The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1855-12-21
Communicated.
The Case OF BELL W.. I5ufty.


we as a native component of this
Union, receive from Tin the many in
stances) vipers we have received with
open arms to sting us to the heart
when warmed by our institutions into
political existence. But when instances
occur, when the poisonous fang Of a
vitupcrous tongue, planted by 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 a
hell than serve her as heaven ~
Scoundrels and midnight assassins
are we who cannot tamely submit, but
struggle on in our efforts to once more
disentanglc 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 deplorcs the heart of many
an American who started with alarm
at the principles thcreia 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 nativeIlan Space compels me
to condensc that which | would set
forward as the feelings of every Amer
lean who deserves to be classed as
such. First, Mr.. Hunt is deno"""e"
as Marat, q. is"".';"od Partizan. as
nv :-v;eer 81 the worst passions, of the
rabble, who with increased fury lis
tened to his jaundiced. prejudiced and
traitreus remarks. Yes you Ameri-
cans who had assembled to listen to
the arguments and to hear the decision
Of case in which all had an inter
cst-you had the audacity to open
your servile lips in the presence of
your political masters. You who po-
belong to tho Irish draymen,
dared to exult in the legal triumph of
a countryman. And he the owner Of
a miserable toy shop contcnding against
4 rich and noble cotton prcsser, at
whose commands a thousand of your
foreign masters march to the ballot
box and add new links to your servilc
chains. And then this model editor
goes on to say That the Judge was
offered protection from Mr.. Hutty and
others from the fury of a mob and
sarcastically observes. ut was very
generous on the part Of Mr.. Hufty to
protect Judge Robertson from the in
furiated mob. Oh. no, you wished
the Judge to be waylaid, did you, but
thanks to that generous feeling which
governs only nu;:re 1merican as
sembly-not all his prostitution of the
judicial crime meath the feet of Dutch
and Irish paupcrs, not all his illegal
chicanery backed and sustained by
sheets of your stamp and which low.
cred him beneath, not only the dignity
of a Judge, but the dignity ofan Amer
lean, could prevent the moh as you
call it, from repairing from lawIcss-
ness.
Does not the feeling rankle in your
bosom as you set in your sanctuary
and pen such insults to your toreign
for though native by birth,
such sentiments class you as a for
eigncr in heart, and Americans are
foreign to you in Mought, uord anil
aeed? Does not the feeling ranklc in
you that this miserable toy stop mob
had not committed some act of VIC.
encc, that with triumphant voice you
might have yelped it throughout the
and, as an evidence that natives are
unfit to govern their heritage
as u true that no respect is enter
'a'ned any iongcr for or courts and
"diciary!" as 1t true that ace are
,ring in q State Of onarchy?' Were
my of your reporters at the late An
i-American dinner of triumph given
lerc in Baton Rouge, you might have
spared your breath, and received an
answer that would have caused the
glow of shame TO Jingle on your brow.