Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-08-12
LOUISIANA IN THE Q7rn AND 2sfn
CONGRESS-,

A pfHltl roiitid month ntd more mas ciaTHea
since the termination Of The lste elections IN
this hiate. That disastrous campaign gave
Louisiana, for The first lime since her star
adorned the American flag a full leeofoco de-
legation IN our national Legislature, A result
30 unexpected and surprising, naturally dis.
concerted for the moment, The Wing party
and we doubt. even now, II they have yet re.
viewed The battle field with ealmneas and 70.
Election, and weighed fully The future effect oE
their defeat on the prosperity and character Of
the sthte. If not, Il liz tinis they should do
s%o=full lime that they should east aside their
weeds Of woe and thoughts Of despair, and
come boldly out and look Oh the work Of their
own hands, Tleir defeat la uie OF no eeina
moi, character, and common results eannot be
expected 10 attend Il. They have cast away,
IN the day and hour II was most needed
voluntarily eant away--a power neither easily
tesained, or happily veslsd, It has goi,e into
lauds who would rot II they could, and eoald
not II they would, use Il properly, II Ia IN
tie handa Of those who labor 70 fe'atd or de-
etroy--thpse who pull down but never build
~ who kill but make not alive,
Come out, then. brother whigs, ee,ne out
Come forth and look upon your glofioas work
Come Oh. yon who arc yet s%kulking IN egh.
cealed placer, sppreheneive that every pasping
breeze which dtptuFhs a twiH or leaf is All on.
envy pfowling around your seer I abode !
Come out, tl,oe trembling bastard, and mark
The effects of thy eowafdiee. Come ont and
receive the punishment justly due your
shameful deeds@pfhy for pardon, aud, arining
yourself anew, enter the approaching cams
paign with the high resolve Of returning 10
youf lomes "with your shialis, or on them"
Come out, laggard, slothfal mAn@you wlo
aiept on your post while the enemy ransaeked
your eanp-~rome out and make day dark with
your blushes, for very Hlianae Al your iguehle
conduct | II IL time you should ieileet--i. Il
time you should ace with your eyes and heal
with your care, the dreadful consequences o
your apathy. This, you must certainly, a
some period, both nee and hear, and Il Ia bet
ter that should DO now, ere It be too late fol
the sting If shame and modification 10 geat
you on TO letter deeds, than when time shal
have Theoretically sealed your ruin by crown
ina this with sne,her defeat.
The wings Of Louisiana alone. are account,
asle TO the country for The result Of the latt
canpaiga IN THE eta,e. IN no district or pa
rish has the locofoco vote ~ last year beet
materially or at all increased. In some pa,
tishes they have not held their own. There
haa bern no political ~changes-no revolution
Of sentiment. Those who were whiga II
isan, are whiga still. Why, then. I, viii be
asked, did not the wings succeed 1 We AN.
ewcr--reeaase they did mol work, But should
tho question be put, why did they not work
for our life we could not toll Tho fact Ii
strange beyond belief, that a body Of met sc
intelligent and habileally thoughtful and con
siderata an AFRO tho wings Of Louisiana ehnult
throw their tnost important interests into The
hands Of such men ne compose our present
delegation to Congress-4a delegation, per
haps, inferior in inferiority to That from any
other state IN the Union. Wo speak this with
nc disresnees to the men personally, We
speak Il Il because Il Ia true, because every bod,
knows Il Is true, and To show other states thai
we are sensible of our shame. From the
eighteen or twenty thousand voters In thi,
state, seventeen or nineteen thousand might
be selected, equally competent with Dawson
lahranohc or Bossier TO discharge tho dutie,
OF members OF tho federal legislature.
The object of the ~loeofoeo party in nominal
ing such candidates, can hardly DO a~ppreela,
ted. II certainly was not that tl,sir rank,
could boast no better mon, Tor such Is not thu
fact but that tho wings should stand l~istless
" BY and witness tho election Of such men
without a struggle to prevent it, is far less
conceivable. In the first district, tho wings
in Il measure, were guilty of the same fault
aud werc punished for il. Their nominee
though an honest man, and endowed with mn
ny noble qualities Of heart, did not posses
those sterling properties Of the head, whie,
his pnrposcd mission required. His opponent
Mr.. Slidell, was his superior in talents an,
education, SO much so, that tho election wa
greatly Influenced by that fact. But in IN
ID district, the case was very different. Mi
White, by natural and acquired qualification
stood above comparison with Labranche. Iii
experience in public business was great, an
redoundea greatly TO his homo. No man !
The last Congress possessed as much persona
popularity as White, and any local or priyat
bill advocated by him, had to bear tho impress
Of injustice, or be very wrong in principle
il il did not foa, smoothly through the Hous,
upon the strong current of his personal popu
larity. He was recognised by all as that nc
best work of God-an honest man an
from his peculiar studies and character, We
pre-eminently calculated 10 guard and pro,et
the peculiar interests of his district, as we
as 10 fulfill with credit, all duties incumher
ON him as a national representative. He wa
no, ? frequent speaker, nor a long-winded on
when on the 400. ; but he had the very rar
faculty Of rivctting the attention Of the Hnus,
and seldom failed Of convincing and carrsin
: majority with him. Nov, how long win Ii
ex.minister to Texas, Mr., Lahranche. ser,
in Congress before he acquires a p~opulari'
like this--so enviahle and so ~usefuli Has h
either talents or character to take a respect,
BILE stand among men of talents and state,
men , From what we have learned of the NAL