The Columbia Democrat

Congress met at Washington on Monday last, and at the last accounts, no speaker had been elected in consequence of a difficulty having arisen in regard to the disputed delegation from New Jersey, the whig minority members, who received their certificate of election from the Governor through fraud, appearing determined to force themselves upon the house at all hazards, even should the attempt eventuate in another Harrisburg buck-shot war. We hope that the democratic members will be firm and decided in their efforts to maintain the rights of the majority, and at once put their veto upon the disorganizing principle that the minority members must have the preference even though their certificates of election are evidently obtained through chicanery and fraud. A principle dangerous to the rights of the people, and demoralizing and destructive to a representative government.

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