The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-11-21
LOUISIANA ELECTION.

Many days must necessarily elapse before the official
of the State is received but enough now known to
call forth the congratulations Of every sincere patriot in
the Union for the signaIy brilliant victory achieved by
the indonabc democracy of Louisiana. The Louisiana
Courier of the 18th instant he latest date recoiycd thus
sums up the result:
The election returns in another column, TO which we
call the attention Of readers demonstrate that genuine
patriotism still CLOVIS brightly in the breasts OF the
Louisiana, and that darkanernsm and other kindred sms
can have foothold upon cherished soil Our State
ticket elected By majority which, considering the
pity Of feeling manifested and the illegal carried
out BY our political oppoh is unprecedented in the po-
Nhcsl anna'e OF our States history. 1t will average,
from present indications about thousand Eve hun
dred votes This is triumph of which every good demo
crat should be proud, and which will be pointed after
years with pleasure and glory by every concurred
in achieving the brilliant result There is doubt of
jori in both branches Of legislature large enough for
all practical purposes In the house will be about and
in the six. Our delegation Congress
democratic Miles Taylor being elected by about four hundred
Davidson hundred and Sandge fifteen hundred majority
Thus il will that have the enemy and they
oars They have undergone that ignominou defeat which
their wretched proscrptve principles could not fail to call
down upon he and for hicb they win have to repne
But Let Louisiana know nottingham
forever rest in that cold grave which it has dug for itself
and may its enjoy that peace which in life it did
deserved
aspect may please consider il, Is OF highly -
portant nature. We hail it with pleasure, not party
victory not Us conquest the spoils of not stru
gle IN which personalities only in question,
concerned but proud vindication of principle r
umph OF humanity and liberal ideas over midnight despot
Ism and an ouious conspiracy, achievement Ct truth
over error, OF true democracy faction and misrue
civil and religious liberty prescription and rampant
natcism. This the issue upon which the gallant democ
racy of our State Stood and with such principles and such
determination it could not but conquer.
"The defeat of Mr.. t. g. Hunt, in the second congress
sonal district event which will impress the fact more
deeply upon the minds Of northern brethren that ouh
rights be tempered with by our public servants
with mpuniy and that the hand of etrbpon must sooner
Or later, arrest the course Of him who, In Of mis-
guided ardor Of party zeal cndangers in the least those
sacred prerogaves The verdict rendered BY his former
constituents and the feeling which exists In this State re-
gardng his upon the Kansas bill are I'M
mistakable in their language and bearing. The district had
always been hopeless for the democrats the ma
ority therein against had formerly been
and even when democratic champion was atoly put upon
the to combat Mr.. Hunt few thought that the re-
suit would have been glorious or unanimous in conse
auence Of the party that were TO be contended
against But the sequel showed that when oussnians arc
called upon TO decide questions which involve not only their
interests but The honor and institutions Of the south they
F always be found battling the side Of right and Justice