The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-02-12
THE OPPOSITION PARTY.

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Every rrse has been tried-every resource of
indas.ry and cunning has been exhausted. and
yet does the Democratic party, with its winning
frankness and its invincibe TRUTH stand uncon-
quered and uneonqueraSie. Its most respectable
foe, the old Wing Party, fell in fair fight, battling
manfulIy for life, but to no avail. That party is
dead, 1t was so pronounced by its ablest politi
cal leeohes, who had been sustaining it, for many
years, by unpaturs stmulants and bitter doses
until the physique Of the pnticnt had undergone
so marked change not to be recognized by old
friends at the time of its death.
When it became obvious that Wing principles
could not be established in governmental policy,
and when it was seen that a party was rising into
power at the North which advocated sectional
doctrines and trampled upon the constitution i'll
was natural to suppose that all true lovers OF right
and justice would abandon partisan feeling and
join that party which could best combat so dan
gerous a heresy More especially was this to be
expected of Southern men, whose peculiar inter
ests were greatly jeopardzed by this sectional,
abolition sentiment Accordingly when the utter
corruption Of Know Nothingism became apparent
and Black Republicanism began to rear its threat
ening crest, thousands of Old Line Wings came
boldly into the Democratic camp, to assist in de
Tending their common country and the institu-
ton of slavery. They were received with open
arms, and welcomed as brethren in the patriotic
cause.
But there are those among us belonging to a
stif-necked generation who hold with desperate
tenacity to their ridiculous dogmas or rather,
who have Invested themselves of all doctrnal bur
dens and avowedy cling to single plank in
their platform, and that is, opposition to the Dem
ocrahc party.
Time was when men dared not in this great
country boldly declare that they had no princ-
pies to defend and no creed to promugate, but
were act uated solely by antpathy to the party in
power. In the purer days of the Republic, such
men, instead of receiving the golden need that
waits on virtue, would have been overwhelmed by
the bucklers of an indignant people But the
country is degenerating and foolhardy and
criminal spirit now exctes but an occasional
EXPIRE ssion of surprise and Ieprobation We see
papers every day calling on the - Opposition" to
organize, and, even where there is. no prospect of
success, advising that the discipline be kept up
What discipline? The discipline of malice and
hate. Ashamed of the name of Know Nothings,
and having themselves pronounced the funeral
Grafton of the Old Wing party, they have at last
thrown off the mask, and openly advocate organi
cation as the OPposition party Being driven 10 the
wall and having had the faacy Of all their tenets
forced upon their unwilling minds, they have now
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spitc Advocating no principles of their own
they devote all their ingenuity to att emptng to
discover evils in Democracy. What pitable de
generacy The old Wing party was wont to rely
upon what was believed to be its own merits, and
not upon the dement's of its adversary. This de-
generate faction vents its spleen in invective and
abuse, aud has determined to perish in the wrong,
with curses on the lips, and the glowing fires Of
latredin the heart, unbewildered by any appre
henson that the country may suffer by such recs-
lessness and temeIty
But the members Of the Opposition will fad
1t impossible to inspire the people with any Of
Their fanatic fury. 1t is too plain to be mistaken
that the Democratic party "a the only hope for the
preservation Of oar rights, and when the crisis
comes, the leaders Of the " movement so vaguely
limited at win fad it necessary to turn stocks
and stones into men, or fight their battles with
out followers The people know that the Black
Republican arr forcing the sectional question
upon US, and they see how suicidal would he
schisms at the South-how essential unanimity
viii be to our preservation, and in 1860 we hope
and believe that the South will present undivi
ded front At any rate, whatever may be the
result the true Democrat will have no conscien-
tlous qualms, but will have the satisfaction of
knowing that he has done his duty to his country.
Should the efforts of the great party fail, the
praises of Democracy shall nevertheless burden
the last notes from the trumpet of Freedom and
expire upon the latest gasp of that Union it sought
SO perseyeringly to preserve,
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