New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-07-15
IN A SNARL.

It is quite evident to our mind that the antiDavd
son Democrats Of the Third Congressional District
have got themselves into snarl from which they will
End it npracticable to extricate themselves without
infinite modification, if not positive disgrace In the
first place, they were wrong. In the second place,
they appeared, both in and out of Convention, to
manifest greater desire to involve one man in po-
tical ruin than they did for the success of the party
to which they professed right loyal allegiance In
the third place. after having been fairly beaten IN
Conyention--their detested enemy having received
the requisite majority to eDtitle him to the nomina
tionthey not only bolted the Convention, its nom-
nee all the usages Of all the parties that have existed
for the last quarter Of century, but they actually
went home to their constituents, who had invested
With authority to nominate, but not to bolt, and
proclaimed that the regularly chosen candidate would
and ought to be defeated that they would not sustain
him, and that another Convention must be called or
ruin would overtake the party.
of course the shrewd, active friends of Davidson,
were not slow in exposing these
departures from invariabe party usage in calling
the attention Of the masses of the Democracy to the
telling, significant fact that the leading opponents of
Davidson willing, if not anxious, to leopard the
cause, if they could thereby wreak Unsuitable ven
geance upon an individual who happened to be per-
sonally obnoxious to them And, as necessary con-
sequence their explanation of the fairness of the
manner in which the Convention was conducted, and
their exposure of the motives of the enemies of the
nominee created feeling in his favor that would not
have had existence otherwise and made him friends
even among the most lukewarm.
Rumored defectons in the Democratic party, Of
most tremendous proportions, on account OF the
nomination Of Mr.. Davidson, have been ndustriously
circulated throughout the District and State; and
prominent among the engines brought to bear to
aid the circulation Of these rumorss were certain
metropolitan presses. According to the reports
alluded to- rebellion was breaking out everywhere;
but the result has shown that mech of it was paper
rebellion although it cannot be denied that the sue
cessful attempt to force Davidson upon the people
again. and make his party vote for him for Congress-
oens rolens has created intense dissatisfaction with
hundreds Of Democrats. The parish Of Pointe
Coupee was represented to be thoroughly disorgan-
lied; and it was currently reported and published
that two hundred Democrats had signed call for q
public meeting to repudiate the nomination. We
never saw the call, and have yet to meet the man
who has seen it. Still, there was row in Pointe
Coupee--a small row. It came off on Thursday last,
9th inst, in the Courthouse. But no two hundred
indignant Democratic sgners appeared mo one humid
red and ffty-no one hundred no yenty-fve-and
no fifty. According to the Bayou Sara Ledger Of the
1lth-which paper contains graphic account of the
proceedings" twenty-five, and no more, disorgan-
izers, met at the hour of II o'clock, A. NJ. What
lame and impotent finale to a thunderingly an
nounced demonstration! If the antiDavidsonians
Of Ponte Coupee cannot do better than this, selfre
spect should induce them to hang up their political
fiddles and should lead them to avoid, hereafter,
going in at the big, and coming ont at the little end
of the horn. So far they have made derisively
small show in the way Of opposition.
As things now stand, or are likely to stand, the
election of Judge Watterston in the Third District is
fact as firmly fixed anything to be effected by
the contingencies of the future can be- If the anti
Davidsonians call a new Convention and nominate
another candidate, defeat awaits them, for Davidson
will not decline or back out And, if they conclude
to endure the evils they know much Of rather than
risk encountering others they know nothing about,
they will still be defeated for sufficient numbers of
their rank and file to defeat the old wheel horse
are SO much dissatisfied with him that they nei
ther be persuaded coaxed nor dragooned into his