The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-08-21
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Friday Morning, ii. August lp, 1853.
Parfl.ColOred virtue.

I@ which we know for certain That we
|M shall tread I'll The toes Of great many
M persons who have slept In security
II from the shafts Of we cannot say
|M envy and malace-but criticism. In
Ill this. A. In every other matter we lay
@ hold of. there are a great many who
will cry out Oh psrusal Of this article,
shat the subject i ofie with which the
AJom,t has no right To NEEDLE.
A good many Of the blood kin Of
Mrs Darlington. will exclailn in pious
horror a,vell declare, what is IL that
that meddlesome newspaper, does not
net hold Of" allow did ID make the
discoverv that hibtids are daily being.
produced, that are e,lnuchs IN the soci-
al circle. and nondescripls in the poll
n ticalr ~ To the answer of this ques-
ton, we ask the people Of this place,
(Which Is a very good representation Of
the morality Of the state) to look about
them. We have a gentleman at our
elbow who is enumeraiing the num-
Der Of white men IN this community
who are openly living in public places
with ebony eelored members Of a DIFF
ferent race the last resort, and only
substitute for wives. We are not SO
scrupelotss in these matters, IA many
peraons are. and are only called Oh to
speak Of them, as they affect the mor-
ala of the community, for good or
evil
Any two persons Of opposite sex we
hold, have d right--natural aud there
fore divine To fall in love with one an
other, and by mutual consent marry.
We do not pretend to account for
'tastc II Il il matte. for which there
are No rules Of government, and as
diversified az the two millions Of
"rhtsses" that inhabit this continent
A white man, free and untrammelled
ia his sovereign viii, has right to take
an Esquemauy. or a Squaw Of the
Choctaw tribe, or even one Of the
Crccles Of Dahomy Ia Central Africa,
for his wife, but 1t Ia bad rule that
doesn't work beth ways, and why net
permit the opposite sex to blend
their blood IN the pure fountain Of the
Anglo-sason We ask the question,
because the result ia the Same. Let
VA look about US, l. there anything
mere revolving to our notions of NOR
atty. than that man who Ia able to
pay eight or ten dollars for the hire
Of a slave, should force her TO become
his wife, whilst the owner winks at 1t.
under the prospect Of an increase, in
the value ofAis personal property.
Il not this q state Of things that
calls for reformation We think SO,
and did they not exist to an alarming
eStent in our midst to the knowledge
every member Of this community we
would not speak of them. The free
cclcrea population Of this parish is
large, industrious and respectable
We never hear Of any disturbances
from the,n--they are quiet. sober, and
good citizens. But how DO thcv stand
towards us In apolitical point Of view-l
They are taxed At every hand 70 sup
port INSTITUTIONS II which they have
no participation; and this is not only
contrary to the constitution of the
United States, but against the very
spirit Of our religion. Its either right
or wrong ifwrong some remedy should
be sought and the evil corrected If
tits possible to do 50, 1t is not only
denoraiising, but degrading in the
extreme; affecting the very best H.
tercAtA az society. so ,nueh so TIA,