Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-01-14
DISCRIMINATION OF CONGRESS.

DIS0RGZNLZA7 Y0N OF CONGRESS-
The record Of Congressional disorganization
is meagre. 1t is the same old story over and
over again,-the House of Representatives
meet, and occasionally vote the democrats
venUlate their vocabularies in relation to Har-
per's Ferry, Helper and Black Repubcanism,
during which time the cloven foot of disunion-
ism creeps out, and then all adjourn. Sherman
continues to lack three votes of an election
reduction of one since John H. Reynolds came
to his aid.
The result is beyond calculation. We can
see no way in which the House can be organ
lied unless the plurality rule is adopted. The
Republicans cannot hope to carry any more
votes for Mr.. Sherman the democrats cannot
find a man of their party who can get hun
bred votes; the democrats will not take South
American, nor will the latter touch an anti
Lecompton democrat and not one of the four
wings into which the House is divided is able
to Ego it alone" In such state of things
there can be no hope of an organization until
the plurality rule is adopted, unless, indeed,
certain individuals desiring an organization yet
unwilling to vote for the prominent nominee,
should absent Themselves contingency upon
which we make no calculation.
Will the plurality rule be adoptedp Present
indications do not favor the idea that the House
can be brought to vote on the question of its
adoption. In the present disorganized condi-
ton of the House it is in the power of factous
minority to prevent any vote on that question;
and several leading democrats have declared
their intention to fillibuster in case any such
motion is attempted. On Saturday last Mr..
Gamett Of Virginia, said
flf know the sentiments of number of gentle
men on this side of the House. cW remain in ses-
sion until The All Of March, 1860, sooner than do,c he
plurality rule 10 be adopted desire further to say to
the gentleman from Pennsylvania, who wants to know
how long this side of the House, meaning the demo-
cratic side, will allow this spectacle to be exhibited to
the country, that will hold up to the gaze of an in
dignant country the spectacle of sectional party at
tempting to put into that chair who ndorses the
lielperib book, until an indignant people shall rise in
their wrath and hur them from their seats OF power
-[appause and laughter until the people of the
whole Union are awake to the true significance of this
black republican organization"
Mr.. Pugh of Alabama, another of these con-
sentative Union democrots to whom our Ever
etts Cushings and O'Connors cotton so freely,
in characteristic speech says:
"Niy constituents are Indifferent about the organi-
cation OF the House. That is result in which they
do not consider themselves interested; but as no
question which favor which they favor is likely to
be affected by any failure to organize the House,
shall not throw any obstacle in the way OF any
ment which is likely to lead to final result as
against the Republican party. Applause from the
Democrats.l do not believe that my constituents
or the people of the State Of Alabama would be af-
fected in any way if the Government itself was
to come to dead lock in its operations. If the stat
ues which have been passed for the last ten years
were obliterated, am convinced not man in my
district wo"ld know it or feel it, unless they saw it in
the newspapers But the impression seems to be
growing that this condition of things is intimdating
the enemy, and producing dismay on the other side
of the House derisve laughter from the RArulli-
cane and as the impression is also gaining that the
developments here have broken up the Abolition
phalanx entertain hope whatever that such ac-
ton as favor or my people favor is to be produced
by the organization of the House. II Ihdd Il in ma
here"
Such being the sentiments of the democratic
members of the House, or at least of no incon-
siderable portion of them, it is exceedingly diff
fcult to form any opinion as to the final result
Should the Republicans drop Mr.. Sherman
to effect an electionP Our answer is No, I'M
less they can elect such man as Mr. Hickman.
or Republican equally as reliable as Mr..
Sherman. While their opponents have been
voting fast and loose, sometimes for one man
and sometimes for another, the Republican COL
umn has never wavered. 1t has stood firm re-
ceiving now and then an occasional accession to
its strength, until we have placed our candi-
date within tnree votes OF the Speakers chair.
If he can be advanced no nearer we trust he
will at least be maintained in his present posi-
ton. If the democrats want the House organ
lied it is in their power to effect such result
by allowing or voting for the plurality rule. If
they do not want the House organised, very
well. We think the Republicans can get along
without an organization quite as well as tie
democrats and especially as well as a democrat
ic administration can.
The firmness of our representatives from
Vermont in voting first, last, and every time
for MIR. Sherman, is, we are happy to know, in
exact accordance with the sentiments of their
constituents in this part of the State. We
have not met with Republican who does not
express the wish that the Representatives
should stick to their man and abide the conse-
quences. 1t might, say they, have done well
enough early in the season to have changed if
any good could have grown out of it, but since
the South are SO persistent in their endeavors
to brow-beat, .intmidate, bullirag the North we
hope they will never change front in face of the
enemy. SO say we.
COUNTY rOJlfJccJoNrn