The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-10-20
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN OPPOSI
TION.

NORTHERN AND SUI ldERN ORPOSI
TION.
| The New York Express, which has heretofore
been regarded as one of the leading "Ameri
| can " aud Wing Opposition papers of the North,
is now pulling the laboring oar for the Black
Democracy with might and main. So earnest
has it become in its efforts to defeat the Repub
liean party, that it is almost oblivious of the
upon the Registry law. 1t is willing to see
Irish voters manufactured by fraud, if thereby
| the Republicans can be defeated. The follow.
| ing passages are quoted from the Express by
the States of this city, with marks of its warm
est appreciation: They are eminently deserv-
| ing the high encomiums of that ultra Pro-Sla.
very journal, which has expressed the opinion,
that if we were to consult merely philanthropic
considerations, we should all be for the slave
trade. The paragraph from the Express is as
follows:
NTHAr OTHER 'SLAvE TRADE.'-The Exc
| ter ball philanthropists, of late have had com
paTatiyeiy little to say on the now pretty well
exhausted subject of American Slavery but
we are given to understand occasionally.
Though their journals, that their best wishes
are all ia favor of the 'irrepressibe cunfict of
Mir. Seward, who is their especial favorite--we
had almost said their especial candidate
g OF course it would be very unreasonable in
us to object to Exeter Hall having candidate
for President of the United States, and still
more unreasonable to demur to its choice of
him, because, through such President, it
THINKS the two sections of the Union might be
brought most readily into collision. Yet, see
- kof al e. Al. r
dom and humanity it may not be imperti.
nent to reinvite the attention of these British
philanthropists to the ripid strides of that
other slave trade the West India) trade in
Coolies"
So much for the spirit Of Northern Arneri.
cans, as reflected in the Express. In contrast
with ii, we will place the following extracts
from the Richmond (Va.) Whig, which have a
robust manliness of tone which commands re-
spect from all parties. Its issue of the 28th
September contained the following paragraph
Eve repeat what we have heretofore said.
that the Southern Opposition members of Con.
gress should not hesitate single moment about
uniting with the Republicans in the organiza-
tioh Of the House. Their constituents will
meyer hold them guiltless, should they in any
ton of the House"
And again, in Its issue of Saturday. the still
more remarkable passages, which we subioin
+ AS for ourselves we have been all the time
in favor of the adoption of the plurality rule, in
the event of the Opposition members not uni
ting on common candidates In their orpauiza-
ton of the House. But, first and foremost. we
are in favor OF the proposed union, which would
avoid any controversy or delay, and lead to the
immediate election of an Opposition Speaker.
And while we naturally prefer the election of a
Southern Opposition Speaker, yet we infinitely
prefer the election of any Northern Opposition
Speaker to the election of either Northern OF
Southern Democratic Speaker, and for the
reasons which we have often stated, and which
we shall not now repeat.
In conclusion, therefore, we invoke every
Southern Opposition member of Congress to
hesitate not a moment about cooperating with
the Northern opposition in the organization of
the next House. 1t is their solemn public duty
to unite with them in this simple and urgent
matter OF business, IN view of the overwhelming
importance OF ferreting out and exposing the
frauds and corruptions which prevail in every
department Of the Government. We repeat,
that no Opposition member of either section
viii stand excused to his constituents and to
the country who, fails to do anything in his
power to prevent the election of Democratic
Speaker, who would necessarily so constitute
the committees as to suppress an investigations
INTO the abuses of which his own party and his
own Administration have been VIGOROUSLY
guilty. Let, then, every Opposition member
from the South march boldly up to the dis
charge OF bus duty, regardless of personal con-
seqnences"h "A
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