The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-12-23

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ought to prepare US for the renting
we as a native component of thl
Union, receive from lin the many in
stances) vipers we have received will
open arms to sting US to the hear
when warmed by our institutions into
political existence. But when instance!
occur, when the poisonous fang Of {
vituperous tongue, planted by a ma
tive born, testers in our wounds the
bounds of Indignation, are swept away
and all considerations fall before the
mighty one. Shall we have our birth
right torn away from US and added
the scorn and contempt Of men, who
would "rather rule their country as q
hell than serve her as o heaven ~
Scoundrels and mid night assassint
are we who cannot tamely submit, but
struggle on in our efforts to once more
disentapglc the folds Of our once pure
banner.
We have in our midst paper whose
taunts have warmed up into that red
heat Of intensity, whose prevalence it
SO deeply deplores the heart Of many
an American who started with alarm
at the principles therein set forth, and
the invective wherewith the naked
name alone of American has been po.
luted. But not content with this, it
rings in the Delta, sheet of similar
character, ranking with the gangrene
produced by defeat, to prove that
Americans are incapable Of ruling
their native land. Space conn jem6
to condense that which I would Set
forward as the feelings Of every Amer
lean who deserves to be classed as
such. First, Mr.. Hunt is denounced
as a Marat, a jaundiced partizau, as
an ipciter of the worst passions, of the
rabble, who with increased fury lis
tened to his jaundiced. prejudiced and
traitrous remarks. Yes you Ameri.
cans who had assembled to listen to
the arguments and to hear the decision
of a case in which all had an inter.
est-you had the audacity to open
your seryile lips in the presence Of
your political masters. You who po-
ltically belong to tho Irish draymen,
dared to exult in the legal triumph of
a countryman. And he the owner OF
a miserable toy shop contending against
a rich and noble cotton prcsser, at
whose commands a thousand of your
foreign masters march to the ballot
box aud add now links to your servile
chains. And then this model editor
goes on to say "That the Judge was
offered protection from Mr.. Hufty and
others from the fury Of mob and
sarcastically observes. 1T was very
generous on the part of Mr.. Hufty to
protect Judge Robertson from the in
'uriated mob. Oh, no, you wished
he Judge to be waylaid, did you, but
hanks to that generous feeling which
governs only native american as
'cmbly-not all bis prostitution of the
judicial crime meath the feet of Dutch
md Irish paupers, not all his illegal
;hicanery backed and sustained by
heets of your stamp and which low
red him beneath, not only the dignity
f Judge, but the dignity Of an Amer
can, could prevent the mob, as you
;all it, from repairing from lawlessness.
Does not the feeling rankle in your
'osom as you set in your sanctuary
nd pen such insults to your foreign
pponents, for though naive by birth,
UGH sentiments class you as a for.
igner in heart, and Americans arc
oreign to you in thought, aoord and I
ced2 Does not the feeling rankle in !
gu that this miserable toy shop mob |
adj not committed some act of vio- |
,nce, that with triumphant voice you ,
light have yelped it throughout the |
md, as an evidence that natives ere
nft to govern their heritage
us 1t true that no respect IS enter /,
,ined ony longer for our courts and
;dacaory2" rs 1t true that me are 4
vi'ag IN a State Of onarcAy" Were :,
ny OF your reporters at the late An r
American dinner Of triumph given i
ere in Baton Rouge, you might have 3
Jared your breath, and received an a
1swer that would have caused the
low Of shame 10 Jingle On your brow. &