Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1859-04-30
GALL THE ELEMENTS"

That the present attempt to form an "Opp0SltOn
party" in the United States, to the Democracy, is
getting control of the public purse is manifest from
many considerations.
In the first place, there is no agreement whatever
among them, as to either principles or policy. And
they do not intend even profession of any system
of faith or practice.
This is evident from the resolution of the late
" American State Council of Maryland" which re-
strcts the work of its proposed Opposition National
Convention to the "sole duty of nominating candi-
of the United States to be voted for by the whole
body of the Opposition in 1860" The low object at
which these men aim is success in the wild hunt af
ter Office. Men to be voted for! Each one of the
Opposition chiefs agrees to surrender his banner and
badge Of honorable independence, and sacrifice his
tribe for share of the booty of the war. This sort
of proclaimed Opposition and p!undering expedition
is bold and audacious conspiracy against the
stitutional liberties of our free people Hcasts away
processes only desire to plumber the Treasury!
At the head Of this opposition movement, as we
have previously shown, are cunning, practical aboli-
tiOnists in the North.
The movement in the South is instigated and kept
on its feet by the wiley and wicked "Sam," whose
death has been all too prematurely chronicled by
over-sanguine Democratic papers, It is significant
that the american State Council" of MARYLAND
that Council and that Maryland which, false to the
South, sends Free-soiers to Congress, and in 1856
stood alone against the united South, in alliance
with faction which hates the South and her slave
~ as bad as black Republicanism ITSELF "Sam" is
evidently one of 1.-THE elements" and stands up and
declares for 1.-The Opposition" party of Maryland
"unalteraDle attachment for the principles which
have hitherto characterized the American party"
"Unquestionable nationality" is the sole specific
qualification, according to the Maryland american
State Council for the Presidency and Vice Presi-
NATIONALITY" not like that of the Democracy,
growing out of the utmost regard for all rights but
based upon mean surrender Of Southern rights
"Smk-the-n igger- question and niggers" policy of
the New York Herald, and the New York and Ten
nessee Opposition nationality" which falsely
and impudently arraigns Southern Rights men in
the same criminal dock with Abolitionists, and de-
nounces their "sectionalsm" the sectionalism of
men struggling for their property and civilization
against traitors and fanatics, as equally reprehcnsi
BILE as that Of the banded and perjured villains who
steal their property and secrete it, and convey it
away, and deny them lawful remedies, and murder
them In pursuit of their property. They call it
"sectionalism in every shape and form, whether as
Abotonism at the North or Secession at the South"
and this at time when the only sectionalism at the
South-the only secession" is that of men, who,
c'AiS TIC Union anu Wiling to die by its COnStitu-
ton impore these mad traitors of the North not to
drive them out of it by perssting in an open multi
catlon Of its laws and Constitution intended to pro-
tect them.
We subjoin the leading resolution of the "Ameri-
can State Council of Maryland, for the etlification
and comfort Of Southern Rights" "anti- Know
Nothing" men of the South, who have been dis
posed to unite with this new "Opposition party"
Resclred, That the State Council of the American
party ct Maryland repudiatng sectionalism in every
shape and form, whether as abolitionism at the
Aorth or secession at the South, congratulate the
country on the suspicious prospect of the union of
all the conservative elements of opposition to the
present Democratic administration. And. inspired
10y this prospect the people of Maryland whilst thew
reafflrm and hereby express their unalterable at
tachment to the principles which have hitherto
characterized the American party, invite the whole
body Of conservative Opposition in all the States of
the Union to cooperate with them in selecting here
alter delegates to a National Convention, to be
charged With the sole duty of nominating candidates
for the offices Of President and Vice President of the
United States to be voted for by the whole BODY of
the Opposition in 1861 and whose past life eminent
fitness and unquestonable nationality shall enttIe
them to the conservative vote of the whole country
-Richmond Enquirer: