Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-08
what /. the Opposition!

We find In the Cincinnati Commercials Black
Republican Organ-an extract from Call for an
Opposition State Convention, addressed 10 men of
all parties" Republicans. Am orleans, and Demos
Gratis and to of foreign and native birth,
''who are prepared to join in acommon effort to de-
liver our National Government from the control Of
an arrogant sectional interest; to arrest the spread
of slavery beyond the States in which il exists; TO
prevent the re>onening of the foreign slave trade
to maintain the rights of freemen and the interest
of free labor to rebuke the spirit of extravaganza
corruption and misrule which charaoterizes the
existing National ADMINISTRATION, and to bring back
the Government to the control of the principles
avowed in the Declarationof Independence, and re-
affirmed in the Federal Constitution"
"Al this seems tous very proper" says the Com
meci4I; and such is the basis of the Opposition or
gauization at the north. No one doubts that the
northern Opposition, constituting more than four.
ffths of the effective strength Of the new party
will control and direct it councils.
The little faction at the South is @ mere append
age to the Black Republican Opposition of the North
which the latter will twitch about at their pleasure
The Know Nothings of Tennessee are tied on TO the
tail of an organization of which SEWARD is the head
and the Black Republicans the body, and NEITHER
LAND is the tin pan attached, to make noise and
furnish amusement to the by-stanaers.
The tail end is not expected to know where the
body is going. It has no right to enquire perhaps.
1t must follow where the abolition head carries it.
The outgvings of the Opposition in Ohio, SEwARD's
speeches and GREELEy's editorials, indicate, pretty
clearly the final destination of this party; but the
Know Nothing organs keep their readers in blissful
ignorance Of these things.
The Cincinnati Commercial which the Patriot saws
is one of the most conservative of the Republican
organs, advocates the Opposition movement in Ohio.
Here are some of its reasons in favor the organiza
ton of the Opposition in Ohio.
awe do not contemplate the fact with pleasure or
complacency, but it is Individually fact that the
contest for the Presidency in 1860 will be substan-
TALLY between sectional parties There is an car,
rogsnt sectional interest" controlling the Ma.
tional Government, which seeks, by the concentra-
ton Of power in the hands of the President who il
a subordinate in its serviee-by the use Of the Su-
preme Court, which it holds in the hollow of its
handy its undivided force in Congress, and
such allies it may bully buy into subservience
and by system of terrorism and pretension un-
der which the weak and the ignorant are frighten-
ed iattered into acquieseence in wro1g-to per.
petuate its power 10 nationalize It's doctrines and
to cause its authority TO be paramount throughout
the Union. Politicians may periodically proclaim
that they "know no North and no South I" bat there
is North and South The country is divided be-
tween geographical parties. The minority section
forces the issue upon the majority section-and the
question distinctly before the nation is whether a
single interest that of Slavery is to be permitted
to vest in itself the provocative of government"
"There is nothing" says the Nashville Banner,
.EFo g a.