Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1856-02-13
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ELECTION OF SPEAKER.

We announced briefly in last, the election of
Mr. Bank, Of Massachusetts, Speaker of the
House of Representatives, and we give to-day full
account of the final struggle i'll the House on Satur
day last The attention of our readers is also called
to the letter of our Washington correspondent CIV
ing quite interesting account of the of par
ties in the House, and of the manner in which the
election 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 bur the move
mcnt of Mr.. Cobb, of Alabama to make Gov. Aiken
Speaker by resolution, gave the alarm to the black
Republicans; and Friday night they mustered
and ranged their forces, and Saturday entered
the House with all their available strength And
then, if Broom, Whitney, Clark, and Walk,
who profess to be national Know Nothings, had
voted with the South. they did on Friday, Banks
might have been defeated.
The Southern Know Nothings generally voted for
Gov. Aiken; but Mr. Fuller, of Pennsylvania, who
was present, did not rote. Sixteen Northern Dem
ocrats to.wit-Fuller of Maine; Kelly of New York:
VAIL Of New Jersey Florence, Cadwallader, and j.
CLANCY Jones, of Pennsylvania; Miller and English,
Of Indiana Harris Allen, aid Marshall of Illinois;
Peck, of Michigan Hall cf Iowa; Wells, of Wis
consn and Denver and Herbert, of California
voted for Gov. Aiken and Col. Richardson, of I-
nois, stated that he had paired eff with Mr.. ESrie
otherwise he would have voted for him also.l
The Southern Know Nothings, sixteen Northern
Democrats and the Southern Democrats and South
rights Wings voting together; and not one Knoao
Nothing from the free States roting Jor Gou. Aiken,
or anterposing to preueat the election OF Btnks.-
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
shosoing democrats ulone, from the free States
stood by the South. The six X. N's-fvc 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 acontest be-
tween Southern, constitutional man and an abo-
ZIONIST.
Mcssrs. Puryear, Paine, and Rcade, of this State
it will be observed, voted for Gov. Aiken. These
gentlemen must have perceived, by this time, 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 Nothngs and the predictions in this respect
of that gentleman, and of Dr. 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 " national Americans" in the House,
and professes still to regard them the breakwa-
ter between the two corrupt and reckless factions
--Ineaning the Democrats and the black Republi-
cans. We now call 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 a single national KnoW Nothing IN the
House from the free States 1t is easy to declan,
and denounce let your readers hare the facts, Mr..
Gales.