Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-01-12
The Harmonious Opposition.

| ribs and laughing or pretending to iauSh at all apparent want of harmony among the members l of the democratic party. Some of their fits ot merriment are very violent indeed, and they laugh till the tears come into their eyes, and until their sides fairly ache. They are sngu- l lar set and always have jolly time of 1t 6efore | an election. Before if, they are all true dScl-
 ples of democrats, jolly fun-loving fellows and
 apparently as happy as niggers at circus. Ar
 ter the election you would hardly know the same men, and of every poor Yorick of them
 one might ask
 | "Where be your gibes now? your gambols:
 your songs? your flashes of merriment that were
 wont to set the table on a roar? not one now to mock your own grinning? quite chap-falen"' It is indeed quite carnival time with them, and, in truth we are glad of it. They cannot laugh after a contest, so let us be generous | enough to allow them to take their fun becre- hand. They are very easily pleased; so tick fish that if you but point finger at them, they straightway gointo convulsions of laughter, and | a difference between democrats sets them each
 mating from one end of the country to the | other
 One editor, composes his face long enough to
 write what he intended to be very sarcastic
 article. You can see that he is putting on airs
 of gravity and servity, while, all the time, the sides of the sly dog are shaking with ill'sup- perssed mirth. This being the case he makes slip of the pen and while intending to be very severe upon the democratic party, paysit high compliment in these words:
 e It is the organ of party, represented, m
 part, in the Congress of the United States, by
 Senor Otero, a Spanish Catholic; Benjamin, | West Indian Jew; and Shields, an Irish Fro
 testant. A harmony ofrace and of rellson that | 1t is not easy to excel"
 During the revolutionary war it was common among the tories, both in England and America, | to'ridcule the apparent want of harmony among the rebels, as they termed the patriots. Very funny, sarcastic and witty were the tories of that day before the war closed. In the British par lament it was gravely argued that the liberty party of America, being composed of such dis cordant materials, would eventually disagree ! and fall to pieces. Political writers of that school were in the habit of naming the differ ent elements that constituted the bulk of the l patriots and contrasting the New Eng land puri- tan with the Virginia cavalier, the Huguenot of Carolina and the Catholic of Maryland-the Presbyterian of New Jersey and the Quaker of Pennsyvania-the Methodsts and Baptsts to- gether with the disciples of Tom Paine. Not only did the revolutionary army contain men of all creeds and some of no creed at all, but there were representatives of all nations-Scotch,
 German, Irish, French, Polish and others, while it was in part, officered by foreigners. All of which, in that day, afforded much amusement to the enemy. They ridiculed the Americans in plays, in songs in speeches and in their pa pers. Like the present opponents of the demo- cratic party, tbey some times grew very sarcas- tic, very bitter and very dignifed. They could not understand what principle it was that could unite men, so diverse in other respects, in one common cause. Neither can our opponents comprehend how love ofright, desire to per petuate our liberties; in word how the gor- ous principles of democracy unite men, who may differ on questions of policy. They have yet to learn that Spanish Catholics West h. dian Jews and Irish Protestants may all love liberty and each be at heart a patriot.
 But the beauty of the thing is that these fun ny fellows are themselves agreed in only one thing; that is, that the democratic party must be beaten; but, in all others, are severed wide The Pennsylvania members of the peoples party are high tariffites; the southern know nothiugs profess to be free-traders. Danley advocates the re-opening of the slave trade; Greedy opposes it. Very many of the free-negro orators of the north are in favor of dissolution of the Union; many of the southern know noth- ings are Union men. The abolitio nsts assert that Congress has absolute control over slavery in the territories and can prohibit it. Know nothings in Arkansas at least part of them, deny this At the north they are opposed to the acquisition of Cuba; at the south they want to take it by force. They find fault with the | President for recommending protectorate over contiguous portion of Mexico because it would i be dishonest, and yet want to storm Nicaragua. | Brigham Young holds sixty wives, and the free lovers assert it is wrong to have one. They | cry down with the Catholics in some States, | and in Louisiana and Maryland nominate them | for offices. They are opposed to foreigners, yet | set traps to catch foreign votes. Know nothing | and black republican conventions are held on the same day at the same place, and conf erence committees pass from one to the other, yet they | cannot agree whether they have any principles | or who shall be the nominees. In all their role | of music there is only one tune they sing alike, | the chorus of which is down with democra- cy." The Louisville Journal and New York | Tribune advance propositions, and finally agree | that they cannot agree on name. The motley | opposition is to be known by different names in | different localities. In Utah, it is Mormonism, at the north, abolitionism, black republcanism, peoples partyism, high tariffites and the thou sand titles that may be adopted to catch votes Here then are banded factions and fragments; rag, tag and bobtail; black, white and parti- colored, so discordant, variant and heteorogene- ous that in the whole vocabulary there cannot | be found fitting name for them combined, ex- cept that of "the opposition!" Without prin- | ciples, without the power to build, but with the determination to destroy, Falstafian army whose officers dare not march them through | Coventry, holding every creed from Atheism to Hinduism, including Mormonism, (the Nor mons, being to a man opposed to the admins tration,) with all shades of dogmas from a .grari- anism up to despotsm and yet they talk of want of harmony among the the democracy.- Can the force of impotence go further? Is there, in the history ofpoltics, anything that will match this effrontery? For coolness, brass con- summate hypocrisy, and hardihood where shall we find its parrellel?
 Fil,ibusters in Trouble.
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