ells_, _Williams_,
and SAMUEL A. SMITH! Mr. Clarke was the only American who voted for the
odious rule!

MR. CARLILE, a national American, of Virginia, before the vote was taken
upon this plurality rule, offered the following substitute for it:

"_Resolved_, That the HON. WM. AIKEN, a Representative from the
State of South Carolina, be, and he is hereby declared Speaker
of the Thirty-Fourth Congress."

GOV. AIKEN is a sound Southern Democrat--never was any thing else--but
COL. SMITH _objected_, and demanded the _previous question_, which cut
off MR. CARLILE'S resolution, and which was to prevent its adoption! The
candidate of the Democratic party, at that time, MR. ORR, immediately
_withdrew in favor of_ GOV. AIKEN, upon the introduction of MR.
CARLILE'S resolution; and to _prevent Aiken's election_, SAMUEL A. SMITH
cut off said resolution by a call of the previous question!

Banks was elected by _one_ vote, and this could not be accomplished
until SEVEN DEMOCRATS got _behind the bar_, and refused to vote at all!
These were HICKMAN, PARKER, and BARCLAY, of Pennsylvania; CRAIG, of
North Carolina; TAYLOR, of Louisiana; RICHARDSON, of Illinois; and
SEWARD, of Georgia! Any _two_ of these _Southern_ Democrats could have
made AIKEN Speaker, but they did not want him--they knew Banks to be a
_Democrat_, if he were a Black Republican--and to elect him, they
believed would give them the strength of that odious party in the coming
contest.

We have before us the _Washington Union_ of Sept. 27th, 1853, giving,
editorially, a glowing account of the Massachusetts Democratic State
Convention, reporting the speech of Nathaniel P. Banks, of Waltham,
concluding that report in these words:

"Mr. Banks emphatically and decidedly, on his own part, and on
that of the _Democrats of Massachusetts_, disclaimed the truth
of the rumors in certain newspapers that an arrangement had
been entered into with another political party in the
Commonwealth concerning the distribution of State offices. It
was his and this Convention's and all true Democrats' desire,
belief, and determination, that Henry W. Bishop should be
elected governor of Massachusetts, and that the other
Democratic State officers should also be elected. He was not
afraid of defeat, and less afraid of _Whig success_, which, to
judge by its recent effects, was simply equivalent to a defeat.
[Applause.]"