The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-08-19
Com m 41ns Gated.
The Ninth Section Of tAe Balslm0te Plat
form.

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dependence, to prepare an ez1;osS Of the re-
lations the people Of the Colonies held to-
wards the King and people pf Great Bri-
tain to fix the relation then existing, and
which, for all after slime should exist, they
were not called upon to compare their ply
steal, their moral; their intellectual, nor
their pecunisry conditions. THE purpose
Of Jefferson, who drew up ths Declaration,
was, after making all due allowance for
the incidents resulting from:man's disobe-
dience to his Creator, to determine the re-
lation, the people Of the Colpnies, and the
King, and people Of Great Britain stood TO-
wards each q her politically, What were
the rights, be slowed equally by the Clea-
tor upon his creatures whicE the King up
on his Throne no more thasl the Peasant
at his plough had right to ALLEVIATE.
When Jefferson embodiedlin the Declar-
alton Of Independence, the POLITICAL
POSTULATE, that all men are created
equal" that they are endowed by their
Creator with inherent and inalienable rights
that among these, are lie, liberty, and the
pursuit Of happiness, the hypothesis was
without exception, and no Exception was
intended but il was design to reach and
cover the condition Of every man, Of every
cost, classed by him as felloY citizens, then
resting undet the influence OF Great Bri-
tain's oppressive rule.
Here, Jefferson in enumeration the sew
eral tyranical acts Of the King Of Great
Britain, said:
"He has melted treasopable insurrec-
tions of orr fellow citizens, with the allur-
ment of forfeiture, and confscation Of pro.
perty.
He has waged :cruel war:against human
nature itself, violsting its most sacred rights
of life and liberty in the poison 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 Svsrfare, the approbrium Of INF1-
DEL power is the warfate pf the CHRIS
TIAN King of Great Britain. Determin-
ed to keep open market where men
should be bought and sold, be has prostitu-
ted his negative .for surprising every le-
gislative attemps to prohibit or restrain
This exeersble commerce. And that this
assemblagt of horrors might want no fact
Or distinguished die, he ii now exciting
those every people to rise: lin arms among
US and to purchase that Liberty, of whien
he has deprived them, b mirdering the
people on whom he has ALSO obtruded them
thus paying pa formef crimes com
nitted against the LIBERTIES of one
people with crimes which he urges them
against the LIVES OF another. !"
These are the L1BERAL:PR1NcIpLEs' EN-
bodied by! Jefferson in the DrcLARArror Of
which he lays, were struck
nut in compliance to soath CaroIina and
Georgia. Every word bywhlch the Glib
'ral principles,l are enuneiated his emphat-
c, and makes item the 'liberal principles"
'rima facie of the ninth section Of the Bal
imore platform, and throws the Onus, on
he Democratic party, tapoint out, with
nut equivocati6n, what ere the "liberal
embodied by Jefferson in the
Declaration Of Independence, made by
hem a cardinal principleIin the Dsmoers--
ic faith. (.
Ifinstead Of. the words; Liberal Princi--
,les,o there had been written, 1.-THE foun-
alton of freedom'' embolied by jefferson
n the Declaration of Independence" the
esign Of the ninth section could not be
more pointed and Significant NJ
re- We find in lie Crescent Of
be 18th inst, the following nomina-.
ions Of thu American Party, for
'arish officers, for tbp Parish Of Or
cans: f!
IRISH OFFICERS
For. SaeriO-JosrrH Hurry for Cor
ner---cHAxLss N. OIIvrn; for District
lttorney-M. A. Fourk.
FOR CLERKS or COURTS.
First District courd-NoIsnnr Tns-,
AertEk; Second District Court-P. s.
1rIrz; Third Dirtri{t Court--Hrrnr
zzou; Fourth DistSct Court. B.
7ALros; Fifth District Ceust-W. H..