Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-12-20
What will the Majority do?

| At the date of this writing we have re-
ceived no intelligence of the election of
Speaker, and We presume none has been
elected. Not far from fifty ballots have been
taken, aud although the enemies of the De-
mOcraey have majority of some seventy
votes. so diseordant are the elements OF
which that majority is composed. that they
| have thus far been unable to concentrate
| upon any one OF their men a sufficient num-
Der of votes to elect That they f0iH effect
some kind of compromise, or hatch up
bargain, by which they will choose some one
of their number Speaker, we have never for
a moment doubted Still, we are not going
to complain if the House employs another
! week or a month in voting for a Speaker
We have no confidence m theis ability to do
any sooi and while they pass their time in
balloting, they are at least doing no harm.
But, after compromise or bargain is ef
fecteA, BY which Speaker, Clerk, BoorkeeP-
er, &c, are elected. and portion of the gen.
tlemen who are so hostile to the "wild hunt
after office" are satisfied, what are we to ex-
pect? This House was chosen in the midst
of wild anti Nebraska hurrah, which, in
the North, swept down the Democratic party
as with besom of destruction. Throughout
the free States the opposition which the De-
mocratic party were enabled to offer to this
fanatical crusade was powerless and ineffect-
ual. 1t was only here and there that De-
mocrat succeeded in being elected TO Con-
triumph of the nti-Nebraskaites, however,
it is now quite evident to our mind that no
bill restoring the Missouri Compromise can
pass the House. Campbell and Banks, who
arc the champions of the anti Nebraska fac
ton of the opposition, have failed of an cleo
ton on this issue, and this we take it is sutfi-
cient indication OF the temper of the House.
No doubt the inaudlin Abolitionsts who are
! indebted to this element for their election
viii make furious speeches and use every en-
deavor to stir up sectional strife. With fra
tricidal hand they will endeavor to set one
section Of the Union against the other-friend
against friend and brother against brother.
The worst passions are to be appealed to and
envy and hatred are to be inculcated And
all for what? Simply that a few score of
demagogues may float upon the top of the
angry waters they themselves have stirred
up. Possessed of talents far below medioc-
rity, it is only by raising and Keeping up an
excitement that they can prevent themselves
from sinking into that obscurity for which
nature designed them.
While, then, the country may expect to
he regaled, or rather nauseated, with any
quantity of abolition slang during the presen.
session of Congress, we do not anticipate that
upon test vote Gf such should ever be
| rcached) any bill proposing to restore the
Missouri Compromise will be passed The
policy of the Democratic party in respect to
the Tcnitories-the principle Of allowing the
people 10 settle their own domestic matters
rible ordeal and is probably destined to pass
through another during the present session
of Congress, but of its final triumph there can
now be little or no doubt A Congress elect
ed under circumstances the most unfavora-
bic to the Democratic party-elected at a
time when the most stedfast quailed before
the fierce assaults of bigotry and fanaticism-
will fail in doing the very act which it was
! elected to do. The Kansas Nebraska bill
will remain unscathed and the Missouri Com
promise will never be restored even by vote
! of the House. This is our prediction.