The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-10-23
(1rom tho Yasoo (Miss. Banner
Warning q History.

GdasoT 60nner.-The most singu'
lar spectacle perhaps exhibited to a
republican people may now be witness.
ed in Mississippi. There have been
weeks at time at Jackson, when not
q State officer was at his post, but
from the Governor down to the lowest
official were FORMULATING the State,
villifying and defaming the best and
purest men Of the commonwealth. men
who assisted them into the Office they
hold, men who never held Offices thern.
selves or desired to, men who are to
themselves in point Of patriotism.
talents, political and personal honesty,
as hyperion to satyr; and for no
other reason under Gods Heaven than
that they belong to the American party
and believe and mean to maintain,
that" Americans shall rule America. !"
Such spectacle was probably never
seen before in q republic. We know
that the Roman Empire used to be
knocked down in the army to the
highest bidder; but that was after the
influx Of foreigners had destroyed
their nationality, as it will ours, if
their entertainments are not stopped.
The sight is pitiful and disgusting,
aud no wonder the people turn from
them with sick heart for the fate of
a Republic reduced SO low.
The American party never was
born. 1t sprang, Minerva like, from
the head of Jove, and has stalked over
the land, and old parties have crumbl-
ed under his tread, and old partizans
and Office holders who have grown
plethoric and imprudent at the public
crib, are struggling against it, kick
ing and scratching with the despera-
ton Of starving hycnas shame and
decency, if they ever had any pre-
tensions to even these negative virtues
are quite forgotten, and to hide their
own corruption, like the scuttlefsh,
they throw out their spawn upon the
Americans. But it will be of no avail
the people are aroused and love of
country will ultimately prevail over
love Of party. We may be beat by
The patronage of office, by the despe-
rate efforts offoreign and native enemies
by foreign gold and native fraud, but
we will ultimately prevail, or the hopes
If liberty are set forever Look back
% history-look along the rugged
cliffs Of time and see the beacon lights
le!d out on the desolate sites of RUNE
cities and dead empires, and there
cad a lesson. Look at Greece as she
vas in the time of Pericles, and then
race her degradation from the time
when Tbemistocles, the great Locofoco
lemagogue of antiquity, revoked the
avs against the influx of strangers,
md made citizenship cheap in Athens.
sparta held her own long after Attica
lad sunk under the intrigues of the
urrounding States. Lycurgus, their
,reatest law-giver, had bound them by
n oath to keep intact his laws till he
eturned, and then went away and died
n Asia Minor, and had his dust thrown
nto his own Egean, SO that no pre-
ext could be had for the Spartans to .
reak their falkland one of his laws
7as no stranger should hold citizen ,
hip or accumulate property in Sparta. {
hey kept their nationality as long as
hey were faithful to this law, but when
hey broke it, they fell not by foreign ,
INVASION, but internal connection
)raco's laws were written in blood, :
nd Miltiades was tyrant, but we'll ;
hight the degenerate Greek of far ,
fer times sing: :
Z" tbs something in the desrth of fame
Though linked among fettered race,
To feel at least a patriots shame,
Even while sing, sufFuse my face.
I
The tyrant Of the Chersonese
Was Freedoms bravest, noblest friend.
That tyrant was MiItiadesl [
o, that the present hour would lend
Another despot Of the kind!
Such chains as his we're sure to bind! t
tyrant-but our masters then {.
We're still at least our countrymen I"
What is true Of Mississippi is true y.
Louisiana in more than one respect. u
'ur most important State officers a
ave been absent from the capital the D