New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-23

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49, No r,fu,ed 70 unite with either pty. Bat could
any considerable portion Of !; rect upon ne psoeste party
their 10 elect him. still could not be expected that,
being tie majority hey should yountsry retire from 'e
siderable portion them least, might meet them the Denoe
rseyl ufon The candidate whom ne mad p5seasas easeiae
over the Deliberations Of this body and direct rs preceding
Ii he had been attempting to describe the present
condition Of affairs be could hardly have used more
Appropriate language, except the names Of parties, If
he he'd been gifted with prophecy. Grant that we
have majority. II is, as be said of their majority,
then, an " Improbable one. Now, as then, a
little portion of the large.t party refuse to vote
with the great majority OF the party" most SIN
cerey regret that they do. Now, a. them the gentle
man presented by the larger party OF the three in the
House is most eminently qua1ed for the duties OF
the chair. Now, az then, % the opposition TO him Is
entirely confined TO the difference Of their political
"ouinlons." Now, a. then, 1t could not be expected
that being in the majority, we should voluntarily
4" retire from the contest" and II bis argument was
sound then that If their political opponents in
a majority here he bell, we'd it would be night and
fair that they should have the Speaker, submit it
to the four honorable gentlemen from Mississippi, who
agree with him in political iah but who vote against
any rule by which the msority-which my friend from
Alabama saws we have here, but which ia imprac-
ticable" as Gov Brown lamentngy said Of his party
in ls4e-are enabled to elect that officer which he de-
cared il was right and fair that even disunitsd
majority should be allowed to have.
IL subsequent part Of his remarks, in a colloquy
with Mr. Stany Of North Carolina he stated that this
majority Of which he spoke, was obtained By
excluding the thru pdyWfRH S, 1t x nS b m Sr ri. ii
more closely approxmates his remarks to the present
condition Of parties in. this House. Excluding the
third party there is CHAR and ndisputabe majority
Of the Republicans over the Democrats and In that
light viewed from the same stand point from which
lie made his observations III lSi9, how appropriate and
forcible are bis arguments now Why gentlemen
turn their backs on those arguments now | will
endeGvor to show, if my time will admit, with the
passing remark, that having proved that the plurality
rule which governs in the election OF Members Of this
House in every State OF the Union was first suggested
by Democrat in ls49, repeated eight times by Demo
Gratis, adopted on the motion OF Democrat al last,
carried by the aid of Democratic votes, and that
Democratic Speaker was elected under tiff the prn-
cpe good then, good faith requires that IT
be conceded now; Or if not conceded the parties re-
fusing it will be held responsible for the failure to
organize this body.
Sir in justification Of their opposition to the rule
row. they say that if Mr.. Banks is elected there will
be danger to the Union. Danger to the Union! Now
LET read, and call particular attention TO it, the
speech Of Mr.. Meade Of Virginia, OF almost precisely
the ZANE tenor made against Mr.. Winthrop, when
that gentleman candidate for the Speakership:
"Isn organization Of the House s to be followed By the
sage Of bills prohbiou Of Slavery in the Territories and
abolition Slavery the District If these onsgss are to be
committed upon ny people u't 10 90 d. s ma my EYES
tivet," &C. lCongres-iona Globe for 1919, p rs
Thus, Sir, the Union considered in precisely the
same danger then now. II was cOntended as ear
nestly a. now, that after the election Of Northern
Speaker these results might follow; and yet with all
these forebodings held up before hem in speech Of
more than ordinary eloquence by the gentleman from
Virginia, Democrat after Democrat in ls49 proposed
adydnhted, and voted for q rule which might
possibly have resulted then as now in the cleo
lion of Speaker from the Ant-Slavery State
of Massachusetts, If, therefore, at this great
risk TO the Union the Democrats here aided so largely
in the passage Of this rule in lsi9 does it not show
that this House is kept dsorganKed and the pub
lie business interrupted, by party unable to elect
themselves, merely because they have not quite a.
good prospect OF success at this time at that
But though the success of this Republican party is
80 dangerous to the Union" in the estimation of our
opponents, yet, from the speeches of Yesterday we
were left to infer that, if would only take down
our candidate, and set up any other, no matter how
ultra might be his record Slavery, the House might
be organized, and the pluray.rue would not then be
so bitterly opposed. Without stopping to inquire
whether their hostility to Mr.. Banks grows out of the
fact that, during that memorable Nebraska struggle,
he preferred principle to party, and left them in the
prde or their power to throw hinref into wnat might
have proved feeble minority, If the people had not
TO it, and its approval, these declarations
show that this House remains dsorganized from the
opposition of the Democratic party to a particular
man. that the wheels of Government are blocked be-
cause they have personal hostility to his occupying
the chief chair of the House; and that, far from
devotion TO the Constitution and the Unon, as the
ot-repeated phrase here readscompelng them to turn
their backs that rule which, proposed by Demo-
crat voted for by many Democrats and resulting in
Democratic victory, has passed into precedent for
occasions like this-they would be willing to give up
the contest and risk all the danger 10 the Cnion if we
would only choose some other man to rule over them
1t is therefore, not principle but opposition to man.
that causes the present disorganized state of the
House. Let gentlemen explain this, if they can, to
their constituents.