Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1844-01-20
Wines or LOUISIANA:

The23d February, tht
day on which you have received +, assemble
in Convention at New Orleans,' IA close Il
hand. Your friends and brother Wings oftit
Legislature look TO this measure as ono o
deem interest and importance to dur. Cause
necessary for tho sake Of union, foacert and
| efficient organization-ncccssary 9or tho pur.
nrRs Of bringing out eur full strength in The
imnortant State elections before us, and in the
GREAT BATTLE Of Novemb 1914. Suffer Us
then to address 10 you our earnest appeal--to
canilrc YOU j nthe name of our cause and our
country, to rousc yourselves and shake off all
apathv, 10 remember the time for action has
arriyed-that our friends and our foes are nj.
ready in the feld-that this great movement
il regarded with intense interest in every part
of the Union.
Let the assemblage then be one worthy of
tho cause and the day; let it it be numerous
and enthusiastically il gladden. those faith.
ful hearts, which throughout the land are beat
iur in unison with our 0wn,--let # proclaim
that louisiana is still steadfast to her princi-
pies.
November, 1910, crowned with glorious but
delusive triumph our long and doubtful strug-
| Gle against hinh-handed power, ~nisrule, and
corruption. In the darkest hours 0fthat strttg.
gle one gallant champion stood distinguished
ut the head Of the phalanX of freedom, in his
fearless attitude an impersonation of Ameri-
can lndepandance-his clarion svoice cheer
ing on his comprehensive eagle eve and
dauntless brow infusing into them the qucnch.
less ardor of his own indomitaJlc eurage.
The spirit of the nation was rouIed-the sat
elites of power and minious bf corruption
qnajled and fled, and the cans5 If tenth and
liberty was triumphantly INDICATED. That
gallant champion still survives-Ethe naIne Of
HENRY Clay is still tower Of strength.
A retrospect ofthe last three years, is full
of warning and lnstrnction--fusi, too, of mo-
tive for redoubled exertion-fultof proud sat
]isfaction to the Whigs,--of cheSring encour-
agement to those who conide:in the virtue
AMI intelligence Of the people.
The page Of history which records the
by which 'all.conquerirg treachery"
came like a whitening blight over the hopes
and prospects Of the victorious Wings of 1910.
ana converted their signal triumph into an idle
mockery, is one on which every American, of
whatever party, must look with feelings of
modification and disgust. But the PROMPT
and energetic conduct of the Wings when
thew found themselves betrayed, ahinring all
cannexion and refusing all compromise with
the accidental chief Of their party, and spurn-
the advantages of power and Of office, pre-
sents a picture of disintereSted attachment to
on which the eye delights TO dwell.
They have since seen with no emotiun but
scorn, the Magistrate who bad been elevated
to powei by their votes, throwing himself into
he armd oftheir defeated opponents, and aid
.ng their views by a lavish and unp-incipled
use of tIR vast patronage Of the Government.
They Senained inactive, because they well
knew that NJ success could avail against that
nexoratIe veto, which bad p~aralized their ef-
Fiat inactivity, and not the increased
'trengtl4 of our opponents, was the secret of
heir apparent aud hriet success.
ThouYands OF Wings, in every part of the
Union, ,,thn have not attended 10 the polls
ince 1910, are now buckling on their armor.
esolref on another and more vigorous con.
est. They waited in patience for the time
vhen they might strike a decisive blow-thev
nntii they could rally under the stan.
Of their cfosen leader, and since the
tandard Of HENRr CLAY has been fairly an
urled, they have risen in their might. fmpa-
lent Of the formal action Of any Convention.
is name has been every where their r%aIlylng
ry.
The cheering voices Of Ohio, North CARROLL
a. Georgia, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Mary
nd and Maine, are ringing in our ears. Eve. :
breeze from North, East, West, comes Ia. !
with notes Of encouragement. Every I