The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-01-30
"a, 1854, in an article headed "How
THE DID IT." we find the following:

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special order for Wednesday of last week, and
thus obtain power to pass their bill, was main
tanned to the last. 1t is not THEIR fault that
the bill has been driven t~hrough-Or rather
over the House. But on Monday of last week,
Colonel Richardson moved and carried, by a
vote of l37 to sc, q proposition to suspend the
rules, (for which purpose a concurrence of W
thirds Of the members voting is required and
thus enable him to postpone the special
order for Wednesday, close the debate on the
Nebraska bill, AND THUS SECURE ITS PASSAGE.
The members from free States, previously vo-
ting against the repeal of the Missouri r~estric-
ton, and who were understood to desire to
maintain that attitude before their constituents,
but who, nevertheless, voted with the repudi-
ators on this occasion, and THUS RENDERED FUR
THER RESISTANCE FRUITLEss, ARE THOSE NAMED
AND LOCATED AS FOLLOWS: Maine, Thomas j..
D. Fuller Massachusetts,, Nathaniel +. Banks,
yr, DC, DC. Total-eighteen. All protested
Democrats. We merely state the fact that
these votes crippled the opposition to the bill,
AND RENDERED RS PASSAGE INEVITABLE Why
they were thus given may appear more plainly
hereafter"
The above extract sufficiently shows
what was Mr.. GREELEY's opinion of the
course of Mr.. BANks at that time. We
believe it is also generally understood
that Mr.. IBANKs is not GREEL Er's first
choice for Speaker now. But as our
neighbor was very profuse in his extracts
from Southern papers in reply to us,
we give for his special benefit the fol;
living extract from a letter to the New
York Daily Times, written at Wash
ington City the evening of the same
day on which the Pacific Rail Road
Bill was postponed, which shows up the
course of Mr.. BANKS in its true light:
"The first grand battle in the Nebiaska cam
! paign is over, and the friends of freedom and
The nublIe faith are beaten-vanquished as
the championc ola holy cause often have beer
before, by treachery within their own ranks
treachery of those who had gone with them
heretofore, it would now appear, only that their
| desertion at the critical hour might work a
greater disaster to the cause. The fight, new
ertheless, was q glorious one Overseer Rich
ardson lost three days time in his Ill advised
effort, and then only succeeded III making
traitors enough to give success to his schemes
by adding another week for debate to whatev-
er other terms of q confidential nature he or
the administration found Unnecessary to make.
I There is no use of talking any more about
eoncili ation with a set of men who have once
again betrayed the North into the hands of the
siaveocracY. Today should be made memo
rable in their lives by its indelible stain upon
their future political characters. "Faithless,"
Z" NOT TO BIZ TRUSTED with the honor and inter-
ests of free men," should be branded upon
each, and every man be shelved as curiosities,
as extraordinary illustrations of the faithfess-
ness of Loeofocoism. q cannot profane the
term Democracy" by using it in such a con-
n~exion.) and the folly which can lead men to
forfeit the eonfidence and respect OF their
friends and neighbSrs for the Establishments
or the brides of a political Administration 1t
is difficult to find terms sufficiently strong to
express the adherence with which the conduct
of Dean, Hughes, Wentworth, Banks, Eiger-
ton and Kittredge, is viewed by those whom
they betrayed. l say BETRAYED, because no
other word in the English languag expresses
their conduct, and THAT hits it exactly. On
Sunday-afIert they had held their Cauc 1t Will
be emembeFed-they were profuse IN their vol
untary assurances that they would stand firm !;
and they even professed an axious solleltude
as to the probable firmness of their ruling al
liesi / saw Mr.. Banks, of Massachusetts }, my
self late last evening, and asked him what
was the programme for to-day. His ans wer
was, "U~nyielding, uncomprOmisibg resi- St
ance." / ventured an expression of fear that
the opponents of the bill OH his (the Democrat
ic) side ofthe House would falter but be as
sured me that, now they were in thc fight, they
would listen to 40 proposition from the major
ity that had the gag at the end of it. His
course to-day Is a strange commentary on his
ProtestatiOns of last evening. Friends of free
dom ia Massachusetts,, these are not days for
doubtful men-look to it-remembcr that TWO
VOTES to-day would have prevented the accom-
plishment of the fraud uron your rights and
remember that the vote of Nathaniel P. Banks,
Jr., taken from the majority with which he yo-
ted, and given to the minority. AGAINST whom
he voted, would have been equal to those two
HAVE SECURED THE VICTORY TO THE
NORTH"
In the game article to which we are
now replying, u neighbor makes the
following remarks:
The charge that the Republicans have ex-
pended so much money in this consest is simp-
iy unfair, when the truth is, the administers
ton party themselves are to blame for the de
lay. The Republicans have n plurality but
not a majority of the votes and were the same
rule observed in the House that is observed in
Ohio elections, there would have been aSpeak-
er several weeks since. 1t was by a union of
anti-Banks men of all hues that the resolution
to elect by a plurality vote, as done six years
ago, was laid on the table Would it be Just
for the plurality to give up to a majority ? Not
even our neighbor will answer that directly in
the afirmafive-we believe he has too much
Democracy left for that-yet the two minori-
ties, the Democratic and Know Nothing fac
tions, have united TO postpone, to defeat and
adjourn until more than a month has been
Upon the Democratic party, then,
Is where the blame must rest for the useless
expenditure of the peoples money and the
wilful neglect of important public business"
We entertain for our neighbOr feel
ings of the most profound respect, but
if ne should give him credit for honesty
in taking the above position, we fear
We should be seriously calling in ques-
ton his good sense. Our neighbor well
kuoE.s that the Democrats are in q
hopeless minority in the House, and
vet he would hold that minority respon-
sible for the non-election of a Speaker
He we'll knows that there is a clear ma
Ijority of members who were elected as
Anti Nebraska men, and if part Of
those members have not proven true to
the people, ought not the Republican
party to be held responsible for the de-
lay? The position of u neighbor, to
our mind, is simply ridiculous, and we
will not further argue the question.
We close by giving tho following ex-
tract from the Ohio State Journal, the
State Organ of Black Republication in
Ohio, which sufficiently refutes the ab-
surd position taken by our neighbor:
owe cheerfuliy agree that the adninistra-
ton members are not in any respect response
bic for this delay. The majority OF the House
is largely against them. They have selected
their man and on every ballot they give him
I .Ia,r a,,ffra va votes. ID