Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-12-28
No Sneaker Elected.

In the Senate, on Monday, Mr. Fitzpatrick, of Al
ALBANIA, was ele ted President pro ten. Speeches
were afterwards made by Messrs. Pugh Lane, and
Others the subject Of slavery in the Territories.
MIR. Pugh defended the Northern Democracy and
the Douglas construction of the Cincinnati plat
form and Gen. Lane made sound national speech,
breathing justice towards the South.
In the House Mr.. Gilmer caused to be read an ar
ticle from the New York Day Book, containing an
extract from the Boston Tract Journal associating
his name Extensively with Helpers book and saying
among other things, that the South should look
about to see whether not there were traitors on
her soil He said so far as this article applied
to him, it an infamous and malicious fabrication
and falsehood fem beginning to end If he had ever
received Helpers book charged must have been
through the MAIL but he had no knowledge that the
book ever came into his possession. Certainly he
never read solitary word in it. Ever since he had
refused to act with the Democrats on the Lecompton
Constitution which he believes to be an infamous
fraud and swindle, he had been pursued with the
fcrocty of tiger and the malignty of devil. He
repeated that the Whole publication far as it was
intended TO affect him, is a lie from beginning to
end
Good for Mr. Gilmer! The gentleman appears to
be in earnest Grcely is as bitter against Lecomp-
ton as Mr.. Gilmer is.
Mr.. Singleton, of Mississippi, followed in a strong
and able Constitutional speech. The House then
voted for Speaker,-no election. Mr. Bocock, the
Democratic candidate, then rose and withdrew his
name for Speaker. He did so in very appropriate
terms. The House then voted twice for Speaker,
and soon afterwards adjourned.
The Washington correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch presents the following gloomy view of af
fairs in Washington:
have been here for few days locker on, deem
ly Interested in the and events in the Capitol
OF the Union. have cOnversed with members and
9th r, and have been spectator in the House of
Representatives, and have come to the calm con-
cluSiOn that, in spirit, in heart and sentiment the
Union is already deod! You who are away from
the scene ca but poorly appreciate that distinct line
of separation which has been drawn between the
black Republican party (Which now Is within frac-
ton OF majority of the popular Representative body
OF Congress. and the men who represent the South
, To outward appearances there is only the cold
est civ' h'twr few of one side and few of the
osher. The House is fairly divided between them,
the blach l.eoDlcaIs the left aud the S0uther-
ncTSau DelnCclatS on the right The intercourse be-
tween the two sides is restricted as though law
! lntetticie'l any interchange between them The
members Of The right have shut their mouths: Mr.
/ Hickman, the renegade Democrat who voted for
Shrrn'an believe, having fired the last shot from
! that side. Mr. Sherman, their nomineefO for Speaker
has shut his mouth. as is intimated under instruc
| tionS from his party. and will answer no more ques
! tons. The benches on the right still continue to
fire hot shot into the dumb, who unfortunately fo1
themselves, are not deaf; for they have heard that
which is enough to make them turn in their graves
were they dead and buried.
Thus goes on the daily proceedings of this body
the one side preserving, as Mr. John Cochrane O.
New York, said, 'Studied silence and the Other
studied peech-making' and both nursing a hate
As corda. as ever burned the in hearts of men, Is
not always so with brothers whose affections ar,
alicnated from each other? And thus is the Union
morally speaking, broken. o. side we see
gallant band boldly defending right and denouncins
the encrachments of a tyrannical numerical power
on the other sullen, arrogant cold-hearted, over
bearing and relentless party, waiting and watching
Ike the constructor of Ceylon for the rop ito mo
ment to dart the victim ard crush hi i. his dls
gu>ting folds. Mr.. Hickman taunted us with tn
gita length and crushing power of the m,nst
assured the whole South that escape from him and hi
destructive embrace was utterely hopeless. But hi
boast of his eighteen millions of freemen who wer
to sublue the South struck no terror to the heart
any Southern man. Every son of the South VIII
heard him. but scorned him and the power he boast
ed of the more"