Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-01-28
The Tyranny ofParfv.


/ .ssDsDEss ials head ihe Spisifsf iAe aeaih'
! published At Eufala. Ala, god Democratic ao
thorty, administers to lis party in Congress. the
| following severe but just rebuke. for voting to
lay on the table the resolution of Mr.. WALKER OF
Alabama, a member of the American party, de-
claring Mr.. BoycE, Of South Carolina. Speaker
OF the House. Mr.. BoycE is a member of the
Democratic party, in full fellowship;a man supe-
rior,in every respect to Mr. RICHARDSON; but he
would not answer-be was not tho nominee OF
the party caucus. and the collar would soon
err sacrifice the great interests Of the country than
disobey the dictates Of the caucus. And yet these
men and their organs have the COO cifrontery to
assert that the American party are to blame for
the failure to organize the House. But TO the
article Of the Spirit The South. Here it is:
THE TYRANNY OF PARTy.--The country has
lately had an illustration Of the tyranny of party
and the iron rule of CAUCUS On the Sd inst Mr..
Percy Walker,the Representative in Congress of
the Mobile district. offered resolution teimina-
ting the protraoted struggle for the Speaker
ship. by the appointment of Mr. Boyce. of South
Carolina to that office. Mr. Boyeo is n most I'M
exoeptionable State Rights Democrat, wholly
FREQ from any faint of Nothingism. and of
tho highest personal fitness for the position
Mr.. Walker is Know Nothing, and proposing
MIR. Boyce for Speaker he made some sacrifices
of his party prejudioes for the sake Of organizing
the House under sound, conservative influences.
Was it not reasonable to expect that the olive
branch of Southern union thus handsomely tend
cred, would have been promptly accepted, and
that Southern men of all parties wonld have glad.
ly awaited themselves of the opportunity of max
ing such man Boyce Speaker. Yet, strange
to say, the resolution was voted down by ma
jorty of thirty six votes, and side by side with
the Black Republicans. among those who helped
to strangle it, were Southern Democrats!
The excuse that these gentlemen make is that
Mr. Richardson was the candidate of the caucus,
and that under its DEGREES. no member was ut
liberty to vote for any body else-as if any man
had a right to merge his personal responsible
ty to his constituents and the country, and
fde his conscience to the keeping of caucu
We are anxious to see the vote, and learn who
the men are, that thus make caucus and party
paramount to the good of the country Who
ever they are, they ought to be held up TO the
public Indignation, as more partizans unworthy
Of the trust reposed in them. Mr. Richardson 1850
far ms we know, an unobectonable man. and we
would willingly if it were possible see him made
Speaker. We admire the fidelity with which his
friends have adhered to him, but we loathe aud
despse the seryili:y of these collar men, who
would sacrifice everything to party discipline
and party spirit. What might have been the fate
of Mr.. Walkers resolution had the united South
stood up to it, we know not, but this is Il matter
which does not Mt all affect the conduct of those
Southern men who aided in voting it down. Each
man who did so is just as culpable MS if the
question had depended on his single vote, and
occupies before the country an unenvnblo posi-
ton from which no ingenuity can rescue him.
We nre glad 10 learn that such conductwas chur
zpl IL n deserved nj n thp floor of