New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-10-15
Strange Article---Strnnge Taste.

Strange Article--strnnge Taste. ..
The ,subjoned article appeared in the New Orleans
Courier yesterday morning. Weread it with emotions
of surprise and regret. The Courier is the regular
accredited organ of the Buchanan Democracy of Lou
slana and we readily say that as general thing it
has maintained the dignity of its position as regards
courtesy and ability. ....
But the following article is sadly wanting in dig.
nity courtesy and ability In its whole length there
is mournful lack of all the elements which endow
journalism with either character or respectability
The illusions to the old line Wings we regard as out
OF place, to use the sotest phrase at our command
The old line Wings of New Orleans are among our
most respectable citizens, our prominent merchants
our leading property hoders-men who are always
foremost in advancing the interests and promoting the
| general prosperity of the CITY, Times have really
come 10 pretty pass when such men cannot hold a
public meeting in public street without being in
suited and ampooned by partisan newspapers
The old line Wings, however, need no defence at
our hands Neither does the political organization to
which we belong Hhas trumphed over the ferocious
SANDERS OF its enemies, and its past, its present and
its future, alike vindcate the integrity and patriotism
Of its members. 1t will continue to do what it has
done-live down caumny and Misrepresentation.
Here is the article from the Courier above referred
j to- ..
KNoW-SoTHISGs, WINGS, PUPPIES AND PIGS
Among the many stories told by stump speakers,
on both sides in every campaign there one SO good
and so applicable to old line Know Nothing hum
bugs calling themselves old line Wings, that we can
not refrain from telling it once more. negro was
sent by his master with present of three young
puppies OF pure pointer blood to a neighboring
friend. He stopped half way to take drink at a
roadside tavern and the practical Joker of the parish
nr,ipS tnF {,o IL
were being conveyed and put in three pigs. Cuffee
proceeded to his destination innocent of the change,
and when he attempted to deliver the puppies to his
masters friend, 10, and behold! they had turned to
pigs He started back in CONSERVATION and while he
stopped midway to console himself again, the joker
took out the pigs and replaced the puppies. So
when Cufee got home and told his master what had
occurred, he pulled out the marvellous pigs, and 10
exclamation was {" Fore God, massa, these things
am pigs or puppies, just as they dam please"
The old line know.N Nothing hunbug Wings of this
city are very much like Cufee's pigs and puppies.
They have called meeting tonight to ratity the
baltimore nomination of Fillmore and Donelson.
they have signed their names to the call. They are
nomination made, they say, by old line Whig con
vention. They are sedulousy going through the
motions of being old Wings and nothing else. Yet,
when we read the list of names attached, we find
Nothngs ever since they became party. With the
exception of few whose names are attached without
their authority, nearly all really Know-Noth-
lngs as if they belonged to lodge, brassknuckled
foreigners and damned the Pope and Catholics They
are quite as much Know Nothings as Sldell, Soule,
Mcknight or Noise are Democrats. They bel long to
that party and act with it. They endorse Donelson
though he has been lifelong opponent of the Wings
and steady maligner of Henry Clay. They obey that
party biddings through thick and thin. They are
| Known othings and nothing else, though some of
| them may not have taken the foul and un-Amercan
oath which binds together the lodgemembers of that
foul and un-Anlerican confederacy. Yet when they
| find it advisable to be old line Wings again. they
gravely go through the motions of an independent
on the ruins of the old Whgs and Donelson who has
spent his life in defamng them. They are pigs or
puppies, puppies OR pigs" just they dam please !"
Of course this sort of farce deceives nobody, and
is scarcely worth notice. except a matter OF Jest.
The absurd mpudence of the proceeding will disgust
far more of the few real Wings still remaining than
will mislead. That small but intelligent band will
stand by the principles of Clay, and vote for Bu-
chanan, as he would have voted had his life been
spared to this day.
The programme Of their meeting for tonight is said
to be already arranged At the risk of spelling it by
premature publication, we must give part of it as
contdentially rumored among the faithful. In the
midst OF some laundering Grafton, in which the
American Eagle divides his glory with the :" music
Of the Union, Glendy Burke is to step out on the
stage and request the orator to pause for moment.
The ancient but active Glendy,
The gay gran,sre skilled in sestic lore
| Who frsks beneath the burden Of three score,
is then with the same easy assurance with which he
proposes marriage to girl of sixteen, new busi
ness arrangement to an old endorser to read tee.
graphic dispatch announcing the defeat of the Demo-
Gratis in Pennsylvania The enthusiasm at this tee-
graphic and Gendy -Burkian victory of the combined
forces of Fillmore and Fremont is expected to rise so
high that all Southern Wings will be drawn into the
| whirlpool and retained there until the November
election. The honesty Of the movement being guar
anteed by Glendy, and its Southern rights aspect
being witnessed by the participation in it of Fremont
who was born in the South, it is confidently expected
that every Southern Wing will be so eated that he
will be ready, not only to endor;c Fillmore and Don
eson, but to vote for Fremont if necessary to aid the
glorious coalition in Pennsylvania in defeating Bu-
| chanan.
So things go. All the Wing Know w.Nothngs, pigs
or puppies, puppies or pigs seem to have the most
unbounded confidence in the intrinsic stupidity of the
people. We think otherwise. We believe that the
people feel for these i'll the dead lions skin the
same contempt that the more intelligent of the
nlers feel for themselves and each other Yet few
days and we shall see which is right.
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ELECTION IN FLORInA.-We clip the following from
the Columbus (Ga) Enquirer, Of the llth inst. 1t
contains some later retirns from Florida than we
have yet had, besides comparative statement of the
votes in 1854, which will prove interesting. The En-
Quiler says:
We give such reported returns have reached 'ls,
comparing them with the vote for Representative to
Congress in 1854, when Maxwell, Dem, had 1924
votes. and Brown Wing, 1870. in the entire State
majority for Maxwell lois. The following are the re-
turns 50 far us received:
Dnval county Jacksonville, etc., gives the whole
American ticket majority of about 200 votes. In
1854 Brown had 10 majority.
Leon comfy gives the Democratic candidate for
Governor about IS majority, and the Democratic
dlatc for Congress about LIS. In 1854 Maxwell had
50 majority.
Jackson county is reported by the Times and Sent-
uel as giving - OF 50 majority for the American
ticket. In 1854 Brown had 10 majority in 1852 Ca
bell (Wlig.) had about 100 majority.
E1scanlbia county has given Is majority for the
Democratic ticket, In 1854 it gave the same party Is
majority
4 rc&apitulaton gives the following comparison of
1856 with 1854
m'yf1 DEM. W1ig @ls;iH y7y1' XmrT,
nnvnl. ....--.... = 10
lHckann ,-+....s.... U ID
E>canriH. Ii 5
Tonl. ...,,.....,. lDi 90 ltal 80
i Showing an American gain Of over 200 votes in
these four counties.
TIE GRAND FILLMORE RALLY AT LvNCHRuRG, VA
The lynchburg Virgnian has the following in regard
to the Union demonstration which took place i'll that
city OIL the llth inst