Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-04-21
rnE NExT CoNCREss.

The elections in Connecticut and Rhode Isl
md complete the entire list of elections for
members of Congress In the free States. In
the last Congress these States sent ninety Adj
ninisiraton members and 6iy.oae opposition.
In the next Congress the entire number of Ad-
ministraton members elected from the free
States is--wo believe we do not err in the
mputation--TwrNTY-T the entire nun
Der of opposition members is oSE HUNDRED AND
sixrEES. Ofthe Administration members, one
comes from Maine, five from New York. one
from New Jersey, five from Pennsylvania, two
from Indiana, five from Illinois, one from Iowa.
one from Wisconsin, and two from California.
1t would be very difficult to classify the oppo-
sition with reference to particular party dis
tinclions. Many were elected as Wings, many
as Free Sellers. Many as Fusion men, and
many as "Know Nothings." But one and the
same common characteristic marks them all
they are ANTI-NEnRAsRA to man. There
was not a man of them to whose election this
character was not sine 9ud non. Liberal and
even lax as the people might be in respect to
other distinctions, they were uniformly and I'M
compromisingly exacting in respect to this
Even where the Know Nothing element oper-
atcd with the greatest power, it invariably act
cd in conformity with the anu-Nebraska senti-
ment Of the people, and in no case has a Ne
braska Know Nothing been elected, or even
nominated.
Such a revolution in public sentiment as
these Congressional elections exhibit has hard
ly parallel in the political annals of the coun-
Try. And yet there is nothing strange about
it. 1t was most distinctly foreseen and most
positively predicted at the very time Of the
passage Of the Nebraska Bill Even months
before its final passage, when the proposition
was yet new and fresh, this Journal began and
did not cease, to warn Congress against giving
it their favor. We represented again and
again that the Northern people could not and
would not take The Repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise as any thing else than fragrant
breach of faith, and that it would excite storm
OF Indignation before which no party of guilt
could stand for day. All such warnings
passed UNDECIDED As the discussion of the
Bill progressed, the rising displeasure of the
people only served to harden the determination
of its friends. The Administration, as ifsmit-
len with judicial blindness, redoubled its eff
forts to force the Bill through The point was
carried, and the result is noS read in the fig
ures we have given above. Nearly every
northern man VINO had part IN this transaction
has been struck out of political existence
The four or five only survivors will re-appear
in Washington as simply so many standing
testimonials of devastation, like solitary pillars
here and there alter an earthquake, making, by
contrast, the picture OF destruction more COM
plete
Only four Of the Slave-holding States have
yet elected congressman. These are South
Caroiina' FLORIDA, Arkansas and Missouri
All have elected an entire delegation of Ad-
ministraiion men excepting Missouri, which
has elected only one Administration member 10
SIX opposition. The remainder Of the States
are all to elect within the next six MONTHS
Though they should go en- masse for the Ad-
minlsirauon, they could not secure for il the
next congress. The ani-Admin!siraIion char
aciet oil mat body is already irrcvocably set
tied but it is certain that the South itself
Will very considerably reinforce the opposition
srenglh IN tie House. The new American
parry VIII secure majority oil the Congress
men IN virginia and in Georgia and probably
III kentucky and Tennessee and some other OF
the States. The policy which the Southern
section OF this party may pursue upon the sla- /
very question, remains yet to be manifested ; |
but there is reason to belicye,tha it will be
clear from the propagandist spirit and the Ill |
iralsm which have of late years peculiarly /
marked the action of the Southern Democratic I
party. The general tendency of the so-called
American party all over the country upon this
subject is to return to the moderate views and
conclliatory disposition of the founders of the |
Republic And yet in regard to the great |
questions which arc 10 agtate the next session.
1t would be unsafe to say that the position of
materially diaarent from ,b,, Of ,ho;. H.. I