Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-20

Opposition" in Virginia are sounder on the
slavery question,-that is, more like the Mer-
curry itself, than the Virginia Democracy can
pretend to be- This superior soundness is
seen in their unqualified and emphatic advoca-
CIV of a slave code for the territories, and in
their volcanic style of cursing the "Black Re-
publicans" What is so apparent in South
Carolina, is equally visible in Virginia. Re-
pubIicans in that State, and all liberal men,
with Republican leanings, saw it SO clearly
during the last State election i'll the Old Domln-
ion, and felt it so sharply, that they found the
Opposition" candidate for Governor far more
offensive to them than his competitor. In the
next Presidential election, this Virginia 'op-
position" will be entirely out of place lift does
not march by the side of Jefferson Davis and
the Mississippi fire eaters. 1t is of no particu-
lar consequence anywhere, for it never did and
never will carry Virginia for anybody. 1t
can bring nothing to any party but impo-
tence and hungry horde of political adven-
turers.
We notice, however, that the Richmond
Wing, using a tone as lordly as if the result of
the next Presidential election depended on the
vote of those for whom it speaks, discusses Il
conservative opposition party which is to
sweep the country i'll 1860 and rule Sovereign
of the ascendan6R This party is to be led by
Virginia gentlemen, who cannot tolerate or
recognize William H. Seward and those whom
he represents, and who will not allow them in
the party otherwise than as "hewers of wood
and drawers of water" And with this tolera-
ton they may thank Heaven that they escape
crucifxion Says the Richmond Wing IF
Seward and his peculiar friends conclude to
give it 1.-THE Conservative Opposition Partyl
their support, ace shall interpose no objection"
sUnheard-of magnanimity But even this
promise OF mercy will be revoked if it shall
appear that the men who failed to elect Mr..
lives carried that State for any candidate for
any office, State or national, find it possible to
carry New York and the rest of the free States
without Mr. Seward and his friends.
1t is well for people to know what is in store
for them 1t saves trouble and simplifies bus
mess. BY OWN. H. Seward and his peculiar
friends" the Richmond paper intends every
body who really means opposition to the slave
ry propagandists. Persons of that sort may
possibly be allowed to serve the party in ques
ton as Slaves and negroes of damnatlon," as
Milton would phrase it; if so, let them be
very thankful for not being left out alone in
the cold to SILVER and die by themselves while
beholding from afar the awfully magnificent
array of the Conservation Opposition" It's
likely, however, that the threatened excom-
munication will make the "outer darkness"
very populous and create loneliness and cold
nowhere save in the place from which it
comes. There are some people who never
learn anything and never succeed in anything.
A good many such people can probably be
found among the "0ppositieH2 in Virginia. -
The National Intelligencer, always digni-
Jssti--
try great political confusion and uncertainty,
with no clear indication of the future. In
speaking of the Republican party, it never
uses any of those indecencies of speech which
are SO common i'll such papers as the Rich
mond Wing and Boston Courier. 1t has
more common sense and more right feel
ing than they, and much less sympathy
with political barbarisms. That paper profess
ses to be wing, but is obliged to see that the
old times of the wing party cannot return
We allude to it here to speak of its reply made
few days since to young man who address
to its editors letter full of political inquiries.
This reply, although it does not say much is
nevertheless significant.
The Intelligencer's correspondent inquiries
in behalf of young men concerning the prin-
ciples now supported by the opposition and
Democratic parties respectively" The young
men of the country are new to politics, or
comparatively so. They did not participate
in the Harrison and Tyler campaign of
1910. They have never felt the cheats and
eruptions" of the palmy days of the Jackson
party Their political activity belongs to the
present and the future. They cannot go back
and be wings. They must 60 on and become
either Republicans or slavery supporting Dem
ocrats. The inquiry to which the Intelligent
Ger replies comes from Kentucky, and that
journal informs its correspondent that the true
wings still remaining stand fast by their an
Gent faith; that uncertainty prevails in the
other parties to such an extent as allows moth
ing to be seen very clearly and that there is
nowhere else so much confusion as among the
democrats. 1t does not however see division
among the Republicans, but referring to the
Republican platform Of 1856, says it is unable
to state what ground the party will take next
year.
The presidential campaign of 1860, will in
struct all such inquirers, and, probably, deter
mine the character and direction of parties for
the next quarter of a century.
The FOURTH IN CEREDo.-The. inhabi-