Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-01-26
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The Cincinnati Commerciars dispatch
says; A
A WAsHINGroN, Jan %.
! All sorts of Attempts are being made by
the Democrats and Americans to combine
against Sherman :,
The most formidable demonstrations IS
upon Larribee of Wisconsin, because he
announced his willingness to vote for a
Known Nothing. But that bait will not
catch enough Americans to win. The
next move Of the American will be to vote
for Corwin, and compel Republicans to
take him. A unmber of them won't do
it however.
The Republicans viii not change from
Sherman at the bidding of anybody
They will stick to him through thick and
thin. The crisis comes. -efeafls n
Realf, John Browns original Secretary
of State, testified before the Senate Inyes
tigaton Committee yesterday, and exposed
the fact that Senator Vision wrote a let
ter in 1857 to DR.. Howe that old John
Brown intended making raid into the
Southern States to run off slaves, and de;
nouncing him as a rash madman, and ap-
pealing to Howe to Withdraw all aid from
him, and that Howe sent Brown copy of
Wilson's letter, and withdrew all aid from
him. Wilson will testify before the Com
mittee tomorrow. ssl.. y, 81
The Cincinnati Gazete's dispatch says:
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 20.
1t is said that large portion of the
Democratic party.is opposedt to further FL
libustering, and that some time next week
Mr.. Woodson, of Missouri, will offer a
resolution for the adoption of the plurali-
ty rule. It remains 10 be seen whether
the disorganizers will take the responsible
ty of preventing. its adoption when the
proposition comes from Democratic sour
ces. .H tH ea1s 11
1t supposed that the pressing necessities
of the Post Office Department have induce
ed this movement. z ls s
The correspondent ofthe New York Com
maercial Advertiser, of the 18th, says:
The rumor which first appeared in the
Washington correspondence Of a Boston
paper, that Senator Seward has counselled
a change of candidates, is entirely without
foundation. Gov. Seward has not taken
any oficious part in the organization of the
House, but he has never failed to express
himself, in conversation, as impressed with
the eminent fitness of Mr.. Sherman for the
| Speakers chair, and as confident of his ul-
innate success.
Neither does Mr.. Seward seem at all cast
down or detected by the prophecies of his
own political discontinue. He doubtless
feels confident that his political acts and
words have been cordially endorsed by a
large majority of his constituents, who are
not to be intimidated from what they be-
lieve to be right. At proper time we
shall hear him on the floor of the Senate.
The New York Evening Posts cores
dondent, undes date 18th, says:
The evidence accumulates each day which |
goes to prove that the Southern members,
as Mr.Hickmau charged, are bentupon dis |
union, and do not desire an organization of |
the House. In this obstinate resistance to /
the will of the majority these southern
disorganizers have the aid of northern
democrats, and if any northern democratic |
mail contractor has any complaints TO make
against Congress, he had better first submit
them to his democatic friends on the floor
of the House.
II is important that the country should |
understand the position that the Republi-
cans now occupy in the House. After near
seven weeks of balloting, they are convinced
that no Speaker can be elected by a major
ity vote. They therefore yesterday moved
the plurality rule; the democrats objected
that it was not in order now to move it,
whereupon the Republicans raised the point
of order that the Hutchins plurality reso-
LUTON is in order. This point of order is
nov before the House, and the democrats
are talking against time to prevent vote
upon pallot, they at once lose their vantage
ground on this point of order, and the
country cannot fail to perceive that the
demand for ballot on the democratic side
of the House in mainly only to deceive
Whenever any body will rise in his seat
and declare that any man can get a clear
majority for Speaker, the Republicans will
abandon the point of order, but until then
they will stand by it and persevere, feeling
confident that they are taking the shortest
road to an organization. ,r-
When vote upon the point Of order
is permitted, then, if the House by vote
declares the plurality resolution in order, it
will be fairly before the House, and must be
acted on before anything else. Of course
it is in the power Of the democrats, by fac
licious opposition, to prevent vote on the
but the responsibility will then
fully and fairly upon them.
occasional" writes to the Philadelphia
Press thus:
The members, in the present inchoate
condition of the House, do not receive the
salary and the mileage which are due them, 9
lnder the law and have therefore, to live Q
llong economically on the stinted means
which they have brought with them, o. to
'esort to the shaving shops to borrow mon
~ at discount and interest on their I. Oh
Us, which do not serve either to make t
hem excessively good-humored, or more I
LIBERAL in their outlays in the town. As a
the stores along the avenue, c
which lave laid in large supplies of goods v
# every description, are rarely frequented, b
nd their owners indulge in doleful lament Z