The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-07-30
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GEORGE A. PIKE,
EplroR AND PROPRIETOR

roelngs That . new election is order
ed on the license question to rcme on
next month We beg leave respect
fully TO differ with those in authority
as to their right to order VII, the
form Of law, another election 50 close
upon the heel of the recently express
81 opinion Oh this subject,
According TO the set If The legisla
ture he vote may be taken annually,
The vote has Just been taken il this
ward, the result has been tie Does
his moi settle lhe question for the time
being We think 50. Upon The ut
most streach af ultra Democratic rtin
ciples, The citizens of this ward, can
not he called On again, To answer tie
question proposed Had there been n
single vote more, % one side than the
ether, then the question would have
been put 10 rest. May we aslS the
friends of this Unconstitutional on
aetment Of the Legislature, if II Il pro
posed to take the sense Of the peg
pie annually, go that in case The mo
license is found TO be unable tn nc.
compl'sh the desired object. and the
people find IL 80, that they may restore
license again for the sake af temper
anee IL seems to us that this would
he the fair way Of treating the subject
ard The only just way Of keeping up a
fair expression Of the voice Of the Al
ways right majority. If the Comet
were not a temperance advocate, we
would fire off our heaviest guns for the
victory Of mo license but as it is.
we believe that there will be more
liquor sold under the no license law,
than there il uow. TO test this mat
ter fully, we had hoped to see the re.
cent election stand as it IL, TO show at
the expiration Of the year, that Ward
No ] with "no license, there would
be more liquor sold, than in Ward No.
: but it is ordered 80, and SO be it.
We take stand against all such move
ments, because We know from expert
erce, that all laws having for their
object a reformation of public senti-
mcns, very early after their enactment
become dead letters. Public opinion,
The great regulator of this matter, is
the only successful power that can
govern private habits. and no bare ma
,lority Of men have any right to oousti-
'u'e themselves into an autocracy and
say that they are all right in their own
habits---"are for certain in the path Of
rcctitude" and others WuN follow
We deny che right of the legislature
tc give to corporate bodies the alarm
ing power to prohibit. the importation
and use Of any article. We account
now for the "act that is about to throw
every village in the State, into two
parties, by looking about us at the
morhid-sentimentalism that has been
disgerged all over the country by what
is denomiaated Temperance lee
lures" very improper torn for them,
since they have indalged in the Wild
est extravaganza on the subject and
class all who have The manlines to
stand up and say they like "a julip;'
in the great category ofthe damned.
The Senate has acted fvorahly up.
ou the bill to establish a line Of tele-
Eraph between the Mississippi river
Yhnd the Pacific ocean. This bill pro-
Eides for contracting with suitable par
les to construct double line Of IN
Foreground telegraph. and grant two
millions of acres Of land in aid Of the
Rrejeet. the land to be selected by the
koutractors in alternate sections along