Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-07-22
For the Wing Flag.
CHRONICLES OF THE PEOPLE OF
JONATHAN.

Il
! And it came to pass in the reign Of
King James, whose surname was Polk
that the people murmured exceedingly
against the Kings authority.
Q. And the people said one to another,
let us make unto ourselves a new king, Eor
it is not meet that James should longer
rule over us.
B. Did mol he prosnise that we should
have peace and prosperity throughout ouI
borders And lie, he hath brought q
bloody war upon us ; and our young men
who went out TO fight have been cut off BY
the sword and by the pestilence.
4. Did not he promise Us ten cents a
pound for our cotton 7 And we know thai
il is not worth gthe half Of what he pro-
missed.
5. Now, therefore, let US make unto
ourselves q new king, That the land may
no longer be cursed.
@. But there were still some in the land
who followed after King James, and who
believed that all he had done was right.
These were called loo ofocos.
7. The locofocos wished to have another
king like unto James ; and they called a
Grand Coucil ofthe locofoCos, 10 choose
whom they would have to reign over them.
g. Aud on the twenty second day Of the
fifth month, in the year Of the reign o.
King James, the locofocos we're gathered
together from all parts ofthe land, even
from the ST. Croix to the Rio GrAnde, I'm.
to the city of Baltimore.
o. And there was division among them;
but most Of them wished to make Lewis
whose surname was Cass, their leader.
10 Now Lewis vas a Wolverine, from
the providence of Michigan, a man oflarge
body and comedy to look upon; and he had,
withal, a very oily tongue, 50 that he might
appear all things to all men.
II. Some of the Iocofocos waxed very
wroth against Lewis, and said, did not he
praise Louis Philippe, King of the French
people, who sorely oppressed his subjects I
u. Now, therefore, what surety have
we thai he will not in like manner Cypress
US, if we choose hIm to reign over US.
10. And others said, did he not also
wear q black cockade, and are not all
who wore the black cockade called Fedef-
alistsl
IA. And Yancy, a man n igbty in words,
was greatly ~displeased hat Lewis should
be made leader of the ~locofoco army. and
swore a mighty oath lhathe would not fight
under him.
Is. Likewise the Barnburners withdrew
from the Council, and said they would mol
have Lewis to reign over them.
Is. But the friends Of Lewis would moi
yield, and said that he must be their lead
er.
II. Now when it wa made known Il
Lewis hal he was chosen leader of the
locofoco army, he was very much cas-
down ; and he shut himself up for the
space Of seven days, and you'd neither
take food nor drink.
IS. And he refused to be comforted, for
said he, viii not my enemies, the Wings
make Zachary leader of their forces
How, then, shall | be able to staDdf
10. Did not my friend Santa Anna 2,
down TO Buena Vista with twenty thousan,
men, against Zachary, who had only fou
thousand And did not Zachary put San
ia Anna to flight and drive all his force
from the feld7
90. Nov, therefore. how shall | be abl
TO stand against him, when my friends, il
whom trusted, are divided among them.
selves, and going Overto the enemy
81. Nov il came 70 pass. on the sevent
day ofths sixth naonah, ID tbs fourth yea