The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-04-09
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GEORGE A. PIKE,
EDfTOR AND PRoPRfEToR.

EDfToR AND PRopR1ETo
10 Official Josrnal ef tie Parish Of East
Baton Rouge. .Aiso of The Gsosse 7ete and
Baton Rouge, and Of the Baton Rouge and
Ci,nton Plank Road Conspdniss. .-U
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THE CoMBr.--It was Lord Boiling
brook, speaking through the immortal
Bard of Avon who said
aHsd / 20 lavish Of my presence been,
So stale and cheap to vulgar company
Opinion that did help me TO the crown,
Had still kept loyal to possession
BY being seldom seen, could not stir,
But like Gomez. was wondered at
Children would cry, where, which il he,
&c" at la tuH
The truth Of this well set speech of
Bolingbrook, we have no inclination
to call in question. No doubt it was
particularly applicable to- people, in
the days Of the Fifth Henry
doubt, they did wonder at the appears
ance Of the unhearalded messenger
from the Eternal throne, ~ he streak.
ed, il through the Heavens in defiance
Of all the laws of the attraction Of
gravitation; determined and fixed by
Newton, and LaPlace. We say it is
not TO wondered at, that the people Of
that day wondered" (ifnot .. Boiling
brook why, such ungoverned messen.
gers "as Comets are, should be sent
into oxr system TO disturbthe equan-
unity thereof, and frighten people out
Of their wits. Whyitis that nothing
written in the aHsavens above, or the
Earth beneath" !" has any effect upon
the people of this day, j very obvious.
An earthquake may come-an infac-
tious malady, 70 sweep out the high
ways and byways; aye, out Of the un-
fathomed depths Of eternity--a Comet
itself may come-tail foremost, and
YET there il no expression Of amaze
ment on the part Of this people, who
20 On to make, money-making ms
chimes. and money. n though nothing
had happened. Il is very sad re-
hecsioa 70 think that 70 many of the
good old sayings Of our forefathen
have fallen into disasa because they
sze in no wise applicable 10 the times.
There's that excellent moral lesson, in
brief hand "Hcnesty il thebest policy
who ever thinks Of making reference
to il for the moral it contains NoI
one !; and a. to ito kindred saying.
"virtue is ito own reward the fallacy
Of il is hourly proven. by the admis-
sion Of sleek fat knaves, into high
places, whore nothing but rog,iery ever
takes them. Then the question is,
what is virtuei And after this is dc. |
termined, what is the reward of vir-
tue I Is there any virtue in being
poor and out Of placei Decidedly |
not. The standard Of morality and
virtue tuates--depends on the lati-
tude and longitude, and is not more
steady than the barometer itself. To
return to Comets Of these special
messengers was plainly visable the
other night When first seen, it's
necleus was Of tho sine Of star Of the
second magnitude, and il made its
in the tail Of the Constell-
alton Draco. the Dragon. In the spirit
of opposition We are called on Ito
pitch into IT." first, for the reason that
i il published, without sending out
The ususl "proepectus" s"-and secondly,
because We can find no reasonable de-
nand for it, aud We cannot see why it
9, schcrc it is, or schemce tits Let
he matter be canvassed. Is it at all
that they should come into
,ur system; since all the ter