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cratic Association of New Orleans; showsup some of the corruptpractices of the Whigs in that city.

 ry,,s ,., NEw ORLEANS, July 10. 4s44. 1oIhe Editor of tie NasAoilte J5aion.

 oiR:-As many contradictory and false r,- mors have been circulated by the Whig press of thls city, and the country generally. in re- gard to the recent Elections in this State. and TOT t, the purpose of intimidating and depressing the democracy of the different States now on the eve of their elections, have deemed it my duty, as the organ of the Louisiana Demo- cratlc Association, to furnish you the follow Ing plan statement of the facts, whereby you will see the Democracy have gained an unpre- cedented victory in the State.

 The parish of Orleans, including the city of Newsorleans, IS represented by ten members Tn the Leglslature-there are in that parish a majority ofat least ONE THOUSAND DEM OCRAfS-it would not be considered extra yagant HERE to say TWO THOUSAND. 4 large number of these are deprived of the right oi suffrage by the property qualification condltlon-whjcb wiH soon be reformed bu the Conoentionn! when nothing but suitable residence, to protect us from the fanatical abolltionists, will constitute the conditions upon which every free white male citizen of the U. States will be entitled to vote.

 Among the thousand Democratic majority. mentioned above, are large number of natn- rallzed citizens, who were naturalized in the City Court of Lafayette, Judge Elliott presi- ding, which IS legally constituted Court of Record, and having seal which, according to the acts of Congress, is fully authorized and entitled to naturalize aliens.

 When the preparations waxed warm last year-prevlous to the elections of this year both parties sent large number of aliens to Judge Elliott's Court to be naturalized. In the course of events the Wings discovered that the Democrats had naturalized three to their one; and even of those they themselves had naturallzed, large number were Demo- crats in disguise.

 They immediately set about nullifying the whole system--they impeached Judge Elliott, who IS himself a whole hog Whig, and made 1t manifest that he had actually naturalized nineteen Whigs, sent by the Clay Club, with out fulfilling the necessary stipulatious of the Naturalization laws, and they thinking it profitable speculation to lose the three hun dred nataralized votes they had made, if they could thereby annihilate one thousand demo- cratic votes, (naturalized under the auspices ot the Democratic Association, at once de- clared, that they would never again receive a single vote from any citizen naturalized in Judge Elliott's Court, thus, at one fell swoop, dlsfranchlslng at least two thousand men who have been naturalized in that Court during the last three years.

 The Democrats of course resisted this high handed act of oppression, and at the last elec- ton for State Senator refused to receive any votes unless the Elliott votes were received they were finally received, and we elected Mir. Thomas Slidell (the brother of our Con- gressman, by upwards of four hundred major ity. This alarmed the whigs, and at the late election in April for Mayor, General Coun- cil and Aldermen, they barricaded the doors of the various precincts, and kept men under arms the whole day in the 2d Munich pality. The result was, that the Democratic Mayor, MT. Edgar Montegut, who was elected by the whole city, and eight democratic members of the General Council, who were elected in the lst and Sd Municipalities, (where the Elliott votes were received were elected. While in the 2d Municipality, where the Elliott votes were rejected, and where most stringent Whig despotism prevails, eleven out oftwelve Whig Aldermen were elected.

 At the late elections for members of Con- gress, members of the Legislature, and dele gates to the Convention to reform the State Constitution, the Whig Judges in the 2d Mu- nlcipalitv, as usual, refused to receive the FL liott votes; the Democratic Judges (there be- ing one of each,) refused to receive any votes unless the Elliott votes were received. This estopped the election in the lstand 2d Wards What did the Wings do, think you They opened another box on their own hook in the 2d or strongest Whig ward, presided over only by their Whig Judges, and in that they received all the votes they chose to receive and rejected all they chose to reject TAe consequence was, that in the spurious Whig box they obtained nominal Whig majority of from two to three hundred

 Now, therefore, if the Wings preponder- ate in the Legislature, yeti know as well as do what justice we may expect from a Whig Legislature, we may set it down for certain that they will count the contents of this spurious and unprecedentedly obtained majority as so many just and legal votes; but if we have majority of single man in the Legislature, they will reject with scorn and contempt the foul and spurious majority obtained in the Whig box of the Second Ward of the 2d Municipality, and thus the whole ten Democratic members of the Leg islature will take their seats from this parish, which will make our majority ill the lower house eight; for be it remembered we elected three members in spite of and over the con- tents of the Whig box.

 The same circumstances will obtain in the Convention: we elected in the city five dele gates to the Convention, in spite ofand over the contents of the Whig box; and as we have majority of eight in the Convention, they will of coHrsg reject the contents of the spurious Whig box, (two or three hundred') and thus we will have majority of from 4ftoo, to twenty in the Convention. the