The victors re-assembled in the big room, somewhat diminished in numbers (even after the accession of the Unionists) and dilapidated in attire. Travis, who had been foremost throughout the whole row, bore especial marks of it on his person. His coat was slit down the back, and _minus_ several buttons in front; his cravat utterly missing, and his shirt, so much of it as was visible, might possibly have made patches for a rifle, but was of no particular value as an article of dress. But such little incidents only served to increase the general hilarity of triumph. The meeting was reconstructed, the resolutions passed, and they wound off with a Harrison song--in fact, with two or three. It was near midnight before the walls of the Masonic Hall ceased to echo to such strains as these:-- To turn out the administration Is the very best thing we can do; 'Twill be for the good of the nation To put in old Tippecanoe. _Chorus all._ Hurrah for old Tippecanoe--oo--oo! Hurrah for old Tippecanoe! 'Twill be for the good of the nation To put in old Tippecanoe! Notwithstanding the very demonstrative character of the row, no lives were lost or bones broken. Even Lloyd, though sadly trodden on by both parties after his fall, sustained no serious injury, nor did the combat of the cousins give rise to any permanent difficulty between them. The registry law was passed some weeks after, to the great disgust of the Loco-Focos, eight or nine hundred of whose voters were thereby placed on the list of unavailables. FOOTNOTES: [3] It is a mistake to suppose that the presidential election is _always_ attended with great excitement. Monroe literally walked over the course for his second term. Martin Van Buren's election passed off very quietly; and General Taylor's, being taken almost as a matter of course, was accompanied by no extraordinary demonstrations. [4] Now more than 600,000. [5] This _sobriquet_, at first applied to a small fraction of the New-York democrats, which fraction afterwards absorbed the whole party, had its origin in the following incident: A quarrel occurring at Tammany Hall (the head-quarters of the democracy), the majority moved an adjournment, and, to make sure of it, put out the lights. The recusants, in anticipation of some such step, had provided themselves with _lucifer matches_, and, by their aid, re-lit the lamps, and continued the meeting. Lucifers were then called loco-focos--why, no one knows; the name was probably invented by some imaginative popular manufacturer of the article; and the appellation of _Loco-Foco party_ was proposed in derision, for this small band of seceders; who, however, in time, brought over the original majority to their views. Hence the Whigs continued to apply the contemptuous designation to the whole democratic or radical party.