The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-09-26

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Missouri. :. :. .-...9
| Kansas 49,.
Nevada .....-l
| delaware ...1
Maryland. .-..-...-...........5
Total -. -------. .14S
The full number of House, with thirty
six States represented, is 243, of which
about two-thirds will be chosen within the
next sixty days.
The same elections will decide the po1it-
ical complexion of Senators to be chosen
by the new State Legislatures. The va
cancies to be filled will be two in Vermont,
caused by the death of Senators Collamer
and Foot, whose places are now filled by
Executive appointees one in Pennsylva-
MIA to succeed Mr.. Cowan one in Indiana
to succeed Mr.. II. S. Lane; one in New
York to succeed Mr.. Harris; one in New
Jersey to fill the vacancy by the unseating
of Mr.. Stockton; one in Illinois in place
of Mr.. Trumbull one in Wisconsin in
place of Mr.. Howe; one in Missouri in
the place of Mr.. Brown; two in Kansas in
place of Jas. H. Lane, dead, and Pomeroy,
whose time expires ; one in Nevada to
succeed Mr.. Nye, and one in Maryland to
succeed Mr.. Cresswell. OF these fourteen
Senators only Mr.. Stockton is Conserva-
tiveor Democrat. All the others are Of
the Radical stripe, SO that any change is
likely to be an Improvement.
These fall elections will decide substan-
TALLY the political complexion Of the next
Congress; hence the great Importance at
tached to them, and the extreme anxiety
manifested that all the elements Of support
to the Presidents policy should be com.
bined in an effort to effect change in Con-
gress. The Southern elections are not ia
ken into the computation, because it is ta-
ken to be certain that no Southern repre-
sentative will be wanting, when they are
needed, to sustain the President, and have
the opportunity afforded them. Indeed,
the one great issue Of the current elections
lis, whether the congressional policy Of
keeping the Southern States without repre-
sentation shall be Endorsed at the polls,
and continued or whether, on the other
hand, the Congress Of the United States
shall be composed Of constitutional rep
resentation ofall the States, before proyi-
ding finally to adjust the basis Of the Gov
eminent under which all are to liye.-[N.
0. Picayune.
| New ENGLAND WELL REPRESENTED
Gen. George q. Morgan in a late speech in
Ohio. uses New England up in the follow
ing manner:
No man is more ready than myself to do
justice to New England, for all that New
England deserves. / respect her intelli-.
gence, but deprscate her selishness and her
fanaticism. Iadmire her energy, her in
genuity and hor enterprise, but cannot
commend her egotistical intolerance, nor
that sordid sel6shness which would I'M
poverish every other State, and people, for
her own peculiar benefit. l am proud Of
the names of Greene, of Warren; Of Starke
--of the Adamses, the Hancocks, the
Websters, the Pierces, the Woodburys and
the Choates but should hesitated long
beforeI commended as models of statesnan-
ship or patriotism, the Summers, the Will
sons, the Garrisons and the Philipses, yhos
as the agents Of the lordly manufacturers
control our country. Then, when r say
New England, I mean the extortioners, the
pharisees, and the pretenders, whose lnalign
influences, like the breath of the upas-tree,
contaminates, poisons and corrupts all that
/ it touches.
And it st6th modification that I here
confess. that not only we Ohioans, but that
our fellow-citizens of all the agricultural
States, are ruled, aye, | say are ruled, by
New England.
In late speech delivered in the senate
by a distinguished Ohio senator-himself a
native of our State, but an offshoot from
New England--while asking to be allowed
ltQplace the offering ofhis submission upon
! the footstool Of New England, he truthfully
remarked: !
New England is at this moment not
only represented by her twelve senator's.
but by six or eight more who are sons Of
New England, who moved to the west. and
carried with them their religion, their prin-
cIples, and, in some cases, their wives, or,
where they jdnot, We provided wives for
them. They came back here as senators,
and now stand here to vote New England
ideas and New England principles" Zap
lplause.
Let us consider for moment this com
pliment paid to New England by an Ohio
senator. From whence name the Hon.
Columbus Delano, Thaddeus Stevens. Ben
Jamln ~. Wade and judge TrumbuIl?
i They are, one and al, the native-born
! children Of New England, and they have
hgone to congress not to represent Ohio,
nor Pennsylvania, nor Illinois, but in the
1sexpressiye language of senator Sherman.
ITO vote New England ideas and New
England principles"
And SO completely is New England en-
throned, so firmly is our vassalage estab-
lished, that We, men of Ohio, are taxed to
make gift Of bounties to the cod-fsheries
OF Massachusetts and Connecticut. And
IN return generous New England, unselfish
New England, condescends to impose a
duty Ola few cents per pound on wool,
while she, while a modesty only equaled by
her disinterested philanthropy, is satisfied
with hundred per cent, for herself! TAD.
plause.
Then, Ohioans men Of the young and
mighty vest appeal to your manhood
TO your selt-respect, to your love for own
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