Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-01-25
Who Is Responsible for Not Electiny
n Speaker.

The eyes of this entire people are now
turned to the National Capital, and the
question is hourly asked, els the House
As often as asked the re
Spouse goes back, "No-nor is there any i
seeming prospect of it" Unparalleled as
this delay is, still it seems to us it may
continue for days aud weeks aud months
yet 10 come. Recently it has been discov
cred that SO bogus Democrats have signed /
paper. pledgipg themselves each to the /
other to prevent the organization OF the
House or the adoption of the plurality rule.
The leaders of this party have avowed,
openly and fearlessly, ia the halls of Con-
gress aud out. that rather than Mr.. Sher- /
man should be elected. they would let
"discord reign there forever" They have
avowed the most reasonable sentiments,
aud openly expressed hope that if ma
jority of the American people succeed in
the next Presidential contest, they would
favor the dissolution of this Union. They
utter these reasonable sentiments in the
councils of the nstion-sentiments such as
would in the earlier days of the Republic
have introduced them to the dungeon and
the halter. They svow hostility to the
Federal compact, and are applauded by
their Democratic associates They are
brazen- tongued traitors, and are suffer ed
to 20 unhung
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zation Of the House 7 "The Republicans,
in full House. have ll3. They have not
wasted the time Of the debating society"
10 long speeches; they have sat silent, and
let the Democrats talk; and the Democrats
did talk, and are talking yet. The Repub-
licans have voted whenever they were al
lowed to. never failing 70 cast every vote
they had for their candidate; aud they have
every day pressed their adversaries to
vote; vote, vote, vote has been the Repub-
lcsn cry all the time. The Republicans
have made no fictitious. fil:bustering oppo-
sition to a vote they have said all aleng:
we have so many votes: whenever you
have more. slect the Speaker. If you have
a plurality of one vote. We (ihe RePubli.
cans, will yield the plurality rule. aud you
may elect Speaker under it. They have
said to The Democrats, Americans, anti
Lecomptonites and old Wings. Combine
aud elect Speaker, or get out of the way
yield the plurality rule-and We (ths
Republicans) will organize the House be.
fore dinner any day." The Republicans
are in the majority, but the Democrats, the
Americans and the Anti-Lecomptonites
like the dog 10 the manger, Will neither
unite and elect Speaker themselves, mol
will they adopt the plurality rule and LEI
the Republicans do il. When united
those OPT o-ed 10 the Republicans would
have l24 votes in the House, while the
Republicans have but ll3. ftheY do no
! wish to see Republican in the Chair, VIII,
do they not elect some one else?-they
have the power when united, why do they
i not exercise itr-wby, because the leader
are in heart disunionists. and they thinl
If they can prevent the House from being
organized altogether. they will thus hastar
the crisis, which in their traitorous hearts
+, they sre looking for. II this is not so
. why this banding together of 70 disunior
: Democrats, pledged to resist all the ordi
, nary means of an organization. The Sim
pending crisis" will be FASTENED If there il
no organization. and that is the sole ane
t only motive that prompts these disunior
Democrats to action, and why they receive
the applause Of the disunion Democrat
ic party everywhere. They would. for thu
most paltry purposes, dissolve this Union
, They would destroy forever the most glo
rious heritage that has ever been bequeath
; ed from sire to son They would, in orde
that the interests of 10000 Shareholder
might be advanced, blot out from the pag'
Of history this last hope Of oppressed mil
lions, and erect on the American continent
/ an oligarchy ss despotic in its rule az eve
cursed an European State. Shall this b
| done7 Oh for the Cromwellian spiri
that would lash the traitors from the coun
ellis of the nation. and, hiring back agar
the different elements of this Governmca
TO their former harmony aud prosperity
A rapid expulsion of some of these disun
ionists from the Congressional Halls, b,
their masters, the people, would teach tn
Bringing hearted traitors that the suprem
power in this Commonwealth rests in tn
masses. aud that they love their countr,
too well to have its institutions ieopar
dlzed by crazy fanatics.