Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-02-09
ELECTION OF SPEAKER.

We announced briefly in our last, the election OF
Mr.. Bank of Massachusetts,, as Speaker OF the
House of Representatives, and we give To-Day iu'l
account of the final struggle in the House on Satur-
day last The attention of our readers is also called
TO the letter of our Washington correspondent, CIV
ing quite an interesting account Of the state of par
ties in the House, and OF the manner III "n'cn Tic
election was effected.
1t is believed by some that if the plurality rule
had been adopted on Friday, the day preceding,
Gov. Aiken might have been elected but the move
ment of Mr.. Cobb, of Alabama, to make Gov. Aiken
Speaker by resolution, gave the alarm to the black
Republicans; and on Friday night they mustered
and arranged their forces and on Saturday entered
the House with all their available strength. And
even then, if Broom, Whitney, Clark, and Walk,
who profess to be national Know Nothings, had
voted with the South. as they did on Friday, Banks
might have been defeated.
The Southern Know Nothngs generally voted for
Coy Aiken; but Mr.. Fuller of Pennsylvania, who
was present. did not cote. Sixteen Northern Dem
ocrats, to-wit- Fuller, of Maine; Kelly of New York;
Vail, of New Jersey Florence, Cadwalader, and j.
CLANCY Jones, of Pennsylvania; Miller and English,
of Indiana Harris, Allen, and Marshall, of Illinois;
Peck, of Michigan; Hall of Iowa; Wells, of Wis
consin; and Denver and Herbert, of California
voted for Gov Aiken and Col. Richardson of ILL.,
nois, stated that he had paired off with Mr. Emrie
otherwise he would have voted for him Also
The Southern Know Nothings, sixteen Northern
Democrats, and the Southern Democrats and South
rights Wings voting together; and not one moi"
Nothing from the free States uoting Jor Cor. Aiken,
or 1nterposiny to prerent the election OF Bdn&s.-
Such is the record. Among the Northern Know
Nothings the 18th section of the Philadelphia plat
form, and the constitutional rights Of the South had
no snoring; Democrats alone, from the free States
stood 6y the South. The six X. N's-ive from the
free States, and one from Maryland-who voted for
Mr. Fuller, could have defeated MIR: Banks; and by
voting they did, they virtually sustained the latter
Mr.. Fuller, too, after all his professions of regard
for the constitution refused to vote in contest be-
tween a Southern, constitutional man and an aboli-
ZIONIST.
Messrs Puryear, Paine, and Reade, of this State,
it will be observed, voted for Gov. Aiken These
gentlemen must have perceived, by this tilne that
their know Nothing brethren of the free States are
utterly unreliable, if not radically unsound. on the
slavery question This election must have convinced
them of this fact. The declarations of Mr.. Kerr as
to the real sentiments and purposes of Northern
Know Nothings, and the predictions in this respect
of that gentleman, and of DIR. Shaw and Mr.. Scales,
have been verified by the highest authority-by the
record itself.
The Raleigh Register" referring to this election,
speaks of the 1' national Americans" in the House,
and processes still to regard them " the breakwa
ter between the two corrupt and reckless factions
meaning the Democrats and the black Rcpubli-
cans We now csll upon the Editor of that paper
to examine the record-to analyze the vote for
Speaker, and then tell his readers if he put his
finger ON single national Know Nothing in the
House from the free States. 1t is easy to declaim
and denounce let your readers hare the facts Mr..
| Gales