The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-06-09
THE NORTHERN REPU BLICANS AND
SOUTHERN OPPOSITION"

The sympathy of certain Northern Republi-
cans with the unprincipled Opposition of the
South is one of the most remarkable phenome-
ma Of the day. This Southern Opposition, in
order to underbid the Black Democracy for the
support and confidence Of the slave interest,
has, with some honorable exceptions which we
taAe pleasure IN noting, taken decided aud TN
Kentucky ultra Pro-Slavery ground The can
didateS and newspaper organs of this hybrid
party habitually denounce the Republicans as
sectionalists," fanatics" traitors" and
" Black Republicans " and yet, with meek
ness which might command our respect if it
were the offspring of a Christian spirit, Repub-
licans still cling to the hope of a union with the
Southern Opposition. They are willing to
unite on any terms that will secure success.
They are plainly told that they must abandon
their name and their principes-that they must
support the candidates who shall be rendered
to them by the Southerners and they are con-
tent with these humiliating conditions!
1t is well known that the electoral vote of not
more than one or two Southern States, and
they the smallest, can be secured for any can.
didates whom they themselves may select. 1t
is known that the "Americans or Wings in
the free States, who stand aloof from the Re
publican party, are but handful that they
cannot cast one-ffth of the vote in any one of
them, and that the utmost they can do is to
hold the balance of power between the Repub-
licans and the Black Democracy vet thew
modeStly demand of the Republicans surren.
der of their name, their organization, their
principles, and their candidates Could impu
dence go further? And what must we think of
men, Claiming to be Republicans, who have the
patience to listen to the insulting demand
AS specimen of the high estimate placed
upon this Southern Opposition by certain
Northern Republicans, we cite the following
from the Boston Aads and Bee:
"Although Goggin has not been elected. he
has made a noble run, and the effect of the
Virginia election upon Tennessee and Ken
lucky will be by no means encouraging to the
cause of spurious Democracy"
If Mr.. GOggin occupied the position of Mr..
Bolts We could sympathize in, this high esti.
mate of his " noble run hut the fact is far
otherwise. Goggin, as the Canvass proceeded.
waXed warmer and warmer in the cause of
Slavery; and his great point was, to show that
he was more Pro-Slavery than Letcher, who
had apostatized from the honorable faith he
held ten years ago. Goggin habitually de-
nounced Republicans i'll the cOarsest language ;
and in one of his last speeches he spoke of the
National Era as the " rilest abolition sheet
printed on Southern soil"
Such IS the man whom the Boston AtLas and
Bee characterizes as haviog made "noble
run for the office of Governor.
The same Republican journal felicitates its
readers upon the probable effect of Goggin's
"noble run" upon the elections which are vet
to take place in Tennessee and Kentucky. The
following extracts from the Louisville Journal,
the organ of the Kentucky Opposition, will
| show how emlnently desirable to Republicans
victory OF that party must be. 1t will be
seen, as we have heretofore informed our read.
ers, that they demand Congressional legislation
for the protection of Slavery in the Territories
and, as matter OF course, all Republicans who
sympathlze In that object will devoutly pray
for the success OF the Kentucky opposition:
| "Suppose Territorial Legislature should
impose an annual tax on every negro, at such
rates as to drive the property out of the Terri
tory by destroying its value, is the owner to
have no redress? Admit the argument of the
Journal, and Slavery is forever excluded from
the Territories; and that is the motive which
clouds its sense of its own ridiculous logic
The Territories are mainly settled by free
State men; the slave States need all their la
Dor at home; the free States have super
abundance, and they send their surplus to the
frontier to prevent starvation. How can a weak
minority be protected from a strong, overbear
ing, and fanatic majority, without direct Con
gressional legislation? The Territories swarm
with aliens who have learned to live on less
than any negro in the country could shall they
dispossess US of our rights of property to sub