The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-08-21
Second District of Louisiana.


The Wing Convention for the second Con-
gressional district of LOUISIANA was held at
DonaldsonviIle on Monday, the 18th instant
On motion of Mr.. p. SAUvE, of Jefferson, Hon.
BENJAMIN WINCHESTER, of St. James, was
called to the chair, and DR.. f. +. NICHOLS
and J. b. WALTON appointed secretaries.
The committee appointed to consider and
report the basis on which the several parishes
in the district should report, recommended
unanimously that each parish or representative
district should be entitled to one vote for every
one hundred WING votes cast at the Congress
sional election in l649, and one vote for every
fraction over fifty WING votes at that election.
| This recommendation was adopted by the con-
vention. Mr.. j. ARIsTIDE LANDRY was nomi-
mated by Mr.. GAUDET, and Mr.. A. u. TRU-
DEAU by Mr.. KIRK, of Jefferson, and the re-
spectve delegations retired to consider of their
vote.
Upon their return to the convention, the
parishes were about to be called in their order,
when the name of A. Z. TRUDEAU was, by re-
quest of Mr.. KIRK, withdrawn from before the
convention.
On motion of JAS. S. HALL, Of Orleans, j.
ARIsTIDE LANDRY was then unanimously and
by reclamation declared to be the candidate of
the Wing party to represent the second Con-
gressional district in the House Of Represen-
tatves.
RANDELL Hunt presented the following re-
solutions, which were unanimously adopted:
"Resolred, That the Wings of this district, in
common with the great body of the American peo-
| pie, remain firm and steadfast in their attachment
the Union and the Constitution of their country
and that they disown and reprobate the views and
doctrines Of the Abolitioniss and the Secessionsts
as unconstitutional, disorganizing, and anti Anne
rican.
'ResolUed, That the Compromise ia, in the opn-
ion of this convention, honorable, constitutional,
and expedent, and that it meets the appreciation
and wi receive the support of the people of the
United States.
''Re'olved, That the wise, temperate, and firm
course of the present Administration entities it to
the respect, confidence, and gratitude of every
! friend of American constitutional liberty
'ResolUed, That the true and beet interests of the
North and the South, and the East and the West,
inseparaby knit together and that this conven-
ton holds the adv Of disunon to be an enemy
to his country and foe to human liberty.
"Resolued, That J. Aristide Landry, the nominee
OF this convention, will receive the cordial and en-
ire support of the Wings Of this district"
Mr.. j. ARIsTDE LANDRY, the nominee Of
the convention, having been called for, by the
unanimous voice of the convention, presented
himself, and addressed the delegates in a for
chile and patriotic speech, from which we copy
the concluding paragraphs:
u enter the field this day, and pledge myself to
YOU my Wing fellow citizens, that shall earnest
" embatte Tor success in noble cause, and for
the Perpctuation of well known principles and
that my efforts will not cease so long as there is
breath of life within me-
81 enter the field, this day, not as the vindcator
of the South, not as supporter OF the North; but
a defender, under all circumstances, Of both. and
as a friend Of the brotherly Union.
81 enter the field this day, prepared to meet all
political adversaries, and ready to defend each and
all of the measures known as the measures Of tho