The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-10-17
LOUISIANA IN THE FIELD.

LOUISIANA in The FIELD. &#
There are not to be found anywhere more re-
solute, Jealous, and patriotic set Of FREEMEN than
the Wings of gallant Louisiana. They have con-
quered-and will conquer again. The State is
safe for HENRY CLAY Mark our declaration!
Tee New Orleans Bee of the 9th instant, brings
us the full proceedings of the great Wing Con-
vention at Baton Rouge which assembled the 7th
instant. New Orleans alone sent up, in five
steamboats,, TEN HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE dele
gates, and the parish Of Jefferson TWO HUNDRED
AND FORTY! We have no space for twentieth
part Of the Bees eloquent and glowing descrip-
ton of the doings of that great day. 1t says the
multitude could not be computed at less than
TWELVE THOUSAND SOULS, including twelve to ff-
teen hundred ladies'. Gen. PHILEMON THOMAS,
of East Baton Rouge, was made President of the
Convention, assisted by nineteen Vice Presidents
and three Secretaries. Eloquent and able speech
YERGER, Esq, of Mississippi, RANDALL Hunt
and ETIENNE MAJ EAU, Esqs., of New Orleans,
Judge NICHOLS and others. Resolutions were
passed of patriotic nature-a PRIZE BANNER Was
presented by the ladies-and letters were read
from Judge B. F. PORTER, of Tuscaloosa, and
SARGENT $. PRENTIss and SAMUEL A. CART
WRIGHT, Esqs., of Mississippi. The last named
gentleman has been until recently distinguished
leader of the Locofoco party. But he can stand
their humbuggery no longer, and is henceforth
Wing. We can only find room for the following
from the Bees description:
ain the large and densely populated confede
racies, whole districts and sections of States
have occasionally come together and mass con.
ventions have now and then been held, embracing
third or even one half, of the entire wing vote
of State. But it has been reserved for Louis
lana, for our own REGENERATED AND WING Lou
IsIANA, to exhibit the sublime spectacle of con-
vention, absolutely comprising larger number
of wings than the aggregate of wing votes cast at
the Presidential election of 1910.
"When the extreme distance from the various
extremites of the State is recollected; when we
bear in mind the difficulties Of water communca-
ton, amid comparatively spare population, with
country, not dotted, as in the North, with large
and Furnishing towns, but only displaying, here
and there, at remote intervals, few scattered
villages and hamlets it will be universally adj
mitted, that the Wing Mass Convention at Ba-
ton Rouge, on the 7h October, eclipsed in splen-
dor, magni6cence imposing array, and every at
tribute of grandeur, any public assemblage ever
convened in the valley Of the Mississippi, and was
only exceeded, numerically, by the mammoth
gathering at Nashville. Such an outpourng OF
the masses-such an overwhelming multitude of
gallant, ardent and enthusiastic wings, it has
never before been our good fortune to encounter.
The demonstration made by the locofocos the
week preceding, was utterly overshadowed and
thrown into obscurity and insignlficance by this
tremendous gathering
"The moral effect of the Convention will be
most suspicious. All doubt, dismay, or apprehen-
sion are already given to the winds. The few
locofocos who witnessed the spectacle were ut
terly astounded and appalled,, and we doubt not
that but for the desperation which prompts them
to make final effort, they would surrender
the State, without scarcely striking blow"