Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-10-20
Our Candidates.

upon to select those from among you whom yo
shall judge to be the most capable of filling tn
offices to which they aspire. As far as the car
didates for the State ticket are concerned the nc
minecs OF the two parties have long been befor
you; that OF the Americans is headed by the ven
cradle CHARLES DERBIGNY, son of an ex-Governo
OF the State. No man in Louisiana possesses
purer character, Or one with less blemishes, thai
Mr.. Derbigny He has been in public life iron
infancy, and is fully conversant with matters
State policy always thorough and consistent whiE
up to the time of the adoption of the Constitution
of 1915, when he left the ranks and cast his potIca
destiny with the Native American party, and wa:
the nominee of that party for the office to which
| his fellow citizens now seek to elevate him; anc
if Americans are true to themselves true to then
country, he cannot fail being elected. The other
gentlemen on the State ticket are all worthy o.
public trust and well qualified to discharge the
duties of the stations for which they are named.
The Hon. THEODORE G. HUNT is our nominee
for Congress from this District. Mr.. H. has already
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during which he acquired a national reputation
and was one among the most talented and popular
members of the popular branch of the National
Legislature. His vote on the Nebraska question,
which is now made use of to defeat his election,
will in times to come cause his name to be inscribed
among those who proved themselves true to the
Constitution--its compromises-and the Union.
Comparisons become odious when such men as the
anti-American nominee, (Mr. Taylor,) are put in
juxtaposition with men like Col Hunt. 1t is like
putting pgmy by the side Of giant. That the
American and conservative voters Of the district
will cast their suffrage for Mr.. Hunt, is
the rising of to-morrow's sun. We look upon his
election certain any event in the future can be-
As respects our candidate for the State Senate,
the Hon. II. MICHEL THIBoDAUx, we would res
pectfully call attention to French communication
signed ca" setting forth his merits and claims
over those of his competitor, Adam Beatty, Esq.
The article though short, is to the point and beau
tfully written.
Without wishing to speak to the disparagement
of Mr.. Beatty, the anti-Know Nothing and Protes-
candidate for the Senate, we cannot
see how the people of Lafourche, Terrebonne and
Assumption, can lay aside such man as Mr. Thib-
odaux, who was born, raised, and still continues to
live the soil and whose ancestors from the first
introduction Of christianity into France, have been
Catholics, to support Mr. Beatty, who has ever been
that he now earnestly contends for the rights of
those whose spiritual head reigns over the Vatican
How ridiculousy absurd does it appear to all
rejecting persons when they hear it
severated from the stand by the orators of the anti
Americans, the selfstyled defenders of the Catholic
religion, that we, the American party, prescribe
Catholics, when nearly every candidate up for
office on our ticket belongs to that system of
faith. They must have an unusual amount of as
'urance, or must depend a great deal upon the
,redulity and Ignorance of the people, when they
evidence to the contrary.
Messrs. Williams and Harang, our nominees for
the Legislature mer Of learning and experience,
having served during several sessions in the Gen
eral Assembly of the State, and, therefore, fully
,onversant with the rules of business They are
opposed by Messrs. Claude and Bernard, young
men altogether ignorant Of the rules and usages
If deliberative assemblies; and therefore entirely
nitted to the station which their friends seek to
elevate them. We candidly and seriously ask the
ppostion if their interest would not be better at
ended to if confded to the care of Messrs vii |
Jams and Harang, than it would be in the hands of
Messrs. Gaude and Bernard?
Our candidate for Sheriff, Mr.. H. E. Ledet, like |
,ur candidate for Clerk, Leufroid Daunis, is too
veil known to need praise at our hands. Both of
hese gentlemen were born and raised in the parish
# Lafourche, where they have ever resided; and
lone can advance aught against their character as
Gentlemen, and those fully qualified to discharge
he duties of the offices to which they aspire.
Our young friend L. E. Lamoureux, candidate
Or Assessor, and Jean Rossi, candidate Coroner,
re well known to every man, woman and child,
rom upper to the lowermost extremity of this
arish and we doubt not that the voting population
1il remember them on the 9th of November.