The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-02-18
Worthy or c CONFEDERATION.


the more radical of the Republican Press
are making strenuous efforts to resist it, or
give it another direction. The objections
urgedare, that Mr.. Bates views on the slave>
Gafthoritatively, and it is insisted that the0P-
position Convention cannot safely noml-
nate him untilhis opinions are better known.
These papers are unwilling to receive the ex-
position of that gentlemans views as pub
lished in the St Louis papers, and demand
that he issue, over his own signature, an
elaborate and-what they term-a definite
avowal of his feelings and opinions on the
"vexed question" We desire to say few
words on this subject.
The Republicans, in issuing call for
National Convention, were either guilty of
duplicity and treachery, or else they signi-
fed an intention to compromise some of
their former doctrines in order to secure a
united opposition IN the coming campaign.
Why should they frame their call to express
ly take in the Peoples party of Pennsyl-
vania and the Opposition party of New
Jersey, unless they anticipated the forma-
ton of a coalition-through the spirit of
mutual concession-that would recognize the
views of both sections without forcing either
to stultify themselves by total abandon
ment of positions they had heretofore
assumed7
That the Opposition can be united-and
that the success of the Democratic party is
sure, unless they do unite-is evident to
every thinking man. Believing that the
call for both the State and National Con-
ventions were issued in good faith, and with
no design to entrap any one into a course
of policy that he has hitherto deprecated
and opposed, we have urged our friends
to send delegates and participate in the
proceedings. tLe
Taking it for granted, then, that the call,
itself, comedies the fact that the Republicans
are willing to abandon some of the tech
nioal points of their creed, in exchange for
the waving of minor objections on the part
of others-that, in fact, a new organization
il to be brought into existence-born of
good faith and concession-let us examine
the claims of the various Presidential as
pirants. esf Z si5 sac sAs.'t g.
We cIaim-as to the only objections urged
against Mr.. Bates-that he is a better anti
slavery man than either Seward or Chase
without partaking, in the least, of their
ultraisms. Just as much as practice is pre-
ferabIe to profession, are Mr.. Bates's anti
slavery sentiments to be preferred to those
of the New York and Ohio aspirants.-
What sacrifices have Chase or Seward ever
made in the anti-slavery cause ? What
have they ever done to relieve the enchanted
African they talk so pathetically about be-
yond mere speech making2 So far from
making any sacrifices, their anti-slayery
views have only been used as instruments
to foist them into office and secure feed
from the public crib.
They are professional of6ce-seekers,-
never satisfied; eternally crying-like the
horse leech-" give, give" Chase's present
prominence was brought about, in great
measure, through a corrupt coalition with
the Democrats by which he first secured u
position in the United States Senate; and
the whole history of the man furnishes no
evidence that he would not form almost any
combination to advance his personal inter
ests. A lifelong advocate of free trade, to
aid his prospects at Chicago he writes a
PETER in favor of protective tariff. The
nation desires no such trading politicians at
its head. 1t is equally notorious that when
a private scheme of speculation on the
public treasury is devised, Seward is the man
selected to get it "put through" Mr.. Seward
is q man Of far-reaching sagacity and politi-
cal shrewdness, yet his propensity to get
his fingers into the public treasury greatly
mars the brilliancy of his genius and intel
lect. He is, emphatically, not the man for
President. atalise ath
What sacrifices has Mr.. Bates made to
indicate his hostility to slavery He
has emancipated his slayess- He has per
suaded his relatives to do the same. Whilst,
politically, he had as bright a prospect as
any man in Missouri, to attain the highest
position within the gift of the people OF
that State, he sacrificed them all rather
than abandon his cherished principles-his
advocacy of free labor. Add yet, forsooth,
we are fippantly told that the anti-slavery
views of this man are not as well defined as
those of the traficing politicians of Ohio
and New York. 'a1t ION .s--s.- Fl
There is another point the Opposition will
dc well not to overlook. That party is
made up of old Wings and Democrats
large majority coming from the old Wing
party. Hitherto, the candidates have all
most invariably been taken from the Dem
ocratic wing of the party. Profting by
this blunder, the Democracy have put old
Wings forward as candidates, and, in many