Star of the Kanawha Valley. [volume] (Buffalo, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1856, 1856-03-12

.hcrldsrs. The election Of Cullom,
and s,,S NJ appointment Of Abolitionisats.
a. a,,S r ", Is Office under him, ed
|stiil blacksr features to the picture
Eng.
WAsHrNoron CrrY, February
Gentlemen We have Ct last, ai ,1
4 long struggle, elected y. I. Banks y q
of MsssacR 1setts, Speaker Of tins
Honse and how Il was done, the iron
horse has borne you the intelhgence.
On Friday last, we were informed tnas
# Ne would run Gov. Aiken, Of South
Carolina, the 18th section Know Moth
inc party would supporthim. Vein
mediately q mean the Democratic
membersl pnt MI. Aiken in nomina-
ton and The Democrats and Know
Notkings gave him 103 votes, whilst
the Black Republican candidate re-
ceiycd 102. 0nthis ballot Mr.. Aiken
lost two or three 18th section Know
Nothings, and still received. 4 plurali--
ty. On this vote the House adjourn
ed. On Saturday, when we met, !
learned that many Democrats believed
that we could elect Mr.. Aiken BY 9
plurality vote, and Samuel Smith, of
tennessee, moving the plurality rule,
it was carried by some ten majority.
I did not vote for it, because ! very
mnch feared that tho Northern portion
ofthc 9th section Know NothiDgshad
voted for Mr.. Aiken to induce us 70
adopt the plurality rule, and then
abandon us, and let Mr.. Banks be elect
ed, which, ] believe, they, in heart
very much wished.
Mr.. Smiths resolution provided tina
the House ballot three times, and II
no Speaker was then elected, that thtI
plurality should prevail on the fourti
ballot, and the first vote taken ATTIC
the adoption ofthis resolution. Fou-
teen 18th section Know Nothings r-l
fused to vote for Mr.. Aiken. Thy
steadily refused to vote for him up III
the fourth ballot, and, on a final vot,
every Know Nothing north of Mason
and Dixon's line refused Ito vote; trl
him, as you will see by the rccod;|
and eight Southern Know Nothing
refused to vote for him when thir
names were called, but changed thill
votes when the call was through, and
when it was certain that the charge
would do Mr.. Aiken no good.
Thus Won see that this sweet bmls
Of KNOWN othings fooled the Demo
Gratis into the adoptiolrof plurality ME
bytheir support of'Mr. Aiken on 7ri-
day. anil thcn came to the House and
deliberately stood !v and sinililgly|
saw him slaughtered nn Saturday byE
the electionofa man who has declared
on this floor. during ibis session that
The represented the most ultr;taboitionI
district III this Union, and lie does
not know whsch tile white ior ,lack.
race iss the Superior AMI proposes I'll
try the question oflmaEganlatiol and
absorption. The. following an. the
10Th Section Know Nothings wIo re-I
fused 70 vote for Mr. Aiken OIL the
last ballot: Broom, CLARK, unllon.
Whitney. Fuller. Hickman, Inward
and Davis. Thus you sec that ihe se-
crct. oath bound party, have alluded
the Democratic party intothe Ilurali-.I
tv and then have turned traitors to the.
Philadelphia l,kltfnrnl. their Union
degrees oath. their God and Their conn-
try. and have substantially ioilcd the
cohorts Of abolition fanaticisll. The
vote has just been taken for Clerk,
and Colon ofTennessee, was nomin-I
ated by mi ahnlitionist for his anti
Nebraska and free-soil views, and
was elected by the Black Republicans
and Northern and Southern Know
Nothings.
There can he no, conservative meas
ures passed this Congress, as you NAV
count the Know Nothings and Black
Republicans against us upon every
measure of public Interest.
Your friend and obedientservant.
J. NJ. ELI4t)TT.
N. B.-Fve Of the eight Who refns-
ed TO vote for Aiken On Saturday yot-
ed for him on Friday.