The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-05-06
Communicated.

MIR. EDITOR.-l understand 1t
proposed 10 make use Of some portion
Of Boulevard street, for the new mar
ket house, no doubt after the precep
do unto others as you would hav,
J them do unto you," that is give non.
some others, the benefit Of the publi.
nuisance, which you have SO long i'm
posed on those in the vicinity Of the
old market. As to changing the
Boulevard or a part Of it, from its or.
iginal defamation, and making il
a street for market house purposes,
with all the delightful accompany
ments ofsuch places, this will Of course
be quite right and proper; for certain
ly no citizen ought to complain,
even if the corporation closed the
street in front Of his property and
converted it into a Beer Garden
The Corporation represents the public
and the public has a right to do1ust
s01at 1t pleases, however it may in
jure the private citizen, or his pro-
perry. There is something noble and
righteous in all this: as we well know
according to the theory Of our gov
ernment the people in a Republic,
like the King in . Monarchy, can do
no aoyong. Huzza! for North Boule-
ward, let it be henceforth and forever,
market street, and down with Bomle-
card. QUIZ.
There is difference Of opinion in
reference to every simple proposition.
This difference of opinion widens as
words are multiplied in its discussion
because the passions and prejudices,
common to human nature are aroused.
and this is the great barrier Ito truth,
and justice. 1t is perhaps a wise
provision in nature Were it not
thus, man might possibly remove with
his united intelligence, the vail that
screens the unseen from mortal vision.
Justice might then stand without the
laws support, and the world become
paradise again. A difference Of opin-
ion is a wise provision. 1t sends the
worlds inhabitants out in different
directions for the pursuit Of happiness
and keeps the vast and complicated
machinery Of human society in per-
petual motion. What one deems
positive benefit, another demonstrates |
a palpable injury. Now that the
"city council have resolved to build |
a new Market-an indispensable ne
cessity loudly called for; all manner
Of obstacles will be thrown in the way,
to the accomplishment of that object.
We are told that the city authorities i
have no right to build a market in !
q public thoroughfare--that they /
must buy a square, or 60 down to
Mexico square, and use that; upon
he face Of which the draughtsman
has had the foresight, to designate a
market.
If the subject Of building a mar
ket is to be met by the people in this
nanner-if it is to he objected to
aither and thither, aud the Selectmen
ire not PERMITTED to select site the
most convenient and appropriate, it
would be we'll to abandon all hope Of
my further progress in the matter
t seems to us that North Boule-
'ard street is the only appropriate
treet-both from its location and
width, for the new building. The
has always been in that street {
ince the town was a place, and the
My reason for removing it farther
ack on the same, is to get it, from its t
resent close proximity to the Capitol. T
{ the streets do not belong to the I
ae city, and if the Board have no =
over them, then we should =
ke to have the rights of corporate 7