Wabash Express

The House Organized!

William Pennington, of N. Jersey,

Elected Speaker.

THE REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIUMPHED!

Let the Banner, upon which shall be written in letters of living light, Free Territories, Free Homes and Freedom of Speech, be Unfurled to the Breeze!!

The Right has Triumphed, and the Disunion Democracy have been Routed upon the first battle field!

The telegraph brings the most important items of news-the long agony is over, and the National House of Representatives is at last organized, and will now proceed to its legitimate business. The contest has been a protracted and determined one, and the representatives of the Republican party have acted like men-more than that, they have acted like statesmen-more than that, they have acted like patriots.

From the first day of the present session of Congress until now, have the Republican members of the House been subject to the vilest vituperations and abuse from disunion Democrats, both North and South. They have had disunion, disunion, disunion rung in their ears continually, from day to day, for two months. They have been threatened, insulted and misrepresented. Daring all this time and under all these circumstances they have remained true to the Constitution, to the country and to themselves. They have stood as giants all, protecting the institutions of the country from threatened destruction by the disunion Democracy, and with a proud consciousness of being in the right, have steadily, persistently, manfully, patriotically maintained the Federal Constitution in its purity, and the rights of a majority of the American people. Ten thousand loud, glorious, Union-saving cheers for the immortal 117 who elected William Pennington, of New Jersey, to preside over the present National House of Representatives. It is a glorious achievement, and worthy of all commendation.

Let us bide our time, friends-the skies brighten-the clouds are being dispelled, and that bright sun which arose when our Federal Constitution was declared by our fathers to be one of Freedom, and was fast setting since James Buchanan declared it to be one of Slavery, now springs again brilliantly luminous to the zenith, and sends bright scintillations all over the land. The wheels of Government move again without jolt or jar, and the watchman at the look-out cries, "All is well."