The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-01-01
NO. a3.
Fetrsgtats Progression,

| I. is eetting to he fashionable With
A certain class of salf styled pbiloso4
piers aud Thaololians 10 asset. bold
'y ard witball q proper seasoning Of
egotism, that education, without
something else'' will never improve
the morals of A paople--that Religion
and morality are two different things,
ahd thatIha former ran exist without
The latter. but The latter can have no
existence without the former.
This is something new ia ethics,
and As it has a bearing On ''lle times"
II is proposed to analyze its claims to
consideration. Either education has
q tendency to improve morals and ele.
vas the standard If merit. and worth
or II has mol and ifit has not, II ia
high time the world At large should
be made acquainted With thu fact II
Ignorance is bliss, certainly the poet
is right when he proelains 'tis folly
to be wise
There is no man whose mind has
the capacity to take the present md
the past together, and weigh their
claims to virtue and morality. who
will not see that the population Of
America is fast dagenafatjug in things
essentially necessary to The welfare and
Happiness Of mankind. Public morals
and domestic iireside yirtties, are very
rarely to be met with, abd In the towns
md Villages. where there Should be
The most morality, ii has positively
worked itself down Until 1t IL impos.
slble for il to 90 beyond tlls limit Of
Ito present depreciation. Can we. and
must ws say, that this is the result Of
education and intelligence Ii il
b'asphemy 70 make the assertion, anI
it Falls to the ground when We look
truly nj things rs they ere. Ike
Louisiana as An EXAMPLE. Wlat is
the mass Of The population Of Ntw Or
leans of The whole statc1 The last
census Of the United 5tntas informs
the world nt large, that there are ,arrn-
~ Wovsaud adult white pefsons in
The boarders Of this State who can
neither read or write! How many Of
these were there who put ballota Ia
The bo.- ut New Orleans, on The very
recent election Can re not safely
say five out Of The twenty thousan12 z
Ns think So, with sufficient stAtisiicpl
to prove it. Is not this
source from whence oar political de-
grafton euliuates Does not this af-
rord ample field for Intelligent politis
al delnagegnes to operatei Do they
not IN fsct grow out Of such a Gondita
Oh Of things as n matter Of eourse =
And is there not monopoly Of ir'el'i.
sepoe and money, all over the Union7
sueli II inleed tho cass, and unless
4omething 10 done to bring tip the
'tandaid Of fgencral intelligence by for
ed systcms Of education, tbs county
must soon fall i,ito the hands either Of
political mountebanks on oue hand,
II religious fanatics on TIC other.
Should man be permitted to tote
Who cannot read his own ticket z We
hink not. # it must needs be so, 10
onserve the ultra democratic spirit,
uch citizens should be forced TO vote
,tua pocd under well regulated ''regis.
ry laws
The hour for another Legislature 70
it, draws close to hand, and if that
,ody does not do something for the
mockery Of public education" we
low have. we would advise people
Who regard 'ciyil liberty" as boon
o move to other quarters, where diff
srent order Of things prevails IA
monarchy" as Mr. Gayarre truelv re-