The daily union., 1856-01-20
THE MAJORITY, AND NOT THE MINORITY, REsPos
lIRIE

The aut-Nebraska majority in the House of Represents
tves are under special obligations to the editors of the
National gencer for the earnesness and persisteney
with which they insist fixing ndiscrmnate respon-
siby on each section into which the House is divided in
the effort to elect Speaker Heretofore II has been fe
garded the fair and just TO ascertain which party
in Congress constitutes the majority and the aseer-
tanment of this fact to determine where the responsibility
belongs Very much to the relief and doubt to the en-
couragement of the anNebraska majority in the House.
our very conservative neghbors discard the question IS TO
who constitute the majority, but seek by ndiscrmnate
censure fix ndiscrminate responsibility upon the mi
norty as well upon the majority This extreme ccnser-
vatsm approaches very near to the exhibition OF FEELING
of sympathy with the majority, which will be apt to re-
mind the readers of the Intgcr that Nebraskasm has
never been fayorite with that journal
We are bound to suppose that the editors Of the he
qeneer are in the desire which they express for
an organization Of the House. and that il is that DESIRE and
not any real sympathy with the black republicans which
induces its editors their ndiscrminats
upon a sections and divisions Of the House Concedng
this much the habtual conservatism of the Etgencer
we must say that its strikes the most successful
one that could be adopted to prevent organization
What need the majority to for the responsibility
which legtimatey attaches them if journal SO old and
influential and conservative the elgocr for
ward day by day shift from their shoulders portion Of
that responsibility and to lay upon the shoulders Of the
minority? Our neighbors go far beyond the recognised
organs of the minority-eyen Horace Greeley is not
unreasonable and unjust to attach the RESPONSE
bility or any portion Of it, TO the minority; but the
Intekliqencer oyerlooks all distinctions between the
jority and the minority, and gives daily ad and
fort to the abolition majority by dividing the responsible
ity between them and the national minority. And the
Iasigeneer does this under the peawe had almost writ
ten the pretexof an earnest desire to hasten ogan
zation We repeat that In Judgment the Ltcgenetr
could not have adopted efficient policy procras
nae and defeat election of Speaker than by its inds
criminate censures upon the whole House
That the anti Nebraska members in majaity 10
the House is as demonstrabe as that LOG and make H.
The fact that all the antiNebraska do not cannot
agree in their choice Speaker does contradict the
fact fixed by figures which do and cannot lie
majority Of the present House is opposed to the Ne
braska bill If the fateligener had turned its alen-
ton to the ascerainmeut Of this fact and thereupon
have united with US in fixing the responsibility up
on the real majority It would have contributed much
more towards an organization than by putting in
daily sort Of plea in e1tenuaon Of the conduct Of the
majority With all the claims of that journal to candor
and fairness and beaity and conservatism IL can never
blind the country the fact that the antNebraska men-
bers have II in their power any ballot to elect Speak
or If they will unite their forces and upon this fact there
can be but judgment as 10 the responsibility Whether
the blame attach the Banks to the fragment
OF anti Nebraska who refuse to for him. Is
ter Of the countryi the responsibility will be
6xed upon the majority without stopping to inquire what
portion Of is in tho wrong TO their failure to harmon
ize on a candidate