New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-09-23
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The editor Of the Richmond Madison parish Jour
nal is evidently confonnded, astounded and nearly
dumbfounded at the recent election in Maine IN his
Issue Of the 18th, he says !: HI s5S Ii
Republicans have swept everything before Them elsctng Ham
IN By sss than md h S sg saasv
Tho black tide Of anaticism and dsnen but where We're hs
Sey 70 over 70 He enemy did they from the field with
the resolve that ruin should follow they could not carry off all
We are not astonished at the establishment of our
Richmond cotemporary He has reason to be as.
tonished We fancy that his words do not fully da-
gue1eotype his sensations for the simple reason that
the language is nadequatet to Justice to the occa.
sion He evidently feels like the chap who, in con
sequence Of his cavortings got knocked through
door, counter and sretcheda at full length upon
the floor. Upon rising he asked in tremulons tones
"Isanybody killed? Did the lightning strike anybody
else?
In answer to our cotemporary's heterogeneous, we
beg to call his attention to one significant fact A
little more than year ago the Democratic party in
Maine polled over fortyeight thousand votes the
last election that same party polled only some twenty
four thousand votes Here is loss Of fifty per cent
Now we respectfully submit that the editor Of the
Journal had better ascertain and communicate to the
public, what has become Of onehaf Of his own army
before he INDUCES too profusely in heterogeneous
speeding the forces of the opposition If he hasn't
as much as he can attend to in his own camp, we will
acknowledge to great error in judgment.
Where have the twenty-four thousand Democrats
that were on hand last year, and 'came up missing
this year, gone to? That's the question.
Ina succeeding paragraph the Journal says that
the Democratic party neuer fuses Nth abolition
ism, or any other ISM This is formidable assump
ton, and it warranted by the facts, would tel
strongly in favor Of the party to which cotempo
rary belongs. Inresponse, we have only to ask wha1
has become Of the missing twentyfonr Thousand
Democrats before alluded to? The Journal must 10
cate them before we consent to answer questions
If the Richmond Journal is astounded because o
the defeat of the Buchanan Democracy in Maine, W.
don't know what will become Of it when it learns,
it will in about three weeks of the utter, overwhelm
ing and rremediable rout of the Buchanan tickets il
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana! Astounding
won't be d proper word then. Some other term vii
| have to be coined. ta# ~
As lovers Of the South, the Constitution and tn
Union-not as partisans-we feel more and more en-
couraged day by day. We see light and safety an
peace ahead, triumphing in the distance. All tina
Fote VI I'LL
South in favor of Willard Fillmore, is that the Souti
ern people should know the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth, viz: that the struggl
North is exclusively confined to Fillmore and Ere
mont, and that Buchanan is but noninay in the race
This great fact will be demonstrated by the result
the October elections in the Free States. The b
chanan tickets will be defeated in the whole of them
and then the Southern voters, without distinction
party, will that the selection lies between til
"Mode President" and the Freesoiler Fremont
Who then can doubt their choice ? Why, we ez
pect our friend of the Journal to be advocating Fill
more's claims before the first Monday in November.
is Just as good a Southern man as we are, and whe
the alternative is submitted to him. as it will be- wi
experience no difficulty in arriving at proper cor
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