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.]" It may be said, and doubtless will be, that _Banks_ has allied himself with the Republicans. But Banks says he has _always been a Democrat_, and that he was _nominated as a Democrat in his district_. And certain it is, that he was elected Speaker by DEMOCRATS, under the _compulsion_ of an odious plurality rule, and the _gag_ of the previous question!