The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-05-26
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE

go in with all sorts Of people opposed 10 ,bo
present Administration, for the election Of On
Opposition President, seems not to meet wiz.
favor We have observed that number of IN.
exchanges have responded cordially to our n-o
test against the policy of the Tribune. and 70
believe that they represent the general tone
Of feeling among Republicans. The Concord
N. H. Democrat says;
eve regret to see the New York Tr;I,,,s
and some other papers, whose experiepc.
should have taught them wisdom, lending conn.
tenance to the idea of abandoning the Reppb.
lican organization and platform in the ney,
Presidential election, for a 'ring.streaked and
speckled coalition with every shade of oppos
ton to the present Administration. Were tBs
Republican party a mere spoils organizatior
without principles and without object beyond
driving one set Of men out of office and putting
hungrier set IN, the project of coalition, he'd
together by no common principle, but only hr
a common desire for public plumber rnigLt Ls
feasible We might, then, 90 into anv kind of
a coalition with any kind of men, to seize the
Government and appropriate its spoils But
such is not our idea Of the Republican parry
Such. we venture to suggest, is not the idea Of
the millions Of true men who make up that par
ty in all the free States
The Newagan Mich Republican says:
"The position of the Republican party cover,
the main issue and the only true ground. and
entangling alliances will only serve to weaken
its force, and detract from the moral grandeur
of its position and influence. Any propositiop
TO alter their position would discover want Of
confidence in their success. They have only to
adhere with manly 6rmness, and friends will
flock to their standard from every party.
Our position, then is, that Republican;
should be Republicans, and not adventures
holding fast to the principles they profess
thereby showing to the world that integrity and
public virtue are not vet lost in a goyernmen,
of the people"
The Mercer County PENN Despatch saws.
The contest now going on in Virginia and
Kentucky ought to satisfy every man with
thimble-full of brains, how entirely impossible
it would be for the Republican party TO assume
a position by which they could fraternize with
the Opposition-called by what name theymay
be-in those States, or any other in which Sla,
very predommates, without abandoning every
prin ciple it holds dear, or that has served TO
harmonic its action heretofore"
Last, not least, we refer to the article below
from the Wheeling (Va.) LateHigeacer, repudi-
ating for the Republicans of Virginia the idea
of voting for a man like Goggin, whose great
effort since the opening of the campaign has
been to demonstrate his devotion to SLAVERY
and to that end, has INDUCED in the coarSest
Of Black Republicans"
From the Wheeling Intelligencer
Some voter about here, or somewhere else in
the State, who can't make up his opinions for
himself has sent on TO the New York Tribune
to know how he ought to vote on the 26th OF
May next
The editors Of that paper tell him
$50 far as the Slavery question is concerned
we see no reason to prefer one candidate to the
other. Each Of them is doing his best to prove
his own election indispensable to the salvation
of Slavery; and whether he is in earnest, or only
fnessing to catch votes, he is equally unde
serving Of Republican support
But, as the matter stands,
If we voted in Virginia, we should doubtless
support Goggin, because, while each candidate
is politically Obnoxious, and the two are person
ally able and qualified, we like Goggin's posi-
ton on public questions not affecting Slavery
much better than Letcher's"
These Tribune people are great, lately, Oh
schemes of expediency, and we suspect that
here is the real and chief reason for their adj
vice, viz:
Besides, as we mean to win good many Of
the Opposition who are not Republicans to sup
port the Republican National candidates in
1860, we should like so to vote as to establish
a valid claim to such support on the score of
reciprocity"
AS for ourselves, anybody else to the contra.
ry respectfully notwithstanding, we dissent
from such an opinion. A principle is a princi.
pie, and if it is worth anything at all to any.
body, 1t IS worth practicing in an emergency or
dilemma, political or moral. The way we look
at the matter IS, that no man who acts from
IN his opposition to negro ultraism
can without qualification vote for one who sets
himself upas tie champion Of champions ofthat
The editors ofthe Tri5uqe very foolishly show
that their advice is dog'd Cheap" and amounts
to nothing at last, but is a mere dodge on their
part. See:
AS to our correspondents fear that Cog
gins election may revive old issues, &c. We
assure him that Goggin's election and the
resurrection of the Wing party are Just about
equally probable"
We think that the editor of the Tribune who
can't write an article that will hang together
any better than this 81 p-shod piece of advice,
had better pull on his boots and follo7 Greeley
out among the Mormons.
Rule OR RUIN.-We have often said tat the
Black Democracy have practically adpted
" rule or ruin as their motto They aregI
ling TO stay in the Union as long as they On
rule it, but not a moment longer. The Dough-
organ in this city, the States, says:
ave have convincing proofs, to our own
mind, that Senator Seward is as good as an
nounced the Exeter Hall Black Republican
for 1860, and we now give timely
warning to the friends of the Constitution TO
prepare for a contest which will result in one
of two things-a prolonged PRESERVATION or an
immediate DIVISION Of the Union. The lines
will be fairly drawn, and the mark will have to
be squarely faced. The South cannot avoid
the issue as presented in the candidacy of Sen
ator Seward without dishonor. 1t cannot sub
nit to defeat, under the circumstances, without
the previous sacrifice Of interests as dear as It's
hearth-stones."
The peculiar features of the Panhandle c0un
try, In political way, are just now sie5
source of disquiet to several of the ragged
starved, dirty faced little red wamus organs
Taking their cue from the Argus, they are an
noyed, to say nothing of being grieyed, at the
spreading heresies Of the Panhandle counties
They are exercised to know whether or no
Wheeling sis Virginia city" Whether Dad
CALDWELL ought to be hung or transported.
Whether Porter is not a wolf in sleeps clothing
I IL
speech is endorsed by the Democracy. One
OF them says that the Wheeling argus is the Only
sound institution about here, and, per contra
that it is very " cowardly in the WheehnS
Times not to be pitching into the PROPOSED
Republican Convention, like the argus does
and that as for the LateUigencer, it's the mos
heretical sheet that ever was or ever will De