Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-08-31

July y, 1859.
he :. Opposition - and the Binck Republicans.
Our friend of the Washington Dispatch in giving
readers the Esprit of the State Press" quotes
m and comments on some of our recent remarks
relation to the next House of Representatives
the article quoted from we said
Mr. Gilmer, Mr.. Vance, Mr.. Leach, and Mr..
NTH will at least remain neutral in contest be-
en national Democrat and black Republican
4 the Presidency for they no doubt hold, with
cir organ, the Raleigh Register that no choice
[nId well be made between the two On calls of
yeas and nays, where the rights of the South
nd the interests of slavery are virtually at issue
~ will either decline to vote or vote with the
NTH; at any rate they will do as little as possible
eubarraSS their opposition brethren. But in
Fmmttee of the whole House, where the yeas and
Is are not recorded, they will be foot loose, and
N vote as they please without being called to &C.
unit. And the same will be found true, no doubt,
to the Southern Know Nothing members gener-
v. We confess this is Il gloomy view, but we be-
We it to be the true one"
This was said with reference, first, to probable
fnest in the House for the Presidency; and Sec
div with reference to the general course of Messrs
Amer, Vance, Leach, and Smith as members OF
bat body But the Dispatch adds
I'VE have seen sundry limitations by the Demo-
attic press of the State of a supposed combination
the '.Oppositon" with the "black Republicans
such combination exists, it ought to be known.
hen the charge is made, however, it should be
sed upon the dearest evidence
We are pleased with the frank and candid manner
which the Dispatch has referred to our remarks,
nd we shall be equally frank and candid in our re-
". We have reconsidered our language, and see
good reason why we should modify it. This
barge of combination of the Opposition with
e black Republicans should be made, says the
Dispatch, only on "the clearest evidence" Now,
hat is the evidence? Let us see:
LIST. The Southern Know Nothings claim to be-
ng to the " opposition" party. The black Repub-
cans of the North are emphatically the "opposi-
on party. When we call the former Know Moth.
g, as they were proud to be called in 1854, they
ply in substance, "you have done US injustice
e are not Know Nothings nor Americans, but we
re of 1.-THE opposition" to Democracy and the adj
inisration."
ID. The Southern Opposition or Know Moth
lg presses are as bitter and as vehement in their
buse of Mr. Buchanan and the national Democra-
as are the black Republican journals of the North.
hey use the same arguments and charges, differing
My in this, that while the Northern Opposition
enounce the national Democracy as pro-s!avery
hen and as bound hand and foot to the cause Of
avery extension, the Southern Opposition" charge
hat the national Democracy and the administration
false to the interests of the slaveholding States
md that, through their derelicton or positive inter-
Freace, Kansas has become free Territory. For
roof of this see the Raleigh Register, the Wades-
orough Argus and the Elizabeth City State on the
ne hand, and the New York Tribune and its fol-
bwers on the other.
Sd. The course of Mr.. Gilmer and Mr.. Vance in
he last House of Representatives was exactly what
e predicted it would be in the next House. They
i'll cooperate with the general Opposition as
r as they can, and in order to advance their party
.ws and beat down the Democracy, they "will do
little as possible to embarrass their opposition
rethren" from other quarters Mr.. Gilmer it is
Eel known, delivered speech in the last House
ganst the administration and the national Demo
racy, which was highly complimented by the black
republicans, and which was subscribed for and cir
aated by them among their constituents. 1has !,
b. We have it from those who were there, and
aw and heard all, that Mr.. Gilmer soas personally
nd publicly congratulated by a number of black
republicans as soon as he had finished his speech,
fhle his Democratic colleagues and Southern men
Generally looked on with regret and modification.
Fnd yet Mr.. Gmer has been re-elece6 to Congress
an increased majority.
4th. The Raleigh Register has deliberately de-
Jared, and deliberately repeated, that as between
ational Democrat and black Republican for the
Desidency, 1t aeouM make no choice. That is, as
etween Dickinson and Banks, or Breckenridge and
swa'd it would take no part! What does the
D'slatch think of that? And yet no Opposition "
ess in the State has rebuked the Register for this
ecaration, or even differed with it. The truth is,
IT. Fillmore is more just in his views towards the
9uth than the Register and many of the Southern
NOW Nothings, for he distinctly and emphatically
sclared, in public speech in 1856, tina. the cleo
on Of Fremont would justify the Southern people
assolving the Union.
Does the DispatcA desire further or stronger evi
tnce?
'ar be it from us to charge that the Opposition
uhern gentlemen referred to, are abolitionists o,
"'A Republicans. Doubtless if the crisis of oul
s nss people were upon us, they would fight al
''ntly for their hearthstones and their affairs as
among us; but we do insist, that under the in
"'e OF party prejudice, personal ambition, ani
W Madness they are yielding to the advances o.
sV'nnon foe and contributing to the very result
NJ, Nv" they themselves would meet with arms and
''0u Hateful as Democracy may be to them