The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1852-12-30
New ORLEANS, Dec. 23rd 1852.


the festive season-temptng many an I'M
wary wight in the dotagc of love and of
age, to spend an odd V or perhapr C. to
the qualification OF some ung,atful and Co.
quetish mistress. or what is worse bevy
of uncombed urchins, who will awake by
peep o'day on the 25th, to realize in their
pIethoric stockings, the moon-struck mad
ness of the one or the Grand father White
headn love of the other. Twill be merry
sight on Christmas eve, to stroll along be-
tween the brilliant tenements of Chartre
street and witness the busy fathers, moth
ers, husbands, wives and old naids-addle
Drained lovers and superanuatcd beauxs,
chatting with the shopkeepers on the value
Of dolls, tin soldiers, jump jacks, trap balls,
neck -laces, rings, pins, breaches and the
thousan and one gincrsCks, that constitute
fitting present for the coming Christmas
day. All old time honored day beloved
! in the memory of every man and woman!
How mellow are the Ieccllections that min
gle with your annual return! Let US then
throw of the cunning visage of trade, and
speculation for this day, and join hand, with
the merry blooming throng that smile
around u.s. Let us be young again, and con-
jure back from their easements, the gay
dreems and happy customs OF our youthful
prime.
What pity it is, that men and women,
caunot be as light hearted, and US happy as
childhood and youth. But so it is, the
heart is wounded SO often by the arrows
of disappointment and misfortune, that It's
| thoughts all become mourners, standing
around the graves OF its buried hopes, aud
crushed anticipations. Happy the man
who preserves to himself second era OF
childhood with its flowers that blossom on
the brink Of the grave, from which he may
gather sweet garlands, to smile around HIM
as he waves his larSt adicu and steps into
eternity But this is hard to do in this
base and money gru5biug age. Every man
is now a Dr. Faustus--ready to sell himself
tot the arch enemey for worldly gear. AS to
wisdom alack the measure of wisdom is
the measure Of wrath and fae man who
shows himself capable of amazing the one
may set up an undsputed claim to the
other
Z see that Mrs Harriet Bucher Stowo's
novel Of Uncle Toms Cabin--has not only
been dramatizea and played with immense
success, before the paupers and white slaves
OF England, but thas been translated and
published TO the 9TH edition in Paris
Now is there no Court where an action
would lie against the misguided tcm,ni,e for
her wholesale libel on the honor of the
South p! MIST we sit down quietly and en-
dnre the unrestricted accommodation of a
fostering lic and unmigated SANDER, because
the har and the Sta,derey is a cunning, ed
ucated kilave in pettycoats, sheltered by
the .bulwarks of hypocracy ana ianaticism
IN the midst OF which, she with IMMUNITY
shifts forth the venom of her heart. mascu-
line IN depravty and unblushing mendacitya
Is there no remedy against such wholesale
defamation
The English people pride themselves
upon having liberated $50 900, 900 worth o
slaves-when we all ..iow that it was an
oppressive act of legislature that accom-
pllshed their uanurnission, and that the
owners Of the slaves are not and never
will be paid even the small stipend that
was accorded them by the vapory Swans
OF Westminster and st. James-whiIe the |
foundness of the policies in political point |
of view, is being doubted more and more |
every day-the miserable condition of the |
black in the Islands, made freemen b, this
stroke OF mere majority of POLITICIANS. is
now conclusive evidence that the manner
Of the thing, as well as the moral was based
in narrow minded ignorance on the one
hand and barbaric oWession and neglect on
the other. 1t is very convenient for such
power as England to creste any amount
of mere debt as this is iEs fact, and then for
its liquidation and interest to tax the feeble
pocket of its seris. VINO SO pS~ as the
serf of pbiIanthropic England! And yet
his hard and blood stained earnings must
be taxed to liquidate monstrous debt