Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-01-04
a TELLING ARTIoLE.
The Drift Of the Opposition Sentiment
in Baltimore.
from tho Baltimore PatriOt.l


A NATIONAL Republican Convention, en-
bracing
Members of the Peoples Party of Penn
sylvania,
New Jersey,
And oil others,
who are willing to cooperate in support
of the candidates, then and there to be
nominated for President and Vice Presl-
dent, has been officially called to assemble
at Chicago on the 18th of June, lS60.-
delegates from each Congressional Dis
tIict, and four from the State at large, are
to constitute the representatives.
The basis on which this Convention is
called, according to the terms of the noti-
fcation, is Opposition:
al To the policy of the:present Admins
tration;
90. To Federal corruption and usurpa-
ton;
50. To the extension of slavery in the
Territories;
az. To the new and dangerous political
doctrine that the Constitution. of its own
force, carries slavery into the Territories OF
the United States;
"5. To the re-opcning of the African
Slave Trade;
"6. To any inequality among citizens
al. And who arc in favor of the ndmis-
sion of Kansas under the constitution re-
Gently adopted by its people;
"8. OF restoring the Federal Administra-
ton to system of rigid economy, and to
the principles of WashingtonandJ Jefferson;
"9. OF maintaining inviolate the rights
| of the States, and defending the soil OF
every State and Territory from lawless
invasion
$40. And of preserving the integrity of
the Union, and the supremacy of the Con-
stitution and laws passed in pursuance
thereof, against the conspiracy of tho lead
| ers of sectional party to resist the major
ity principle rs established by this Gov
| eminent, even at the expense of its exist
ence."
The first ground of oppositions, it seems
! to u.s. would have been all sufficient, and
had we had the authority, we would have
limited the call to this comprehensive pro-
position, for it is broad enough to combine
all the elements of hostility to the ruling
dynasty, which is little more than an eX-
preston in itself of every conceivable sort
| of mal-administration and heresy against
the Constitution and our institutions as es-
tablished by the fathers. But as the au-
thors of the call have deemed it wise to
amplify somewhat, let us look into these
specifications, and see what they really
mean.
Everybody will understand the first and
second specifications. Open and unblush-
| ing corruptions and usurpntions constitute
the very existence of the Administration
policy, and the only way to save our insti-
buttons from positive and final destruction
is to drive the dynasty out of power with
a universal shout of indignation. 1t has
earned the wages of political sin, and
nothing remains but to discharge the OBJ
| legation. Let it be consigned speedily to
the polcal death that it merits.
The third and fourth proposition, it will
be seen embrace good old Henry Clay
whig doctrines on this subject. He was
utterly opposed to the extension of slavery
into free Territories, and said, he would
see This right arm drop from his shoulder,
before he would lift it in support of any
such policy. And though the Black heresy
that the Constitution plants slavery by its
| own inherent power in the Territories, had
not vet reared its black head distinctly
| above the horizon, yet Mr.. Clay toresaw it,
and met it on q hundred occasions, in his
public speeches directly and indirectly, with
whitening denunciatiOns and irresistible
| demonstrations of its unsOundncsS. But
we are content to rest the fallacy of this
outrageous doctrine upon the Hon. Revcr-
| dy Johnson's recent arguments against 1t.
| Inspired with the principles Of the great
American master of political economy, at
whose feet he sat for so many years, with
such eminent distinction to himself and
| his teacher, he leaves the hereto Mt the
head of the government, and his Attorney
Black, not an inch of ground to stand
upon. Well may the Chicago Opposition
| lists call for union, in support of these
indestructible principles. We know of no
Opposition man in the whole country, who
will refuse to sustain these propositions.
| The sixth specification is one that every
American citizen ought to approve by his
vote and his acts. 1t is timely assertion
of the right of every foreign-born citizen
! to be protected by the whole power of the
Government should he chance to return
to the country of his birth, or when he is
travelling abroad. He is entitled to as
mnch protection as a native born citizen,
for he has been made a citizen without
reservation. No more shameful Lcclcrc
letters, we hope, will ever cmenatc from
the State Department, let the Secretary be
who he nav There must be no more in
quality in the rights of citizens, when they
are in foreign countries. We must either
assert the entire right of Al foreigner to abb
solve himself from military allegiance,
which is Il political duty, or surrender it
at once. Justice to our naturalizcd clti-
zcns demands action on this subject, and
this issue should be broadly made next
fall.
No man in the Opposition to the corrupt
dynasty ut Washington, can be so perverse
as to disagree to the prOpOSitioe against
reyiving the African slave trade, or that i'll
favor of admitting Kansas, and getting her
out of the way; or that for bringing back
the government to system of honesty
and rigid economy. If there DO any such
man, he ought to go over to the enemy at
once.
The ninth specification is n bold asser-
] tinn of Coy Misn,s extreme doctrine on