, 1859-04-12
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UNION OF THE oPPQs1I1oN.
Many Of our contemporaries arc persevering
IN their endcavora to bring about an union Of
all tic elements Of fopposition to the Democrat
nc party in 1860. We have been amused by
the contradictory zeasons urged for this action,
aud by tue different and contradictory purpo-
ses which arc 10 be accomplished when the
union is effected Ne hare rc[faincd from
comment, until it sec1ns imperative that VIC
give Our readers our yiews, lest our continued
= silence should be misunderstood
4 triumph Of any party which will not inau-
gurate and carry fo1wurd the reforms demanded
ty the country, will bo equivalent to defeat,
The reversal Of tie action Of the government
IN relation to slavery il tile first thing demand
I'd; but that is not all. Tho commercial policy
oltho nation is to he oyorhaulod aud amended.
The leaks whereby the treasury is exhausted
and the government reduced to bankruptcy,
must he sought out mud closed the jobblng
and ncpotlsm the poculat'on and robbery,
which have made the national administration
reFroach wlfcre Our American newspapers 20,
must be exposed and corrected. The relation
which the government bears to other powers-
our European as well as American neiglbors-
must bc settled on just and honorable hasls
and in sucll way, that tilibusterlng and piracy
Will not have leg to stand on The improve
H'nt o1 our rivers and harbo7s upon some con-
alot'onal aud economical plum, must be un'
ocrlaken- The freedom Of tho public lands to
actual settlers, must be accorded as measure
OF justice to the landlcss and to the Western
States and as guar1nty of the freedom OF the
Territories now ulloccurlcd.
Gnt1lthe Republican party can put III COM
snlsslon government which is willing aud
competent TO do all these things, honestly,
oodiy, constltut'onany and eifcctually, victory
VIII be more disastrous to our organization
''''n ocieat VIC can bear rep'1lso while
tf''c 10 our colors, but triumph which does not
pf'hg III It's train the reio7matory measures
demanded by the masses Of the people in the
49," eHs'*-'ee.
''o7n WHICH There is recovery.
1slcse' IN bHe1 are the views Of this journal
7'S 10 Inc ioor 10 DC performed by the candl-
*''l1es o1 the parry which shall next take pos
Stss'on ol INC government Ii all that IS de-
'nanacd ny the c1lgcnclcs Ct the times, can he
accomplished ey an union Of the elements Of
HHos'uoh and the elevation to the first or SEC
ond piilce ut Washington, Of any one Of the
naA Dozen conservative mon, who, it is de-
clared, eau unite the anti-Dcmoeratic vote Of
auc North aud South, We shall not stand in tie
Hay. We have no attachments to men which
arc superior to Our love for the principles for
Which VIC contend. But, at this writing nc
doubt the possibility Of an union Oh any plan
That would be satisfactory to tile Republican
znasscs, or that would promise tllc attainment
of tllose reforms for which they have coutcnd-
cd. We doubt it, not because the Republican
party is committed to any radical measures in
Its dealing with Slavery; but because tic oI,-
position of tue South has never get had the
%'A1aArt W AE(LAE It5 IC.!uluGs5 10 TELufu 10
the policy Of the fathers Of the Republic.
without pledge Of that rcturn all attempts
toward consolidation will end III disaW,oint-
mcnt. But we do not prcjudgc the case. Tie
patriotic men Of the South have been since
The Nebraska question was sprung upon tile
country, more and more sflecinally separatin.
themselves from that sectiona!srn by which
The dominant pnrty is controlled Lattcrly.
they have accorded to the Republicans patri-
otto motives aud constitutional designs. Be-
lore tile day comes iu which the arrangements
for the next campaign n.ust he ,nalterbly
fixed, they may he prepared to make con.
crssions more important still While the Re-
publican party las partially won the co,itideue,
Of those by whom it WAS looked ,non will
dstrust. it las lost .llat touo Of fanaticjsm
which attended its organization: and VI tl,out
lowering its standard or mode-atjne its DE-
mtuls, las ceased to fiji the Slave States with
wild alarm when contemplating the possibility
III its success. 1t is not Icyond possibility