Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1859-04-22
The Position of the Opposition
ofthe Standardization with
National Hen Everywhere.

Iposluon men OF the ooutn can cO-Operat
with the Opposition men of the North
We have stated that the former cannot
ought not, and will not co operate witt
the Republicans as the Republican pdriD
As party the southern Opposition mel
stand to them, precisely as the southern
Democrats do. We assail them as a part,
and deuounce the policy that lies at tn,
bottom of their organization. We hav,
not the slightest sympathy with or fol
them. The circumstance Of common
hostility TO democratic misrule and admin
istrative corruptions places us alike in the
position of Oppositionists. That position
is inevitable. We who in the South hon.
estly oppose Me democratic party, cannot
relieve ourselves OF this position without
renouncing our principles and becoming
what patriotism ferbids and self.respect
revolts at--Democrats. We must, as con-
scientious men, assail modern Democracy
for its principles and denounce it for its
practices We believe that the first arc
wrong and the latter corrupt. Thus be-
lieving, we should stultify our manhood
and become contemplate in the eyes OF
mankind, BY accepting such party as the
custodian of the present interests and di-
rector Of the fnture policy of our country.
Aside from the question of slavery, we have
no quarrel with the people of the North.
Except that question, there is no obstacle
to party union of northern and southern
men. That out of the way, southern men
of every..party may affiliate with northern
men of every party, according to coinci-
dence of opinion.
We have said that the Opposition men
of the South will not affiliate with the Re-
publicans as party. But as individuals
recognizing national sentiments and ac-
cepting non intervention by Congress with
slavery in the Territories as compromise
of that question, and coinciding with us
in matters relating to administrative policy
we can affiliate with them so far as to sup
port the same man for the Presidency. If
there is anything wrong in this position
If it be regarded as treason to the South,
let the man stand forth who can maintain
it. Will democrat attemptP Let him |
Whoever does, will advocate either posi-
tive and direct disunion, or else policy
whose sectional feet will hurry him swiftly
to it. He will maintain policy that can i
not possibly fail to place the Republican
party in triumphant possession of the Gov
ernment. 1t is position upon which the
Democracy of the South are united in SEN
timent that the Republican party of the
North embraces all the effective opposition
TO the Democracy in the free States-that
this opposition to Democracy is anti-sla-
very-Aboition.
We take it that no Southern democrat
will dispute with US on this point for to
do so would be TO concede the point we are
aiming to maintain in this article. This
conceded, we wish to be informed how the
democratic party can, with every Northern
State against it, expect to carry the next
Presidential election without afiliating
with Republicans or Abolitionists? Grant
itevery Southern State--grantt to it all the
Douglas democracy in the North (now de-
nounced as Republicans and still its de-
feat is inevitable without the cooperation
of the very inen it classes as Freesoilers or
Abolitionists Does it hope to succeed?
1t does. by what means? BY obtaining
every Northern vote it can get. no matter
what shall happen to the voters sentiments
upon the slavery question ! 1t was never
known to reject vote. 1t never will he
1t would swallow the whole Republican
vote with the satisfaction which an anacon-
da would swallow a wolf.
How unfair how inconsistent, how want
ing in principle. then, is the attempt being
made every day by Southern democrats to
prejudice the cause of the Opposition in
the South, by charging it with an inten-
ton to affiliate with Republicans in the
North for the purpose of electing nation
al statesman to the Presidency of the U.
States The hopelessness Of the cause of
modern Democracy-the inevitable defeat
that awaits them, aud the certain exodus
of the spoils Of Office from their camps,
may assist us TO account for desperation that
sits upon them like raying maniac. We
remind them in vain that the North has
accepted the policy Of non intervention by
Congress with slavery in the Territories
that the Republicans in the last Congress
voted to admit Kansas into the Union with
a pro slavery constitution, in the event it
could be ascertained that that instrument
reflected the will Of the people Of that Tor
ritory, aud that it threw overheard the or
ganic principle of their party that no more
slave States should be admitted into the
Union. Within the shadows of the defeat
that involve their party prospects, they
behold nothing but the begrimmed mon
ster of an sveneing Opposition, and hear
nothing but the crash of the teeth that are
to drag from their grasp the spoils Of an
injured, outraged aud plundered people
In their desperation they forget that we
must he one people North and South, East
and West, or break up the Union and be-
come aliens aud enemies 10 each other.
The instinct Of representation drives
them from folly, and as one retreat fails TO
protect them, they Ay 10 another but like
the Wandering jew, 6nd no rest upon the
face Of the whole earth.
We tell then that the unselhsh, the pat
riotie Opposition ofths South know OF no
means of maintaiRiny 'he brotherhood of
the Vniop bnt ky WsrriBp mon sectional