New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-21
"a. So the resolution was carried and the Houss
thereupon adjourned This locks like coming to
point. HG.
THE ATTEMPT TO BREAK TIE BANKS
COLUMN
dltohaI Correspondenee Of The N. y. Tribune

\ Editorial Correspondence OF The N. \. Tribune
! WASHINGTON, Saturday, Jan. 10. 1856.
| The Administration ia most uneasy with regard
| TO the storm brewing with England, and therefore
anxious that Congress should be in condition Ia
share the serious responsibility it has invoked.
Hence the demonstration of Cobb, Letcher, Orr,
G. ". Jones-nearly oil the leading slave.drivers
i'll the House yesterday. Divested of yerbiace.
their profiers and menaces amounted TO Just this:
1--WE are but seventy-fye here, and cannot
coaie ace with the other Pro-Slavery party, so
we have no hopes OF electing a Speaker from our
own ranks; we concede that YOU Anti Nebraska
men must elect. But while we cannot ourselves
succeed, We can, in connection with the South
Americans, prertnt an election; and we now tell
yOu Mat you shall never succeed until you shall
have dropped Banks" And it was actually made
matter of reprOach to our friends that thev had
not dropped Mr.. Banks md gone in en- masse for
electing Lewis d. Campbell on Wednesday! "You
can organize at any time" was urged by Cobb &
Co.; "just let George Dunn select a candidate for
you, and the work is DONE"
"But," answered the true men, "we have Sc
lected our ora candidate, and nominated him in
q fairly called and largely-attended Anti-Nebraska
caucus BY q very large majority. Whether we
have have not chosen wisely, is question which
ii is not for Howell Cobb, John Letcher, George
Dunn d Co. to decide; We can withdraw him
should We ever see fit to do 80 but the fact that
you hate and dread him affords an additional reason
for Our standing fast and never deserving him."
The Anti Nebraska party, if it is to elect Speaker
at ALL will be held responsible for his discharge of
the duties of the Chair. Should he prove incom-
potent peryerse, or unworthy, the disgrace and
damage inevitably falls on their shoulders. What
can be fairer then, than the demand that they
should be permitted to select the man for whose
discharge of such important functions they will be
held responsible! Why should the half-dOzen
who have kept the House disorganized so long as
sumo to dictate TO their hundred cOmpatriOts whom
they shall or shall not support And why should
the seventy-fye who will vote for no man we
might nominate attempt to bully the Anti-Ne
braska phalanx into the reputation of their DELHI
crate, emphatic, reiterated choice! Is it gen.
erous, is it magnanimOus, does it compOrt with
the deccncies Of Political warfare that they
should send into our camp the message: " You
may choose any one else than the man YOU wish to
choose, and him you shall not elect" If they were
in our friends place would they consider this manly
treatment
The call of the caucus last night orrginatvu
with those on our side who want the North 10
crawl out from this contest, and who supposed
that. after the vexatOns the discOuragements and
the threats lust encountered, we must be ready to
do 49, Some good and usually firm men seemed
ready. when the House adjourned, to take the back
track. On the other hand, several OF the most de-
termined Banks-men refused to attend the Caucus,
saving we had just held one-that our nag was
tbere-snd they were not to be nOsed about nor to
seem as if thsy were shaken. They were LOT
Banks and meant to remain go 1 apPrehend,
therefore. that, since the Caucus was thlmy at
tended and the absentecs nearly all from among
our best men, there might be some show for a
division if not back-out. But the first hour
proved the existence of spirit that could not be
tanned and would not be trampled on. Many Mem
beers spoke; and all, after the first hour or
90 on the right side | hear the remarks OF Dir.
]. III. CAMPBELL Of Pa. eulogized by Members
(none others having been ADMITTEDLY as one OF the
best: but Messrs. HOWARD of Mich, COLLAR OF
Ind. and ten or twelve others spoke in lofty
spirit of resolve and devotion which electrified the
whole assemblsge Opposition was drowned IN
enthusiasm, feeble knees Strengthened and the
caucus broke up after IL o'clock, united and hearty
in tbe determination to stand by Banks-to be
hosteo thus if they must, but never TO surrender
o'"' HG.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, Jan. 19, 1856
None of the dispatches received by the last
steamer from England in any way changes the COM