The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-08-18

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When Jefferson, Adams, and franklin,
were charged by the sages Of American In
dependence, to prepare an ezposS Of the re-
lations the people Of the Colonies held to-
wards the King and people Of Great Bri.
tain to fix the relation then existing, and
which, for oil after time should exist, they
were not called upon to compare their ply
steal, their moral, their intellectual, nor
their pecuniary conditions. The purpose
of Jefferson, who drew up the Declaration,
was, after making all due allowance for
the incidents resulting from mans disobe-
dience to his Creator, to determine the 70.
lation, the people Of the Colonies, and the
King, and people Of Great Britain stood TO-
wards cad other politically. What were
the rights, bestowed equally by the Clea-
tor upon his creatures, which the King up
on his Throne--no more than the Peasant
at his plough had right to ALLEVIATE.
When Jefferson embodied in the Declar.
alton Of Independence, the POLITICAL
POSTULATE, {" that all men are created
equal" that they are endowed by their
Creator with inherent and inalienabls rights
that among these, are life, liberty, and the
pursuit Of happiness, the hypothesis was
without exception, and no exception was
intended, but it was design to reach and
cover the condition Of every man, Of every
cost, classed by him as fellow citizens, then
resting under the influence Of Great Bril-
tain's oppressive rule.
Here, Jefferson in enumeration the sew.
eral tyranical acts Of the King Of Great
Britain, said:
He has melted reasonable insurrec-
tions of our fellow citizens, with the allur-
ment Of forfeiture, and confscation Of pro-
perty.
He has waged cruel war against human
nature itself, violating its most sacred rights
Of life and liberty in the person Of distant
people who never offended him, captiva-
ting and carrying them into slavery in an.
other hemisphere, or to incur miserable
death in their transportation thither. This
piratical warfare, the approbrium Of INFI-
DEL power is the warfate Of the CHRIS
TIAN King of Great Britain. Determin.
ed to keep open market where men
should be bought and sold, he has prostitu-
ted his negative for suppressing every L.
gislative attempt to prohibit or restrain
this execrable commerce. And that this
assemblage of horrors might want no fact
or distinguished die, he is now exciting
those every people to rise in arms among
us and to purchase that liberty, Of which
he has deprived them, by numbering the
people on whom he has also obtruded them:
thus paying of former crimes COM
mitted against the LIBERTIES of one
people with crimes which he urges them
against the LIVES OF another. -
These are the LIBERAL PRINCIPLES en-
bodied by Jefferson in the DECLARATION Of
INDEPENDENCE, which he says, were struck
out in compliance to South Carolina and
Georgia. Every word by which the Glib
eral principles" are enunciated hrs emphat-
ic, and makes them the "liberal principles"
prima facie. of the ninth section of the Bal
timore platform, and throws the Onus, on
the Democratic party, to point out, with
out equivocation, what were the liberal
principles" embodied by Jefferson in the
Declaration of Independence, made by
them cardinal principle in the Democra-
tic faith.
If instead of the words Liberal Princi-
ples," there had been written, 1.-THE foun-
dalton Of freedom'' embodied by Jefferson
in the "Declaration of Independence" the
design of the ninth section could not be
more pointed and significant. M
EXTRAORDINARY MARRrAGE.-The
GAINESVILLE (Virginia) Tobacco Plant
relates an uncommon case of marriage
which has occurred within its notice,
and which showes that gentlemen are
sometimes, at least-the injured par.
ties. inquire John Bradshaw, of Per-
son, North Carolina, became a widow
er recently, and corted Miss Frankey
Lea, aged fifty-seven, and worth S12-
900. The l4th of July was fixed as