The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-04-02
CORR ESP ONDENCE
NEw OnLrArs. March 9th, 1854

you, the telegraph will have informed
you of the result ofthe municipal cleo.
ton which took place here yesterday
Gen. j. L. Lewis, has been elected
by about $500 majority over Col
Breedlove, his competitor for the
Office of Mayor. 1t is an old saying
that straws show which way the VIM
blows, and Scott declares that coming
events cast their shadows before. .
From the vote polled yesterday in
this city, one can get very clear idea
Of the strength Ut the reform party,
and the excitement during the day
was quite sufficient to bring out the
entire strength of both parties Now,
if you compare We terdays vote with
that cast at the election last fall, and
take into consideration the fact tia,
at that time II 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 we're perpetrated then, which
have been prevented now. Again, ii
is charged that the society called the
"kpow nothings," are Native Ameri-
cans, both III 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 decipline, still they have
effected almost complete revolution
in the city government. Il is not de-
MED that the reform ticket, was their
ticket, that they were orlginators and
supposters Of the whole reform move
ment, and if SO, the fired democracy
may well beware how they provoke
another contest with them, | do
know though, that certain anti-na-
tive speech made by Mr.. Mccormick,
to meeting Of democracy on Thurs
day, disguised many Creoles, (and
they are natiues of the right stripe,)
who had previously intended to vote
for Col. Lewis, but who declared that
they would listen to no such TRADE Of
bitter abuse OF native born Americans,
and they considered themselves just as
good as those foreign born voters, who
Mr.. Mccormick thus appeals to, to
rise up en- n1assc and crush" the
infamous party, that had aroused to
put a ticket in nomination against the
fierce democracy. In this, as in every
case where the bow is bert too far, there
those is break or rebound, fatal to
who thus oyerstrain the weapon, and
these fierce and very inconsiderate APP
peals, Of the party leaders to the pass.
ions and prejudices Of foreign born
citizens as such, against native born
Americans, they have committed q
grave error, and one that they cannot
easily repair. 1t is idle indeed, for
any party to attempt to convey the
idea to the minds OF our adopted clti-
zens, that because they are refugees.
as it were, (and SO many Of them are)
from the Government Of Eu ope, and
because they have put on the garb Of
American Nationality, they have
rights superior to those who are born
upon the soil, have been raised up un-
der one of the most perfect, and the
best country upon the earth. Equally
idle will it be to attempt 10 stem thu
tide of popular feeling, that seems to
abroad in the true born AmericaA
hearts, Of the desire to preserve the
ballot box from the frauds that have
heretofore been practiccd upon it here,
as we'll as elsewhere. Indeed, why
should they not desire the purity which
true Democratic American can, or
will use in all their party AID political
battles The ammunition and charge
is composed Of little bits of paper that
fail into it with snowflake lightness,
but with the lightnings power. What
can good democrats ask for more.
What demagogues and unfit Office
seekers do ask for, is too well known.
In the purity of the ballot-box, that
truely democratic artillery, true de-
mocracy will find its own legitimate
support and preservation. and no good
democrat, native or adopted citizen,
need fear that SO long as it is kept
pure, democracy itself, and republican