Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-11-03
From the Richmond Whig.
Our State Convention.

The Virginia Opposition State Conven
tion,r which is TO assemble in this city Oh
the l4lh of December next, will, as is obvi
Gus from present indications, be one Of th,
largest and ablest political bodies that evel
met in the Commonwealth A deep inter
est, too, is already felt in its proceedings BY
conservative. national, Union-loving men il
all portions Of our common country, and il,
final action, if wise, sagacious, and disin:er.
ested, is destined 10 exert an unusually pow
erful and benefcen: influence upon the pol
iticsl events of the future. 1t will be the
duty Of that Convention TO point out the
way TO union of the Opposition North and
South, East and West, in the coming Pie
idential election-a union upon the broad
and impregnable basis OF the Constitution,
the Union and the Rights Of the States
1t will perhaps be its duty, also, 10 recon-
mend time and place for the holding Of q
National Opposition Convention for the
nomination Of candidates for the Presidency
and Vice Presideney-of men opposed TO
the slavery agitation and sectionalism in all
their varied forms, and who will admins
ter the Government in the interests and for
the benefit of the whole people of the Uni
ted States. That such Convention might
be gotten up and such nominations made,
there can be no doubt at all, ifprudsnt and
cemmon-sense counssls shall prevail in the
approaching Convention IN Virginia.
There are thousands of honest, conserv-
alive patriotic men in each and all of the
Northern States, who have never united
themselves with either the Republican or
Democratic parties, and who cannot under
any circumstances, be driven into the ranks
Of any selfish. sectional organization what
eyer-and these men are as willing and as
anxious as ourselves for fair and Just union
OF the Opposition elements of the country
upon the same platform and in support Of
tho same candidates, in the approaching
Presidential election. Nor can the Repub-
licans, as party. wish 10 adhere 10 their
own organization and their own name, in
view of the fact that such a course would
necessarily prevent union of the Opposi-
tion, and necessarily lead to The success Of
the Democracy. We believe that the mass
of the Republicans--all except some Of the
selfish politicians and leaders of the party,
see the matter in the light that we do. and
would rejoice in the disbandment of the
Republican party, as a separate and distinct
political organization, and in union Of oil
the elements OF Opposition to the Demo,rs-
cy in 3 new and National Opposition party.
Why, indeed, should any member of the Re-
publican party be desirous Of cliDging to
their name and organization, which have at
least bad odor and which are offensive TO
The entire Southern Opposition. together
with large and respectable influential body
Of the Northern Opposition, when the sla-
very issue has become totally "extinct, and
when the fact is apparent that such policy
on their part is simply unnecessary, mis-
chievous and suicidal, conducting inevita-
bly, TO another Presidential triumph of the
bogus Democracy and to the pro,tration of
all the interests and hopes Of the country?
1t would be idle TO disguise the fac. that
neither the conservative Southern, nor
Northern Opposition could take any part in
q professsdly Republican Convention, or
give their support 10 candidates nominated
by such Convention. Such Convention, .
therefore, would be composed Of delegates
only from the free States, snG would nee
essarily be sectional in its character-in ap-
pesrance at least, if not in fact. 1t is obvi- /
Gus that no Southern man, no matter how
unsectional the platform or the candidates Of
such Convention might be, could stand on
the one or support the other; nor could the
Opposition at the North do SO,
either, As national men and anti-sectional /
men, they cannot approve even the appear
ance OF ssctionalism in any political party. !
On the contrary, their principles and their
are all at war both with sectionalism .
and the appearance Of sectionalism, whether /
itself in the Democratic, Re-
publican, or any other political organization.
If the Virginia Convention, therefore,
which meets on 14ih Of December, shall /
place itself on the simple, just, comprenen-
siye, and all-sufficisnt platform of nOn-ngi- /
tation on the subject of slavery, and of de- !
voiion 10 the Constitution and the Union as
they are, as il most probably will, what is
to hinder men Of all parties, North and
South from coming together upon it, If they
are not fatally bent on purely sectional ends /
and aims? What do the Republicans pro-
pose to themselves by holding on to their
name and organization. when the issue up
on which their party was founded has pass
ed away aud become "extinct?" They do
not, as party, as they themselves assure
US, mediate any interference with slavery in |
The States where it now exists. Their on
ly IDEA aud object, heretofore and now, as
they are constantly affirming, is the exclu-
sien of slavery from the Territories. Well
Is there any Territory from which slavery
has not been excluded already? Is there
any danger IN this world of lis going into
Kansas, or Nebraska, or Washington, or
Dacctah, or in any Of the Territories now
belonging TO the Union9 If there Is not
where is the necessity, or the pretext. or the
occasion for the longer existence Of the Re-
publican party, as separate and distinct
and sectional organization? And why should !
it not disband at once and drop its name,
and unite with us, in National Opposition
party, for the purpose Of putting down the
profigats and destructive bogus Democracy
and restoring the administration Of the Gov