Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-01-10
rae MANOEUvERING OF The OPPOSITION.


have tasted some OF the sweets Of power and plum
der and who are resolved to fuse, if possible, for
further advancement The correspondent Of the
Chicago Tines shows up this tendency so well
that we adopt bis exposition. In speaking Of the
present condition Of matters in Congress, be says
that it seems rather ungrsteful when We hsVeIust
finished one hard fought battle, and come of VIC
tOrious to be told that we must Immediately mount
our helmet and place our spears in rest for another
conflict with fresh army, or with the old onere-
formed, refreshed and reinforced. This seems
however, to be the condition Of the rational De-
mocrscy, who, have just vsuquisEed the sectional
enemy, who, learning wisdom in defeat, has already
begun repairing the weak places in his defences
and erecting new outworks.
To drop metaphor, there have lately been some
7erV significant indications, discovered in and out
of Congress- and hints dropped by leaders here, IN
which the close observer perceives q deep laid
scheme to revive and re-orgsnize the scattered
forces of the opposition, lately defeated by the
victorious Democracy and in this scheme also,
some circumstances calculated 10 surprise even
those best acquainted with the influence OF the
spoils upon a party Of professed iufeXibe pTinci-
pies, must at once attract general notice.
If you have marked attentively the late debates
in both Houses Of Congress, you must have OBJ
served singular ''toning down" Of the fierce pro-
LESSONS so boastugy put forth By the black repuo'
Tcans in the late canvass. Leading black repubf-
can Senators and members Of the House have Ia
ken the floor emphstically to deny any connection
or sympathy with the sboitiOnists; (reeking with
the smell of their garments even as they make the
decsration) to deny that they intend any inter
ference with slavery in the States; and In short to
deny almost all of the peculiar sectional tenets
upon which they fought the late campaign. Their
bossted shack bone" 80 stiff during the canvass
suddenly becomes as flexible as reed; and gen.
tlemen who have hitherto been parties to the nest
savage and brutal denunciations of the whole
South now softly discriminate between certain
supposed distinctions there, and announced that
their hostiTtes extends only to class. Senator
Seward has risen in his place on several occasions
to make the attempt to run this line; and be the
head devil in all the ntrigues that heimasnes may
,epd to place himself in the coveted Presidential
chair. has declared in conversation with dlstln-
guisbsd northern democrat who was my informant
that Eve mean to organize a republican party ID
the South"
Not to differ about names the programme of
the leaders in opposition contemplstes the lorna
ton of q new party and new platform, with new
candidates, for 1860, requiring an abandonment OF
the special anti slavery platform of the Fremont
party of 1856, and in fact its disintegration, and
the substitution Of a Cross between " American
ism " and "RepubIcanism, half niger and hall
native, based on the prejudces OF labor The
Southern Know Nothings are to be embraced in
this new organization, and they are to be toned
I'D as the Republicans are to be Toned down,
in order to suit the purpose.
Humphrey MarshalTs speech in the House,
Etheridges resolution against the slave trade, Al
bert Pixies declarations at the late Savannah con-
venton. and various other symptoms, prove that
the South American leaders have struck palms
with Seward & Co., in this grand scheme for get
ting up new party on new prejudices and new
fslsshoods in place of the worn out ones of the
late campaign
The first work of such a combination is Of course
to get up false issues and when we contemplate
the extent Of service which the Kansas humbug
accomplished for the black republicans, we are not
surprised that parties in this intrigue should seek
to cover their deformed and weak places by even
q still more audscious veil Of falseh0od The de-
mocrstc party are to he driven into certain Po-
siton, where they can be impudently and viely
misrepresented and beled, if possible. This, in
fact, was the object Of Mr. Etheridges resolution
against the slave trade 1t was not the slave trade
but the democratic party that wss aimed at in that
resolution.
You can readily discover the use which the am
icable coalition of the rump Of Know Nothingism
aud the tail of black republicanism intended to
put this to by the use which they make Of the
vote on Etheridges proposition. It was their de
sign to represent every democrat who voted against
that proposition 10 be in favor Of rs2psHing the
8laus trade, and persistng in tbs charge actually
70 drive Southern democracy, in sslf-defenoe 10
take this ground. Then on the platform Of OppO-
sition 70 the trade, there would have been clear
sailing for the new party of Seward Humphrey
Marshal, HsmIin, Trumbul, Rayner, Harlan, Bolts
& Company.
and converted Mr.. Etherijge and his hackers into
laughing stockI Col. Orr's resolution was equally
emphatic against the slave trade, and there wee
but eight votes against it in the whole House. The
ffty-sevsn vino voted aga INST Etheridge's resOlu-
ton, ard who, if the matter had stopped there,
would have been successfully misrepresented as
favorable to a re-cpening of the trade, voted i'm
meijatey after with Col Orr, that " it WIS IN
wise, iusxpedent and impoItic to repeal the laws
against the slave trade, now in existence, and !
thus TO the great modification of tie opposition !
took the wind entirely out of Etheridges long, |
low and black-loOking lugger and left it on the
sands monument to unsuccessful demag query, |
crowned with false hopes, and impOtent endeavors,
the result covered Mr.. Etheridge with ireztn- |
GU s0sble ridicule.
50 His gun well aimed at duck or plover,
RecaIled and kicked the owner over. "
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