The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-12-17

and siSty-first ballot on Saturday resulted as
follows
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Necessary for a choice. .........-............u ia
Thus for twelve days the three parties into
which the House is divided have been ma
roeuvriDg for position, with little advantage,
~ woald seem, to either, and none whatever to
the country. II is consolatory to be reminded
that the members reflect, to some extent, the
popular mind Of the country, as made known
in the elections which returned them to Con-
gress That they have business of their own,
too, in connection with the coming Presiden-
tial contest, is also sufficiently obvious The
whole difficulty in making presiding officer
arises from this little fact-it is necessary to
provide for the fntare and in order to do so
IL is not easy to see whether the election Of
1856 is 10 be decided by the people or by the
House Of Representatives, and that the pre-
sent struggle is the shadow indicating that
coming event.
We have often said that the whole tendency
of our political affairs only signalized the
division of the country into two great pri-
mary parties those who sustain the govern
ment, as it is; and those who seek it's over
throw in order to give effect to their che
rished hostility to the South. This feeling
entered Congress on the first day of it's session,
and each succeeding day has only served to
bring it out more distinctly and positively.
1t has come to this-that in Congress there are
substantially but two parties-the black re-
publicans on the one side, united with the
anti-twelfth section Know Nothings, ready and
anxious 10 form q great Northern abolition
party, and the democracy, standing firmly
upon the Kansas law and upon the principles
Of popular sovereignty, on the other side.
Between the two are the national Know Moth
iDgs, giving their votes steadily for Fuller,
some Of them perhaps somewhat hostile to
the Kansas legislation, but all of them, it is
believed, regarding that act as altogether Of
| secondary Importance, and ready and deter
mined to maintain the integrity Of our national
compact on all occasions. The gulf between
these men and the black republicans is as wide
and as deep as that between the black republi-
cans and the Old Guard of the democracy.
They can hope for no existence as party by
falling into the Seward ranks They
are chiefly from the South, and though
not formidable for their numbers, they
hold the balance of power not only in the or
ganizaton OF the House, but in the election of
| President in case of a failure to do so by the
| Electoral Colleges This latter fact imposes
| upon them high responsibilities for there is
certainly prospect, more or less remote, that
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| an executive to succeed Mr.. Pierce may de-
| volve.
| Counting the members who sustained Banks
on the highest vote as sure to support the black
republican candidate for the Presidency, that
| party will have thirteen States, viz
Indiana, New York,
Maine, Ohio,
| Massachusetts,, Pepnsylvapia
Michigan, Rhode Island,
New Hampshire, Vermont
| New Jersey, Wisconsin.
Connecticut,
The democracy, judged by the same rule
by those voting for Richardson-will have
| twelve States, VIZ
| Alabama, Lcui lana.
l Arkansas, Mississippi,
California, North Carolina,
Florida, South Carolina,
| Georgia, Tex -, and
| Illinois, Virginia.
| Iowa is equally divided, and radically, upon
democratic and black republican lines.
Then we have the following States lin which
the Know Nothings, who, with hardly an ex-
| ception, vote against Banks,) controlled either
| absolutely or holding the balance of power by
| The American representatives in Congress =
Kentucky, Missouri,
Tennessee, Delaware.
Maryland,
Allowing that the vote Of the latter can be
controlled by the black republicans, they are
still short Of the power to elect their President
and that power liz lodged with the national
| American representatives from Kentucky, Ten
| nessee, Maryland and Missouri--four slave
| States.
| But it is very unlikely that the black repab-
| Leans, should the Presidency be determined by
the House, cen control the entire vote now
| given to Banks. II must be remembered that
| Pierce Gushing and McCleliand are secretly in
| favor of Banks election that there are many
| free soil democrats voting for him who are
| sick Of niggerism, and are only waiting for
| new shuttle of the cards to fall into the ranks
Of democracy, and loudly proclaim their horror
Of efforts to impair the integrity Of our federal
| system. Thurston,' a democrat from Rhode
Island, now voting for Banks, will most likely
choose an early period to abandon the rotten
and sinking ship commanded by Captain Sc
| ward, and fall into association with his old
party. This will divide the State Of Rhode
Island and withdraw it from the black
republicans Indiana is, in fact, in the
| same category. A cause which at the recent
elections could only command positive success
| in two States-Vermont and Ohio-a cause
originating in New York, and wofully defeated
in the place Of its baptism-a cause Of which
Weed and Greeley and Webb and Seward are
| the godfathers--consccrated to treason, and
sustained only ~ traitors and party gamblers,