The true Democrat., 1856-05-27
Practical Absorption.

The New York Tribune classifes the vote for speaker, and adds: "The only Know No. thing, acknowledged as such, who voted for MT. Banks, was MT. Edie of Pennsylvania. D It has heretofore been understood that of the one hundred and three votes for Mr. Banks. about eighty were elected as Know Nothings as we'll as republicans. When the elections took place which sent them to Congress, their trumphs were claimed, and in many instances exulted over by southern Know Nothings, as trumphs of their order. The question now comes mp: What has become of the strong Know Noting phalanx sent from the free States to Congress? The philosophy of Speaker Banks furnishes the answer. 1he stronger race has absorbed tue ,oeaker-abolition has swallow ed up Know Nottingham, leaving solitary monument of its existence. The New York Herald, which has acted as a watchful nurse of Know Nottingham, gives pretty strong intima- ton that the half-dozen northern national Know Nothlngs arc in fair way to disap- pear by the same process of absorption. The following extracts from that journal are signi- fcant.- Wash. Union
 THE NORTHERN NATIONAL KNOW No- THINGS ON THE SPEAKERsHIP-A MosT LA. INEVITABLE COLLAPSE. - For nine weeks we had laboted under the idea that the Fuller par o' O"Ho'S0Ny HoltLCIu duNA SOuJUtIl u6Hl- bers, were national men-al of them sound national men; but this was mistake We had supposed, from the first week in Decem- Der to the first week in February that these Fuller men were rigilly opposed to Mr. Banks, upon principle, that they would accept any reasonable compromise from the democrats In order to defeat the election of the candidate ot Seward, Gddlngs, Weed, and Greeley; but this was deluson. The nationality of these Fuller men was limited to Fuller and to the north. They lacked the moral courage to cross, at venture, over Mason and Dixon's line, and as far down as South Carolina with their boasted nationality Theirs is the re- sponsibility for keeping the House disorgrnized for nine weeks, and for the election of Banks at last with the alternative of lis defeat ill their hands.
 
 "And what is the result to the American party? It is definite congressional division Of 1t into two hostile sectional factions Not solitary northern Know Nothing voted for Aiken-not one. Thus the vote which elect ed the speaker dscloses to the South Amer- cans,' so called, the lamentabe truth that, in Congress at least, their nationality as a party is limited to the south side of NJ dson and Dixon's hne and the Ohio river; tiat their northern brcthern, even of a national type, incline to traternze rather with Giddings, of Ohio, than with the Marshalls of Kentucky.
 "The question which next recurs is. how is this condition of things to bo mended at the Philadelphia national councils of the 18th and 22d of February? The work there to be done Is the practical re- organization of the Ameri can party throughout the Union, or its formal dissolution among the sectional and local fac tons and loose materials of the country. The result of the late struggle at Washington ad- monlshes us to prepare for the latter aterna tive They may, perhaps, do better. They cannot do worse. We shall sec"