The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-07-19
The DIrr1cuLrY or BEING UN'

| iect Of existence is 10 be understood
When we cast our eye about us, and
see how many there are, schooled in
the rules of thought, action, and ex-
preston ; of whom the outward world
knows nothing; we would turn, if we
could to some other source than The
fruit Of the tree, to know the quality
thereof.
Language, devised to express. in
the first instance, the mere animal
wants. and passions, and afterwards
woven into beautiful and symetrical
fabric, to picture the inward emotions
of the soul, is now made the cloak to
conceal, rather than to reveal in man
illness, the true feelings Of the speaker.
Under modern schooling, "eloquence"
which is natural, has become so well
counterfeited, that the genuine may
not be known from the "base imita-
tion." The minister in the pulpit,
can draw briney tears to his eyes,
when contemplating the loss Of sin
gle soul, aud do it without other ex-
teraneous aid than a clean cambria
handkerchief. The foreign provoca-
tive Of peeled onions is unnecessary
The patriot statesman who can Of
course see farther into q mill stone"
than his constituency; can put his
left hand on his abdomen in token
Of sincerity, and whilst pointing out
the dangers "ahead," roll his eyes
hcavenward, in such a pathetic man
ner, that genuine sentiment looking on
weeps at the feeble efforts Of its ex-
preston. The editor himself (who is
supposed to be acquainted with all the
forms Of specify may write and write,
and write, and shed daily refulgence
Of light on the Subject matter" and
yet after all nevcr be understood
Shall we say that this is the unfortu-
nate condition Of the Comet? Very
lothe are We to confess it, but never
theless the truth is apparent, and it is
we'll to Town up" We are called
Know Nothing for reiterating the
sentiment Of tho Patriarch fathers of
this ancient Republic. We have been
called "Infder' because VIC have at
tackled an anti-republican move, on the
part Of the Romanish church, to d.
vide the public school fund Of this
State. for sectarian purposes; and yet
this We shall continue to do, because
we believe, that such disease at the
root Of the stree Of liberty" should be
attacted with correctives, at its very
incipiency. We havobeen denonliua-
ted "abolitionist," because we have
pointed out demoralizing anti-chris-
tan practices in this community, that
poison th. moral atmosphere Of socie-
ty. "Democrat" we have been called,
but never yet "Demagogue' for the
Comets hand be it said, has not yet
been polluted by receiving the slaves
wages. If we have ever appeared
"the demagogue'-it has been for the
sake Of learning the most important
character, on the platform Of the nine
teenth century. We have been call
ed "Whig" because we are not-and
never can be, red republican, Jac-
ocbite, and leveler of all order, and
distinction in society. What is it
that the Comet has not been called ?
There is no name, that form and fash
ion hath put on, we have not had to
bear the weight Of, and yet we feel
this morning quite as lignt and elastic
as ever. That we are not understood
is perhaps we'll; for if were, then to
so,, ,,ae,s.o ,ronld ho Int idle and ,,an.