Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-02-19
TUESDAY MOnNING, FEBRUARY 10.
THE X, MS AND NOT THE O. KS.

THE X. MS AND NOT THE o. KS.
We have intended for some days to answer
and refute the imputRtions which the KNOWN Nothing
Wing presses have cast upon the Democratic party,
in relation to the election of Speaker, by publishing
the testimony in our possession which the loyalty,
fidelity and real Americanism Of tho Democrats in
the House Of Representatives have extorted; but we
really have been too much occupied ourselves, and
our column. have been too much engrossed by other
matter TO permit to do so We confess, too, thatwe
did no, feel in any about it, because every
one saw the conduct of the parties-every one be-
held therefore, the lofty, patriotic course of the De.
mocrats, and every one approved and appreciated It,
except few disappointed ice.seekers-pap-suck-
era. But the charge is kept mp, We otler to-day
the testimony Of one Of the consrirators-liorace
Greeley-,o prove how utterly unfounded the charge
it, aud ,ha, the responsibility really rests upon that
little minority Of purists who, arroganty as well a.
ludicrous,y aspired to control the Democrats, who
were double their number. The Know Nothing Wing
press has been heretofore, remarkable for it's bitter.
mes. against the "Cow Boys"-the little squad Of
oice.seekers who hang upon the skirts of party in
order by timely and dexterous maneuvre, to cast
the beam in their own favor. But, now, when 1t
iuds itself tending very small herd Of just such
"Cow Boys, it is filled with affection for them, and
raises terrible outcry against the Democrats, be-
caase the generous and disnteresed purpose of the
said Cow Boys" has been defeated and their unsat-
isfed stomachs are troubled with that terrible sense
OF "souencss, of which miserable dyspeptics some
times complain, when they cannot get the food which
suits them and can have no comfort without it.
But it is useless to waste ink upon the absurd
idea that seventy.four Democrats should yield to
thirty -four Know No,hings! Every school boy will
say at once that the smaller must yield to tho larger
force and in government, no republican will ques-
ton it, unless there be irreconcilabe difference OF
principle. But to the evidence Of Greeley:
From the Washington Union.l
BUT WITH THE MORROW COOL REFLECTION
GAME"
The reader who las watched the proceedings
during the nine weeks struggle for Speaker will re-
collect nothing connected with 1t so remarkable rs
the course Of the northern national know nothings'
who 6ually assumed the responsibility Of making MI
Banks the Speaker. On Friday these gentlemen had
united With the democrats and South Americans IN
| voting for Mr.. Aiken, aud in giving to him vote
which indicated strong probability OF his election
under the plurality rule After the adoption OF thla
rule, on Saturday morning, these gentlemen, together
|
| on Mr.. Fuller (who set them the exampe,) and there
| by elected Mr.. Banks. The following extract from
one of the letters Of Horace Greeley, written the day
of the election, throws good deal oflght on the clu
sing Of the struggle and suggests reason or
the strange of the national know wno.hings be-
fore referred to.
"Wheu the House adjourned last night on avo.e o!
l03 for Aiken, many ot our friends panicstrck
en-. That the plurality rule would pass to-day was
inevitable, for the other side was quite ready for
it as ours. If the ten ant-l}anks men who finally
voted for it had not done So presume Others would
II merely deemed good policy 10 hold the great
mass of the Nebraska democracy in opposition 80
,ha: they could say the South Americans You See
how these Banks men are crowdng you TO a choice
between their candidate and ours. Now make them
repent itr This was shrewd management, but not
very gallant. However, our friends had resolved to
end the contest somehow, and the result has justified
their courage. Yet it is plain that it we had been
enabled to carry the plurality rule yrsterday-as we
tried hare to dove should have closed that day with
Aken in the Speakers chair; for then BroouI, faih'
Havard Clark and Whitney went for Aiken, raising
his vote to lO3 while he had two supporters absent
(paired with Banks men aud gone to dlnner,) giving
him in reality los votes, while we had but luz Tor
Ranks. MR. Robson, OF Peunsy ylvania, absent
| and pair expired, came in this morning. y
| We were beaten party last night 1t the
! other Democratic leaders had not, through Jealousy
Of Clingman or from some unexplained impulse, de
feased the plurality rule. Every Banks man bu;
Lewis d. Campbell voted for it, not suspectng that
all the national Cnion-saving Americans would vote
| for Democratic secessonist, who happened to be
born in Ireland, aud is the worse for that, ac
cordng to our notions. When the House adjourned
last night, all Washington supposed Banks rrevoca.
bly, beaten, and was immensely jubunt thsreupon.-
Some OF our truest were for the first time fright.
ened, and urged the expedency Of taking down
Banks and putting up some candidate whu could OBJ
tam the votes of Dunn s. Co. But that e1pcdtnt
was soon proved, always knew It wss, impracti-
cable. large majority OF the Banks men utterly re-
fused to move. Mr.. Banks very decisirey notl-
ed that his declining Noud only tear US to pieces
it could insure the transfer Of his friends 10 any
one else. Such General Spinner OF our State
Messrs. Nichols and Day of Ohio, who have separh'
ted from the Democratic party the Nebraska ques
ton, gave notice that, ii Mr. Banks could not be
elected then 10 anti-Nebraska man could. Before
10 o'clock it was settled that should stand or ia
with Banks, and from that moment everything went
steadily forward.
"Through oil the camp of Nebraskaism e1ultation
ruled the hour: for they said Messrs. Broom, Walk,
Bayard, Clark, and Whitney have just voted for
Aiken Of course they will do it again tomorrow, and
their votes will elect him.
"But with tho PROV cool reflection came .
"These gentlemen with Messrs. Millward, Cullen,
Fuller, and Winter Davis perceived that they could
not afford to elect Mr.. Aiken-that, in dealing blow
at u, 'back republicans they would utterly demolisl
themselves and their national American party. 30
they held of and lot Mr. Banks be elected"