The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-03-11
MoRE INDtGNATIoN.- ednesday

paragraph in reference to the last in
dIgnation meeting held at the Court
house, in this city. in which the Sena-
tor from this district. was so complete
ly dashed up, in mitigation speeches,
and resolutions ; whitening in their
scorn, and soul stabbipg in their elo-
quence. We do not blame the Senator
for finding business Of State" to at
tend to in New Orleans, at that time !;
and all we regret about it, is, that the
coinmitte; could not find him, SO as to
present him with copy of the indig-
nation resolutions before they became
cold. However, we presume the gen
tlemon has seen them ere this, rs also
The conepittee's public apology to the
public for not being able to find him.
As Dickens says it Is the highth
Of every mans ambition in the uni
versal Yankee Nation, to make a
speech. This fact coupled with an
other kindred to it gives rise to all
manner of meetings, for all manner of
purposes ; and eloquent gentlemen
get up voluntarily 10 show the "dear
public what is right and what is
wrong. 1t is matter of exultation
with lis, and we thank the stars that
Baton Rouge comes up to The full
measure Of other places in the num-
Der OF lis orators and speech makers,
and it is to them alone we feel indebt-
ed for many demonstrations of what is
1enomnated "public opinion" In ref
erence to sectional meetings to give
instructions to representatives, Of the
people, there is no objection yet such
bodies should not take upon them
selves too much and affect to repre-
sent others than themselves, and here
is the danger to u we'll regulated De
mocracy. The representative is the
creature Of the people; to represent
them all, he musGhavc thousand
lives and ten thousand different prin-
ciples within him; he must act un-
true TO his own judgment--untrue to
the separate interest, of his constitu-
entS and consequently untrue to all.
The people make the laws--therefore
are the people superior to the laws
aud may abuse and break thom.
We have nothing to say in apology
for Mr.. Lacey; il changing his domi-
Gil to New Orleans, and making
public demonstration Of the fact, be
should o,2ive resigned his seat in the
Senate, aud this should have been
dong before the session commenced
50 as to have given time for an cleo
tion to be held to GIL the place. But
it was not done and nothing would
have been said about it, had not Mr..
Lacey incurred the displeasure of some
Of lis constituents. However this is
no justification for what was done at
the Indignation meeting, at which the
the Gazette notices, was
leveled. We say, that meeting did |
not body forth the sober sense Of this
community, in the resolutions adopted
by them, which have already by ST. |
lence on the part Of the Senator, gone
down to the tomb Of the Capulets. In
this, whether we directly or indirectly
by implication misrepresent the views
of the citizens of this place and par
ish," (as the Gazette changes us) we
leave the people themselves to de-
eide. And whilst On this subject we
beg leave to say respectfully again for
the one hundred and fiftieth time, that
we do not set ourselves up as the ex-
pouent of public opjuiOD. nor as the |