Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-10-12
Are the Opposition Acting Together9

does on the system of fast liver-it stirs their bile. A simple expression of ours, which we give below, so stirred the editors of the Ouachita Herald that they grow in dignant and call for proof. We give all the article of our know nothing cotempora- " so that me may not be accused ofunfair. ness:
 " It is singular that with the knowledpe of sucb facts as are recaptuated by the Traveller. tbe on- position Tn the south will continue to act with inc pack republicans and invite the enemy into the tort.-1rue Democrat.
 Not more singular if true, than the fact that men, to suoser'e the aims of party, will unbushnglv af | hrm that which they know to be absolutely and on treiy 1aise Tn every particular. It is very easy to make assertions but will the True Democrat favor us "itn the proof that the opposition in the south are acting with the black republicans? The editor Will excuse us It, in this instance, we demand more substantial testimony than his own naked assertion ne mas made grave charge, and we want him elthef to make It good or acknowledge like n man
 we take up the glove which has been thrown down and challenge him to prove that he has not been oui
 " or Wliiiul siander Wedefy him to show that the | sou'lleih opposition are now acting or that they ever have acted with the black republicans. If he should reply that few southern know nothincs voted agalnst the English bill, we tell him that they did right. They voted against sub,nittinr inc Lecompton constitution to the people. and in doing so only dld that southern democrats had s,rorD they would uo, but who, when the test came bartered a prihcipie Tor base eXpedient. If they voted with 'ne oiach republicans on that 0ccasiOn they voted also With nearly every northern democrat in Con. gress; With Stephen A. Douglas, whom the True Democrat dares not say it will support for Presi dent Tn lo60; and lastly voted with John A. Quit man patriot, the atchets of whose shoes latter day democrat was not worthy to unloose. If we are acting with the black republicans we want to know 1t, and if he will prove it to us we will agree 10 throw our press and type into the Ouachta leave TOT the north and never set our foot upon southern l soll agaln. The True Democrat is acting with Martin Van Buren, but lately the abolition candi- | date for president. What he charges upon us that | he himself done. Let us have the proof.''
 As to Mir. Douglas, we do not believe we can name who will be the nominee of the Charleston convention, but if we had to give our opinion of who would not be, we should first name Stephen A. Douglass We are g lad to see so strenuous an opposi- tionist payinga compliment to Gen. Quit man. They can approach the dead lion without trembling. If he was living and I very possibly one of the foremost candidates for the presidency, we apprehend quite diff ferent terms would be applied to him. While disposing of these little bitter alu- sions, we must notice the stress laid upon the fact, if 1t be fact, that Martin Van | Buren is democrat It was said with how much truth we know or care not, that Mr. Van Buen repudia;cd his former free soil notions and indorsed the democratic | platform. By the peculiar workings of our system of government he is simply pri- vate citizen a farmer, with but one vote. and whether he vo,ed for Buchanan, Fill more or Fremont 1t did not affect the re- suit nor change the character of either par tv of which those three men were the nomi- nees. But as it is urged as an argument let us see how it will work to turn the tables. In our remarks we used the term "opposition." On behalf of that opposi- tion the Herald takes up the glove. The very fact of owning to that name, of an swering to that term and admitting that they are members of the opposition party, is, of itself proof broad, ample, conclusive and sufficient. The author of this party name is Greedy, of the New York Tribune, who urged union of "all the opposition'' to democracy. The Louisville Journal, recognized southern exponent ofknow noth- ingism, entertained the proposition with favor, and after fusion of parties, more or less complete, in all the northern States, the combined abolitionists, black republ- cans and know nothings took the new name | of opposition party. The opposition then are those who oppose the democratic party, and who, to make that opposition effectual have united to form party. The editors of the Herald claim to be oppositionists.- So are Seward, Giddings, Hale, Greeley, Fred. Douglass and the whole body of free negroes at the north. There is not an abo- lition paper in the United States that is not anti-democratic, that does not oppose de- mocracy and claim the name of opposition. In our simplicity, we supposed that mem- bers of the same party acted with each other But the proof of the charge does not rest here. We could bring hundred if necessary. The opposition north and south have a common object-the over throw of the democratic party To this end every abolitionist is laboring and so is the Ouachita Herald. This to men of or. dinary observation seems like acting with the black republicans. Not only are they fighting the same foe but using the same weapons. If we open the columns of one of the virulent abolition sheets of the north, we find it full of charges of democratic extravaganza, democratic corruption," and the party called "the sham democra- cy," the bogus democracy" imposition democracy" and otherwise sneeringly al- ludcd to or denounced. Opening a south ern opposition paper we find the same charges made and the same opprobrious epithets applied. When we find them of the same name north and south, having common foe, common object and each using the others weapons, we submit that one is acting with the other.
 To illustrate our meaning we will tell the Herald story. Once upon time, there were two neighbors. named Dem and Op These lived on large and fertile tract of land, but often differed In their encoun- ters, Dem, who was much the stronger, al- ways vanquished his neighbor Op, who grumbled, and being spunky little fellow was always ready to fight and be whipped again. On the north side of their tract of land lived burly negro who had gradual ly acquired land all around them, and who declared his intention of seizing the lands of Dem and Op. The latter the negro did not fear, but Dem was his dreaded foe.- They met once in 1856 and the nepro was