The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1855-12-16
In the Alabama

mas Introduced Dill, hntltteu an act
to protect the State Of Alabama agaiDst
her enemies This, we are told, is
intended to be retaliative upon the
State of Massachusetts, for her late
course towards the Southern States,
and provides, as stated by its author
that in all criminal prosecutions in the
State Courts of Alabama, if the Of
Tense fos which the party is indicted
be committed against a citizen Of Mas
sachuse,ts, that fact may be pleaded
in lieu of the action, and in all civil
suits in which citizen Of Massachu-
sets, is plaintiff, that fact being made
to appear, it shall be the duty of the
Judge to continue the case at the cost
of the plaintiff until Massachusetts
shall repeal her acts in violation of the
rights Of the South
This is, Of. course, notifying to the
feelings of Massachusetts people, and
sounds very much like the taunt, from
the Capulets to the N1ontagues :
did you bite your thumb at me sir 7"
In the 0vcrgrown crop of demagogues,
with which the whole nation is at this
moment cursed; Massachusetts has
her full share, and her legislature of
last season wasOblessed with many Of
them. The people Of Massachusetts,,
are no doubt, Ike the people Of Ala
llama, and Louisiana, bewail'ng the
mechanically faea. that they have so
many great men--.huge patriots, ready
to sacSifice their lives and sacred hon
org, and always on the look out, to
raise some greobquestion into which
they can go ''hsart and band' to tear
their pants in the public service
Remove the idle, Office seeking, noto-
riety loving, specializing demagognes
from Massachusetts, and send with
them, CHOSE unsexed feminines, who
are always bawling about "Womap's
rights and there is as much goo,!
sense, tempered and seasoned with re-
publican forbearapce and moderation
there; as there is in any other State
IN The Union If the Alabama legis.
lature would pass laws to protect the
State against its enemies, let the law
makers look at home, ny, in the very
ranks of their cont1eres they will find
them Possessed Of unbusbing efrout-
ry; and daring enough withsl, to un.
iesrrtake any work of ruin, so they can
ace prospect of floating above the
wreck.
CHESTERFIELD s LETTERS TO HIS SON.
The good advice of Lord Chester
led, to his son has been improved
,pon, and adapted to the wants of
Americae youth, by n northern pub
ishing house. We give sample
otter.
LITTLE PupLIssroN PLACE June 55.
My Deor ,Sn.-Never be discour-
ged to give up the ship, in scuttling
brough the pillows Of life, by oppro-
ius, epithets and hard names. "No
nan can be aprophet in bis own coun-
ry," is an ancient axiom so, no man
an be accounted wise, until contem.
orary authors, and fame seekers, have i
ronouced him a fool. Go ahead my I
ID, do not stop to repipe over such
ppellat'ons, from those, who are set j
ack on the road to fame and fortune t
y your advancement. Make up your l
ind, that You must start to ascend t
,e ladder from the bottom, and must :
e dragged down, by all manner of c
vine, striving to root out one other f
detracton. When the public mind b
fully made up, that you are las you a
lay beg p kpave and fool, then, and e
ot TIL then, may you expect to rise
% not therefore be discourage, be C
honest and femnaroto :, =,