Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-02-13
coRREspoHDENcE OF THE STANDARD.

General Re0icing-A Cducus-Paine and ReNds
pressnt-Anti-A Administration men cooperating
"a printer not elected-71e :" scild hunters 9f-
ter etSce-Alterinq tho naturalization hws-.SsD-
ard to be cared tor-7he Speaker and the Com.
aaittees-Kansas to be the question Of the Session
-PTesidential speculations- Crittenden.
Mr. Banks election is claimed by the Organ of
this City Know Nothing mph-declaring
him to be an American in the political sense Of
the term 1t is questionable if this be not the only
sense in which the term applies to him. lie is at
once the representative Of Know Nothingism and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS inimca to the spirit of the
Constitution and tending to disruption of the
Union Again and again during the late struggle
for Speaker, have Mr.. Banks friends declared him
to be a member of the Order, and accordingly when
the final vote came the 18th section Northern Know
Nothings, the allies OF Southern Know Nothngs |
aided in his election by deserving the South Fuller
at their head and throwing away their votes. With |
them Know Nothingism was stronger than nation. !
atty Doubtless the Organ spoke advisedy when !
1t claimed the result as an American " triumph.
The organization of the House has been complet
ed by the election of Sergeantat-Arms, doorkeep
er, and Postmaster, but the opposition split again
xnen the election Of printer came up. Mr. Gloss
6renner was reelected Sergeant at Arms defeating
Rev. French s. Evans, much to the qualification of
pretty much the whole population of the Capitol
Mr. Evans is one of the political parsons, and per-
haps the most active Know Nothing about Wash
ington. He was nominated by the Caucus on Mon |
day night, and it is said, he was escorted to the
capitol on Tuesday morning by at least twenty |
friends; after he had been defeated, he was seen
returning entirely alone. He is one of the Organ
clique, and although that paper has maintained 81
lcnce over the result he be very we'll salts
fed to have been put up to oppose person whose
election was admitted to be pretty sure. The Organ
does not appear to be in favor with the black Re-
publicars of the House.
The Caucus of Monday night was called as an
antl-Administration Caucus, and was attended bv |
IF r6a
can party. They exercised the entr. control of the
Caucus. Perhaps some of your North Carolina rca-
ders will be astonished to hear that Messrs Paine
and 3. G. Reade attended it, yet am creliby as
sured that such is the fact. They may have taken
no part in its proceedings their refusal to sustain
the Caucus nomination for printer indicates, but
their presence gave such to the traitors
as Southern constituency should not excuse. But
one other Southern man, understand was present
1t is apparent that there will be pretty hearty
cooperation among all the ant-Democratc members
of the House on every question not involving d.
rect issue on slavery. On the election of Speaker
the sectional lines were drawn, and such is also the
case in the election of printer. If Mr.. Toilet, the
Caucus nominee, who is Ohio Abolitionst such
as Mr. Campbell, is elected he will establish here a
paper the organ of the interests he represents
Southern Know Nothings unwilling to commit
; themselves by indirectly endorsing his principles,
and hence the difficulty in the way of his election.
But whenever the slavery question is not directly
fully o-thrds of the members, will harmonic in
war upon the Democracy and the administration.
Since the election of Speaker the Hobbies Of the
House have been filled with hungry horde of wild
hunters for office, mportunins the dispensers of
patronage for some little place and the members for
their influence For every Office there are ten cam
| ddates, and by the end of the week. hardly Dem.
ocrat will be left in the South-wing of the Capitol
Verify the chief end of the american party seems
to be to get office. refer to this, to enter
complaint, but to place record the first acts of
! the most proscrptvc party organized in any
country. The class of men now clamoring for place
| of lower order than here before
! There is hardly gentleman in appearance among
them. This is humiliatins fact, which should cause
the people to rise in their might and scatter to the
| winds party, whose peculiar organization brings
such men to the political surface.
| At early day bill will be introduced into the
House making alteration in the naturalization
laws. This is claimed to be practical issue, yet
every one knows that the evil complained of by
Know Nothings consists in the right of foreign born
citizens to votc-and that this is matter entirely
within the control of State legislation. 1t is the
right of every State to fix the qualifications of cleo
tors according to its views Of interest right
An alteration Of the naturalization laws by Congress
will not reach the evil complained of; but, right
wrong, the minions of Sam " must do something
to keep their party tenes before the country There
is desire too to test the extent to which the House
will endorse change in these laws. With consd-
cradle portion of the black Republican party, Abo.
| tionism is paramount to Know Nothingism they
fully appreciate the importance of the foreign vote
in several of the Northern and Western States, and
do not intend to do say anything that shall dis
please those whose native land is indicated by the
rich Irish brogue or sweet German acccnt." Mr..
Stewards interest is to be protected and Know Moth
ingism must give way when it can no longer be made
use of to promote the ends of abotonism. To judge
Of the future by thepast, it is reasonable to
that black Republicanism will control the question
| according to its own interests
| The House adjourned yesterday until Monday to
! give the Speaker time to arrange the COMMITTEES.
! They will probably be announced on Monday. The
| Parliamentary rule is that the Committees should
reflect the will of majority Of the House. Admit.
] ting that Mr.. Banks represents the views of ma
jority, the Committees will present the eXtraorna
ry spectacle of every chairman being from the North
and also majority of every committee. Such
condition of things never occurred before. Never
| had Speaker been elected by sectional support
alone. Some obscure and unimportant committees
may be arranged differently, but ! have no doubt
every committee of any importance will be organic
ed on purely sectional basis.
| 1t rumored last Monday that the consideration
of Kansas matters to be precipitated upon the
House, by raising objections to swearing in Mr.
Whitfield the delegate. He holds the regular GER
tifcate of election, and consequently is entitled to
the seat until his claim has been proved to be frau
duent. The objection, however, was not made. 1t
would have been an outrage on justice and proprie-
| ty to dispose of the matter summary, without SUBJ
hitting it to the usual examination in the case OF
contested elections. 1t will not be long, however,
before the whole question of Kansas IN all its length
and breadth, will be up for discussion. Upon this
will turn much of the abolition agitation of the pres
| ent session. The that has been waged on the
plains of Kansas is to be transferred to the halls of
Congress- and out of it is be made the next Pres
| ident if another sectional triumph can be achieved.
Since the election of Speaker politicians have COM