Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-04-16
From the Memphis Bulletin.
The Position of the Opposition of
the SOuth-A I'll iation with National
Men Everywhere.

From the Memphis Bulletin.
The Position of the Opposition of
the SOuth-Am 'iation with National
Men Everywhere.
We have stated heretofore in these columns
the conditions upon which the Opposition
| men of the South can cooperate with the OPP
| position men of the North We have stated
that the former cannot, ought not. and will
| not cooperate with the Republicans as the
Republican party. As pqrty the southern
| Opposition men stand 10 them. precisely as
| the southern Democrats do. We assail them
as party, and denounce the policy that lies
at the bottom of their organization. We have
| not the slightest sympathy with or for them.
The circumstance of common hostility-to
democratic misrule and administrative cor
ruptions places us alike in the position OF OPP
postionists. That position is inevitable. We
who in the South honestly oppose the demo-
cratic party, cannot relieve ourselves of this
position without renouncing our principles
and becoming what patriotism forDids and
self-respect revolts at-Democrats. We must,
| as conscientious men, assail modern Demo
cracy for its principles and dvnOunce it for
its practices. We believe that the first are
wrong and the latter corrupt. Thus be-
licving, we should stultify our manhood and
become contemplate in the eyes of mankind,
by accepting such party as the custodian
OF the present interests ard director of the
future policy of our country. Aside from
the question of Slavery. we have no quarrel
with the people of the North. Except that
question, there is no obstacle to a party union
ofnorthern and southern men. That out OF the
way, southern men of every party may
affiliate with northern men of every party,
according to coincidence of opinion. q
We have said that the Opposition men of
the South will not affiliate with the Republi-
cans party. But as individuals recogni-
zing national sentiments and accepting nom
intervention by Congress with slavery in the
Territories compromise of that question,
and coinciding with us in matters relating to
administrative policy, we can affiliate with
them far to support the same man for
the Presidency. If there is anything wrong
in this pOsiton--if it be regarded as treason
to the South let the man stand forth who can
maintain it. Will a democrat attempt? Let
| him! Whoever does, will advocate either
| positive and direct disunion, or else policy
| whose sectional feet will hurry him swiftly to
| it. He will maintain policy that cannot
| possibly fail to place the Republican party in
triumphant possession of the Government.
1t is position upon which the Democracy of
the South are united in sentiment, that the
Republican party of the North embraces all
the effective opposition to the Democracy in
the free States-that this opposition TO Demo
cracy is INSTRUMENTATION.
We take il that no Southern democrat Will
dispute with us on this point, for TO do so
would be to concede the point we are aiming
to maintain in this article. This conceded,
we wish to be informed how the democratic
party can, with every Northern State against
it. expect to carry the next Presidential elee-
ton without affliating with Republicans or
Abolitonists? Grant it every Southern
State-grant to it all the Douglas democracy
in the North (nOw denounced a. republicans
and still its defeat is inevitable without the
cooperation of the very men il classes as Free
soileTs or Abolitionists. Does it hope to sue
coed? 1t does. BY what means? By obtain
ing every Northern vote il can get, no matter
what shall happen to the voters sentiments
upon the slavery question 1t was never
known to reject vote. 1t never will be. 1t
would swallow the whole Republican vote
with the satisfaction which ah anaconda
would swallow a wolf
How unfair how Inconsistent how wanting
in principle, then, IL the attempt being made
every day by Southern democrats to prvJu-
dice the cause of the Opposition in the South.
by charging il with an intention to affiliate
with Republicans in the North for the pur
pose of electing a national statesman TO the
| Presidency of the United States. The hope
| lessness of the cause of modern Democracy
| the inevitable defeat that awaits them. and
| the certain exodus of the spoils of Office from
| their camps, may assist us TO account for the
| desperation that sets upon them like raving
maniac. We remind them in vain that the
| North has accepted the policy of non-inter-
vention by Congress with slavery in the Ter
! ritories-that the Republicans in the last
| Congress voted TO admit Kansas into the
| Union with n pro-slavery constitution, in
| the event il could be ascertaiued that that in
| strument reflected the will of the people of
that Territory. aud that il threw overheard
| the organic principle of their party that no
| 4 l.. 4 ~
| Union. Within the shadows of the defeat
that involve their party prospects, they be-
| hold nothing but the begrimIned monster of
| an aveuging Opposition, aud hear nothing
| but the crash of the teeth that are to drag
from their grasp the spoils of an injured, out
ragged aud plundered people. In their
desperation they forgot that We must be one
people North and South. East aud West or
| break up the Union and become aliens and
| enemies to each other. The instinct OF self
preservation drives them from folly TO folly
| and as one retreat fails 10 protect them, they
| fy to another, but like the Wandering Jew
hnd no rest upon the face OF the whole earth.
We tell them that the unselfish, the patri-
| otto Opposition OF the South know Of no
means OF maintaining the brotherhood of the
| Union. but by warning upon sectionalism,
North and South. II the men of the North
renounce the principle thai alienates the two
| sections, must we not meet them and clasp
/ hands across Mason and Dixon's line g; Who
ever declines such an advance is no friend OF
our Union. The advance has been made by
the North, as We have repeatedly shown. IL
| has embraced non-interyentiou by Congress
with slavery In the Territories, the much
Wanted principle upon which the Democracy
claimed 10 have carried the last Presidential
election. II the leading Democrats oi the
| South have gone back Ia teryension, Is that
conclusive against as who still maintain the
! groand they have abandoned! Once the
| North was Tor Intervention, aud the South,
without = dissenting voice, was against il.
The North came over 10 the position OF the
South. Shall the South now go back io In
teryeation. a. the Democratic leaders OF the
South demand!
We tell The Democracy that the Opposition
of the South expect 10 affiliate with the con-
sentative Opposition men OF the North 20
carry the next Presidential eleetion. We tell
Them. too, that unless they pursue the same
policy they nerd not hope 10 s0cessd- They
will, beyoad all doubt. struggle for northern
votes, and when q man cones 10 the polls Ia
vote their ticket. they viii never ask ban
whether or NOT be is an AbolifaenlsI They
will not care what be h, 50 he votes with
them. We trust nov that the position II thu
Southern Opposition l. understood, as far n
a.