Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1859 — Speakership of the House. [ARTICLE]

Speakership of the House.

The question of who is to be the Speaker of the next House of Representatives is being pretty freely discussed by the press in the Northern States. Hons. Thos. Corwin and John Sherman, of Ohio, are strenuously i urged by their friends for the position. Either of these men are well qualified for) the place. They possess all the requisites i necessary, yet neither of them are our choice, j We do not have to <jo -o far from home to find a gentleman better qualified and more deserving—one who seems to have been mede for the position. We allfifle to Hon. Schuyler Colfax, who has had as much ex- ‘ perience in parliamentary usages as perhaps , any than now in Congress. .He has ranked as one of the formest leaders of the House ever since he entered it as a member. He is is possessed of fine talents as a speaker and debater, and in choosing him the double advantage of a debater and speaker is secured in the same individual. His devotion to Republicanism, and his gallant and unflinching conduct throughout so many well fought and glorious battles, has won him; warm and ardent friends everywhere. While I we love him at home with a devotion which I he so richly deserves, we have also the satisfaction of knowing that he is equally beloved and admired by thousands of good aiidj true men throughout the Union. His fame is as broad as our country, attd his love for all our institutions is of that character which is only known and felt by tht devoted patriand statesman. He is kind and courteeous in his intercourse with every one—firm and unyielding in his advocacy of what he regards as the correct priuci pies of our Gov-1 eminent- —easily convinced when in the wrong, but never to be swerved Loin the right. He is well qualified, eminently qualified in every particular fpr the exalted position lor which we have nominated him, and we hope that the members of the next House will gi .'je that attention to his claims to which | lie is entitled. He is worthy and deserv- | ing of all the honors they can award him.— Rushvi le Republican.