The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1855-12-18


those who have boosted of 60 majority in
the House Of Representatives, rests the
odimn and responsibility of the scenes now
presented as Washington. And we pre-
dict that the additional odium of an Adolf
ZIONIST Speaker is to rest upon that party
ere long. Upon this subject we invite at
tcntion to the following remarks of the Rich
mond Enquirer:
THE CONTINUED DISORGANIZA-
TON.
At the hour we write, n painful and
alarming scene presents itself in the Hall
Of Representatives, at Washington City
A whole week has passed in fruitless strug-
glcs to organize the House, and while the
| Democracy have stood firm by the gallant
and national Richardson, the free soil ele-
mcnt has gradually gained strength on each
| successive ballot, so that on Saturday,
/ Banks of Massachusetts, an arrant free
soilcr, elected through the Know Nothing
! elements, received the large number of 100
! votes, only requiring IL additional to secure
his election TO the Speakcrship. We can
not but indulge the fear, that, out of the
! heterogeneous elements that compose the
! House, he, or some other man tinctued with
abolition, will gain the necessary number
| of votes and be invested with the powers
and responsibilities of that high office
Such result will be ominous of evil to all
parts of the confederacy. But, whatever
may occur, the Democracy will have done
their duty, and will be aroused to new and
united energies in behalf of the Constitu-
ton and Union. As to the m1urnful specta-
/ Gle now presented at Washington, we fully
agree with the Washington Union that ''nOw
that fusion has advanced from the limited
theatre of State action to the more extended
field of national power, that which the
people have mourned over in the legisla-
lures controlled by its adherents is to be
| repeated with exaggerated violence and in
justice. The monuments of know-nothing
| craftsmanship, bankrupt cities, fraudulent
elections, revolutionary legislatures, and
combinations against the laws of the land,
have not proved to be admonitions to the
| followers of fanaticism and the worshippers
! of the secret oath, but serve rather as
beacOn-lights TO point the way to the abuse
| of their ill-gOtten majority in the national
councils. If we recur to the course of the
many-named and evcr-varying opposition
on the single subject of slavery, we shall
! perhaps obtain better key to their future
designs and better Illustration of their past
| offences. Unable to agree upon any sound
conservative principle, Powerless to COM
bine for the purpose of protecting the con-
stitution, because they themselves have
/ been, and still ., its worst foes, a frag-
mcnt, and as the result has proved, a mere
! fragment, met at last upon the celebrated
! 18th section in the Philadelphia convention,
/ and in their insane infatuatiOn congratulated
! themselves that this created them national
organization. And yet even this same 18th
section, most unsatisfactory in its terms,
most insufficient in its assurances to the
| people of fifteen sovereign States of this
/ Union, has fallen so low in the estimation
! of its northern advocates, that but four men
can be found in the present Congress to
show, by their votes, that they still retain
feeble and Pickering affection for its declar-
atoms.
The other, and by far the greater, divi-
sion of the opposition, have contentcd them
selves either with fragrant assaults upon the
rights of the States, or have staggered along
in the vain effort of ignoring the greatest
question now before the American people
The melancholy scenes now enacting in
the House of Representatives, are the
| abundant fulflment of the prophecies of
! the Democratic party, that, no matter how
the friends of the Constitution might be
| overwhelmed in their struggles to protect
it from spoliation and wrong, yet that the
! day never would come when body of men
bound together by no tie except hatred to
good principles would be strong enough to
WELD the destinies of this great people
| But what of the future Who can doubt
now that, with the melancholy confessions
/ before all eyes-confessions extorted from
! the reluctant lips of the leaders of the fusion
| in Congress-they cannot unite, even for
the sake of plunder-that in the contest of
| 1856, the victory of these elements of revo-
luton and of anarchy would throw into
power body of men incapable of admin
! istering the affairs of the Government faith
fully and honestly!
Let US suppose that they willhave votes
enough in the coming election in favor of