The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-11-15
The Election.

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Madison Wells has received q major
ity Of the very snail vote that has
been cast in the State. II the eaec.
ton vas legally called, or if it is to
be ratified if called illegally, he may
be considered the governor Of the
State for whatever term of years his
sycopbants who make and unmake
constitutions at will, may see fit to
determine. 1.-The is the great patriot,
profound statesman and immaculate.
~ honest citizen his admirers profess
to believe him, which his neigh
bors in this parish have been unable
to see, and have persistently refused
to believe, for the last twenty years,
we should not be surprised if the next
"Constitution" should invest him with
dictatorial powers for life, with the
right of perpetual succession in his
family. Already his paid organ has
informed us Of the wonderful exploits
to be performed by i,im--such as the
reorganization Of Louisiana, the re-
establishment Of slavery, the payment
of the price of the liberated slaves,
the cure Of the cholera, and the ban
ishment Of the yellow fever-and we
should not be at all surprised if he
should wind up bis astonishing ad-
ministration with the discovery Of the
philosophers stone or the Elixir Of
life. We look with the most intense
interest to the commencement Of his
work, and are not 80 faithless as to
apply to him the ordinary rules Of
logic, and believe that be will do
nothing, as he has hitherto done moth
ing, while the governors Of the other
States-whom we must take to be
the veriest Of pigmies when compared
to him-have already done every
thing that his admirers claim that be
is going to do.
When we look back on the past
canvass we can see nothing in it that
should cause US to regret the course
we pursued. From the moment that
Governor Wells demonstrated his i'm.
becility and utter incapacity to do
anything for tue regeneration Of the
State, towards whose abasement he
and his small faction had done so
much, we opposed his farther reten-
ton in Office. If no candidate had
been presented against him the peo-
pie Of Rapides, who have known him
SO long, and who have gfodges
against him which time can never eff.
face, determined that he should not
receive q majority in bis native par.
ish, even if they had to beathim with
blank tickets. When, therefore, the
name of their late loved and honored
chief magistrate was presented to the
people they rallied to his support and
gave him a handsome majority. They
did not stop to enquire who nomina-
ted him, or whether be would accept
the position if elected. They knew
that, no matter how he was brought
ont, or what might be the issue Of the
election, he would feel proud at re-.
ceiviog their suffrages, aud that it
would cheer his heart in his exile to
know that the friends for whose veal
he had labored had not permitted his
good deeds to fade from their memo.
~. Their enthusiasm in his support
was quickened by the ungrateful
course Of men whom they had q right
to believe his friends, and by the ma
lignant attempts Of his hireling enc
mics to blacken his name, and as
|perse his spotless character. The
corrupt squad Of politicians at New
Orleans, not content with revealing
in their own filth and corruption,
busted themselves with scattering it
abroad and bespattering the purest
of men and the devoted friends who
supported him. These things have
sunk deep into the hearts Of the peo-
pie Of Louisiana, and though the hire
ling penny-a-liners, and treasury.fed
oficeholders denounce their favorite
as an alien enemy and q criminal,
and his supporters as traitors and
factionists, they are determined to
persist in their treason and to main.
tain their organization until his per-
secutors have been driven from pow