The national Republican., 1861-07-06

q protest from Mr.. Shields, of Oregon, protest.
ing against the reception Of A. T. Thayer, Of
that State, and moved that Mr.. Thayer's name
be omitted, for the present, in the rollcall
Mr. STEVENS, Of Pennsylvania, moved to
postpone action on all such cases until after
the organisation Of the House.
Mr.. McCLERNAND accepted the motion,
and the cases were laid over. N
( Mr.. CARLILE desired to know If the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. NStevens) in.
cluded him in his motion to refer to com
mittee.
Mr.. STEVENS replied that he included all
the cases.
Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM gave notice that
at the proper time he should offer a resolution
setting forth that Messrs. Blair, Marston, and
Curtis, we're not entitled, under the Constitu.
ton. to their seats as members of the House,
they having accepted military positions under
Government. ,....'...
The CLERK then proceeded to call the roll,
when l67 members responded to the call Of the
roll.
The House then proceeded to the election of
q speaker. .... ..f'-....
Mr.. COLFAX rose and said, that some of
his friends desired to place his name in nomina.
tion for the speakership, but he would take this
opportunity Of declining the honor which his
friends sought to bestow upon him, by saying
that he thanked them. He was always ready
and willing to battle with his friends for the
good Of this glorious country.
The following named gentlemen were then
placed in nomination as candidates for
Speaker: .-I DE-. ..'-.-
Messrs. Grow, Blair, Crittenden, Crisfeld,
Vallandigham, Cox of Ohio, Stevens Of Penn.
sylyania, Corning, and Richardson. -'1oe
The CLERK then proceeded to call the roll
with the following result one hundred and
ifty.nine votes, Of which Mr.. Grow received
ninety.nine Mr.. Blair eleven Mr.. Crittendep,
twelve and the remainder scattering.
The CLERK announced that Mr.. G. A. Grow,
number Of votes, he was therefore elected
Speaker, and requested Messrs. Blair and
Stevens to conduct the Speaker to his seat
The SPEAKER, before taking his seat, ad.
dressed the House as follows:
Gentlemen Of the House of Representatives
Of the United States Of America: Words of
thanks for the honor conferred by the vote Just
announced would but feebly express the hearts
gratitude. While appreciating this distinguish
ed mark of your confidence, am not unmind.
ful Of the trying duties incident to the position
to which you have assigned me. Surrounded
at all times BY grave responsibility, it is doubly
so in this hour Of national disaster, when every
consideration of gratitude to the past and obi.
cation to the future tendris around the present
Threescore years ago fifty six old merchants,
farmers, lawyers, and mechanics, the represent,
atives Of few feeble colonists, scattered along
the Atlantic seal board, met in convention to
found a new empire, based on the inalienable
rights Of man. Seven years of bloody conflict
ensued, and the 4th Of July, l776, is canonized
in the hearts Of the great and the good as the
jubilee Of oppressed nationalities; and in the
calendar Of heroic deeds it marks new era in
the history Of the race. Three quarters of a
century have passed away, and those few feeble
| colonists, hemmed in by the ocean in front and
the wilderness and the savage in the rear, have
spanned a whole continent with great empire
Of free States, rearing throughout its vast will.
derness temples Of science and oc civilization
upon the ruins Of savage life. Happiness, sci.
dom If ever eQualled, has surrounded the do.
mestic hreside, and prosperity unsurpassed has
| crowned the national energies; the liberties of
! the people have been secured at home and
abroad while the national ensign foated hon.
cred and respected in every commercial mart
of the world.
On the return of this glorious anniversary,
| after period but little exceeding that of the
allotted lifetime Of man, the peoples represent.
| atiyes are convened in the Council Chambers
Of the Republic, to deliberate upon the means
for preserving the Government under whose
benign influence these grand results have been
achieved.
! A rebellion-the most causeless in the his.
tory of the race-has developed a conspiracy
Of long standing to destroy the Constitution
| ,al hut tha I'd e. c,,l. ..,l Al.
| Union consecrated by their blood. This con-
spiracy, nurtured for long years in secret coun.
ellis, fist developes itself openly in acts of spo-
liatiop and plunder of public property, with the
connivance, or under the protection of treason
enthroned in all the high places of the Govern.
ment, and, at last, in armed rebellion for the
overthrow of the best Government ever devised
by man. Without an effort, in the mode pre-.
scribed by the organic law, for a redress of all
grievances, the malcontents appeal only to the
arbitrament of the sword, insult the nations
honor, trample upon its flag, and inaugurate a
revolution which, if successful, would end in
establishing petty, jarring confederacies, or
despotism and anarchy, upon the ruins of the
Republic, and the destruction of its liberties.
The 18th Of April, canonized in the first
struggle for American nationality, has been re
conSecrated in martyr blood. Warren has his
counterpart in Ellsworth, and the heroic deed:
and patriotic sacrifices of the struggle for the
establishment of the Republic are being repro
duced upon the battle field for its maintenance
Every race and tongue almost is represented in
the grand legion of the Union, their standard.
proclaiming in a language more impressive thar
words, that here, indeed, is the home of the
emgrant aud the asylum of the exile. NJ
matter where was his b:..h place, or in wha,
cline his infancy was Graded, he aeyotes his
life to the defence of his adopted land, the win
dication of its honor, and the protection of it,
flag, with the same zeal with which he would
guard his hearthstone and his freside, All par
ties sects, and conditions of men, not corrupt
ed by the institutions of human bondage, for