Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-03-06

which TWAS elected, the section d
country from which be comes, and the
sentiments be has av0wed onthe Aool
of the House.
Not solitary Southern man voted
for him. His triumph is the triumph
OF section3ism-it is to that extent
the adoption Of the abolition creed
announced by Seward and his cola
borsrs in the election Of 1856. Mr..
Banks, too, is the representative Of
IA Massachusetts, constituencies
State which, at its last Legislative ses-
sion, to the extent Of its ability, null
Lifted the Constitution in the enact
ment ofwhat has been called the Per-
Isonal Liberty bill-a State that has
employed its mobs to evade its obli-
cations to surrender fugitive slaves
"a State which while mora ofits in
dustry than any other in the Union
is employed in supplying the necessi-
ties of the slaves Of the South, and
'pocketing the profits, loses no eppor-
tunity to insult the citizens of the
slave States, who are compelled to re-
ly upon its hospitality.
Not a solitary Northern American
voted forMr. Aiken. Messrs. Brown,
of Pennsylvania, Clark, of New York,
Cullen, Of Delaware, Davis, of Maly-
land, Millward, of Pennsylvania, and
Whitney, of New York, voted for Mr.
Fuller, which was, in fact, voting in.
directly for Mr.. Banks. The latter
gentleman took the trouble a day OF
two ago to change his vote for Mr.
Aiken; but when the test came he was
again ready for another change. Mr.
Whitney is the representative of Z
New York constituency-of this city
where there are not six thousand
black republicans in all! Mr.. Havel
was absent. He is Mr.. Fillmore
representative, and has stood the tes
ofnine weeks idle voting only to shoy
that at the hour Of need he was ready
to aid the abolitionists.
Three obvious points have beef
gained in this result: The abolition
lists have succeeded in organizing
sectional party; the know nothing
have as clearly proven that they to,
are sectional; and the administration
has exhibited its utter weakness t.
carry any point or any measure, or OBJ
tain any influence in this Congress
Eighteen Northern Democrats ant
twenty-seyen Southern know moth
iings supported Aiken. By this ex
: hibit it will be seen that the only par
ty having national phase at all i
the Democratic party. It's weakness
lin the North comes from the election
of 1854; could it have had the ben
eft-of the reversal of the popula
, Judgment of1S55, it is manifest tina
it must have signally triumphed.
This result, then, however mucl
it may be deprecated, cannot fail t
} impress on the country most valua
!, bic lesson. 1t has shown that Their
is safety only in adherence tothe Con
stitution, and that the issues GROWN,
, out of the organization of sections
parties are superior to all mere ques
tons of Legislative reform. 1t
| quite impossible, in such condition
, Iof things to make a national organi
zation that does not look to the integ
ity Of the government as its frs
and great object.
The election of Mr.. Banks is tn
first lesson. We trust now there wi
be no time lost in bringing the Hous
to test vote on the question Of re
; storing the Missouri Compromise
Let that first necessity of abolition
ism that corner stone and founda
ton of its party--that saving ord
: nance gifts worship-be adopted 0
rejected under the Speakerskip Of it
disciple and defender.
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