Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-04-28
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The BazRer disavoWs any intention of fusng will
the Black Republicans. I. is 100 late for any sucI
disayowal. The Know Nothing party of the South
have abandoned their old name and assumed one
which brings them into closer and nearer alliance
with their Black Republican brethren. They al
fight together under the common title Of Opposition
and they avoW the same object--the overthrow Of
the Democracy. If that object is accomplished the
Banner knows, as every man ofcommon intelligence
knoWs, that tie Black Republicans must come intc
power. Every victory that the Opposition in the
Southern States achieve will accrue to the benefit Of
the Northern Black-Republicau>Opp Opposition, who
constitute more than three-fourths Of the "al
lied army" Wherever The Southern Opposition may
defeat the Democracy they strengthen their North
ern allies If they can carry the States of Tennes-
see and Kentucky, they make the success Of aboli-
ioDism certain in 1860. "Divde and conquer is
the motto of our enemies. At the North the united
Opposition inscribe hostility to slavery upon their
banners. At the South they may profess fidelity 10
our institutions, that they may have the better
chance of deceiving the Southern people into their
support. But they know that if they succeed,
under whatever flag they fight, the Black Repubi-
must reap all the benefits Of their victory. The
Democratic party are the defenders of Southern
rights. SThey have shown their ability and disposI-
ton to protect those rights. The Northern and
Southern Opposition are conspiring together, to
overthrow the Democracy, and thus break down
the bsttlements of cur strength and the bull
warks of our protection. Senator SEwARD has
proclaimed that the Democratic party is the only
barrier to the success of the Black Republicans
HORACE GREEDY has said the same thing The
battle cry of the Opposition in their late elections
at the North, was, "DOWn with the Democratic
party and down with slavery"
The Know Nothing leaders do not in all cases pro-
claim the objects, but if they can divide the
South, and vanquish the Democracy, they know per-
fectly well that they are contributing to the same
results.
The New York Tribune recognizes this fact, and
encourages the enemies of Democracy to do all they
to overthrow that party, and urges them to fight
under any banner that promises success. ave
give fair notice." says the Tribune, "that
practical triumph in 1860 over the sham Democracy
and its master, the Slavery Propaganda, is the end
for which we labor, and to which we hold not only
personal aspirations, but party names, wholly sub
ordinate"
TIE New York Herald, which understands the re-
suits Of political movements az WE'LL perhaps, as any
Journal in the country, says:
Sin this light, if the opposition to the Democracy
in the South ean in cooperation, with their North
ern Republican Allies elect single member TO
Congress from any Southern State, the result will
be victory worth recording.
The Opposition at the North see no difference be-
tween Know Nothing victory and Black Repub-
licsn victory If the opponents of Democracy sue
coed, they do not stop to inquire under what flag
it was achieved All they desire is 'a practical
triumph over the sham Democracy" 'and its mas
ter the slavery Propaganda" The Southern OppO-
siion are aiding them in their object and they hail
them as brothers.
But the Patriot and the Banner tell US that they
are organizing ga great conservative opposition" to
rescue the country from the dominion of the DemN
Ocracy. The thing has been done at the North,
and the result was a Black Republican triumph in
Massachusetts,, New York and Pennsylvania, and
the election of an anti slavery delegation to Con-
gress. Southern Opposition Journals rejOiced over
that victory, and claimed portion of its benefits
They recognized it a triumph Of their friends and
allies. They proclaimed that I" there is now no OBJ
stacle to a union of the opposition"
This then is the conservative Opposition" of
which they speak. 1t is a combination of Ameri.
cans and Black Republicans, in which the latter ele-
mont largely predOminates. The Black Republicans
swallowed up al the other factions and assimilated
them to itself Minor differences were disregarded,
and they all combined in opposition to slavery and
the South.
8 Grst lie If ha
tive Opposition" Whatever strengthi it may obtain