The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-12-29

The action of the National Republican
Committee, in calling National COnven-
ton ia such terms as to include in the invi-
tation the Opposition generally, deserves to
be considered and initiated by the Republic
can State Central Committee, in the calling
of a State Convention.
The councils of the Chairman of that
Committee, and of many of his indiscreet
advisers in the heavy Republican counties,
are all directed to the personal end of a few
of the ultra Republican leaders-as if no
other class of the Opposition had any right
to be represented in the leading organza-
ton to be made in our State the coming
year. They think that the straight-out Re
publicans compose the Opposition, and for
get that there is, in the Southern counties
of Indiana, an immense mass of voters who
are just as sincerely opposed to Lecompton-
ism and other villainies as the ultra Repub-
licans are.
1t is high time, now on the eve Of calling
a State Convention of the opponents of the
present Administration, to disabuse the
minds of those mistaken gentlemen of the
idea which seems to have run away with
their good sense.
The deposition" in this part of the
State, is constituted similarly to the Peoples
Party of Pennsylvania, and the Opposition
Of New Jersey, who are invited, along with
the Republicans, by the National Republican
Committee, to attend and participate i'll the
Chicago Convention. Those parties, in the
States named, are composed of all the Oppo-
nents of the Lecomptonism and corruption
Of the present Administration.
They are made up Of Republicans,
Americans, Wings, and Anti-LecOmpton
Democrats, and more compact, effective
party does not exist than those two. They
have gained great victories, and are aes
tined in future, we believe, to gain others.
The grandeur of the triumphs in Pennsyl-
vanin of the Peoples Party, the good use they
have made of their victories, and the noble
stand taken by such men as Hickman, Has
kin, Schwartz, and Forney against the LIE
compton powers, is all conclusive evidence
against Mr.. CARRIERS ott-repeated argument
that such motley party can accomplish no
good, enduring purpose.
The Opposition here is composed OF indl-
viduals entertaining different shades of be-
lief They see that the only chance to de-
feat a compact body of Treasury-ea is to
make general charge along the whole
line ut them. They know that, if a squad
here and there, without concert, be detached
and sent out, they will be picked of by the
well-disciplined veterans of the Administers
ton at their leisure, and that thus the pres
ent corrupt dynasty will be perpetuated.
Therefore, the Opposition here are will
ling to waive minor points of difference for
the time, and to cooperate with each other
on the broad platform Of opposition to the
present Administration-its tyranny, its
corruption, its extravaganza, and its odious
federalism.
Let the persons who control the present
organization of the Republican party call
their Convention in such way that the
Opposition here may participate and throw
their influence against the adoption of inju-
dicious and extreme measures and men, and
Southwestern Indiana will tell a better sto-
ry in 1860 than ever told yet for the
cause of political reform.