for which it is pretended it
was designed-they open the campaign
by an assault, shoulder to shoulder, upon
the fortress In which the American Party
are content to remain, conscious of their
ability to repel all attacks. And repuls-
ed, as the assailants have been, time and
again, look at them now. No leader in
their camp! One division of the faction
rallying around the Little Giant, upon
the ponderous blows of whose doughty
arm, are placed their hopes of the demoli-
tion of our outposts; a few, who thirst
for booty, clamorous for the elevation of
distinguished gentleman of Pennsylva-
mia to the chief generalship; and num-
bers looking up to him who has been the
nominal head of their ranks these few
years past, as the fountain of all political
good, and the dispenser of that patron
age, which is the moving cause and
handspring of their devotion. Here We
have practical exemplifcation of "eon-
fusion worse confounded," and witness the
upheaving of seething mass of discord-
ant and inharmonious elements, which
may "mingle" " should some master spirit
step in and say to the disturbed political
waters, "Peace! be still" But these
busy schemers do not confne their opera
tions to their own entertainments They
have sent out spies and emissaries
latter empowered to offer the promise of
largesse to all who listen to their prayers
for aid-the former with instructions to
scale each rampant and enter every tent,
and report accordingly. How well these
fellows play their part, let the testimony,
which they have resorted to such equivo-
cal means to obtain, attest But let it not
be supposed that the beleaguering hosts
confne themselves to any particular sys-
tenn of tactics. Adopting the motto of
their Jesuit Allies" The end justifes
the means they force the timid into
cooperation with them, by threats of some
imaginary awful doom, or lull the unsus-
pecting and over-credulous, into vague
confidence in their unlimited power for
good, by forever chanting a syren song,
with refrain ending with potent spell
the word Democracy-ofw which, if they
be taken as exemplars, the received def
milton should be changed Leaving prin-
ciples to take care of themselves, they
run a tilt against the individual opinions
of some obscure unknown, and reversing
every recognized rule of reasoning
an idle word from some self-constituted
expounder, or feeble protest from some
Utopian schemer-they deduce conclusions
as to the nature of an entire body polite
and unblushingly publish to the world, as
fixed facts, their groundless and unwar
ranted assumptions,-begotten of the
"wish'' which is ''father to the thought. y
The fragment of an old letter serves as
starting point from whence they can launch
out into labyrinth of random speculations
full indeed "of sound and fury" but liter
ally "siguifying nothirg" The detection o
an individual from the ranks, OF the pronun
ciamento of an irresponsible conclave, is the
signal of a shout, which to the ear unused
to the stereotyped bravas of political ella
f Qeurs. wonld seem the herald of decisive
victory; and when some seeker after an un
enviable notoriety ambitious. although per
haps he himself knows it not-of ths
fate of him, who twas born to be talked Of
meeredat, cursed and forgotten. . strings on Z
thread Of silly words. a few abusive epithet,
they bind the gewgaw, with pride which
they make no attempt to conceal, around
the head and front of the idol before whose
shrine they Offer their political worship; and
as the hooded friar exults in the blazonry
of gems. which glow upon the image o.
his patron saint,-these gaudy trappings
which only serve to render more plainly
visible. the deformity of the statue which
| they have reared. to what ia In fact a shame