Year: 1859

dpOh "o iOA PAOOi ehoo tuC OppOSl tion in the south acted with the black re publicans, has been copied into most of tn, opposition papers in this State. In refer ring to the subject last week we promised more proofs. We could fill every page ol our paper with them, for the difficulty is not in finding, but selecting We submit few and will furnish others hereafter.

 It is favorite trick of the opposition presses here to find some expression or de- tfaration made by some person at the north who says he is or has been a deAocrat and parade this to show the democratic party there is not sound on the subject of slavery. Smith, or Jones, or Brown, in the desire to get some paltry office, throws a sop to the dogs of black republicanism, and, although he departs from democratic principles in 90 doing, 1t IS urged as proof positive, that democracy there is different from democracy here. But these exceptions prove the rule. We shall make no such charge but admit that the opposition north and south are alike

 It will be seen in the three or four lines quoted by the Herald from the True De mocrat and which elicited the burst of in dignation, we spoke of ''the opposition. D Who are they? Opposition to what and to whom? The answer is, the opponents of the democratic party And who are they? Are know nothings opponents of democracy? Assuredly. Are the aboli- tionists? Certainly. Free soilers? Yes Mormons? Yes. Free negroes? Yes.- Then this term opposition includes all those opposed to the democratic party and is general name. It was adopted to in clude all, for so heterogeneous were the materials out of which the new party was to be formed, that no specific name could be found. This term was adopted by them as broad, inclusive one, covering alike the know nothing of the south and the free soiler of the north. Is the editor of the Ouachita Herald member of the opposi- tion party? So are Hale, and Seward, and Gidlings, and Greeley. They claim, as proudly as the Herald does, to be members of the great opposition party. If we open their papers and read their speeches we find that out of twenty things they agree in nineteen. On one only they differ. Let us go a little further There are eighteen newspapers published in the slave States ayowedly hostile to the institution of sla- very. Every one of these is opposed to the democracy. So is the Ouachta He rald. We do not know how many aboli- ton papers are published at the north, but every one that we have seen or read ex- tracts from is "opposition." So is the Ouchita Herald There is no paper at the north that defends slavery or speaks for the rights of the south that is not demo- cratic paper. They do this in Vermont, ride the Patriot, in New Hampshire; see the Concord paper; in Boston, see the Post; in New York, see the Day Book. Wherever we find journal or partisan at the north taking ground in favor of southern rights, we find it or him democratic. Is there an opposition journal or leader at the north that has ever printed or uttered one word in de- fence of slavery? If so let the Herald name it or him. We shall take pleasure in publishing the fact

 The opposition party is formidable one, but its strength lies mostly at the north.- Twothirds if not more of its members are free-soilers and abolitionistS. If numbers, if majority determine it's character, we would be warranted in calling it the aboli- ton party. But, we do no such thing for we know many members of the party at the south who are pro-slavery men, though, in their opposition to democracy, aetiag acuh the anti-slaverytes.

 When the Ouachita Herald answered to the name of "opposition" and took up the glove, it admitted our charge. When 1t entered its appearance it confessed iudg- ment. When it admitted it belonged to the opposition, it admitted it belonged to party that numbers every free-soiler in the land If members of the same party do not act with each other, who do? If men, opposing the same principles, using the same weapons and acting against a common foe, are not acting with each other we do not know what the term means True, the excuse is that the two wings op- pose the democratic party on different grounds But if two men join together in fgthing third, though their motives or reasons may be different, they are acting together, and if they should succeed in killing their common foe, each would be guilty of murder.

 The first proof we adduce is the willing ness of the abolitionists to make use of a traitor m the south. We could quote CO., lumns from the most rabid abolition papers to prove this. Let us take northern op- positionist first:

 In a recent speech the Hon. A. Lincoln, of I- nois, thus expresses himself on the subject of a union of the opposition in 1860:

 "I know that it is very desirable with me, as with everybody else, that all the elements of the opposition shall unite in the next Presidential cleo ton and in all future time. 1 am anxious that that should be, but there things seriously to be con- sidered in relation to that matter If the terms can be arranged, l am in favor of the union. But suppose we shall take some man up and put him upon one end or the other of the ticket, who de- clares himself against in regard to the preren- ton of the spreac of slavery, who turns up his and says he is tired of hearing anything about it, who is more against us than against the enemy, what will be the issue? Why he will get no slave States after a-he has tried that until being beat is the rule for him. If we nominate him upon that ground, he won't get a slave State; and not only so, but that portion of our men who are high-strung upon that principle really fight for, will not go for him, and he won't get single electoral vote anywhere, except, perhaps, in the State of Mary land. There is no use in saying to us that we are stubborn and obstinate, because we won't do some such thing as this. We cannot do it. We cannot get our men to vote it. l speak by the card, that tbo Gtata of