Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-09-16

If VIC rightly interpret the signs of the
times, the defeat sustained by the wings oi
Louisiana at the recent elections, will prove
the source of more complete and enduring tri.
umphs hereafter. We know that in our city,
the reverses of July have kindled a feeling OF
| shame, aud have aroused a determination to
etface the stigma Of ingIorious discontinue;
while our accounts from the country parishes
give us every reason 10 believe, that the
wings of the interior are animated by similar
impulses. The wkig party in this state have
learned n lesson from their antagonists which
they intend to profit by. They had been SO
long accustomed to carry Louisiana, that they
considered themselves invincible; and at the
very moment when locofoc6ism was making
the most desperate and well organised efforts
to revolutionlzethe state, the wings, confident
as heretofore Of victory, folded their arms in
supine and overweening confidence, and sut-
fered The entire congressional delegation to
be wrested from them by an adversary whom
they had most unWIseIy and lmprudently des-
pissed.
The result of the July elections astonnded
the wings, but it did something more-it
awakened them from the fatal dream of secu-
%ritg-it taught them that they had to deal.
with a foe that is formidable at all times and
never more so than when heoseems to slum-
Der. 1t demonstrates the necessity Of concert
Of action, active, unceasing and thorough
organization. Fl proved to the wings that
victories are not to be achieved without able
generals aud disciplined troops. In briei, it
was a lesson fraught, it is true, with present
bitterness and deep disappointment, but which
we'll conned aud cherished, carried with it a
Wholesome moral that bids fair to be service
able for the future. -
Heretofore the wings have had to keep
Observation-Disclosures they have to redeem
her from the thraldom of locofocoism. We
need not say how this is to be effected, for
the spirit that prevails in our party indicates
that our friends understand full WE'LL the ma
ture OF the duty they are called on to perform
and are pre- pairing 10 execute it with an alac-
rity, zeal and harmony that leave little doubt
Of their success. We are well persuaded at
this moment, that of the total number of
voters in our state, a large majority are wings.
At the July election the entire vote polIed
did not reach by five or SIX thousand that
cast IN 1910, and the returns from most of
the strong wing parishes, such as st. Landry,
James &c, prove conclusively that the
Shig vote was not out. In the second con-
yressional district the entire vote polled
scarcely exceeded the Harrison majority of
IS40, while the third and fourth districts ex- !
libited a considerable falling off from the
'ote of that year. In fact SO meagre was the
,otc throughout the state that in spite Of the
overwhelming majority in fa,or of the con-
,%ention, it was for sometime doubtful wheth-
II that question had received all absolute ma
gritty IF oil tho t-oteS in tho stata
Now tits clearly deducible from these prem
ses, that in order that the wings may achieve
complete triumph at the next state election
Il they have to do is to adopt efficient mea-
ures to bring out their full strength.
There were from FIVE to eight thousand whig
otes unpol.ed last July that must be polled
n 1874. Can this be done. Undoubtedly,
I'd what is mere Ii will be done. Let the