New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-04
MIR. BANKs,s ELECTION,

After two months effort, the House Of Repre-
sentatives has succeeded in electing Speaker
We congratulate the country on the result but our
congratulations are not unmingled with regret
We have felt il to be scandalOus from the beginning
Of the session, that House, the majority of which
was chosen so unmistakably by the people as an
AMI Nebraska body, should at its opening and ever
since have exhibited such signal disregard of the
popular will. Yet after seeing what we have seen,
il now appears & great cause of exnltatlon that
we have triumphed at the last. That triumph we
have never despaired OF however; aud especially
we have not shared in the apprehen-
sion entertained by many for the last few
DAYS that Mr. Aiken was to be elected. We did
not believe, although we are ready TO believe
almost any thing of Northern doughfaces, that men
chosen to represent the Anti-Nebrasks sentiment of
the North could quite swallow not only Nebraska
man, but South Carolina Nebraska man. and not
only a stakeholder, but a STAKEHOLDER owning
thousand slaves. We chokcd at this, and it seems
Others who had votes to give choked at it also.
Mr. Aiken could not be swallowed We will hope
there is good in the omen; and we will hope, too,
there is an omen of good in the election of Mr..
Banks. 1t has thus far turned out that the
Sreaker who is in Office at the Presidential election
has always been of the same politics the success
full candidate for that high Office. If thereis to be
an exception at the next election, it will be the
first
We pass by all the stuff that has been uttered in
the form of dcprecatory jeremisds over Mt.
Banks's election. Whenever the Slavery Exten-
scniss are afraid Of being thwared in any of their
avorite purposes they set up the disuniOn bugbear
Thus it has been current during the recent
that the public peace in jeopardy, aud that if
man entertaining Mr.. Banks's views should be
chosen Speaker there would be serious danger of
disunioD This talk, always foolish aud grOundless
was never more so than in the present instance.
We presume there will be now no further delay in
completing the organization of the House, and that
Mir. Cullen will be promptly chosen Clerk to-mOr-
row, Ant. Nebrasks as he is, probably such men
rs his former colleagues, Mr.. Etheridge and Mr.
Zollcofer will not refuse 10 vote for him, though
they voted for Mr. Aiken through the intense rgor
e the Pro-Slavery sentiment of the South
There is much that We are prompted TO say Of
the shortcomings of the present House. as evinced
on all the votes for Speaker including the last,
when contrasted with the expectations of the peo-
pie who elected il, but We for6ear. We wait now
patiently for its doings, touching the vital ques-
tons which are speedily, we trust, to come before
Ii: the first and greatest of which is that relating
10 Kansas. We still expect with some confidence
Inst the much abused people of tina; Territory will
" treated with fairness by the msjority Of the
House We yet hope to see Executive dullness
piekened and Executive oppression rebuked by
he representatives OF the people. IL would seem
lst, as there were ehiyslric men from the South
sho dared do right on the Nebraska question, so
here must be others from that quarter who viii
hare do justice to Kansas. We look for such men
specially among the Members from Tennessee,
Kentucky and Maryland. We believe there are
representatives from al those States whose seOrn
IL the brace Of New-EnglandA ttOrnies in the Exec
i've Department who lesd the crusade against the
ilizens Of Kansas, is as unspeakable as our own.