New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-26

election It is now, as it has been throughout. If
the members who were elected by Republican
votes, and who could not have been chosen without
them, would vote for Mr.. Sherman, he could be
elected These men, above all others are respon-
sble for protractng the present chaotic condition
of our pubic affairs.
Mr.. Keitt of South Carolina, and Mr.. Boteler of
Virginia, each made highfalutn" speeches, with
the same cock-a-dOodle- crow, the same brist
ling of feathers, the same suusion of 'front.' and the
same general strut that have marked all such
demonstrations hitherto in the House. Their
oiIensiyeness has begun to take on the form
of the farcical If man has any sense Of
the ludicrous in his bones, he cannot listen forever
to empty buster without feeling his first emotions
of indignation undergo change. We think this
change must have manifested itself yesterday when
Keitt quoted Macbeth so originally, and Boteler
referred so fiercey to the bristling bayonets now
mastering in fearful array around the borders
the Old Dominion. Their united cry seemed to be,
Keep off We are ready Don't come on
way, unless you want to be smashed ~ These
gentlemen are certainly more scared than hurt.
Who wants to come on? The North has nothing
TO come on, or to 90 on, for The Free States vii
not modest the Slave States if Republican Presi
dent should be elected They will raise no armie
to capture one of them. They will do nothing
worse than TO administer the Federal Government
in the regular way; and we have not doubt that
they will administer it in a much better way, a
more conservative way, way much more con-
duciye to the general peace and tranquility than
either the present or the last Administration. Yet
our Southern brethren seem TO have wrought them
selves into belief that they are to be attacked or
assaulted in some way, in the event of that most
desirable emergency. If there is to be any diff
Guilty, such as they insist upon having, we assure
them il will all be of their own making. And as
we know they will shun such responsibility, Like
prudent men, let them quiet their fears and arrest
this endless current of bOastful folly.
Mr. Thaddeus Stevens made one of his spicy adj
dresses, which was rendered still more pungent and
high-hayored by the interruptions of other MEM
beers, who, knowing his capacity to give it, required
good deal of information from him. Every inter
rogatory was replied to in a manner that increased
the desire for further questions. Mr.. Etherdge of
Tennessee followed with wise and statesmanlike
cOunses, appealing to the members to stop debating
and devote themselves to voting alone. If they
would do this steadily, he believed the House could
be organized in five days.
In the Senate, Mr. Wilson of Massachusetts,
made long, able, and useful speech, which we ex-
pect to see extensively distributed in the coming
camn.;on II oava an exhaustive resume of the
history of the Slavery movement in this country,
and copious collation. of the utterances of leading
members of the Democratic party, proposing and
threatening dissolution of the Union. This branch
of Mr.. Wilson's speech exposes in the most striking
manner the factious and tratOrous position of the
Democratic party, and conveys a solemn lesson to
the people of the country. These numerous declara-
tons show that the Democratic organization is in
the hands of men, who, if they are not in earnest,
are turbulent factonists and incendiary agtators,
and if they are in earnest traitors in spirit, and
in purpose