Arkansas true Democrat., 1859-05-11

States. But if they succeed Tn com blnlng other influences, such as the tariff land dis tribution, .oppositiont to Catholicism, native 1 Anfericanisni, free 1oveisf and other isms in opposition to, the national democracy, l theyrwill succeed. The difference between the black republicans and abolitionists is only in degree, an abolitionist being a black republican, " only little more so." As strong as their influence is, the national de- mocracv outnumber them to- day and could beat them at the polls. Single handed, de- mocracy can meet and vanquish either of its foes, but combined, they may outnumber us. And this truth is well known at the north. Another opposition editor, tc-wit, Horace Greeley, whose means of knowing and whose ability to judge are, at least, equal to that of the editor of the Gazette, says:
 "If, then, we are not essentially at va riance on this point, we insist that no in- surmountable barrier exists to prevent the
 fusion we desire. We believe that Mary land. Delaware and Missouri, with poss- | bly Kentucky, Tennessee and North Caro- lima, may be carried in 1860 for national ticket which shall be frankly but inoffen- sively hostile to the extension of slavery. A few words as to men,
 As we desire the open and hearty coop eration of conservative whigs to hel p us elect a republican President, should such | be nominated, we do not begin by notify. ing those whigs that we will not support nor vote for one of their number, should one be put forward as the opposition can didate. It seems to us consistent neither with good policy, good manners nor even | good faith, to do so. Most certainly, we should prefer an original republican, Seward or Gov. Chase, for instance-but we shall heartily and zealously support one like John Bell, Edward Bates or John M Bolts, provided we are well assured that his influence, his patronage, his power, if chosen President, will be used not to ex- tend slavery, but to confne it within the | States that see fit to uphold it.''
 In the article from which the above is extracted he not only shows the practica- bility of fusion with the know nothings and Donglas-F Foney democrats, but endeavors to court the support of such old line whigs as may not have already joined the demo- cratic party.
 After deuouncing the national democracy not only as pro-slavery, but as slavery ex- tensionists, the Tribune adds
 "We do not believe that there are ten thousand voters in the Union outside of the national democratic organization who desire the extension of slavery, or that the federal government shall favor such exten- sion. In our intercourse with southern whigs-and 1t has not been very limited we never met one who did so who does not now call himself democrat"
 But Buchanan's majority over Fremont was nearly half million. Since that time we doubt if abolitionism proper has grown any in numbers. True, democracy has been beaten in some places that it carried in 1856, but it is because all the elements of opposition fused Even in Connecticut, and other places, the democratic vote has increased If the know nothings, the high tariflites and disaifected or Forneyites, fuse with the black republicans, we may have free-soil President elect; but, if there is conservatism enough in those opponents of the democracy who are not abolitionists to vote with the democracy, the latter will  triumph
 We think it bad policy to underrate the strength of our opponents and while we admit the ti-slavery sentiment is strong and the numbers of the black republicans dangerously formidable, yet we have facts and figures to prove that they lack at least half million votes of equalling the na- tional democracy. The fact is so well known among the leaders at the north that they are straining every nerve to gain favor with those members of the opposition who neither like dem ocracy on the one hand or abolitonism on the other. Read this fur ther extract from the Tribune:
 "In the last Presidential contest, the | votes of the American people were divided | as follows:
 Buchanan 1 ,S3S ,232 Fremont. .1,34l ,5l4 |
 Fillmore. S74,7U7 Fremont and Fillmore together over Buch
 anan.. ................. .3II ,9S9 |
 Of course, 1t is plain that a substan- tial. practical union of the electors who SUD- ported Fremont and Fillmore respectively insures triumph in 1860, even though | there should be some scaling off on either side, as there probably would be. We can afford to loose one hundred thousand of the opposition vote in 1856, and still carry the next President by handsome majority
 Is there, then, any insuperable obstacle to a substantial union of the opposition in 1860?
 In other words-what do the republi- cans insist on as essential that the other branch of the opposition cannot concede to them?"
 Does the Gazette, or does any reasona- ble man suppose that Greeley would SUD- port Bell, or Bates, or Bolts, if they could certainly elect Seward or Chase? If the anti-slavery men are in the majority, why truckle to the opposition in the south and | gI -A4 s agree to vote for Bell or Bolts? The op- | position to be victorious must combine, duse and become as one. To do this, the l slavery question is to be made secondary. sfhe humbugs of 's extravaganza, "pro- \ tective tariff, and other cries are to be 4aplsQad foremost to drive or coax of. those "A whoMote the democratic ticket. 'iIon Ah& now we want the editor of the Ga l zssts so note one fact. In 1856. the Ffs-