The daily union., 1856-01-13


ant as any portion Of that which, unfortunately remains
unknown An honorable gentleman from Massachusetts,
Mr. BANKs, who stands the same party platform
the honorable gentleman from Ohio, afterwards received
an accession Of sufficient number OF votes 10 make every
member whose mind recurred to the imperfect disclosures
Of the gentleman from Ohio desrous learn from what
quarter tat accession came Except ior tno sake OF in
iormation this was perhaps OF those who
voters that side OF the question: but the demo-
cratic minority, at liberty to regard II a remark
able fact that gentleman put forward by those who
cupy this political platform received this large
sion OF votes We not for any great length OF time
loss To know the cause The honorable gentleman
from Massachusetts who received this accession OF votes
has told us-and no one doubts his sneerity-hat he
has not person. understood him through
the agency o Others been pyy to such arrangement
gentleman from Ohio had rejected dishonorable
The gentleman tfom Massachusetts telling this,
fully eoade in it. But told by bis friends and par
isans that he has been politically educated upon democratic
cpes and that he stood originally the platform of these
principles. However ho may have deserted them he must
suppose while protesting them have acquired adequate
knowledge Of the modes in which he would II elected
Speaker be able to represent any constituency which might
happen 10 elect him.
Now if has been the case that gentlemen have orborne
to pursue with him the policy which adopted with
such failure OF with the gentleman from Ohio
say that prohung by experience, they have this time
been less imprudent fithad rested there would not
however have been at fault forming opinion their
motives and purposes IT they should by become his
constituents nor would we have been loss in forming
conception OF the character aud tendency OF the
concentrations which he would receive from those who
must become participants in his counsels We might
understanding to the committees which had been
demned by the gentleman from Ohio But ii did not rest
there Another gentleman from Ohio, the senior member
Of this House Mr.. GIDpIEes, has since told this
floor what would bo the precise expectations of this
stuency translate into plain English the declarations
Of that thus Make the honorable member from
Massachusetts Speaker and be will constitute Commit
Territories and the Committee Of Elections and
tain other committees in such manner to suit the
views Of those who stand upon the abolition PLATFORM and
be will compose the committees expected to bring forward
questions arising under the naturalization laws and cog
questions voving principles of civil and religious
liberty in the mode which will best suit the views Of the
party who desire to claim Tor themselves the denomination
of American "A '.
The question thus arises Are those few gentlemen on
this floor who profess to dsapprovo OF the democratic
ganization generally but with democrats in de-
string to sustain the privileges OF brethren of the slave
holding Slaesl say the gentlemen who compose this
portion of the andemocratc majority to be forced into
the organation which is pledged explicitly by the
gentleman from Ohio Mr. GIpDMGs to sacrihce what these
gentlemen with the democratic party in regarding
rs consttuonally rights Of the saveholdng
States Upon these gentlemen depends the organization
of this House. now, in plain and honest way,
fdng in their sincerity address them thus You have
choose between evils that which you may deem the least
An abolitionist the democratic candidate Mr. RICHARD
oS must later be elected Speaker of this House
by majority or by plurality of its Ifyou deem
the choice Of the democratic candidate less evil than that
Of an aboons vote, II you proper for the democratic
candidate. you do SO, you can expect nothing from him
from the party which he will in that represent
We do not ask this Of you. We can offer you moth
ing in return for It, He will stand upon the demo-
cratic platform, supported on its two-fold base You
desire to retain your honor; IL is your TO
Judge whether this be your mode of doing It,
But take the opposite course allow organization
through apurality vote otherwise, in such a
that the choice will ultimately fall upon the gentleman
from Massachusetts and you will do indirectly that which
you disclam the purpose 10 do directly You will make
abolition organization OF this House This is undoub-
edy, the practical question presented
Now, sir those gentlemen stand fully believe, with
perfect honor and sincerity upon the platform of not d
rectly indirectly promoting organization which shall
subvert the constitutional rights of the stakeholder If
be A. they
maintain their present attitude Well them has time been
lost in ascertaning this say The questions
testing in these ballots precisely those questions which,
later to be tested by votes this floor The
great the interesting truth which the ballong for these
fifteen days has established Is that majority of this
House not in favor of repeal of the Nebraska bill
not in favor Of repeal Of the clause Of that bill which
pealed the socaed Missouri Compromise and, perhaps,
not in favor Of aGtatng in any FORM the slavery que
ton with view the sacrifice of the rights OF property
OF the southern States within without their limits Has
this been loss Of time No il has healed the wounded
feelings OF this naton and has restored confidence in the
stability of the constitution
freely ooncede that If the people OF the United States
fairly represented this oor there would be great
force in the argument that for the purpose Of organization
must sacrifice these important considerations
other mporast considerations Of the pending
which will not refer But the democrats on this floor
believe conscentosy that the people of the United States
represented here They believe that through art
hce and deception the nndemocratc ticket succeeded as
IL would not have succeeded If the democrats had been op
posed by any fair and open organization. sir standing
here of the representatives of the principles of the
, which, Judging from what has since occurred, would
have been increased than hundred fold II the cleo
on lad been held last fall The aud the house Of
representatives Of the State of Pennsylvania together
composed Of hundred and tbrtythee members Last
year. of the members OF both houses assembled In
on 10 choose senator OF the United States thirty only
democrats. All the others anti-democratc A
practical question Of great utility there taught-a
question like that which investigating here
at that time with majority of more than three 10 one,
those opposed TO this small minority differed among
themselves that they failed to elect senator OF the United
States.
Now sir an election has INTERVIEWED and overwhclm-
ing majority OF both branches OF that legislature demo-
cratic Last year the minority there stood the minority
here stands firmly together. The consequence was,
exposition OF the ncompeency of the antdemocratc party
upie the factions composing IL in order 10 rule the State
of Pennsylvania Their ncapacity to govern part Of
America thus practically sxemp6ed and tested The
result has boon that the present legislature of
democratic The members Of the present Congress from
Pennsylvania elected when the anttdemocratc leg
islsurc OF last year elected II the vote had been
taken in the present year the result would have been
yersed The thing has occurred in other States
We now know how the result of last years election
brought about As early the year 1851 Henry Clay
had put In writing his prediction that the democratic
dda,e for the presidency in 1862 would be elected One
OF the last words of Daniel Webster uttered in October
1852 that II he should live and be able to attend The
then approaching election, he would caet his vote for The
democratic candidate OF whose election he said that he
entertained doubt Thus both the distinguished lead
OF the former whig party recognised us extinction
and pophcscd the OF the democratic ticket This
had eighteen months before the election OF 1862 been
subject OF repeated and continued prophecy The
quence Of that prophecy that everywhere the demo-
nv tad