Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-05-04
GALL THE ELEMENTS"

That the present attempt to form an "Oppositiop
party in the United States, to the Democracy, is
controlled by men devoted to the single purpose of
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
contention to the "sole duty of nominating candi-
dates for the offices of President and Vice President
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 plundcring expedition
is bold and audacious conspiracy against the con-
stItutona liberties of our free people 1t casts awa
all regard Tor principles and sound policy and boldly
processes only desire to plumber the Treasury,
At the head of this opposition movement. as we
have previously shown, are cunning, practical ahol.
tionists in the North
Inc movement in the South is instigated and kept
on Its feet by the wiley and wicked aSam" whose
oeath has been all too prematurely ctroniclcd bv
over-sanguine Democratic papers 1t is significant
that the " american State Council" of MARYLAND
1hat Council and that Maryland which, false to the
South, sends Freesoers to Congress. and in 1874
stood alone against the united South, in alliance
with faction which hates the South and her slave
~ as bad as black Republicansm itself .Samni s
evidently one of the clements" and stands IN and
ueelares Tor 1.-THE Opposition" party of MARYLAND
unaiteraole attachment for the PRINCIPLES which
nave hitherto characterized the American party.'
,unquestlonable nationality is the sole specific
gualhcatlon, according to the Maryland American
State Council, for the Presidency and Vice presi.
dency-apart from an available record and fitness
nationality" not like that of the Democracy
growing out OF the utmost regard for all rights but
oased upon mean surrender of Southern rights.
oink-thc nlgger-question and niggcrs" policy of
tle New DIRK Herald, and the New York and Ten
hessee oppositon-a nationality" which falsely |
~ ana lmpudentiy arraigns Southern Rights men in
the same criminal dock with Abolitionsts, and de-
!loulces their "sectionalsm the sectionalism of
men struggling for their property and ciyilizaton
against traitors and fanatics as equally reprebens;.
Die as that of the banded and perred villains who
steal their property and secrete it, and convey if
away and deny them lawful remedies. and murder
them IN pursuit of their property. They cali if
sectlonallsm in every shape and form, whether as
at the North or Secession at the Southn
una TINS at time when the only sectionalism at the
oouth-the only secession" is that of mon ,rho
GNU "liiIilS W ulc by Its CODStltl- \
ton lmplore these mad traitors of the North not to
erve them out of it by perssting in an open null.
hcat9n OF It's laws and Constitution intended to nro
tect them. ~ Pio-
We g, su'!jon the leading resolution of the "Ameri
AN state Council" of Maryland, for the edifcat;on
!. ma i comfort of Southern Rights" "anti.Know
Notning" men of the South, who have been dis.
'osed to unite e, with this new Opposition party"
Resolsed, That the State Council of the American
afy Ct Maryland repudiating sectionalism in every
hape and form, whether as abolitionism at the
.ofih or secession at the South, congratulate the
IUTuhtry on the suspicious prospect of the union of
II the conservative clements of opposition to the
n sen; Democratic administration And inspired
y tins prospect the people of Maryland, whilst thew
e-air1n and hereby express their unaterable At.
l &c to the principles which have hitherto
a mara the American party, invite the whole
oay OF conservative Opposition in all the States Of
ee lhon to cooperate with them in selecting here.
Iter delegates to a National Convention. to he
harged with the sole duty of nominating candidates
y the olces of President and Vice President Of the
nled States to be voted for by the whole bodv Of
,e opposition in 1866, and whose past life. eminent
mess and unquestionabe nationality shall entitle
ZEN IN to the conservative vote of the whole coustrv
-Richmond Enquirer "'''' '0u'''iy' r