American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1859-12-22
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Speaker. The course Of portion OF the
/ And-Lecompton uiembery. who were Q.
lected by Republican votes chiefly, and !
the downright treaebery, Of poor Briggs.
leave little prospect Of sn election until
the plurality rule Is agreed upon.
The Southern Opposition men are beg
ging complimentary votes. and they got
fourteen from the Republicans. side on
\ Friday, but they have no idea Of recipro-
eating. Halfs dozen OF them might very
easily Withhold their votes, and let Shef
man be elected. This amounts TO the
same thing as adopting the plurality rule.
and is much easier done; but l believe
now as have from the start, that no ia
vors are expected from that quartsF.--
Even such men as Winter, Davis and
Ethridge can hardly be induced to break
from the ranks Of their sectional party.
Mr.. Renoldsis the only suti Lecompton
man who is likely to join Haskin, Hick.
man and SchwartE, IN vetiug for Sber-
man.
The foolish speech OF Vallandingham
gives him serious trouble. Even South
ern Democrats protest against his pub.
fishing it as delivered, asserting that it
will badly damage the Democratic rem
: nant at the North. He has been remod.
, elling it for some days past, having with
} held it from publicstion in the Globe for
that purpose A tollerably accurate.
though incomplete. report Of, appeared in
the Herald the day after its delivery. A
t verbatim report OF the speech would be
: one of the best campaign documents we
b could have for Ohio and the North West
The Democratic Senators are in great
tribulation about their Committees. The
D Norlherners have been tainted with the
!. meek submissivness they have shown.
h in accepting the lowest places, until the
spirit Of resistance is slightly reused =
Above all it is demanded. that Judge
Douglas shall be relieved from the odium
y of the cashiering process resorted to last
IS winter, which subordinated him 10 Green,
}. Of Mssouri,a third rate man on the Terri
torial Committee. The quarrel has been
- quite an animated one. and still remains
'~ unadjusted, so far as yetappears. .
(. Seward is expected in New York 10 DAY
J. or to morrow. He will not probably, ap
. pear here until after the holidays. ,g.e
The factious resistance made by the
y disunion democracy to the election o.
L Speaker, leads to some suspicious that Z
s, permanently ,disorgsnized condition ofthe
House is desired, in order that the threat,
70 of revolution, should Republican Presi
' dent be elected, as is expected, may tht
le more easily be carried out. In that cas-,
IT any canvass OF electoral votes would b,
i'd Iimposs " g
ra But this idea, II entertained cannot b.
carried into execution. With 6rmness ant
~ prudence. the House may be organized
s. this week. The desire to adjourn. ova
j. for the holidays is very general, and right
v. " used, this motive will secure the elec
tlon Of Speaker during the next two o
three days. Failing in that, the contes
.u must be indefinitely prolonged There
- no thought of the election OF any othe
"a. Republican than Sherman. j. II. B.
tt, WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, l859s-Mi
he Pugh made his intended speech in tn
:, Senate this morning. He quoted again,
Iyerson, the remarks of that gentleme
himself, few years ago, fully aud re
markably corresponding with the attiud
a. of the Douglas Democracy. He thu
be demonstrated that if they must be exclu
,w ded from the party for entertaining thes
nd opnions,the Georgia Senator must 60 ou
e..,I with them. o-tA sa4 e
'n' In answer to Senator Gwin, who er
r. dorsed the charges Of the unsoundnes
les corruptibility and general rot,enness
on the Douglas Democracy, Mr.. Pugh que
ia ted the Territorial Sovereignty Resolutio
of the California Democracy. at their La
State Convention, claiming that this ais
on fully covered the ground occupied by ii
no "rebels. ."i ..,. nG'E s., o2 ~
ow This Mr.. Gwin disputed. Pugh di
'u, tiuctly stated, what he made a show
ma denying last summer. that he was Il
all author Of the resolution, known at hon
as the Butler County Resolution.
Ho further stated in somewhat indi
Iad nant terms, that the Northern Dem crac
Err, had not the Craftsmanship Of solital
ON Committee Of any accouu; 10 the Senat
pan The usage Of the Democracy in this r
.s spect, he pronounced to be intolerab
{" bad. ato,a
lch 1t is noticeable that this important ia
cks is one that the Senator's friends were u
all willing to admit during the late canva
-. in Ohio ir.. @as vs $3.50 9's'R
The maly DRIFT Of the speech was
on viadicalion of Douglasism. It. provok
cid, sharp responses from JEFF, Davis, Gwi
to Lane, and Brown. Of Mississippi.
wa. Our young Senator at FIRST stseemed to
s improving somewhat, under the discipli
TO which he has been subjected, but he q
md not come up TO the demands, Of the .occ
nca sion in his main speech. Under the su
sequent cross fire he completely back
uss ' down. making most ruinous admissions.
in While this debate was going on in I
We. Senate, the House submitted to The inf
fo, ton Of a two hours discourse from \
,.a Singleton Of Mississippi, ofthe most ra
ppeo id disunion character. He repeated I
ar common Democratic cry, that no Repr
nth ican President should b0 ipaugurated
aka 1861. though constitutionaly elected.
:. He declared emphatically that the Sor
Oh would not support Douglas. and that
Squatter Sovereignty doctrine was no
;,,,, whit better thsnthe Republican PlattJr
''' He asserted that the South was determin
BILE to extend IT'S peouliaf institution, and
tor. this could not be done with the territori