Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1858-09-22
Tbs Loui,yille journal for Coalition.

. and having performed similar offices for ih'
Z American party, is now endeavoring to engen
) der hideOus political monster OF It's own
which il fondly hopes Will, In due time G.
forth "eonqnering and to conquer" But ih'
Journal knows there can be no propiIlons birth
OF early maturaiion OF the Hopeful nondescrp
/ without the assistance Of Black Republican
main strength on the one hand, aud Of the skill
and counsel OF such venerable aeeouekesss a:
Bell Crl,enden, g., On the other. In Other
words, coalition IS VIA, the Journal is anS
ious to bring about.
In order 10 effect this object, the Journal is
daily making ovcriurcS TO the Black Republi'
can leaders; il is daily denouncing what the
Black Republicans are supposed to hate, and
cstolling what they Nre presumed to love /; il
inSeighs against Douglas and the Kansas laws
which he supported, and is quite lavish with
rhetoric Of praise in speaking of Corwin.
Trunbull and Greeley. For example, with
reference TO Douglas and Kansas, the Journal
says:
"There was an net o! injustice actually per-
petnted with appreciation and applause OF
Douglas, which the Americans and Wings of
Illinois will be apt TO think fully equal to the
imputed injustice, which he so fsrcely de-
nounccs. We allude to that armed invasion of
Kansas, which struck down native citizens on
account OF their preferences, gave them stran-
gers MS rulers and masters, for long years per.
secuted them for that preference with uncon.
stitulional laws, and by the intervention Of
United States troops, prevented them liom TAX.
ing the freemcns right of self-redreSs against
the tyranny that had been placed over them
| Tfnrc hall bis nd hSn
extreme Southern dctaiion, BY vindicnting and
upholdng this long proracted injustice this
atrocious iniquiiy ofcompeing American free.
men to submit TO the tyrancal, illegal and
usurped rule of contemplate minority, it is
ra! her insignificant, that his aid in defence of
the rights Of Free.soilers should have come on.
ly after he was disappointed in receiving the
nomination for the Presidency"
II is seen in the above that the Journal places
the Wings and Americans of Illinois on the
same plat(ort, with the Black Republicans, as
respects the Kansas question. This surely
looks auspicous for coalition.
Subsequently the journal declares that "Mr.
Douglas has shrunk back quietly and spiritless-
ly into the Democratic ranks. even into the Ad-
minisIration ranks" and recommends the
| Wings and Americans Of Illinois TO do all
they can to defeat him.
The Journal invites the Wing element, par
| tcularly, Of Black Republiranisn, to the grand
coalition entertainment it has undertaken to
get up; and this element. it would seem, from
the testimony of the Journal, is not only the
"best"-that is, "all the decency, intelligence"
&c.- but the "hrgcst portion" Of that party
Qnoth the Journal:
"The best and the largest portion of the Re.
publican party of the North is, MS we all know
made up Of former Wb.gs, and they are at
hear! us true patriots now as they were when
the old Wing banner 1oaed in pride and glo.
ry above their heads. They united with the
Republican party to resist what they deemed,
not without reason, TO be the bad faith, the
reachery, the per6dy of the repeal of the Mis-
soun Compromise"
Well, that's another favorable item for the
coalition project and the "signs ofthe Times"
in the Journals opinion, show that it will be
turned to good account; or in the language of
that coalition organ:
"A!l the signs of the times indicate that the
best and the most enlightened and influential
leaders of the Republican party are willing,
not only for the sake of n union with the
Americans North and South, but for patriot.
ism's sake, to forego, and even to abandon al
together everything like opposition to the fu,
ture admission OF slave States. Senator Trum-
bull, the greatest and most powerful of all
the Republican party in Illinois, Mr.. Corwin,
the master.spirit of Ohio, now in nomination
for Congress by the Republicans of tat State
and Horace Greeley, editor of the New York
Tribune, who has horsepower with the Repub.
licans than any ten other Republican editors in
the country, have all declaredin favor of let
ting every people, upon coming inrethe Union,
decide for themselves whether they wn,,, have
slavery or>not." MI
Now, the Journals perception is wofully
mised by Its hope into confounding fiction with
fact, or it deliberately perpetrated the above as
huge political canard. Corwin, TrumbulI,
and Greeley have not shown willingness to
"abandon altogether everything like future
opposition to the future admission of slave
States" They have, on the contrary, declare
ed in favor of the Wilmot Prcviso, as means
of making it impossible forever that another
slave State could be created out of American
territory. That is the long and the short of
their platform on the slavery question. The
Journal is, no doubt, quite willing to coalesce
with them on their own terms; it is willing, no
doubt to help the Black Republicans to power,
if they will only call 1t a coalition victory; hut
it should not unjustly accuse their leaders of
utterng palinodes and abjuring their faith, and
at the same time attempt to impose belief to
that effect upon its readers.
| The tendency to coalition is always an ar
eument of weakness, and the weaker party to
any coalition arrangement most make conces-
sions in proportion to its feebleness. The con.
duct of the Louisville Journal is an illustra
ton. Protesting to speak for the Wing party.
which is dead, and for the American party,
which is rery NOR bund, and is hardly capa-
bic of recalcitratory spasm, the journal con.
ceives, of course, that between it and the
| Rlnck Rennhlican leaders, the burthen of con.