The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-04-09
oppo.ition Movement in the sonth.


Opposition Movement In the south.
The old wing politicians of the South are
making desperate efforts to revive and re-
suscitate that organization. They are aided
by several publications in the Northern
States-the most prominent of which is the
New York Hsrald-who are blowing Justify
to raise the kindling sparks into fame
The movement has taken definite shape in
the States of Virginia, Kentucky, and Ten
nessee. In these States the wings are or
ganized, and have their candidates in the
field An address has been issued to the
wings of Louisiana, by several members o.
the Legislature, calling upon them to organ
ize and select delegates to meet in Conven-
ton at the city of New. Orleans, on the Sec
ond Wednesday of June next, to perfect an
organization and select ticket for the APP
preaching State elections. The address is
very fervent and patriotic and is likely to
call into active exercise all the old wing
FIRE which has been slumbering for so many
years. a
In Alabama, the papers are discussing the
propriety of calling State Convention of
wings. The Mobile Advertiser is in favor of
such movement, and thinks primary meet
ings should be held throughout the State
for the selection of delegates. The Hon. W.
P. Chiffon is earnestly exhorted to take the
field as candidate for Governor, and it is
believed could accomplish much towards or
ganizing and consolidating the party pre-
paratory to the great contest of 1860.
Notwithstanding the enthusiasm of the
Southern Wings, we confess to an inability
to discover how they are to bring order out
of the present political chaos. The move
ment in the South meets with no hearty re-
Spouse in the North. The late election in
Connecticut demonstrates that there is no
vitality in the Wing organization in the
free States. Disguise it, and dodge as we
may, the truth is, the questions of Congress
ional Intervention for the protection or pre-
vention of the extension of slavery in the
territories and of Popular Sovereignty J"
overshadow all others, and must be disposed
of before any national organization can sue
coed, based on other political dogmas.
The views of the Southern Wings are as
Numerically opposed to those of the North
ern as are the differences in the ranks of
the Democracy in those two sections In
Virginia and Kentucky, the idea seems 20
be which party can occupy the most ultra
Southern ground. The Richmond (Va.)
Wing seeks to aid Mr.. Goggin by proving
Letcher to be an abolitionist, and the Lou
isville Jounn6l hopes to secure adherents to
Mr.. Bell by endorsing the dogma of Con-
gressional interference for the protection of
slavery in the territories So vast are the
concessions that will have to be made by
both wings of the opposition, before any
thing like healthy and successful union
can take place, that all hopes of such an
event are fast merging into despair. Not
outstanding the predictions to the contrary,
we apprehend that the present Opposition
movement in the South will prove as insig-
nifcant as have been the efforts of the
American party for the past two years in
the North. We wish the contrary might be
the case, but our faith is very weak