The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-07-01

natural and social relations. have .
right, inalienable. to manage their owl
affairs, without tho Interference O
any foreign Prince or Protentate.
A CHAPTER FOR THE PEACE SocrE
rY.-The following beautiful para
graph is from the pen Of Douglas Jer
roh. It contains the true sentiment
Of the holy and heavenly philosophy
of Jesus Christ, so often violated by
what are self-called Christian nations
The man who marches into the field
of war to destroy his fellow-beings il
but one degree removed from the
murderer; and when he calls on Heav.
en- to lead him to victory he simply
'blasphemes the Most High whose laws
he violates. There is no other animal
in the sublunar sphere. so barbarous.
beastly and cruel as man. All Of
what has been wrongly denominated
christian warfare has been instigated
by none other than the devil himself.
Selfdefence is just and proper; and it
is right for man to rise in his strength
and throw off the yoke of oppression !;
but what are nine wars out of ten
waged for, if it be not to crafty am
bition, or force ignorant people into
the wrong road to heaven? Hear
what Mr. Jerrold says in reference to
military pomp and action
This dazzling heathenism that
makes a pomp Of wickedness-seizes
and distracts US at the very threshold
of life. Swords and drums are our
playthings; the types Of violence and
destruction are made the pretty play
things of our childhood and as we grow
older, the outward magni6cence Of the
orgre, Glory-bis trappings and his
trumpets, his privileges and the songs
that are shouted in his praise, enslave
the bigger baby to the sacrifice. But
for craft operating on ignorance,
who in the name of outraged Heav.
en-, would become the hire]ing of the
sword? Day by day the SER
geant works on the block p|oughman,
and at last carves out true, hand
some soldier Of the line. What knew
Hodge Of the responsibility Of man J?
What dreams of the accountability Of
the human spirit? The musket-stock
which for many an hour he hugs-hugs
in weariness-was no more party to
its present use than was Hodge.
Is not the humanity that refuses to
strike, nobler virtue than the late
born piety ofviolence? Pretty it is to
see the victor with salvc and lint
kneeling at his bloody trophy-a
manned and agonized fellow-man; but !
surely it had been better to have with
held the blow, than to have been FIRST
to be afterwards humane.
Bridg ovey the BaYou Lafou1che.
The committees of the police jury
Of Lafourche and the corporation Of
Lafourche, says the Vigilant. have &C.
,epted the tender of Messrs. Maxwell,
Briggs & Co., to build bridge over
he Bayou Lafourche for SIT, 900. It
will be POP feet in length, and is to
,pen 100 feet to allow of the naviga.
ion Of the bayou. The carriage way
s to be IA feet wide, and there is to
De but one foot-path, 4 feet wide.
The EASTERN CHURCHES AND THE
JuuRcH OF RoME.-Among the late
TENS Of forei gn news, one Of the most
is the announcement, in the
Paris Constitutional, that Prince
Icon, Of Armenia, is expected at
Rome, where he is to negotiate with
he Pope the reconciliation of the
Eastern Church with that of Rome"
If course by the Eastern, is meant the
Armenian church, to which the inAu-
nee of Prince Leon is exclusively
onfned. .
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