The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

FROM THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL

We copy the following extract to show the true spirit of at least one Virginian; we could copy many other such, but one is sufficient. What are we to expect from a spirit which dictates such an article? Well it is that a want of power must forever prevent a different exercise of it. In the mean time, let it be remembered, that nothing of this kind ever disgraced a citizen of the northern States:

LYNCHBURG (Virginia) November 24.

The long agony is over-the conflict is ended-impudence has triumphed over modesty-noisy pretensions over genuine talents-the unblushing demagogue over the true patriot and accomplished gentleman. William Lowndes has been rejected, and John W. Taylor elected Speaker of the lower House of Congress. The standard of discord is once more unfurled, and faction stalks through the land, scattering from her pestilential hand the seeds of distrust, dissension, turbulence and disunion. The northern Senators and Representatives who conscientiously opposed the sentiments of their constituents, will be dragooned into a relinquishment of their independent opposition; the strength of the party has been fully developed by the choice of Speaker; Missouri must yield her constitutional privileges, or be discarded from the American confederacy. Else, why this extraordinary choice of Speaker-this unyielding obstinacy in preferring doubtful mediocrity to eminent and acknowledged worth? The event imports more than meets the eye, and croaks, with raven note, ominous presages to America.