Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-05-18
Tnr RrpunltcAs P4nrY--Irs PROBABLE FUTURE.
From the hi souri, Democrat.l,

Granting that not single Slave State votes
the Republican ticket in 1860, yet are san
guine enough to believe that an influential mi
Hority will be found in every Slave state sup
porting the Republican Administration. Major
tiles elect but minorities, armed with lntelli-
pcnce. wealth and conservative sentiments,
exercise a large influence on legislation, and
especially on opinion. Were party to possess
a respectable minority in all the States, the
title of nationality could not be withheld from
it, The party that possesses a majority IN all
the Free States, and a minority in each OF the
Slave States, must be acknowledged to be
national.
We think we do not overstrain recent indlca-
tions when we saw the Southern Opposition
desire the success of the Republican candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency. True,
the canvass in Kentucky seems to evolve noth-
ing but the remote subtleties of niggerology;
but there the opposition are evidently playing
reluctant and unnatural part. In tennessee
they stand on old and sure ground. But the
declaration of the Opposition press in the COM
mercial cities of the South are the signs whlch
we hail with most pleasure and to when we
attach most Importance, In Baltimore hlcn-
mond Savannah, Mobile and New Orleans,
sympathy with the fortunes if not with the prln-
ciples of the great northern organization are
Enthusiastically manifested, by journals having
the largest circulation aud the most influence IN
moulding opinion among the commercial classes.
In this feeling the RepuOucah party uHuS as IL
were powerful citadel. 1t may not express
itself at the ballot box in 1860 directly, but
should the Republican President, hotwithstand-
ing his hostility to the extension OF slavery,
prove himself wise and able, there can be little
doubt that it will vote in the Congressional
elections of l862, to sustain him.
Before that time the nucleus of Republican
organization will be formed in every Slave State
in the Union, and whatever notifications in the
general platform local exigencies may require,
there will be but two parties in COngrcss-the
slavery extentionists and non-eXtentionists-
With the latter the Opposition in the South will
cheerfuy identify itself, when it is dcmonstra'
ted that they cherish in sentiment, and observe
in practice, the State Rights doctrines. New
national interests will have arisen before the sc.
cond year of the next term expires. Industrial
and international questions will divide the pub
lie mind with the slavery question. Virtually
there will be reconstruction Of parties, for the
germs Of Democracy implanted in the Republi-
can creed will grow into a strong affirmative
policy, which will win the young hopes OF the
nation to its support. This grand development,
however, cannot DE witnessed until the Slavery
question is reduced to its old position-until it
is ocalised in the States not in the 2crritorteS
| As long as it is permitted to enter the Terrific
ries, so long will it be 'pestiferous issue
The simple mode of solving the intr!cacies OF
the problem, is to contine slavery to the States