New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-09
TIE ELECTION.


The election Of Monday passed of in all respects
sotisfaotorilv to those who have no other desire
than that Of aiding in the restoration q the
to her natural and constitutional rights We speaA
of the election in general terms, because, alno"e
we have yet to hear fpQm the maJoTlsy Y M ,t,e
rior marshes there can be little il any doubt OF te
yas,it y, ,1on, In fact. It was only in this city
aa ,,ar;sb tbot serious opposition to the National
Democratic party was offered Inc issue mas been
t,iod bcra and. The cause Of national rights has
triumphed, notwithstanding the most cunningly
devised and energetically pressed endeayors
to defeatit. Nowhere else throughout the State
oan any such circumstances have existed as did in
this city, to encourage hope of success against
the profound yearning Of the people for such a
manifestation of confidence in the President as
shall encourage and support him and the
National Democratic party throughout the country
in their struggle to thwart and defeat those who
would hold the Southern States as subjugated and
tributary satTapies, without protection or repre-
sentation, And on the strength of the result in
this city and in the few parishes yet heard from
We feel abundantly JUSTIFIED in congratuating our
readers as for the whole State. And this could
not, by reasonable men, have been expected to be
more triumphant for The cause we advocate.
Now that the contest is over, it would not per
haps be in good taste to review all the efforts
made to defeat the National Democratic party.
TODD SO, might excite unpleasant, if not bitter
feelings; and we cannot see that it would produce
any good But it may be allowed US to express
the hope that we may never again witness sach
singular defections and such ineongruous oomolna-
ons as certainly took place in this city at the late
election, against the party whose sole and great
object is to restore Louisiana to the Union under
the Constitution and Laws, and her people conse
quently to their rights. We hope never again
to see portion of those whose political existence
IL dependent on tie success Of the policy Of Pres
4 dent johnson and Of the principles which it
involves, arrayed in hostility to the regular Dem
ocratic organization The defeat they have sus-
tanned ought to teach them the futility of efforts
! made even under such peculiar circumstances.
we have not much doubt that it will; and that we
/ shall in future find the mass of the people work
ing in harmony for the great and good cause Of
the State, and the opposition confined to the few
radical spirits who would support our eppressors
against Us, for the sole purpose and with the sole
hope of aggrandizing themselves and their mis-
guided, unprincpled and reckless partisans
They, Of coarse, will always exist; but we hope
and believe that they have made their last serious
exhibition in the State of Louisiana.
During the canvass we said but little upon the
merits Of the candidates selected by the Nationa
Democratic party. We are now free to say thai
as whole they were as well selected as could be
expected. It is idle to suppose that such selec
tons can please all in personal point Of view
but in political respect they ought to be accepted
by those who profess to belong to party organiza
tons. In this latter sense alone, indeed can they
some cases be acquieseed in forit is impossible
that each member Of the body polite should BIZ
acquainted with the actual merits and claims O
those selected for nomination. These are chosen
and proposed by those who do know them, and
under the best form known to our government, are
made the choice of those who represent the party
in whose behalf they are nominated.
may be natural for inexperienced or over
weening candidates, and for some others, tt
heso overcome by their disappointment in no
obtaining coveted nominations, as to lead them tt
believe that they have been unfairly dealt by
and in the weakness of human nature it is not diff
cult in such cases to make a seemingly stroni
lshowing. But, as there are two sides to ever,
picture 50 when the suspicious and charges allege
are examined under evidence from the other side
tits seldom indeed, that they can be fully estah
lished. In short even in politics. as in other mat
ters the devil is generally painted backer than hi
Isl and for this reason it is that experienced mel
belonging to party, no matter what may be thei
disappointment, generally acquiesce in its deci
sions, while those who do not are held to be fol
! the future unworthy Of party confidence. This i
the sense in which we say that the nominations Of
| the Democratic party were such as ought to have
been held, the result Of the election shows they