The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-08-30
Union of the Opposition Paroles In
New York. ' r-

n meeting was neiu Etst Wech at hihSs-
ton, Ulster county, New York, in response
to call 4" for perfecting and completing
political organization composed of those
who are of one mind, in favorof united and
combined action against the Kansas policy
of the Administration-of additional safe
guards to the ballot-box-and rigid econo-
my in Government expenditures" at which
the principal speakers were Hon. j. I. Head
ley, an influential leader of the American
the Democratic member of Congress from
the Eleventh District, and Horace Greeley,
the editor of the New York Tribune These
gentlemen find themselves able to unite on
common platform, and feel impelled both
by duty and policy to support Union tick
ct this fall. The New York Times regards
this as one of the best results of bringing
men of different parties together, to the ex-
cluSion of extreme views and mere theories
which, hatched in heated committee rooms,
are seldom capable of being realized. The
New York Erpress takes an extended view
of the results, looking at the future, while
its action will he dependent upon the move
mcnts of the American State Convention
ii does not approve of bringing American
and Republican Conventions together, for
the reason that the machinery of the two
will not work together. II thinks the " cure
of the present sectional disease of the coun-
try-now South sectional as much as North
sectional-is not in machinery, but in inde-
pendent, frec-thinking, and frcc-acting men.
The cooperation of Democrats and Wings,
as well as of Americans and Republicans, is
Indispensable for the formation of great
and, to he successful, opposition-party
and this cooperation cannot be secured,
either in the Republican or American ma
chinery.
Horace Greeley is reported to have cx-
pressed the following sentiments in which
he appears TO except the doctrines of popular
sovereignty in the fullest scope:
Whatever might be said of the the policy
of excluding a slave State, hc thought that
they would never be able To exclude slave
State on the ground of its being q slave
State. When Il community is formed, and
with slavery, and says we propose to come
into the Union as State, they would not
he able TO go behind her own action or in-
terfere with her sovereignty, so far as to
prevent her coming into the Union with
slavery, so as she was republican in FORM
He stated this, not is his opinion, but as a
deduction from history. For instance, sup
pose Cuba should come into the Union land
he did not desire that she should; he desired
that she should not), and had formed "a
State government, they never would he able
to keep her out because she was a slave
State
Another point. lie thought that expe-
riencc had settled the matter, whatever we
might say of popular sovereignty or of the
rights of the people; that the principle OBJ
liquely laid down in the Cincinnati platform,
and more deliberately expressed in the Pres
idents message, that the appropriate time
for State To decide for herself whom she
will not have slavery is when she comes to
ask admission into the Union, was practi-
cally settled. lie did not say he would not
like To have itotherwise, hut it was 20 diff
cult To determine when Territories should
decide this question for themselves, that he
saw no other course of action than 10 say
! that when they come TO frame a State gov
I ernmcnt they shall decide for themselves
whether they will have a slave State or a
free State.
! The Louisville Journal in commenting
upon the fSture political PtospcctsOf the OPP
position party, says -fs f,~ .
/ All the signs of the times Indicate that
I the hest and the most enlightened aud inhu-
ential leaders of the Republican party are
] willing, not only for thcsakc of-a union with
; the Americans North and South bat for
patriotisms sake, TO fOrego and even to
abandon altogether every thing like oppesi-
ton TO the future admission of slave States
Senator Trumbull, the greatest and most
powerful of all the Republican party in Hi
nois, Mr.. Corwin, the master spirit of Ohio,
now in nomination for Congress by the Re
publicans OF that State and Horace Greeley
editor of the New York Tribune, who has
more power with the Republicans than any
ten other Republican editors in the country
have all declared in favor of letting every
people, upon coming into the Union, decide
for themselves whether they will have slave
~ or not In fact the whole Republican
party in Congress without exception, by their
vote in favor of the Crittenden-M Montgomery
bill, recognised and endorsed aud proclaimed
the same principle. There has been a full
union of the American strength and the Re-
publican strength in Pennsylvania; there has
been an extensive union of the American
strength md the Republican strength in
Ohio; there has been partial union of the
: American strength and the Republican
strength in New York; and VIC are sure that
the Americans of Kentucky and Of the
whole nation have wished and do wish per
manence and success 10 these unions inyolv-
} ing no declar atiofis, expressed or understood
against the admission of slave States into tn,
Union and no ant-slavcry doctrine what.
! ! ever. -sH-. ~. 81. -- ~ tszrE
EE Steps are being taken in South Caro-
4 lima to erect suitable monuments to the
=, memory of Marion and Sumpter. sryv