The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-10

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The following table, though iartly conjecsu
raj, will afford the reader pretty fair exhibit .
he parties represented, their relative strength
and their possible divisions ard combinations, il
The new House which will assemble at Washing
ton on Tire frat Monday in December next -
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From these tRures IL will he seen-trsts that
no party has a majority of the House; secondly
hat the republicans are within striking distance
| OF majority; thirdly. that the democrats are ~
decided minority, including the anti-Leco,op-
touitee; ana lastly that the Southern opposition
| TaIiy will hold the balance OF power.
| The oraanization oi the Honse will include the
election of the Speaker. the Clerk and the print
| er. In the Congress which assembled in Deem
ber 1866, neither OF the three parties represent
ID having majority, there WAS dead lock of
many weeks upon the struggle for the Speaker,
which was finally settled by thu plurality rule,
under which MIR. Banks was elected Next,
without any apparent struggle, Mr.. Cullen, OF
Ter nessee, was elected Clerk, and Mr.. Cornelius
Wendell printer. Thus the organization, TO-
Guided a republican Speaker, Know Nothing
Clerk, and democratic printer This looks like
joint stock compromise. and from the slight re
sistance to Cullom ard Wendell We are at hber-
ty to aseume that there was compromise. in-
Guiding the alleged cash and lobby contributions
from Wendell in behalf of the general arrange
ment
But any such compromising will be exceeding
~ difficult in this new Congress, because of ita
Intimate connection with the Presidential ques-
ton. Thus, it may possibly fall within the
power OF the Speaker to determine the Pre-
sdential issue upon nice rendering OF the rules
If the House, thus, the House Clerk. with
his patronage, perqusi.es aud Unlimited frank
Ing privilege, will be an important Presidential
electioneeripg agent ct his party; but the spois
and plumber of the House printing to the party
securing it will be equal to an eleetioneeriDg
lobby tund OF half u million.
The republicans will doubtless, as in 1855,
make dead set for the Speaker; but the prize OF
the House printing will this time be too vel
liable to surrender tor the Speaker, except in tue
last extremity. ForDey is understood to be the
anti Lecompton candidate for printer; but this
idea requires fusion of the ant'-Lecompton
democrats with the republicans, which Mr. Doug
las, the chief of the anti Lecomptsa faction, may
not be disposed to permit The Southern sppo
-ition faction viii be apt to demand couc sssions
instead Of granting them. So tAat, from every
point of view, turn and twist it as we may, the
organization Of this next Congress promises to
mark one Of the most extraordinary exciting
ard momensous party struggles in the history of
be country.
The results of this organization will 90
very faT 10 determine she question whether
we are to have two, three or four parties
in the Presidential campaign. a fusion in
the House of the au,i Lecompsonites with
he republicans may work ou. tus on Of
The Southern opposition members with the de-
mocracy, ana rice versa, A compromise between
lie democracy ana the anti-Leeompton members
may precipitate bolt OF the Southern fire.
eaters Thus we see that the shaping OF the
| Presidential contest will very much depend upon
| the combinations and divisions OF parties aud
factions in the work of organizing this new Con
| gress And in this business the question of the
admission of Kansas, with her stringent anti.
slavery constitution, will warm up the excite
ment among the ire-eaters to white heat
Another remarkable feature in these Southern
elections is an opposition majority Of the Con
eressional delegation from Tennessee. Thus, in
securing this majority, the Tennessee opposition
party may possibly have secured the winning
card of the Presidential game should the final
issue be thrown upon the House. Indeed, it is
evident that while the Southern opposition ele-
ment in all these late elections have permitted
their State candidates to go by default, they
have Systematically labored to secure the bal.
ance Of power in Congress. 10 securing it they
may have secured the balance of power upon the
Presidential issue ITSELF and the sagacity Of their
tactics to this end may, in the sequel, be fully
established.
EIEEMosYNARY APPEALs.-We have received
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