The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-11
The House not lost.


1t is matter of utter astonishment to
find so many Wings disposed, since the
August elections, to give up the House OF
Representatives to their opponents, as If
any further struggle was hopeless. Neither
the facts nor the figures excuse such a
suicidal policy on the part of party whose
motto should be, ''never to surrender;"
for the Santa Annas of Locofocoism must
be taught, to their sorrow, that thong the
battle, as at Buena Vista, may be thrice
lost, still the Wings, like Old Zach's sol
diers, do not know it. The administra-
ton papers in lS47 pursued very different
course from the Wing journals of the
present day, when the elections indicated
a Wing majority in Congress; desperate
rally was made, and the party contested
every inch of ground to the last. An un
expected gain OF Congressman was made
in Rhode Island; Baltimore rolled up an
immense majority, electing a Locofoco
governor in Maryland; and the frmness
of the Wings in the interior counties of
that State alone saved them from a total
| overthrow. Ii is their fxedness of will,
their determination TO succeed, that wins
! half the Locofoco victories; while the
Wings, like ill-discipined militia, sleep on
their arms after victory; but it would argue
pusiIIanimity in them not to rally when
the fruits Of all their past labors are at
| stake.
The spring elections in Connecticut and
Virginia opened unfavorably in conse-
quence of their supineness, and false
confidence that the large gain made in
the fall elections had secured a Wing ma
iority in Congress beyond doubt; and it
seemed impossible to arouse the party
from its lethargy to repel the redoubled
onsets of Locofocoism, driven to madness
by its election from power and place.
/ Yet a calm review of the results in Au
( gust does not show as large a loss as is
| represented. In Indiana, Cass carried
! eight districts and the Coalition one, last
! fall; so there is no change. Kentucky and
North Carolina stand as before. In Ten
nessee, the member in the Nashville dis
trict is defeated by family feud, though
the Wing candidate for governor has a
majority in that district; while in Ala
bama the Wing candidates for Congress
, poll more votes than Taylor; thus proving,
1 conclusively, that thousands of Locofocos
in that State did not vote at the Preslden-
tia election, as is also shown by the dimIn-
ished poll last November; and, for the
first time, one branch Of the legislature is
Wing. The late glorious news from Rhode
Island should inspire every Wing to ac-
ton in the States yet TO elect Congress
men, as il shows that the party, aware OF
It's danger, are waking up; and that the
elections, after long run of i'll luck, are
taking new turn, which, if rightly i'm
proved by the Wing press, will enable the
party TO sweep all before them in the fall
campaign. 1hurston, (old MEMBER the
Coalition candidate, is beaten over six
hundred in district that gave the Oppo-
sition three hundred majority in April;
and II only requires similar full Wing
vote in the districts that gave Taylor ma
:. Jonty last fall 10 SAFE the House Of Repre-
J.. sentatyes, as the following table, carefully
o corrected from the one published in The
+ Weekly Republic of the 23d August, will
e show. TO class Wings that did not vote