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BATON ROUgE,a.sEPT 10, 1856.


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one Of the great political gatherings Of
hinge orators to address the people. a
generous posterity will not damn our
reputation (won at so much cos') for
The oversight. Our apology or rsth-
Or excuse for the sin Of omission, must
be found ii the fact, that great meet"
ipgs Of great men; At which great
speeches arc made, are 30 common,
that they have failed 70 furnish any
pi.b. point or variety out Of which a
column Of readable matter can-by
any mode Of twisting be made. In
deed there iss positive ssmeness about
tbem--which renders them as stale az
4 twice told tale. or AZ silly as the fetes
Of a mountehank. after We have dis
covered ,hs, be slips the sword up bis
sleeve and does not swallow 1t.
There was still another Of these in
serestipg meetings at the Ccur, House
IN this city. on Tuesday night. ct
which Field Marshal, Phil. Winfree
aud bis Excelepcy, the Governor Of
the State, each took q rifle. The ap-
plause was great In The loud parts Of
COL. Winfree q speech tbefore bic voice
cracked) we bad serious fears for the
foundation of venerable Red Stick,
and they we're only removed when we
got back into the moopshiue and found
The houses aud things all standing just
~ they were, before tho Col. opened
that poetical mouth Of bis. Of Col
Wiofree's speech, we shall only do up
The jnggered points. lie opened With
(as be said) the language Of the late
Mr.. Webster, about n couple Of yes
sells. Whether they were regular ships
o'the line .mscks or chicken thieves
The Col. failed to tell us. This. how.
ever, 10 Of no Importance. The hon
est, the good The true; the pure, the
perfect, the patriotic Old Line Whit
party. Was one Of these vessels, and thu
trauscerdeu'ally honest and vi'tuou'
Democratic" party (of which Col
Winfree 10 in close atlinity---by virtue
Of tha adhesive properties Of the al
traction Of gravitatiou) was the other
A hideous monster.--witb hiddet
faugs--a regular downright secret or
rapisation had reared its head ant
like a giant sea-serpant---or an "els
plant with two tails" IAN original fig
ure Of the Goyernor's) was about I,
swallow up the two trading vessel
aforesaid. But no, the IN ,uster conldn'
do TITO he couldn't. Democracy wa
too strong. The pure, the unadultera
ted Democracy, of which Col. Wiuf'e
10 such an eloquen, exponent--is nc
10 DO swallowed in this way. Th
Colonel here INDUCED in meiitc
strain Of abuse for The Know Notbin
party" Of which he was 90 long n
hpnored and respected member.
occurred to US when the Col had al
ceuded to the top of his voice, ho'
vastly to the interest Of the 4. N pa
" it would be, had Col. Wiufree bee
nominated for the office Of State 81
perintendent Of all the education
this great State Of unbushipg dem'
cogues. We thought to ourself wh'
a beautiful race Col. Winfree woul
have made with General Bard W
believe strongly in the former. b
should have bet on the latterin such
race, could we find any one to loan Il
money without interest. Col. Winfr
informed US that the death knell
midnight assassinism was sounded
Virginia BY the election Of Mr.. Wis
Here he was in measu,e--right, t
about this time. himself. aud sund
other gentlemen of the same ilk, su
denly found out that they were on tt