The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-02

party, counting In their number Messrs. RAN
roUL, CLEVELAND, and PREsToE KING, sue
ceeded by majority Of eleven votes in elect
ing Mr.. LINN BoYD to the Speakership. In
accomplishing this result, the DEMooRAFIc
party has been secessionized and abolitonized.
The Wines made no nomination 10 the Speak
ership. They were prepared, many Of them,
to vote for any man of any party presented
on the Compromise platform, the ground
Of the Administration They were in hope
less minority. 1t would have been idle for
them TO nominate candidate of their own; but
they were ready to take up any DESiocRAT,
known to be sound on the questions OF Adjust
ment, if they had been allowed an opportunity.
But this opportunity was not afforded. The
bargain had been too strictly affirmed. The
DEMOCRATS had sacrificed the Compromise TO
conciliate the votes of the ultras of the North
and Of the South. The Buffalo Convention and
the Nashville Convention had every thing their
own way; and the present Speaker of the
House of Representatives is the creature of a
coalition as corrupt and shameless as that
which in Massachusetts elected Mr.. SUMNER
TO the Senate, and Mr.. RANToUL to the House,
and which in New York has elected an al
most entire ticket of Fresoilers to all the i'm
portant State Offices.
We confess that we were in hopes of diff
ferent result. We thought that the time
had arrived when the friends of the Union
and The Constitution, on the DEMOCRATIC
as wen as on the WING side of the House,
We're prepared to make up the issue with dis
unionists of all shades and compilations, and to
compel the men who think alike to act to-
gether. We did not imagine that caucus of
either party would shrink from applying the
Compromise test to its members, and from
abiding fearlessly by the result. There is no
doubt that q very large majority of the Ameri-
can people are prepared to sustain the policy of
the Administration. We had hoped that this
undenable public sentiment would have been
fairly represented in the Congressional caucuses
of both parties, and that neither party would
have sought by any base alliance or supple
trucking to secure temporary advantages at the
expense of the Constitution and the Union.
We have been disappointed. The DEMOCRACY
have pursued their old policy of sacrificing prn-
cipes to the pursuit of power. They have adopt
ed and endorsed the coalition of MASSACHUSETTS.
and reinforced it with the Secession phalanx of
the South. Such is the character and position
of the opposition to Mr.. FILLMORE and his
Administration; and it was a fitting finale to
their whole arrangements that the oath OF
office should be administered to the willing
nominee of the DEMOCRATIC caucus by Mr..
GIDDNGs, just after he had declared himself a
free Democrat, and urged an immediate cleo
ton. We were singularly struck by the APP
propriateness of this denouenleni, and the cordial
extra shake of the hand by which the ceremony
was concluded was but a faint type of the warm
fluctuations with which the allied forces of the
DEMOCRATS and ABoLITIoNIsTs contemplate
the first movement of the session upon the Com
promise measures and the Administration