White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-11-24
The New Congress.

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Opposition in the organization of th
next House of Representatives. So far a
we have seen there is not dissentinl
voice to the proposition in the ranks Q
the party at the South. All perceive tn
necessity of eleeting to the Speakership
man who will not pack the committees
with view to the suppression of investi'
CATION into the enormous frauds ant
abuses which have characterized the his
tory of the present Administration; and
consequently, the entire Southern OPP
position party cordially favor the idea o
a union among the Opposition members
of Congress-North and South-for thu
purpose of electing suitable persons to
he-various offices of the House, and es.
peeially to the important and response
bic Office of Speaker. In the judgment
of the Southern Opposition, no Demo
crat, whether from the North or the South
should, under any circumstances, be per-
mitted to occupy the position of Speaker
of the next House of Representatives
In their opinion, none but a member oil
one or the other wing of the Opposition
should be elected to fill that office at the
present time. And thinking. there can
occur nothing to Justify or excuse single
Opposition member of Congress from
the South in giving his support to a
Democrat for Speaker, or in withhold
ing his support from any Opposition
member who may be designated by the
united Opposition as their candidate for
the post.
As a Southern man. sincerity and de-
votedly attached to Southern institutions
and Southern rights, and yet mistaken in
our ardent devotion to the Union of the
States, we affirm now, as we have affirmed
before, that not even. inquisitorial tor
lures could force US into the support of
either Northern or Southern Democrat
for the Speakership of next House Of
Representatives. We affirm now, as we
have affirmed before, that as patriot and
an honest man, who cannot and will not
connive at the corruption which has been
practiced under the present porhigate and
detestable administration, we should vote
with all boldness and with all cordially
for the very blacklist of the Black Re-
publicans for Speaker in preference to
any Democrat whatever. On this ground
we take our stand, and on this ground
we shall continue to stand, in spite of the
wailings and howligns of all the Demo-
cratic demagogues on earth, or in the
regions of their father, his sable majesty
of the realms of darkness. Any intima-
tons or insinuations from them to the
effect, that in thus advocating the election
of an Opposition Speaker, whether in the
person Of a Southern Wing or Northern
we are manifesting disloyalty
to the South and sympathizing with the
objects of her enemies, we shall treat |
with that unutterable contempt which |
such ISLANDERS and falSehoods deserve. 1t |
has been with Southern Democratic edi.
tors and politicians the settled habit of
theirlives to characterize Southern Wings
as Abolitionists in disguise, simply be-
cause they refuse to countenance or toler-
ate the manifold rascalities and villainies
Of the Democratic party. We are &C.
customed to these calumnious accuse
lions, and cannot, at this time of dav,
be either intimidated or disconnected By
hem. Those negroless Democratic dema-
Zogues very well known that, in insinua-
ing a charge of inidelity to the South
against Southern Wings, they are only
giving utterance to deliberate and will
al falsehood, designed to impose upon
he too easy credulity of the honest but
gnorant and uniformed voters in the
Southern States. 1t is their custom, we
epeat-and especially on the eve of an
lection-to play upon the sensitiveness Of
Southern men in..regardto the institution
If slavery, for the sole purpose of prOmo-
ing the vile aud deSpicable ends of party,
md thereby continuing themselves in the
and enjoyment Of the public
,Iunder. But the masses ofthe Southern
,eople understand, at last, the object Of ,
heir noisy and clamorous profession Of
Ievotion to Southern rights, and Of their
alss and silly accusations against the (
Southern Opposition. They see only
owe of the sboils at the bottom of all |
heir pretensions and all their movements,
nd hence their cuckoo cry of abolition
gainst all their betters has lost its power
o benefit themselves or deceive others, |
nd is treated by all men at the South, I
rho are not irTeclaimabls fools, as the
die wind which they regard not. {
In conclusion, therefore, we invoke
very Southern Opposition member OF
congress to hesitate not a moment about
cooperating with the Northern Opposi-
ion in the organization of the next House.
I is their solemn public duty to unite
nth them in this simple and urgent mat
Or of business, in view Of the overwhel- {
hing Importance Of ferreting out and ex-
osing the frauds and corruptions which
revail in every department of the Gov
rnment.. We repeat that no OPPOSE
ion member Of either section viii stand {
REUSED to his constituents and to the {
ountry, who fails to do anything in his Z
,ower to prevent the election ola Demo I
ratio Speaker, who would necessarily so {
oustitute the committees as to suppress {
he investigation into the abuses of which i
is own party and his own administrs-
ion have been VIGOROUSLY guilty. Let, I
hen, every Opposition member from {
he Sonth march boldly up to the dis II
barge of his duty, regardless Of personal
onsequences.-RiakmoH9 Whig.