Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-12-12
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RALEIGH. WEDNESDAY. DEC. IL. 1855.
THE VOTE FOR SPEAKER.


Sd December. The Senate, which is largely Demo-
cratic, organized at once but up to Friday evening
last the House of Representatives had ballotted
twenty-seven times for Speaker, and the prospect
of electing appeared to be distant at first.
Parties in the House stand about follows De-
mocrats eighty, Black Republicans or Fusionists
seventy-eight, Know Nothngs seventy three. Some
seven eight members, including four Democrats,
are absent-and there is one vacancy Consequent
w. 10 votes will elect Speaker. The candidates
voted for are, Richardson, of Illinois, Democrat;
Campbell, of Ohio abolition Wing and Fusionist;
Fuller of Pennsylvania, abolition freesoil Wing;
Banks of Massachusetts,, black Republican and Flu
sionist and Marshall, of Kentucky Wing and
tional Know Nothing. The Democrats have ad-
hered from the first to their candidate; but the OPP
position members have divided. The votes have not
materially changed, except that Mr.. Campbell whose
vote was at first tythree, has since received
many as eighty votes, while Mr.. Banks has ranged
between thirty and fifty. An analysis of the first
vote will, therefore, show quite clearly the condition
and relations of parties Mr.. Richardson's vote is
seventy four nineteen of which from free and
fhy-five from slavcholding States; Mr.. Campbells
is fifty three all from free States; Mr.. Fuilers
enteen all but from free States; Mr.. Banks
twenv-one all from free States; and Mr.. Marshalls
thirty, all but three from Slavehoding States. Thus
the Know Nothngs, out of seventy three members
Of the House, have cast but thirty national votes,
and all IF these but three are from the South. The
opposition to the Democrats and to the administra
ton in the House, numbers, with the exception Of
Southern Know Nothinss, about hundred and
fifteen and out Of all these members but three hare
cotfd for q rational man Jor Speaker!
The X. n members from this State--Messrs.
Paine Puryear, and Readc-voted for Mr.. Marshall
and these gentlemen, together with twenty-five
of their brethren from the South and three from
New York, constitute snug little national party all
to themselves. We refer, of course, to the ballots
of the first three days. MessrS. Purycar and
Paine, we observe, have voted since for Smith, X.
n, of Alabama and Mr.. Paine has voted for Wheel
err, impracticable Democrat, of New York, and for
Mr. Walk, K. NJ OF New York. The Southern Know
Nothing vote, added to the Democratic vote, would
at once secure the election of Mr.. Richardson The
people will see from this statement of facts, who
are responsible for this delay in the organization of
the House and they will also see how unfoundcd is
the claim set up by the Know Nothings national
party But few months since we were told by
these Know Nothing leaders, that the country
in danger-that the Union in imminent peril
the result of party and sectional strifes; and that
they, if the people would only call them to place
and power would pour oil on the waves, and open
the way to continued repose and prosperity. This
weak and wretchcd administration, said the
Southern K. Ms, must be reLukcd-this " wicked
pro-sayery administration" said the Northern X.
Ms must be taught that freedom is national, and
slavery sectional" and that the people of the free
States will not submit to its proslavery action.
The black Republicans, consisting mostly of Wings,
united with the latter and the House was thus Sc
cured to the opposition. The result of this infa-
NOUS combination is before the country. The Sou
thern Know Nothings, inseal of rebuking the Pres
ident, stand themselves rebuked and Inundated in
the presence of their Northern allies and before the
country. They that President Pierce is
bitterly opposed by abolition Know Nothings and
abolition Fusionsts account of his devotion to
the rights of the South, he is by themselves be-
cause he is Democrat; and they feel that all
their pledges of nationality, so often and SO en-
phatically given the Southern people, have proved
to be empty and of effect Have they been
deceived do they not perceive it TO be impossible
to elect national Know Nothing to the Speaker
ship? If So why is it that they withhold their votes
from Mr. Richardson?
The Democrats of the House, in voting for Mr..
Richardson, stand upon a platform which should
command the approval of all true in all Sec
tons. We publish again, follows, the compre
hensive and admirable Resolution, unanimously
adopted in the meeting Of Democratic members
which nominated that gentleman for Speaker:
g ResozUed That the democratic members of the
House of Representatives, though in temporary
minority in this body deem this fit occasion to
tender their fellow citizens of the whole Union
their heartfelt congratulations the triumph i'll the
recent elections in several of the northern, eastern
and weserti as well southern States, o. the prin
cples of the KansasN ebraska bill and the doctrines
of civi! and religious liberty which have been so
violently assaulted by secret political order known
as the know-nothing party and though in minor
ity we hold it to be highest duty to preserve
organization and continue efforts in the
maintenance and defence of those principles and the
constitutional rights of every section and class
of citizens against their opponents of every descrp
ton, whether the so-called republicans know
ings or fusionists and to this end, we look with
confidence to the support and appreciation OF all good
and true men-friends of the constitution and the
Union throughout the country"
The Democrats of the House have done their duty |
they are i'll the right, and let them stand they
are, and where they With the Washington |
Union, and the Democratic press Of the country |
generally we trust the Democratic party of the |
House WILL the last, rally around their standard
bearer. We trust they will do this in the spirit
with which they placed him before the country-n !
the spirit which refuses all profers of support from
any quarter whatsoever, unless they come in the |
shape of voluntary tributes to those doctrines which,
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