The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-04-01
.coRREs RoNDENcE.
M ORLEANS March s7th, lset

COMES RQNOENCka
| NJ ORLEANS March. 18th, lssk
Dear Comet Before his real e
you, the telegraph VII hase infos y
you Of The result oftbe municipa1slec
ton which took place here yesterday
Gen, J. L. Lewis, has been electee
lby about $500 inajotity over fCl
| BTeedloye. bis competitor for th,
Office Of Mayor It IS an old saying
that straws show which. way the wine
blows, and Scott declares that looming
events cast their shadows before.
From the vote polled yesterday in
this city, one can get a very clear idea
Of the strength Of the reform party,
and the excitement during the day
was quite sufficient to bring out the
entire strength ofboth parties. Now,
if you compare ye,terdays vote with
that cast at the election last fall, and
take into consideration the fact that
at that time a large portion of our
legal voters were out OF the city, and
that they are now in the city, the con-
clusion is irresistible, that immence
frauds were perpetratcd then, which
have been prevented now. Again, it
is charged that the society called the
"kuow nothings," are Native Ameri-
cans, both tin principle and in aim,
land see no harm Of being a native
Of this glorious country, do you p and
although they have been organized
but yesterday as it were, and Of course
could not act with any great degree
Of unity and dccipline, still they have
effected almost q complete revolution
in the city government. 1t is not de-
MED that the reform ticket, was their
ticket, that they were origiuators and
Of the whole reform move
ment, and if so, the fired democracy
may well beware how they provoke
another contest with them, I do
know though, that a. certain anti-na-
i've speech made by Mr.. Mccormick,
% meeting of democracy on Thurs
lay, disguised many Creoles, land
hey are mattress of the right stripe,)
Who had previously intended to vote
or Col. Lewis, but who declared that
hey would listen to no such TRADE of
bitter abuse of native. born Americans,
md they considered themselves just as
,ood as those foreign born voters, who
dr. Mccormick thus appeals to. to-
Use up en- massc and s''crush" the
Infamous party, that had aroused to
tut ticket in nomination against the
erce democracy. In this, as in every
ase where the bow is bert too far, there
hose is u break or rebound, fatal to
Tho thus overstrain the weapon, and
hese fierce and very inconsiderate ap-
calls, of the party leaders to the pass
ms and prejudices Of foreign born
itizcns as such, against native born
americans, they have committed
rave error. and one that they cannot
asily repair. 1t is idle indeed, for
ny party to attempt to convey the
lea to the minds Of our adopted citi- j
ms, that because they are refugees,
it were, land SO many Of them are)
ON the Government Of Eu ope, and {
ecause they have put on the garb Of
merican Nationality, they have {
ghts superior to those who are born |
Don the soil, have been raised up un- |
II one Of the most perfect, and the S
st country upon the earth. Equally
lie will it be to attempt to stem the |
lie of popular feeling, that seems to
road in the true born American t
arts, of the desire to preserve the t
Hot box from the frauds that have il
retofore been practiccd upon it here, II
we'll as elsewhere. Indeed, why Fl
ould they not desire the purity which h
re Democratic American can, or b
II use in all their party and political e
tiles. The ammunition and charge Il
composed of little bits Of paper, that O
| into it with snowflake lightness, 81
t with the lightnings power. What 81
a good democrats ask for more. 81
hat demagogues and unfit office y
'kers do ask for, is too well known. W
the'purity of the ballot-box, that al
ELY democratic artillery, true de- ly
'cracy will find its own legitimate ia
,port and preservation, and no good n,