Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-10
rhe Election Of speaker.

We can but ngraiulate our political
friends and the country on the successful
termination Of The rrotracicd struggle ioH
the spcakership aud the other ollie OF the
IIonse Of Representatives. 1t is a proud
victory over the demorazir g and sectional
Democracy-a victory which must send a
thrill Of Joy TO the heart of every Repub-
lican, every true lover Of the Union and
the Constitution. For SIX weeks the see
lional party which now holds the relns OF
this Government, by the most unwarraata-
bic aud unPariamentary means, prevented
an organization Of the House. FCrty-lwo
of their number entered into a written COM
pact to resist the adoption of the plurality
rule and to tlwart the will of the MAORI
ty. Having entered into this conspiracy,
they so far succeeded in their reasonable
designs as to cog the wheels of legislation,
deprive the people of their usual mail IA
cilities, and withhold from the mail carriers
and contractors their well earned pay,
through want of an appropriation. AT the
same time, the leaders OF that party were
hurting their vind,ctive analhemas upon the
Union aud those " no stood by the principles
# the fathers of the Republic. Men were
denounced upon the floor of the House for
uttering sentiments in favor of the preser-
walton of lhis.Union. They played a des-
perate game. When members OF the party
so long in power, and which has so long ty-
rannized over the people and cajoled them
into submission by threats and by promises
made to be broken, saw the day of their
reckoning at hand. CONSERVATION seized
them, and in their wild and desperate efforts
to maintain their hold on power, they pre-
scented scene not very unlike that OF pan
demonium. Rather than submit to the will
of the majority and permit the orgariza-
ton of the House to pass into the hands OF
the Republicans, and submit to the search
ing investigations their corruptions are des-
tined to undergo, they were ready--it their
words and actions are to be beieyed--to
tear down the fair fabric Of our Union, tram
ple upon the Constitution of our fathers,
and bring upon the country civil war and
all its attendant wo. Meanwhile the satanic
press at Washington and New 1ork-the
Presidents constitution" and the Herald
"twin relics of barbarism"-d all in their
power to incite the people of one section OF
the Union against those Of the other TO de-
stroy confidence, undermine trade, and weak
en- the bands of friendship which unite US
as one great nation. But at length better
counsel prevailed, and the tide of tanata'
cism was staid. Honor to the Republican
party and those who acted with them
Pennington, a known and well tried Repub-
lican, was elected over the combined oppo-
sition of the slaveholding Democracy and
South Americans, with one exception, the
Hon. Henry Winter Davis. No true patriot
can fail to rejoice at this result. Conser,
vative and Union loving men Of ALI parties
rejoice and are clad. Even the Editor oil
the argus, who is about as radical The
soil of Vermont will permit, is forced to
treat it as a CONSERVATIVE TRIUMPH"
Hear what he says:
The conservative elements in Congress
have had one great triumph.
| This rebuke to the rabid sectional
party, which has driven the country to the
very verge of ruin by pressing. for two
months, the most Objectionable and obnox
ious" and reasonable resolutions, doctrines
and threats, "was SO pointed and so telling
that hope has sprung up in the conserva
tive bosom, and the day star of peace anc
and union has arisen in our political hori
zon."
The Editor of that journal rarely if eve
uttered truer sentiment, or clothed it il
more beautiful language. 1t augurs wei
for the future. Peace may yet reign in GU
midst and the lion and the lamb may lii
dow together. G.