Gazette and sentinel., 1860-02-11

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nants of the old Wing party, had been
earnestly at work at Washington, Phil
adclphia and other points, III getting up
what they style the National Union
party; but we certainly never dreamed
that their sublime and disintcrcStcd sen
timents of no-partyism, particularly 50
far as the rights Of the South were o II
cerncd, aspired TO a voice in the delibe-
rations OF a body convoked by the De-
mocracy Of the Union, to put forward in
the impending struggle with the anti
slavery sc~ctlOnallSts, an exponent OF It's
principles of attachment to the rights
and interests Of every part of the Con
federacy, as secured by the Constitution.
We agree perfectly with the signcrs
of this recommendation, that there cx-
list, at this moment, no State or Federal
issues TO divide and distract" the peo-
pie of this State; and we did not see
anything. Of the sort during the last
canvass for Governor and other State
officers; but we perceive among the
signers Of the docuRent before us, the
names of several gentlemen who most
decidedly thought otherwise, and who
threw the whole weight of their inilu-
ence and exertiOns i'll favor of a ticket
| opposed to the Democracy; but who
! now, with a modest consistency which
challenges public admiration, coWe for
ward 10 recommend that all former po-
litical differences shall be laid aside in
the choice of delegates to Baton Rouge
and 10 Charleston. What is the cause
of this sudden conversion uf the Oppo-
sition and Know-Nothing friends of
Messrs. Heron, Gray and Dclony? Why
have they, before the funeral baked
meats of the November election are yet
| cold, asking to be admitted into the
| councils of the very party which they
| before that time, denounced as corrupt,
imbecile, dishonest, INSCRIPTIONS, and,
in short, everything that was iniquitOus
and revolving? They cannot pretend
that any new issues have been since cast
into the political arena, and, therefore,
their sudden adhesion to a party which
they SO lately opposed and stigmatised,
! IS fLe. most wonderful and mysterious,
ana calls decidedly Tor eSpIanations.-
But Yesterday, these Opposition gentle
men were throwing dirt at us; to-day
they approach us with winning words
and ask us to lend them our warmest
confidence.
But if the Opposition signers of the
card are in an awkward ~predicament
the soi-disdn Democrats, whose names
figure in it, are worse off still. Mr.. Her
ron was a prominent aspirant for TIN
nomination of the G~overnorship befor
the May State Convention, and know
full well that the idea, which he now as
sists in putting forward, was first start
ed at the famous Odd Fellows HaI
meeting in April, which, besides, de
nounced, in the rudest and most offer
sive terms, the Administration of Nj
buchanan, and courted a union with tn
Know-Nothings of this city, in the wa
which it proposed to wage against l
He knows that the Democracy of til
State, as represented in that body, II
dignantly repulsed from its precinct
the men who claimed their seats by pr,
: tended elections under its auspices. Nj
/, GRAY knows as much, and so docs TN
venerable oficc-seeker, Mr.. Delony; al
n so, also, does that brilliant medico-poll
n cal genius, DR.. Thomas Cottman, VIII
o. since his illustrious and intimate frien
y Nicholas. the ~autocrat of all the Russia
+ sleeps in his grave beside the Neva, h
"a transferred all his remaining admiratl
"a and affections to the Little Giant
no Chicago. and now acts as a Jealous c
a.. portcur and distributor of his Squat
IA Sovereignty Essays in the anti-slave
TO- New York Times, among the repres'
70 t~atives of the shareholders of Louisial
All these gentlemen know well, Il
though there should really exist
la differences of opinion among the peoI
To- of the South at this critical nome
no. there does exist an undisguised hostll
he on the part of fossilised Wings and
m tense Known othings, to the very
air ministration which Louisiana has
he dorsed, and which it's opponents of
it shades of opinion III the North, HI
De- abused in the choicest political Billin
al gate, for what they call its shame
mo- subscrviency to the South upon tn
very questions which make up the or
on which is invoked 10y our malcontcntS
ust the bond of union between all our
The pie.
the M6ssrs. Heron, Gray, aid their a
of ciates. know very well that no hon
DOT BILE gentleman of the Know-Noh
but party will respond to their invitation
hat take part in the election for delegate
the Baton Rouge convention, for