The daily union., 1856-01-26
EXPERIMENTAL AKTI-NEBRAsKAIsM

No ingenuity can resist the conclusion that as anti
Nsbraskasm is the predominant sentiment ia the House Of
Representatives anNebraskaism Is responsible for its
continued disorganizaton. Whether this responsibility
attaches primarily the members who insist upon Banks
for Speaker indefinite dsorganzation, upon those
saNebraskaies who prefer indefinite disorganizaton
Banks for Speaker upon Nh Banks himself who prefers
indefinite dsorganizaon wd the honors Of candidacy
organization with else for Speaker it is
tera to inquire Wherever the responsibility may be pr
mary there can be doubt that the popular judgment
will fix il ultimately upon an-Nebraskaism organ
lied party aud distinctive sentiment
1t will be no that antl-Nebraskasm could not
govern itself and control It's adherents This very
fact will rise up against it with damniug force az
conclusive proof that confusion and disoganzaon are
It's true elements IL anti-Nebraskaism cannot govern
one branch OF Congress when it has an acknowledged
Inajorty-if it cannot naugurae itself in that
House where s own friends are In the ascendencywth
what show of, 1t ask the people to give II the
rens Of the whole government Its legitimate and
sary end II ever intrusted with the executive and legisla
tive branches OF the government is believed by its eppo
nens to be- either FIRST civil war and then dsunion or,
second disunon and then civil war How strongly is this
view Of the nature of anNebrasksism coroborated by its
first effort to goyernl
Perhaps, however its anteceaent attempts at govern
in municipal corporations in States and in Terrific
ries ought have taught be prepared for its failure
when 1t sought rule in the extended sphere Of the
House Of Representatives.
After all the regrets that have been felt and express
ed on account of the evils attendant upon the long
continued disorganization Of the House, it may out
that overrulng Providence has permitted this signal
ent not only as rebnke to the people for the
ned BY them in running into such delusion, but as
lesson teach them repeat dangerous expert!
ment hereafter.
In the great contest Of 1856 the champions Of the
sution and the Union appeal with irresistible force
to the fact that antNcbraskasm bad clear majority In
the House and yet with every assistance that the Webbs
the Greeeys the Weeds the Haes the Wilson's the Sew
ards together with the National Iategence could give it
could much elect Speaker short oftwo months
time and fifty thousand dollars expenditure of the public
money! After such experiment of antNebraska rule,
the people will be in very little danger Of trusting their
whole government TO lis keeping.
THE CONDITION OF THINGS In THE HOUSE.
Colonel Richardson and the Hon. Henry NJ Fuller, the
democratic and American candidates for Speaker having
both Withdrawn their in order that the House might
make another serious effort elect Speaker tho country
win witness the pertnaeity with which Mr. Banks kept
in the field by his friends and win place the proper est
upon such conduct All that could reasonably be
asked of the democratic party has been done The gallant
soldier who has received for nearly eight weeks the
tnued support Of the democracy of the House. and who
has the gauntlet Of persistent and unjust scrutiny,
without losing leaf of his laures frankly wthdraws his
from tho controversy in order that organization
may be the result Another democrat in the person of
Colonel Orr, of South Carolina ose of the most i'm
partial experienced and fearless pariamentarians of the
day-one of whom his bitterest opponents speak in
terms Of admiraton-s now the democratic candidate
aud yet although every vote shows that Mr. Banks cam
not be chosen, bis friends keep him before the House,
while they assaling the democracy FOR prevent
ing the election of presiding officer! And where with
such before it as this is the Nationa hgenor
10 be found2 Some weeks ago. at the beginning Of the
controversy, 1t out and demanded that Mr. Banks
should be taken from the list Of candidates inasmach
he had been tried and found wanting in votes.
He has been kept in the field since and the
IaeAgenosr, falling back upon its original deoars-
ton in his favor, coollg blames the democrat
ie minority When every Of the candidates
voted for for Speaker In company with Mr. Banks has
been Withdrawn, with the ereeptioa Of Mr.. Banks him
self what does the I7tegencr say? Not word. Here
s the first real occasion upon which its bunders ght be
effectively heard Here i opportunity for It's invoca-
Ons to the conservative Of Congress and The country
All sides in the House have surrendered portion of their
attachments in order 10 tue orgauationa
hut the republoansall but those whom the hligscer
aas called the maoriyand yet not syllable uttered
10y the Heiigeer in reproRch Of such obSuacy!
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