The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-02-12

CoHHSP OND EN- C E
Nsw Oanrass, Feb. 10th. 1854.

SHINE StlHe as Tue IHdlan says anu
heap Of both, would be a good an
swer as to the weather for few days
past. The Mississippi is getting on /
swell aud will very soon go it with {
rush If levees are not carefully looked
to M well above as below the city.
Fire has been an active element q
destruction among tis, for several days
and nights past, scarcely an hour
passes but the tirebells sound the
alarm and the engines streak it along
up Or down hither and thther to ar.
rest the flames and save the endan.
gered property.
The must exciting topic among 8
large portion of our old families at
present is the case Of Pandelly VS. Wilt
in the 4th Dist Court The suit is
one Of SANDER, the count being, that
the Defendant has propagated charge
against the plaintiff of having African
blood in his veins Nc, NJ This
charge is a serious one for Pandelly if
sustained. but he has endeavored to
show bis descent from the aborigine s
Of This country instead Of from Africa.
The case has excite great deal Of
interest with those who are related by
marriage or blood to the Pandelly s,
and has called out the testimony of ii
great many witnesses many Of whom
are Of great age and Responsibility It
is rather serious business. this en-
quiring into cur far off .neestry in
this country, although for my part |
can see but little difference in being
able to trace ones lineage back into
The wigwam of a full hlooded pawnec
or Ghoctaw, and that Of the cabin u a
yellow faced vendor Of peanuts and
gingercake. But all this jargen pan
faronade about noble OF ignoble, white
or red or copper colored ancestry is to
say The least Of it, in This excessively
democratic country ridiculous il tie
extreme
Let it be- one or the other, or all,
still the mans the man for "A that rs
Bobby Burns would say. and great
great granddadly' 8 name or fame. 60,
lor on creed. office or title will help
one along but mighty little" unless
he bus the soul, the mind, the energy
or The ,etX Of a man.
Nevertheless this difficulty all comes
of the peculiar institution. ard vel
nobody is to blame are they! Your
explanation Of Mckay's hell to rea,,-
late judicial sales in The Comet Ct The
9th inst. is very just and satisfactory
Why yhouiR the sheriff If Url aus.
coadeseend to do the duties Of his
office unless he can pocket 5 or 500
900 per annuln 2 Why should demoe-
racy cry out SO Justify against n,oDof,-
ofy unless they can at will and pleas
ure make the biggest and most biddi-
GUS monopoly under the saneti'noneous
plea of protecting the wild IVY and or
phan - Whats the use of preaching
free trade and unrestricted commerce
unless to burthen commerce and trade
with cramps and guyves. inspectors
and gnagers, weighers and measurers
and all such useless and destructive
Again let me ask is modern delnoe-
racy a thing only Of name las it ne
other identity than that Of office
Docs it consist onlysof public plunder7
Is its only aim and end TO get in,
aud get the Wings out Must its ae-
i've partizans all be provided with
office at The eSpenoe of the public, Of
of productive industry, of
laily labor and nightly toll, of tho |
widow aud the orphan 7 Heaven help |
he widow and the orphan when bills
% regulate judicial sales, to create mo.
lopolies, to tax their property, and
sat tip their substance, are the only |
fruits Of Democratic Legislation. 70 |
near parties talk aud weep and groan
about the widow and orphan, is enough |
. make man wish he was widow,
With twenty four poor orphan children;
,ut when the parties come to take
'are of the poor creatures, he may
afely oxclaim God save me FROM such
ARE, snd from such guardians, keep
ne forever free.
So friend Comet, 60 ahead in the
rec and wide path'in which you have