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The speakership once More.--

extended circulation among the fraternity.
The speakership once More.--
+ We look to Washington with intense anz
iety; these are contingencies upon which tn
election of an anti-slavery speaker might b
equivalent to the seating of a Black Repub
lean In the Presidential chair. And shoul,
Banks be chosen as Speaker, while it will ex
emplify the fact that party allegiance is para
mount to patriotism, it will demonstrate tn
further fact that the aAnti-American part,
have resolved, in truth, s'to rule or ruin" tn
country, if in fact it be national party a
all. -
We have before alluded to the evident de
sire cf t : so-styled Democratic party to co
ersce tue National Americans, by taunt ant
insult, into Che false position of supporting
Banks, and thereby prostrating the party a
the South Upon no other hypothesis cal
their gratuitous unnecessary and grossly in
sulting resolution in Congressional caucus
in reference to the American party, be render
ed Ineligible
The only vital issue involved in the election
was the slavery question. Both pro-slayery
parties were separately in a minority, unitec
they might have rallied sufficient strength tt
control the election, provided there was any
reliability in northern Democrats. The South
ern Americans were and still are willing tt
postpone all other questions in order to save
the country from being cursed with free-soi
domination, and only ask that they be enabled
to do so, and at the same time retain their OWE
self-respect. The obnoxious resolution, it Ii
quite nEahah hea<.
patriotic impulse-disregard, and cast their
votes for Democratic Speaker, provided he
was otherwise unexeeptionable. But apart
from Mr. Richardson's direct connection with
that caucus resolution, there are other obstacles
to be over eome,-which we deem well nigh
insurmountable, before the Southern Amer
leans can come to his support. Not the least
Of which is his openly avowed free-soil con-
struction of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and
his expressed determination to vote for the
Wilmot proviso, in the event of another meas
ure failing to receive the sanction of Congress.
Yet the greatest objection we have to him
arises from the fact that his nomination was
to secure the support Of the" inn
mortal seventeen democratic members from
the North, whose nationality so much boast
ed of, is not of sufficient vitality to induce
them to vote for man son the wrong side Of
the negro line.' And yet the party does not
drop him and nominate Southern man, for
fear that such course would but exhibit the |
weak hold it has upon the objections Of its
Northern members.
1t does seem to US that the Democratic
party is taking council of Its own imbecility; |
hat it knows itself to be wholly sectionalized,
md desires to conceal its position. Its mem
oers know, we fear, that no Southern man
IAN obtain the support of its seventeen north
srn associates, and that consequently, their al
lance with the Southern Americans, owing to |
in their own ranks, would be per-
ieetly abortive. Hence the party wishes to
retain an apparent unity in order to go into
she next Presidential election with some faint
hope of success by nominating northern men
with Southern principles though denational-
ICED in fact, yetit is quite sufficiently demon
alized by the hope of public plumber, to make
such game perfectly german.
We have hitherto been at loss to account
for the. manner in which the modest overtures
Of the Southern Americans have been met by
The democrats, but with this view of the mat
ter it is plain enough In sportsnan's par
lance, they have been playinga bluff game, !"
have no desire to be acalled' out, and were
they permitted to .sdraw," ab 1i5stuas, they
could not make up "a hand that would would T
win. against the Black Republicans and
northern democrats, which latter would be
arrayed against them the moment a nominal
lion was made south Of Mason and Dixon's I
line:
The Southern Americans will never vote
for Banks, nor do we suppose that the demo-
Gratis willact sosuicidal asdirectly TODD 20 eth
II. But there is an mixing Of disposition
n the latter. with view, no doubt, to ulteri-
u political combinations, By the absense Of its
to permit bis election.
The times are truly protentious Of evil, and /
while we are anxious for the result and busy
% search Of remedies it should never be fuss
gotten. that the present truly alarming staa
# public affairs are wholly and solely due p /
misnlanage misrule and ar |
j drill Ito very culpabls tamperiQ With
he slavery question, for the purpose of indi-
lidual aggrandisement and parry ldency.
The people will bear these thin mind
nd hold them 70 rigid accoaa