Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-10-19

ion and party which have divided the nation int
 secaonal factions, and have destroyed the peac
 integrity
 In letter to the New York committee
 Mr. Bates professes willingness to lead the combined opposition. He advocates cooperation with aU tie other elements ot opposition. Shall we quote from the let. ters of Bolts to show his desire of nn;on with the northern opposition? If necessa- " We will bring further proof as the atti- tudes Of the opposition leaders in the south.
 The opposition elected some twenty odd members of Congress. Passing over such notorious traitors to the south as Etheridge, who claims the speakership as the reward of hIs treason, let us examine into some others Read the following from the New ork Tribune and tell us what you think of Gilmer:
 The Evening Post publishes the following ex- tract of letter from Guilford county. North Caro- lina rom which it appears that the opposition of the 9th district did good service in retnrnino Mr. Gimer to Congress:
 But the moral effects of these proceedings rthe expulsion of Crooks and McBride1 were felt in a way not exactly looked for by the radical slaveites I or quite numher of best citizens Jeff the State, and others withheld their votes. and thus plainly manifested their disapprobation and it was not unul MT. Gllmer gave his anti Lecompton vote III Congress that people could be induced to for hlm tho Oar ha +bo he went only as moderator. In my section of the county, Jamestown and High Point election pre- clnctS, the effect was very strongly mark ed At Jamestown, in 1857, Glmer received l0S votes and his competitor l09. This year Gilmer receiy ed 229, and Williams 63 votes. At High Point Glmer received IDS votes in 1857, and in 1859 200 Williams 5l each year. Gilmer's reelection by such decided majority shows conclusvelv that all the southern people not radical slaveites. and that branding man with abotionism has lost its tailsmanc effect. Let us take heart and hone for better tmes'
 MT Gilmer had made himself very obnoxious to the sham democracy by voting with the republicans to Kill Lecompton As his majority in 1857 was not large, his defeat this year was confidently ex- pected by the administration. The result. how ever, shows a largely increased vote, and the in crease IS nearly all on the right side In Guiiord county alone, Gilmer's majority this year is about 6OO over that in 1857. This is in keeping with the known intelligence of the county. Guiford was one o the hrst counties in the State that adopted the system ot common schools, and these nurseries of lreemen have produced their usual effects. It was at the battle of Guford court house. that the bfltsh troops received the first shock in their at tempted conquest ot the south. And it argues well Tor the safety of the country that the black democ racy have been repulsed the old battle ground of freedom''
 In this connexion let us state another fact. In the Wheeling district, in Va. the opposition elected Coldwell to the State Senate. This oppositionist made speech and in it said:
 NO wonder that you Germans and other labor ing men, feel an interest in the progress and final ascendancy of the principles of the republican party IL IS einphaticay the party of the white laborinp men ot the country. While the democratic party IS the tavorlte party of the arstocratic element in our government; while it promotes the interests and follows the dicta of the oligarchical body of southern shareholders, to the prejudice of the inter estS or Ifee white workmen, the republican party has made the interests of our workmen of our small producers, in the soil and the workshops. it's fupda mental basis. It was a puzzle to him how any man who wrought with his hands, and who valued the dignity oi the sweat of his brow could wayer in his cholce between the principles of the two parties- Free labor never could be honorable, never could command that respect to which it entitled while eYerlt was discrminat ed against as between it and slave labor Whenever twas degraded to the level ol compulsory slave labor, 1t had been by the democratic party, Subordnated, it must partake of the degradation of slave labor. Every man ought to be able to see this. The great principles ofthe re- puoilcan party, were the same that Henry Clay had contended torin his life time viz: encouragement to the iaDors oi free white workingmen, whether til Iers ot soI mechanics, or manufacturers. So plain were these facts becoming ill the eyes of the people, and so tired were they of the disasters and pro- strations which have been brought upon the indus trial interests of the country, through the principles of the democratic party, that they were about to rise up Tn their strength and hurl their oppressOrs from the places which they so unworthily occu- pied"
 As we said before, the opposition in the south has elected twenty-four or twenty-five members to Congress. They may hold the balance of power. Will they vote with the democrats or black republicans in elect ing Speaker? The Nashville Banner, a southern opposition journal, says:
 "Were we member of the House of epresenta- tives, we would not, in any event, support an ad- ninistraton candidate"
 The Louisville Journal adopts and in dorses the sentiment. They declare that it is the duty of the opposition to the democ- racy to unite at once In other words, for south Americans and abolitionists to act together.
 This article has grown under our hands, and the proofs lay thick before us. We scarcely open an exchange without finding something to prove the two wings are coa- lesing and melting into one. The free soilerS will support southern man if he will pledge himself to oppose slavery, and the southern opposition leaders announce their willingness to make the pledges. To us, this looks marvellously like acting to- gether. As the subject is an important one we will refer to it again, and bring other proofs, such as cannot be gainSayed or re- butted.