The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-04-01
sunday rfSrni,ts. !: April 1855.
The Country and the City.

al coiuiHuS VI tAub luuepeHueul anu
fearless "slasher and crasller the
New Orleans True Delta, always at
tracts our eye, the first thing Oh open
Ing fresh lot Of press wet city papers.
and the constant reading Of the leaders
that fall from the pen Of the 7. Delta
editor, ii |, continued stream from day
to day, week to week and year TO year,
have much to do with shaping and di-
recting our own thoughts about mat
tiers aud things in general A strik-
Ing coincidence Of sentiment prevails
between the T. Delta and the Comet
just NOW, as Will be seen by the sequel.
We we're just on the eve Of inditing ali
article on the country and the city, ?
when an article bearing precisely the
same sentiments. falls open before us in
column Of the I. Delta, headed the
"city and the country. We believe
III every word that excellent paper
says in reference to taking the Gothic
castle of a State House away from
here; because the people at large have
been playing fool generally, the past
few years, making constitutions, State
houses, and other theatres for sword
swallowers, aud consuming The best
substance " Of The land When The I.
Delta says ut Is vain to look for the
most suitable men, ID the General As
sembly z az long as the State House is
SO far removed from the "Globe Ball
room," the Shell Road. and the
Shades" we agree with him; and
think 1t still yuiner to look for them in
New Orleans, since Eve have the True
Delta's word for iD every prominent.
Politician there, has been bought and
sold, until there is no fixed market
value. We agree with our neiglbor
also, when he says:
Certainly, since the removal of the
seat Of government hence, the legisla-
ton done has not been of character
either to remember with pride or 10
refer to with satisfaction, aud 1t will
be Useless to expect any change or
improvement until It il restored to this
city again, where an influential public
opinion can be- brought constantly TO
bear upon every department Of it,"
just so. And 1t may be traced to
the fact, that The distance between us
is 50 short, that the fumes of liquor
from Luke's or the Harvey" meet
and mix with those of the Four
Points" and the Five Nations -
The good liquor Of Sans at the Gem,
has stronger claims upon the sympa-
tlies Of vour city delegation, than any
thing we can offer to allure and beguile
their leisure here. What interest has
one half of the INDICATED floating
aliens, you send here, in the welfare
and prosperity of the State None
They are, as old Sir Jack" has said
Of his army, the cankers of long
peace, and corrupt world" Tie
city is not alone infested with such.
but they are found all over the land
aud are the very cormorants and vul-
lures Of the times: differing only from
those noble birds, in the fact that they
feed upon the living; whilst their pro.
to,ypes attact the dead only. We can
not however believe with the I. Delta,
that any better representation could
have been had for the city, in times
past, had the Capital been there /; and
had larger price been paid by dem
agogues to secure better men. We
look to the future in the hope that a
glimmer Of sunshine will break upon
tho Nation and scatter the boarded
hands nf each marty which haya been