New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-02


osme ntie guerrilla troop OF corp. OF skrnishers
attached to and lowering on the fanks Of the Bor-
der-RufHan Democracy.
The election Of Speaker was the first touch'tone'
minority Of those chosen ss Americans eA'
communicated the majority and refused to uDite
with t1em On equal terms in the selection OF cam
didate. The South Americans would allow the'r
Northern brethren to vote with them, but wouia
not meet them in caucus to determine for "noni
The! should vote. Only ;ho-c who would a''
quiesce il the principles Of the Nebraska hc.
and sgree to stard by them were deemed good
enough for equal cOmpaniOnship with Zclhcon'f,
the Kentucky Marsballs, with Foster Carllie and
Percy Walher-(who, by the way, after insisting
on tie nomination Of Fillmore, has himself gone
over TO Buchanan
No party having majority, nine weeks were
spent in the election Of Speaker. At last the
Plurality rule vas carried b. close vote, and Nd
thauel p. Banks, jr., Of MASSACHUSETTS chosen oy
lQ3 Eotes to 100 for William Aiken of South CARO-.
Ena-eyeTy american nail .ng from the SOUTHWARK
of the Potomac voting for Aiken TIE Pro-SlaVery
Democrat in order TO defeat Banks, The Free Terri
tory American. TIE two Americans from MsrJ ana
and Delaware who stuck 10 their own candidate
instead OF going fJr Aiken were denounced tor so
doing as bstTayers of the South. Not one OF Inc
Americans" who had been sticking to
Humphrey Marshall or Henry M. Fdilef
now voted for Banks. II being thus
clearly confessed thst, in the mlads Of
every one, Northern or Southern, the Slavery
question Was paramount, and that OF Amerlcanism
subordinate, it m-y be fairly urged that, logically,
this was ihe end of "Americsnism. The simple
truth ia that the question Ct extending or restrict
ipg the area OF Slavery does overbear every other,
and render all parties which Ignore this itsus par
slJiic or impotent. The SIage States are about 10
prove this by voting for Buchsnsn the Free States
likewise BY eiec.ing Fremont.
The Republicans achieved one signsl triumph
during the Session in the vote Of the House creating
the Kansas Investigating Committee; bu. this only
because its justice a1d necessity were so obvious
and imperative that they could no. be resisted by
any tut confessed seryitors Of the Slave Power.
Even then, they were obliged to le! An adversary
shape the measurc; which thus became 10 fashion
DuUu :, INpHHu III fsseHCt tutu-. i'ul th' '"'h"'
vas OF 10 D.oHcnt, while tn, fac! that it vas os-
tensi y Mr. Dunns proposition constrained several
Northern Fillmoreites to vote for it who would
gladly have seen it fail. Thus what might have
seemed check resulted in benefcent triumph.
The Investigation, Gs prosecuted, recorded and
summed up by Messrs. Howard and Sherman, was
work Of the bahest merit. The industry, energy,
. IL. a th.ro hav
1artly been exceeded. So many important wit
nesgcs-a majority Of them at once hostile shrewd
aud upscrhplloua-ba rarely been so searchlngly
examined in so short ,ime-and never before was
so BLACK mass of eliminating testimony wrenched
fcm unwilling 'ips. The Report in which it is
summed up il a masterp'ecs Of perspcuous state
ment ana orderly arrangement, putting each fact
in its proper place, and marshaling the whole into
narrative of remarkable luc,dity aud power. One
Million copies Of that Report ought yet to be placed
in the hands of 20 many electors.
The expulsion of Whitfield and the recognition
by the House Of Free Kansas as State under her
TopekS Constitution may be fairly claimed rs re-
suits of that Investigation. All were previously
aware tbat Kansas had been the theater Of frauds
and wrongs, bat tlcre was a general impression
anorg the indoent aud inatentve that those frauds
and wrongs were exaggerated in the letters
ard other statements of the friends of Free Kan
sas. TIE Report dispelled that illusion, and
proved that the verified truth was more revolving
ttnn any hearsay account Of it. Had there been
no inyest'gatiOp, the Free.S.ate movement in Kan
sas must have lacked the moral support of the
Houses acceptance of the Topeka Constitution.
And if ever Kansas is to come into the Union as
Free State, she will become such, We believe,
under that Constitution.
We must speak again on the general subject,
but We cannot conclude this article without ex-
pressing our especial gratitude to JACOB COLA.
MER of Vermont, the solitary Republican ON the
Territorial Committee Of the Senate t. Judge
Col!aneis ability, legal and constitutional atain-
ments, and untiriDg industry, is the Free-State
cause indt btd for many overwhelming exposures
Of the s0pbistIy Of DOuglss aad the general
pervers;on of facts ard of law by which the
cause of the Border Ruffisns is necessarily sus-
tanned Others, alike in the Senate aud in the
IIouse, have done nobly; but on Judge Ccllsmer
has the brunt OF tho coLtest fallen, far as the
involved questions affected constitutional or legal
principles, ard be has met the responsibility with
eminent capacity, assiduity and uDfinching deter
nination. The Country will hold him in grateful
remembrance.
We shall recur to the general subject.