Year: 1859




SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER &C. 1859.


GOOD ADVICE FROM THE ENEMY.


Saws one of the most noted and widely circulated |
of the metropolitan Journals of the North, 'the de-
lusive idea of possible fusion between the Repub- |
lican party and the Southern Opposition elements
should be abandoned by the latter without further
delay. They have been waiting upon Providence
long enough; and they should now remember that
Providence helps those who help themselves. Our
Southern Opposition journals should cease to call
upon the Northern Hercules to help their cart out
of the mud and should put their own shoulders to
the Wheel if they wish to win for their party the
honor and emoluments of victory. The trte but
automatic verify that "Provdence helps those who
help themselves is especially applicable to the
stmn quo of Southern politics at this time, and
though the Northern journal from which we quote
may have made its application sarcastic to its own
sense, and have conceived that it was making
covert and telling hit at the assumed impotency of
the South, we choose to take it upon its apparent
force and point and to urge that Providence will
help those who help themselves, and that the ele-
ments of Southern Opposition command power
which, by judicious management, can be made to





national electoral crisis which next ensues. The
element of Southern Opposition occupies that i'm
portant position which interest coerces all parties
to respect and none to offend. It commands that
"balance of power'' sovereignty which at once
renders it Independent and dictatorial, and can
make its ends and objects the price of its services
to either side.


Virtually, the next struggle for the Presidency
will be between the North and the Southits issues
purely of sectional character; but before the
canvass can be fairly upon the tapis, the crisis will
come in which the Opposition element " can
WELD its power to control the events that follow,
and this power should be exercised in forcing
nomination of character which will unite the
whole South and the conservatives of the North,
and so as certainly secure victory against Repub
licanism as if the Presidential vote were already
polled. The Opposition element looks to Stephen
A. Douglas as the only man who can bring enough
of the North to the aid of the South to enable the
ticket to triumph over that which will represent
sewardism-the Republican nomination. In the
Charleston Convention the programme of the OPP
position must indubably, be that it will refuse its
support to the nominee, unless that nominee shall
be the man who can aid the cause of the South by
bringing to the aid of its banner force of the con-
servatives of the North sufficient to secure victory
and the potential alternative which it must present
should be, that otherwise it will support South
extremist" This alternative of splitting the
vote of the South alternating the conservatives of
the North, and consequently insuring the victory
to Repubcanism, will prove all-powerful in deter
mining the deliberations of the nominating conven-
ton; for its merits must be strkngly patent to the
most obtuse and prejudiced of delegates.


We reject the hypothesis that new and alarming
sectional issues may arise before the convening of
that body to change the aspect which politics
present. Even the 'rescue of Old Brown could
not effect "a change SO material to render the
Opposition element more than a strong minority
as compared to the national Democracy, and a
strong minority wish it to be rather than a
majority, for as majority it would nominate
candidate who could only be supported by the
South, while as minority it is in that balance
of power capacity which will compel its weight
in that direction which will ensure its triumph.
The game is of the simplest and, the OPP
position element holds the cards, it will doubtless
be wise enough to play them with the best dis
cretion.


Perhaps it is scarcely necessary to say that an
indignant rejection waits on the assumption of
the Northern cotemporary whom we have quoted,
towit: that, the delusive idea of possible
fusion between the Republican party and the
Southern Opposition elements" is entertained by
the latter We believe, with our whole heart,
that no Southern politician ever nurtured so
traitorous and disgracefu an idea; and if any one
ever has he is a llypocrite, and dare not proclaim
his views in community, which would eject him
as false and renegade in private and political virtue
and patriotism. The Southern Opposition could
never contemplate for a moment fusion with
Black Republicanism 1t looks kindly to Northern
conservatives, anti-Sewardites as the parties to
coalition which only can enable national party to
triumph over Black Republicanism and save the
Union from the disastrous consequences which will
be the immediate result of the federal supremacy
of the latter. We would ask where is the "Soutt-
ern Opposition journal which has called upon the
Northern Hercules (of Republicansm) to help
their (our) cart out of the mud ~ Such journal
cannot be pointed to, and had there been one to
make such an appeal it could scarcely be held rea
sonaby accountable, for, if it had common sense,
it could see that ''our cart " is not in so " tight
place " but that own shoulders at the wheel
would lift it out of the mudn without need of
help from Republicanism