The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-09-13
There's mothIng Stranger than Truth.

msnt the earth had for us, in the hal
cion days Of youth, vanishes. The
play which We had wept over as a
tragedy, turns out broad force the
gilt and tinsel Of the stage, falls moth
eaten to the earth, and we are like the
child that has discovered her doll to
be stuffed with "saw-dust." The seusi-
bilities are dulled as life advances and
we behold the unblushiug bypocracy
and deceit Of those who we had school.
ed ourself in early days to regard as
immaculate. Nothing now shocks The
nerves. Gould zoe be moved by the
grumbling Of any moral or physical
earthquake that might take place; we
could be shaken into an ague Of ex-
citement and III temper by the peru
sal of an exquisite piece Of light liter
ature now before us from Mr.. John
Slihell, addressed to the movers and
getters up of the late Democratic
State barbecue, given ID this city a
few days ago. The document speaks
for itself. Here IL Is:
Ny letters from all parts of.he State
assure me that the Democracy was
never more united and active, and
that we shall have in every parish, The
cordial cooperation Of many trns
hearted men, who have until nov been
thoroughly identified with the once
great Wing party. Such acquisitions
will more than counterbalance numer-
icalfy, all the defections from our ranks
Of disappointed ofIice-seekers, and Of
those upon whose weakness or igno-
rance they have imposed, while In
moral force we shall have gained i'm
measurably BY the exchange. There
is, however, one dark shade in this
otherwise agreeable picture, and | al
Jude to 1t most reluctantly.
No true patriot, whatever may be
bis political affinities, can look back
but with shame and modification at
the rufiianism and violence that have
accompanied the last three elections
in New Orleans.
But that Of June exceeds in atrocity
everything in the annals Of the couu.
try, except the St. Bartholomew trag.
edy enacted at Louisville.
All the outfages and excess es charp.
ed upon the contending parties in Kan
sas, exaggerated as they have been by
partisan presses, even il true to the
letter, would not combined, approach
10 number or degree, those perpetra-
ted within the last year on our unof.
Tending naturalized citizens in the me.
tropolis Of the Southwest. Iftbose 10.
gally entitled to exercise the right Of
suffrage at the late municipal election
had been permitted peaceably to cast
their votes, no one acquainted with the
subject doubts that the Democratic
candidates would have been elected
The result Of the pretended election
was to return the Know Nothing can
didate for Mayor by more than two
thousand majority. Will this cruel
mockery, these unparalleled atrocities,
be repeated?
The solution of this question de-
ponds, fear, entirely upon the action
Of the Democratic party il New Or
leans.
The experience Of the past gives lit.
tie reason to hope that the voters or
the ballot-box will be protected by the
city government.
The Registry law, passed at the last
session of our Legislature, removes, it
is true, even the shadow Of the pre-
tence on which some have applauded,
and more have connived at system |
which has already inflicted an almost
fatal blow upon the character and |
prosperity Of tho city. and which, If
continued, must destroy them entirely. |
One might hope that the acknowl. |
edged fact that the country parishes
will give aggregate majorities for our
ticket, largely exceeding any possible
adverse vote in the city, would restrain
the actors and abettors Of these out.
RACES from a gra.uitous repetition of
them; but he who supposes that men,
who have acquired and retained places
and power BY unworthy means, will
not again resort to them for the pur-
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