Gazette and sentinel., 1860-08-25
OUR CAUSE is ONWARD!

The great Mass Meeting Of the Democracy
on Canal street in New Orleans on Thursday
night last proves that a spirit Of enthusiasm,
the precursor of victory, is animating the
breasts Of our Democratic brethren Of the
Crescent City. For this great, animated and
successful display Of Democratic earnestness
and strength-this hand. writing on the wall"
to the Bell and Everett followers-we are
mainly indebted to the Young Democracy,
who in this canvass, in the rural districts as
a mong the crowded thoroughfares Of our
commercial emporium, appear to be taking
the wind ont Of the sails" of the older politi-
clans. Although not so well satisfied with
the comparative inertness and idleness which
have up to this time, as a general thing, cha.
a~cterized the "oid warehouses" Of the Demo-
cratic camp in this State. yet We have renew.
ed hopes aud feel unusually animated in wit
Messing the efforts Of the ''young heads" in
the cause Of the Union, of States and Con.
stitual rights-and who, in politics and in
love, as in war, rarely fail Of achieving a vic.
tory. And why should not the young men
turn out and take the lead in support of John
C.. Breckinridge2 He is himself q young
man-one whose heart is buoyant with patri-
otto impulses, and pure "a the virgin gold in
every sentiment true to manhood and to the
institutions of his country, and who presents
in his W person and history the noblest ex.
ample Of the age for the aspiring American
youth.
We say then to our Democratic brethren in
lberville and elsewhere-be of good cheer,
Louisiana is all right The young men of
the State, who, freest from selfish motives
and influences, are ever quickest in discern
ing the cause Of justice and of right, are with
us and for Us, and we all know the prestige
of youthful ardor and enthusiasm-as resist
less as the mountain cataract. They are, in
the city, acting with a courage and unanimity
which gives guarantee of a noble victory in
| November.
Apart from this, we have become a~cauain-
ted with facts. relative TO the state of ceiling
in the Third and Fourth Congressional Dis
tTicts, which warrants US in saying that the
camp-fires Of the true Democracy in those
districts were never brighter, and that in No.
vemoer their Democratic sons will send greet.
ing to New Orleans a majority of some eight
thousand votes! Let Assumption, forgetting
her time-honored principles in the past, 90
for Douglas if she wishes. Let Ascension fy
OFT in a tangent after false gods, if she choose,
and ORLEANS and Jefferson poll their 3. 900
majority for Bell and Everett, Uhe largest that
the unprejudiced calculate upon,) If thew
win-still, the country will come manfully to
the rescue. These facts, instead of producing
a lack of zeal, should nerve every Democrat
to be even more energetic than if the result
was doubtful, that we may show our Brock.
inridge and Lane friends in other narts of
the Union what the Democrats of Louisiana
can do, when their "dander is up" for the
Constitution and the Equality of States.
The miserable forgery, coming Just upon
the heels of the great Democratic meeting in
New Orleans, that Mr.. Breckenridge had con.
suited his friends relative to Withdrawing his
name from the canvass, shows the desperate
strait in which opponents find themselves,
and the miserable ''Roorbachs" which their
fears and their reckless system of electioneer.
ing, as their lack Of political integrity, force
them to resort to, to seduce from our ranks
the weak and the volatile. We call upon our
fellow Democrats everywhere to put no faith
in those miserable inventions of the enemy.
which may be expected from time 10 time, for
the purpose of weakening the only candidate
who has any chance of beating back the sur.
ges OF Black Republicanism and saving the
Union and the country from dissolution and
anarchy. If the star of Breckenridge sinks.
that of Lincoln will assuredly risel Ponder
upon this, Louisianians-it is as inevitable as