The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-10-08


epistolatcty style Is very reasonably
objected to, as clumsy and ineohve-
nient form. bearing on u face the
evidence o, imposition. Mrs. Hariett
Beecher appears to be writing to her
"Dear Aunt H." when the fact Of the
business il, she ID doing no such
thing, but making a book to catch the
popular English applause----a book
that "Deaf Aunt g." nor any one
9lae, had The pleasure Of reading, TN
iii after II had gons threngh the
hands Of the printer and book binder,
aud come out III gilt Nluslin
Epeaking Of demonstrations in ia
vor Of the aiithor Of "IFrtfe T'sn,."
the reviewer saysi
The moment 4 political exile Of any
note arrives in this country. he is feted,
end cleered. and made hero Of by
municipal dignitarios, who seize the
occasion az a capital opportunity for
making ungtan,tihtical professions Of
their ardent adoratien of liberty -.
Their Sympathy in favour Of insur-
gents il perfectly unbounded They
have symrathised with The Hnngar-
ians---they have symrathised with the
ltalians--and, until very lately they
showed great sympathy for those gent
lemen who we're compelled to leave
France for their eonspiracies anainst
the existing government II is mt q
little amusing to contrast the tone
which is now assumed BY the liberal
press and by the municipalities Of
England towards LOFTS Napoleon, with
that which was prevalent some eigh.
teen months agol We ehould like to
see an ovation attempted now in honor
Of the French republicans. And yet
what change has taken rlace' Ledru
Rollin is as good patriot now as ever
the title Of the Emperor to the throne
Of France Ia not one whit better than
IL was before
This is evedently 20.
Why then make sueh noise over
Mrs. Stowe--why fondle over her,
and feast her. and send out bodies cor.
porate to meet her at the railway ter
minus, and present petitions to her,
and addresses, as though she was an
other eoadioa, or..Joan d'Aro9
Il il wrong, there is too much Of
this sort Of things in latter days. Men
on the other side of tho waters, "kos-
suth like persccate themselves, and
after mourning the displeasures of
their own governments, travel off to
other countries TO make banking eapi-
tai oft
Mrs. Beeeher's story Is a good story
a well drawn, and complete in do
tails and though many--too many liv.
ing characters may be found, the very
counterpart Of what she has represen.
ted, still il ia a fiction, as evere BODY
must know. The evils Of slavery are
felt no where more keenly than where
It exists, az one Of the peculiar insti.
tons Of the country; and foreign ''fuss
and feathers" has no effect upon Il.
Suppose for instance, as parallel,
that one Of our own strong minded
country women, 60 to London, and af-
ter travelling in railroad about the
streets Of that great Babel, sits down
and writes very sentimental tale. in
a'melting and pitious strain, about the
moral degradation there met with
and suppose the odiam Of this condi-
tion Is heaped upon the government
il any sensible pe,son going to believe
this merely because that woman has
said 50; and when it ia known that
these evils are great, moral and 40
cisl evils, over which no government
or laws can have any force I Ger