The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-07-02
A CHATTER ron THE PEACE SocrE-

Ty.-Tbe following beautiful para
graph is from the pen If Douglas .Jer
rold. 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 var to destroy bis fellow beings is
but one degree removed from the
murderer and when he calls on Heav.
Ell to lead him to victory he simply
blasphe mes the Most High whose laws
he violates There Is no other animal
in the sublupar sphere, SO barbarous,
beastly and cruel as man. All of
what has bean wrongly denominated
christian warfare has been insiigated
by none other than the devil himself
Self-defence is just and proper; and it
il 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 il 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 beathenism that
makes pomp of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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 andas we grow
older, the outward magnifcence Of the
orgre, Glory-bis trappings and bis
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 hireling of the
sword? Day by day the SER
geant works on the block ploughman,
and at last carves out a true, hand
some soldier Of the line. What knew
Hodge of the responsibility of man ?
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, a nobler virtue than the late
born piety Of violence? Pretty it's to
see the victor with salvc and lint
kneeling at his bloody tropby---a
MANNED and agonized fellow man, but
surely it had been better TO have with.
held the blow, than to have been first
nischievous to be afterwards humane
"1nE Eprron. The Richmond
Mail throws off the following capital
They have steamboat upon the
western waters by the name of "The
Editor" This is the best name ever
given TO steamboat, and more espec-
ally n n Mississippi steamboat We
ire surprised it has never been thought
If before The editor is working en-.
CINE whose fires are going day and
light. Now be sails against tide
md now with it, going along at dash
ng rate, until Suddenly he comes up,
III standing, against some hidden sang
which nearly shivers his timbers to
pieces. Whenever he moves, he
outs the waters in agitation for the
ime, and leaves a wake of troubled
waves behind him which lasts about
i've minutes. lie serves everybody
nut himself, carries freight and passcn-
.ers in any quantity, and goes pn6ing
Town the steam Of life. Often his pow
RS are ovcrtasked, and the boiler
bursts, but fortunately it kills no one
,ut himself, and who cares for an
'ditor?"
Bridge orer the Bayon Lafourchc.
The committees Of the police jury
# Lafourche and the corporation of
.afourehe, says the Vigilant, have ac-
epted the tender Of Messrs. Maxwell,
'riggs & Co., to build . bridge over
he Bayou Lafourche for ST 900. 1t
Will be 202 feet In length. and is to