The American patriot., 1855-11-03
Rrag and Holdfast.

the Democratic party would be overwhelming
victorious. From the commencement of the
canvas until now, within ten days fits terrnin-
alton, they have crowcd vociferously and con-
t:nually. They have 4abored with uncommon
diligence to browbeat and tcrrify the American
party. They have piled us with wagers and
bantered us with bets. They have assured us
with the most solemn gravity that we were all
to be politically annihilated. They have pub
lished and paraded the name every man who
either Joined the party for the purpose of with
drawing, or was induced by cogent persuasions
to sever his connection with it, Tothese they
have, as we proved upon them in Rardes, add
ed fictitious Names They have rerublished
the same lists over and over again They
have proclaimed that in such a parish the Or
der had ceased to exist in another, that the
wigwams had disbandcd; and ina third that
no one could be found hardy enough to intro
duce it. They have endcavored o convince
us that all the Catholics were againt the order
for one reason, and all the Protestnts for an
other. Their orators in North louisiana told
the people that the Democracy wod sweep
the State by five thousand majority and the
city by two thousand. In short, tey have
played the brag game to perfection, I'd what
ever may be the result, they dcservehe credit
of keeding up a bold face, and imitatg CHAP
MAN better than the stoutest chanticlr in the
country.
We are obliged to confess that win the an
ti-Americans have been boasting, ty have
been working too. There never wa party
which understood how to pull the WIS of po-
litical machinery more skillfully thathey-
The boasting was that portion of theame in
tended to frighten us; the working wintend
ed to benefit themselves. The polio was
double one, and has been conducted tn con-
summate craft. While they were asring us
here that we were doomed to Initiating
defeat, they were secretly adopting cry pos
sible means to make their yaunting sd. No
fault is it of our exceedingly cunnineriends,
the Democrats, if they 90 fall after The
best concerted schemes are sometimeender-
ed abortivc by the vigilance of the aersary.
IF we had not watched the DemocE, and
found out long ago what they were stt, and
contrived to undo each day their labof the
day previous, there is no saying HI badly
they might have beaten us. But owing
them thoroughly, we acted according We
: did not pretend to outbrag them, for t was
; impossible. Wewonld not accept theiagers
for that would have been placing rerful
weapons in their hands to be welded eftively
against us. But we worked Just as HI: and
possibly little harder. When thepined,
we countcr-mined We went over same
,, ground, or met them in every fortrcsad on
, every redoubt. Whenever they challed we
accepted the cartel, and fought theipcnly
E and fearlessly. When they skulkedom a
, manly contest, and sought the bye-w and
secret corners, where they might misd the
. people, and slander the American pa with |
, out the fear of contradiction and expce, we
, sent scouts after them, discovered 'theraccs,
5 pursued them rapidly, overlook them the
midst of their schemes, and baffled con-
quered them. The American party b coer-
ced the Democrats into discussion,ld we
need scarcely add, that when once is ac-
comp!ished, the victory is already haon.
Every body is now aware that tlnties
are not by any means as sure Of IL trph as
they affected to be three months ae They
lower peg or two in their calculati every
, week, and by the time the election Inland,
# we suspect they will begin to ackledge
that it is somewhat uncertain affai From
beating US five thousand, they have down
to less than half that figure. The mates
n of their shrewdest members we kl to be
Y reduced so materially, that the mere ement
: would be sufficient to prove their mis-
d giyings as to the result. Meanwhile friends
Il who were at first rather despondentcome
n more confident as the day of trial apches.
e The reaction that has taken place imani-
: testify and strongly in our favor, as hrrant
d the hope that even in Louisiana, re the
e party has encountered more onyend SLAM
n der, more groundless reproach, membit-
" tered hostility, and more malignantehood
It than in any other State in the Union shall
a achieve victory that will send ring to
every national American heart throult the
), land.-[Bee.
l. We clip the following from Baton
Rouge Comet, and we ask pcrusalt 1t
a tells the story, right out. This is Icracy.
N What think the Especial Committed such
y doings among the unterrlied?
= 4 CARD.
TO THE PUBLIC.
The undersigned, citizens of thty of