New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-17


ristakably involves the issue of hostility to
the number will vote so because they must, and
BOT because they want to.
". Personal aspiration has been our curse
throughout this struggle. There are at least 3
dozen men elected az Anti-Nebrasks, each of whom
can't imagine why the House is so stonebnd IA
not to see that he is just the man who ought II be
supported for Speaker. This jack-O-lantern has
pnisled Mr.. Fuller into bis present qusgmlre it
has collapsed the puff pail known as } Ohm Wheeler
It las soured and disafIected better men greve
70 sag il. but we should have had Speaker days
ago il 90 many open secret aspirants for the
post had not each hoped that a continuance of the
anarchy would Decessitate new deal, and that his
own admirable fitness, fortunate position and emf
pent popularity might therein be recognized and
rewarded. And even when the hope has vanished
the soreness of disappointed xpectation, of mort
fed vanity, remains.
~ "Americanism, so called, has stood in the
way OF an election Some of the Members are
openly, others secretly attached to tie mystic
"Order' Many of these are good aud true men
who vote az they stand pledged to do by their let
ters sod speeches in the canvass but the n1u'
eDce Of the Order on such is strongly exerted
on the Vrong side Instructions to vote against
Banks are nightly cOncocted in the secret coun-
els and sent here TO dsquiet our friends and in
spirit our sdverssries. The whole power of" Ma
tioDsr' twelfth section" Know nottingham is
welded with desperate energy agsinst Banks HE'S
denounced asan spostate, a Sewar3ite," q Black
Republican" and his election deprecated as the
burial of Sam" repeat, that while gOad aud
true men adhere to the Order, the Order az
such exerts potent influence against Banks, and
In favor Of anybody else.
"Tben why not try Pennington we are asked.
For one, was very willing to do con
sidered him sound on the main issue, and neither
asked nor cared Whist he thought of American
ism" any more than for bis views on Spritualism
or ClairvOyance. i do not think his conceded
talents we'll adapted 10 the chair as are those
ofMr. Banks; but he was my second choice, aud
for some days ! expected and did not deprecate
his election. But when his especial friends we're
asked, What is to be gained by supporting him p
and they replied, " He can get votes of Fuller
@men; he can get votes from Slave States" it
was impossible not TO consider that those votes
could only be promised him on some under
standing that he is less firm, less hearty,
less decided, in bis opposition to the
principle and policy embodied in the
Nebraska bill than Mr. Banks is If he is elected,
then, by the votes of men opposed to any positive,
active resistance to the planting and nur:
fare of Slavery in Kansas somebody must be
chested-either our side or the o.her-and we
prefer that it be neither. We don't want
nm Anti Nal ala nv
the votes of deceived Nebraska men. We prefer
aclean victory or clean defeat We can better
afford to be beaten than 70 be betrayed. If the
House wants an Anti-Nebraska Speaker it should
elect him who is the choice ola large majority ofthe
hnti-Nebraska men; il it wants one of the other
Sort let it choose Mr.. Richardson on the same
principle. We don't want Speaker except to
organize the committees and il will be of no use
% have the bills Of the Session properly shaped in
Committees il they are to be beaten in the House.
| III we have not majority in the House, let the
Country know the fact at once, and not be deuded
with expectations which the progress of the SEES
sien is TO dissipate. Such are the views OF
hrpe majority of the Anti-Nebraska men. j com
mend them to the consideration of their con
sttuents.
Thus we stand at the close of the second
week the House having just adjourned after
desuory debate on several trihing propositions OF
compromise, and taking two ballots without mate
rial change from yesterdays vOte-Ba los. L
trust the Anti Nebraska voters OF Mr. Wheelers
district will ponder well the speech made by their
REPRESENTATIVE on this occasion and carefully
weigh Gf they can find them his reasons for nerer
voting for anybody who stands chance OF being
elected not for any one who gets two votes be-
side his own Was it for this that they sent this
man TO Congress h'"'
Frorn Our Own Correspondent
There is every prospect of a long siege In the
House unless the professions of the men now IN
.ntagonjsm are yalueless and wholly unreliable.
The msiority exhibit no disposition to relax not
from any spirit of obstinate adhesion to Mr.. Banks
personally, but because there is no reasonable
hone that withdrawal from him would eventHate
in a more advantageous concentration on ANYBODY
else The minority are stubborn from feeling oil
fictitious resistance alone-a determination In part
10 reek vengeance upon those who are not directly
involved in this contest, but who have esPoused
The cause of Mr. Banks from convictions OF duty
and principle
Some of the truest and frmest supporters Oh
Mr. Banks have expressed a willingness to unite
upou anv proper candidate, if il can be shown
That the concession of preference would aid in or
gAnizino the House Their Partially, therefore,
has assumed no color or form OF parhsanshlp, out
has h, en- maintained from b. lief in the soundness
4 oT he or.ctical policy as well rs the preemnent