The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-08-16
Let there be Light.

Know Nothing speaker to meet him
in the field" and Mr.. Walsh, it is I'M
derstood, will measure weapons with
him. Maj. A. NJ Dunn appoints Sat
urday the 3Oth inst, to speak at Bur
lington and calls the Hon. A. s. Her.
ron to meet him. His subject is the
same. ---that interesting matter, the
"Present Political Aspect Of Things"
The people will never have light
enough on this subject. Gas light,
rush light, dark lanthern, and tallow
candle light---star light, moon light or
sun light; pecuniary interest with
which the human mind is kept in
servitude to the earth, will obscure
the clear vision of correct reason. An
other reason why people cannot see
clearly on this subject. Every man
in this government aspires to be Pres
ident of the same, and shapes his
movements to this end time advances,
but to change the relative position of
material as well as immaterial things
and the consequence is, that we are
bound to shift positions to keep up
with it. We heard a gentleman say
yesterday--a gentleman with a deep
and penetrating mind, who can see as
far into mill stone as the next, that
cou'd Aunt Sally--otherwise the Wi
dow Armstrong; Madame Blanche /;
the Wizard Of the North, or any 9TH
or fortune teller, who can see into the
unwritten pages of the time to come,
say who shall be President Of the Uni
ted States in 1857; and were the pre-
diction in favor of Mr.. Fillmore
there are very popular gentlemen in
this town, who would ride over the
heads of the multitude and mash one
other to death to get back into Wig
wan Of Know Nothings-repent in
ashes and sack-cloth for what they
have said, under misrepresentation, and
ask in the name Of the Prophet to be
forgiven. A fig for all such! The
man who cannot muster up moral
courage enough to maintain q posi-
ton which be has deliberately taken
possession Of; is-to say the least Of
him--a coward. It is not. that kind
of cowardice which makes man take
to bis heels in the face of superior
foe, because that is honorable and ex-
cusable on discretion J" but it is that,
that makes the man traitor to him
self-afraid to trust himself with his
own honest convictions of truth. Such |
a man is untrue to himself, and GER
tainly ought not to expect any one
else to trust him. How many men
have shaken in their boots, as with
an ague, on hearing the news from
Kentucky? Alas, when we marshal
the force, it is picture to sicken the
honest and patriotic heart, and make
the misanthrope damn the treacherous
and leacherous race of man.
70 We publish the following, be-
cause it comes to US in the New York
Atlas, mammoth concern of a paper,
marked with black ink:
We were gratifed last week, in
making the acquaintance of DR.. Sam
uel Bard, State Superintendent OF
Public Education in Louisiana, who
has embraced the occasion of a visit to
his friends in the North to make him
self familiar with the educational sys-
TENS of the various States, with a
view of adopting such Improvements
in the system of his adopted State as
his observation may suggest. DIR. Bard
is a native of this city, and brother
of Ex-Alderman James M. Bard, of
the Fourteenth Ward. He is an &C.
complished gentleman, and the editor
Of an influential democratic journal,
published at Alexandria, in Northern