The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-28
SOUTHERN OPPOSITION.

The Southern Opposition are playing havoc
with the Black Democracy by the excess Of
their zeal in behalf of Slavery and the slave
trade. A correspondent of the Southern Citi
zen writes as follows from Alabama
Wilcor Co., Ata., July l, l859.-In almost
every portion of the State, there are three par
ties in the ield-Democrats, Southern Rights
men, and Opposition. The Opposition and
the Southern Rights parties are identical in
feeling. Their ruling principle is an intense
desire to defeat the Democracy. 1t is amusing
to witness how cunningly they adopt names to
slut their purposes. In Democratic sections OF
the State they call themselves Southern Rights
men, and where the Wings and Know Moth
ings are in majority, they are the Opposition
party But it only requires an examination
of the material of which these parties are com
posed, to satisfy any one that it is the same
old COON We find few sound Southern
Rights men among them, Rari apparent
nantes in gurgite vasto,' but they are com
pletely swallowed up in the crowd of old I'm
ion Wings, Know-N othings, Blue Lights, set i'd
Omneg genus These men, who opposed us in So |,
who were Know Nothings, and protested the doc
trine, in 1855 and 1857, that the Union is the
paramount political good are now the selfap-
pointed guardians Of the honor and interests OF
the South. Well may we doubt their safety in
in such hands, and ask for some more certain
evidence of the sincerity of their professions
than high-sounding words.
=" The most exciting contest in the State is
in the Sd district. Thomas j. Judge, the
Wing, American, Southern Rights, Opposi-
ton candidate, is one of the eleventh-hour con-
verts, who have been believing, until now, that
the Union is the paramount political good.
How it must have astonished him to wake up
and find himself Southern Rights man! But
he cannot succeed. Daniel Clopton, one of our
ablest men, and who is truly man above re-
proach, and one who has been States Rights
Democrat from his earliest youth, is not easily
defeated" ~
This Mr.. Judge, i'll a late letter, says:
"The repeal / advocate is unconditional.
The general ground on which place the pro-
prety of repeal is, that the abolition States 'can
rightly have no voice. either through an act of
Congress or otherwise, in determining whether
the sovereign State of Alabama shall admit any
more slaves to be brought into, or held, or
sold, within her limits and that Alabama, like
each of the other States, has the sole right to
decide this question for herself unfettered and
nntrammeled by the judgment of abolition
States or acts of Congress, which, in effect,
deny the plain and important right of slave
holding State to determine for itself whether it
will have, within its own limits, greater or
less number Of slaves
" In contending for this plain and important
right of each slaveholding State, must not
be understood as favoring the policy of intro
ducing more African slaves into Alabama.
What | contend for is, that Alabama should
not be despoiled Of the right to decide for her
self whether she will admit any more African
slaves within her own limits"