The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-02-11

Uunn& the session or the present
Legislature, ! great deal q Eacrimeny
land bittsrneas Of feeling has grown put
Of .motiousv TO emancipate, and the
two parties seem to hsve each run in.
to extremes on the subject, leaving
reason BY the way side. Each mem
Der seems to be impressed forcibly
with the fact, that bis application for
an act to emancjpate. is one Of the
peculiar caseA calling for Legislation,
and all other applications are tnwor
! thy Of consideration. As each MEM
Der Is directly interested in some par
ticular case, little malicious log roll
ing gets great n,anyof them through.
Can we be PERMITTED to offer a few
unbiased reflections on this subject,
without calling down upon us, all the
intelligence and wisdom in the State !
Must it be confessed that in this
enlightened land Of many laws, and
more liberty, that when q man lays
down on his back, and in the full ex-
ercise Of his own reason and good
sense makes up his mind deliberately
to give up the ghost, that he shall be
deprived, Of what he has accumulated
during life Of selfsacrifices and toll !;
and told by a christian enactment that
he shall not give liberty to his old
plough horse, or his faithful servant,
because there is statute against it
is something that in our narrow con-
ception Of things, is little worse than
injustice itself. What power has a
body Of Legislators to deny this right 2
None under Gods great canopy OF
Heaven. Suppose the human being
named in the last will and testament,
actually has the uncwrMpted Anglo
Saxon blood in his veins-ay, even
the blood of his own master, or some
one Of equal yirtues Has any set of
men, either in the Commons or tie
blouse" right to say that an ''own-
er" under the purile tenue Of mans in
iquitous customs, has no right from
Heaven to do as he listeth9 Away
with all rant and kant say we-let
us have a little reason on the subject,
flaw and what is called 'justice," is
opposed to it.
A free celored man desires to give
liberty to his own child; has the leg
stature any right to deny him? Or if
it condescends to listen to the prayer
to append to the condition, Danish
nent, not only from the State, but the
Union ? The petitioner does not ask
citizenship but merely desires to
his progeny, from being sold
INTO servitude, is there anything I'M
reasonable in the demand. The late
i. R. w. Hill, in the christian charity !
md benevolence of his honest heart,
lesires in his will, to grant some priv
leges to his hong tried and faithful SER
ants, and the legislatures permission
must be asked, and it graciously con- 5
to Danish them to desolate' ;
egion Of the globe, of which they q
now nothing, and in which they ARE /
ut off from those ties, dear 70 every +
eAecting mind, Of whatever complex '
IN. Truely indeed are the words of
he mad and melancholic poet daily o
erified MAN, vain man dressed in {.
little brief authority, most ignorant f
t what he's most assured, PLAYS such
lntastic tricks, before high Haven, ''
$ fairly makes the Angels weep, who y y
'ithout any spleen, might all them !,
elves laugh MORTAL, We shall be s,
lember, Of the lobby, when Mr.. Tru- G.
eau's bill comes up on Wednesday +