The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1853-07-08
The Sugar Question.

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w. NOISE, United States District At
torney, for Louisiana appears in the
Visa Vas, Of yesterday, in answer,
to his literary prize essay published in
the True Delta, a short time since.
The extensive circulation of our US.
a. Vis contemporaries paper in this,
and the adjoining parish, and the
knowledge that the letter will find its
way into the New Orleans papers, is
our apology for not spreading it be-
fore our readers. The reply to the
Hon. Noises epistle is over the sigma
ture Of our friend, Col. Fl. w. Allen.
The Col. replies to the Hon. Mole in
behalf of the Sugar Planters, who had
the presumption and audacity to meet
in West Baton Rouge, and at Donald
sonville in Convention, without first
obtaining the Hon. District Attorney
Noises consent to do so. We take
the following extract, as it is deemed
sufficient apology for the Sugar
Planters.
"Why, Sir, no man dreamed that
your fastidious sensibilities would be
disturbed, or that your frothy vanity
would receive the slightest wound; we
thought that a gentleman Of your late
multifarious employments, gentleman
who had heretofore had his washing
done in the Parish of Plaquemines,
slept in Jefferson, drank his claret in
the Citizens Bank, and practiced law
in New Orleans, and electioneered
promiscously, largely and generally
all over the State, and now wants to he
the next governor thereof, we thought,
sir, under all these circumstances, you
would really be glad to receive the
assistance of even as humble an indi-
vidual as Randall Hunt in attending
to your duties as District Attorney of
the United States. But no, instead
of replying to the committee as any
modest man would have done, thank
ing them tor the assistance they had
you complain Of want of
etiquette, discourtesy, and evince a
bad heart, and an ugly temper.
Circumstances always alter cases.
We do not think in a controversy like
the present, where "court etiquette"
professional courtesy" and other ques-
tons of mere laac are being discussed,
that it is altogether right to suppose
case 'for argument. sake" We have
no doubt that under different causes of
action, different effects would have
resulted. Upon the Newtonian phil
osophy, it is established that similar
causes, invaribly produce similar re-
suits; this is applicable to physics"
but not to "ethics." Any problem in
ethical philosophy can be solved, by
the application of dollar marks and the
proper number Of figures; we do not
consequently think it fair to ask the
following questions /:
II ask you this question, and I call
upon every intelligent gentleman in
the State to answer it. If. when the
Sugar Planters of Louisiana called
their convention to employ consul to
assist you, they had passed this res
olution:
Resolved, THAT the sum of $4,000
be paid the assisting consul employed
in this case, and also the like sum of
$4,000 be paid to the Hon. E. Warren
Noise, District Attorney for the East
ern District of Louisiana then, sir,
would you have written on to head
quarters" for instructions, or would
you have brought about this silly and
disgraceful quarrel? No, sir, no.
Your wounded sensibiities would have
been healed by that soothing balm
that cnres the broken hearts of discon-
solate, but too con6ding maidens.
IAN honest mind to virtues precepts true"
can not only be made false, but true
again. Broken VOWS can be mended,