The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-05-14
GbraDtrkly Gpllltt
"A CgeMel over the Crescent.

lady Macbeth, cannot be removed by
the briny tears Of repentance. 1t was
not enough that the fair reputation OF
New Orleans should be stained with
murder, few months ago; but now
the same lawles mob, march up again
to The polls, and in The very face of
the law, perpetrate the same disgrace
full outrages. The city rress-or at
least some portion of it, give eo1n-
tenhnce to this violence, and we find
the following strain Of oxultation in
dulged in
In the fullness, dear fellow citizens
Of an EMULATION most cordial, we sa-
lutte you and that honest and desicive
victory which you have just won,
Brothers. you have done your
duty: yon have done it well, most
manfully, most American-like
Children of o great name you to
whom it is lenial and you to whom
it has become native, in true adop-
ton Sons Of this sole soil, and not
mere vagabonds of patriotism we
hail your genuine love of country,
your true fame of liberty, that rallies
upon the law, knows freedom in its
authentic rules, and understands and
will to The last defend it, as no gift, no
mere windfall, no present no boon, no
beneiaction, but your own old birth
right, which none al home nor abroad
shall wrcst from you
"Shame shame ~ cries every hon
est man and true patriot. It is hui
initiating to us all, that any press, can
be found in this State, to gloss over in
such terms, the acts of violence so
fresh in their horrors before us. They
furnish q blood stained page in the
history Of our State, that never can
be washed out by attonement.
Is this to be the result Of popular
elections. and the exercise of the cleo
tive franchise IF 50, the sooner the
country is turned over to dosperadoes
--thel murder loving mob, the very
festerings of the corrupt times, the
better. No good citizen will endan
ger his life, by going to the polls, when
he knows that one of the two parties,
will be offended by his voting, and he
may loose his life.
We know not how such a condition
of society could be brought about. E.
Certainly it cannot be the result Of
efforts to reform abuses, for it is we'll
known that evils do not correct evils,
and wrong cannot justify wrong. All
such reformers as expect to work a
change, with the knife and the pistol
cannot expect--if they have common
sense and reason about them, to ac-
complish any thing good. Suppose
that mob did take possession Of a
house at the corner Of st. Joseph aud
Tchoupitoulas streets, and did assail
pcacible citizens going to the the
Third Ward Precinct, with brick bats
aud other misselse Was not the
multitude in the street looking for
something Of this SORT And were
they not all armed il defiance Of law
Then were they not participants in
the riot
Such a condition Of things cannot
last long; alike base are all concerned
in them, whether they act on the de-
feusive or offensive. IF there be any
secret organization to lend aid to this
species Of rowdyism, it must have
very brief and ephemeral existence
and when the ringlcaaors succeed in
securing places Of profit tothemsclvcs,
then it must inevitably fall to pieces.
EE-" Earn you money before you
snend it, this is q homelr adare.-