New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-03
wH1sTI1ra 70 KEEP THEIR COURAGE UP.

/ WRESTLING 70 KEEP THEIR COURAGE UP
The frightened wight, who passed by the grave
yard at midnight, whistled terribly to keep hi
courage up He whistied with all his might
he whistled furiously; he Whistled desperately
his lips had the most formidable quicker know,
| to the annals of whistledom, while his lungs pu
to shame every blaoksmith's bellows in tn,
neighborhood! But, stupendous as were his Of
forts loud as was his whistling, which no doub
disturbed every decent ghost in the place of Sc
pulture he only got badly scared for his pains
he didn't hurt anything, embodied or disem
bodied, or make any profit whatever.
Our opponents are just in the condition Of the
| unfortunate individual above referred to, only
they resort to more expedients to maintain theil
failing courage to revive the faintipg spirits Of
their followers; and to stimulate " the faithful
to make as respectable show of opposition as
possible-not that they have any we'll grounded
hopes Of success, but because they go in for
"taking all the chances " that may turn up in
the chapter of accidents, as its mystic leaves are
unfolded and enforced by the inexorable hand
of the future.
Therefore, they whistle brayely, if not melo-
diously. What care they if their vocal efforts
resemble the Earrings Of a dray load Of ancient
tia-pans, antiquated stovepipes, cracked rams
horns, or the dismal oaterwaulings Of dilapi-
dated tomcat-so that they make outsiders be-
leve they are having jolly good time of it,
and expect better a-coming' When they cease
whistling they forthwith enter upon the game
Of brag, in which, it must be confessed they
are extraordinary pro6cients. To hear them
talk, and swell, and brag, stranger would
come to the conclusion that they had no OPP
ponents worth mentioning in the land
After exhausting the resources Of whistling
and Dragging, they pitch into another amuse-
ment-it is fayorite one with them--that Of
pretending that their opponents are hopelessly
weak, growing weaker every day, and that the
Withdrawals from the American Order are SO
numerous and continual that there will hardly
be vestige Of it left BY November. All Of this
is done with an air that smaeks of the stage
more than Of nature.
| But the close and well-informed observer,
sees through all this assumed, theatrical conf
dence, and discovers behind it the same trepi-
dation, fear and apprehension, that caused the
superstitious wight to whistle energetically as
be was passing the graveyard. The leaders Of
the anti -Americans feel that they are not going
| to have such good luck as the person referred
to-that they will nerer pass By their political
graveyard, no matter how hard they whistle, or
brag, or bluster-that they are approaching it
rapidly, and that, sure as fate, as soon as the
rolling seasons announce the day, into 1t they
mast go, and there remain until the the trump
of resurrection permits departure.
| But, in their anxiety to stave off the fated
| time, the anti-American leaders show themselves
delighted with trihes ~ to be overjoyed with
losses, and to be enamored with an inauspi-
| cious, unpromising future. They profess to be
highly pleased with the result of the late cleo
tions, when, in almost every State, they have
sustained serious losses
They shout yociferously over the Alabama
election, where they have lost one member of
Congress, and will make poorer showing in
the Legislature, on joint ballot, than ever before
Besides, according to the Mobile Advertiser,
Cobb, of the Huntsville District, was supported
by the Americans, and does not commit himself
against their principles. Houston is also be-
ieved to favor them. Is not that victory to
boast of? Why. here is, substantially, o loss
of Mreei The Americans have no reason to
complain Of such defeats
In North Carolina the vote was small, Con-
gressmen only being voted for. There has been
no political change in the delegation. The
Americans have elected three staunch men.
The anti-Americans five. In the last Congress
the Ants had four, without clingman-an apos-
tate Whig-and now they have five, with Cling
man. A tremendous triumph 1.
In Tennessee the Ants elected their Governor
by reduced majority. The Americans gained
one member Of Congress, and carried both
branches of the Legislature. Yet the Ants
congratulate themselves on the result
In Kentucky the Americans carried the Go
vernon, Legislature, and gained one member of
Congress.
From Texas we have not complete returns,
yet enough is known to show that the Ameri-
cans have gained enormously, conclusiyely de-
monstrating their ability to carry the State
when another struggle shall be had.
30 1t is clear that, with one exception, the
have lost in all the recent cleo
lions. Yet they pretend to be satisfied! Well,
i they are satisfed,we are We shall never COM
plain of struggles that lead to such results. If
N infant organization, not known or formed
n one-haf of the territory of the respective
States named, could meet the serried hosts of
The opposition, and ain from them in almost
very conflict, what will not that Organization
% able to effect when completely organized and
n thorough operation in every neighborhood Of
he aforesaid Statess Why, of course, the VIC
DRY will be won with ease and certainty.
0MINoUs.-The anti-Americans had a bar.
'ecue and speech-m making at Houma, in the
'arish Of Terrebonne, not long since The great
uns Of the party--Messrs. Bush, Heron.
'eatty and Roman-exploded with tremendous
orce, throwing hollow shot, round shot, red-hot
hot, shells, and all manner of destructive pro-
sctiles into the ranks of the Americans, who,
owever, faced the music with GOODNESS and |
etermination becoming the defenders of a se-