The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-09-05
Col. J. ID. stnart's Speech.

evening, the ID inst, publishes entire
the speech Of Col. j. D. Stuart, to the
Breckenridge Glee Club, the other
night at the raising Of pole in North
Boulevard street. We are glad to see
it in print, for the reason that at the
time it was delivered, there were many
persons on the ground, who from the
noise -indispensibly connected with
the crowd, did not hear the orator.
The Colonel in his speech presents
us with his usual quant,tm Of tropes,
figures, flowers and fancy work, for
which bis poetic mind has o natural
inclination. For instance the Col.
says:
j IA classic nativism would override
the sterner virtues Of man ]; is not
there, too, a religious test debating to
freemen q mode Of worship and pre-
scribing the sufrragans who kneel at
the Catholic ALTAR Wales says il
and points to the "blue book" Dis
pute 1t, ye who can"
What does be mean by "a classic
nativism, overriding the sterner vir-
tues Of man ~ The Colonel will clear
up an obscurity, to let the world know
what he means-what idea he intends
to convey, by the above figure.
| More Of the Colonel's poetry reads
as follows:
! Greater triumphs awaits us yet
When Bonaparte's prophecy shall
find fulfilment and Europe shall be-
come 'Cossack when the glitteripg
seraglio Of the Turkish Sultan with its
golden towers, shall echo to the iron
tread Of the Gear; and England,
France and Austria shall be humbled
at the feet Of the great "Polar Bear
we will have made the triumphant
march Of State from Lake Erie to the
Carribbien sea. The Central and South
American stars will have been added
to the flaming constellation Of Thirty
One" Then ono hundred Stars and
Stripes will float towards Europe, and
Tapping AleSander's imperial brow,
will break the Cossack's iron sceptre,
and breathe into the empires Of the
Old World the regenerating spirit Of
Liberty. Then will the "gilded
spheres" resound with universal shouts
for freedom, and free governments rise
throughout the throne-aching CONT
nent of the East. Then will all men,
tongues and people meet at common
altar; all sing "Hail Columbia;" all
call George Washington "Father."--
Shall our glorious system of govern
ment be pushed onward to this bril-
liant end Z Then let Buchanan reign.
| Freedoms lawful home is circum-
scribed only by the limits Of the globe.
Its axis will not reach short Of the
poles. Shall the march of Westward
Empire halt Then let Fillmore
reign. To this Cuba, and Crittenden,
I who, "knelt to none but his Cod" say
nay! Meteor-like the bold tread Of Re-
publicanism is trailed from the pro-
gressive spirit Of Democracy. Skill
full huntsmen are on the trail.
No doubt. This calls to mind a
passage in the reign Of the Sixth Hen
~. Cade--Jack Cade addresses his
army thus:
Cade. Be brave them for your captain
is brave, and vows reformation. There
shall be, in England, seven half-penny
leaves sold for a penny: the three hooped
, pot shall have ten hoops; and will make
, it felony, to drink small beer; all the realm
shall be in common, and in Cheapside
shall my palfry go to grass. And, when
am king, las king | viii bel -
All. God save your majesty
Cade. thank you, good people -
, there shall be no money; all shall eat and
drink on my score and will apparel
: them all in one livery, that they may agree
like brothers, and worship me their lord.
Dick. The first think we do, lets kill all
the lawyers.
\ Cade. Nay, that mean to do Is not
this a lamentable thing, that the skin Of
an innocent lamb should make parchment /?
tht aparchment, being scribbled DER, should
undo man? Some say, the the bee stings !:
but say, tits the bees wax, for did but
seal once to thing, and was never mine
own man since. How nowa who's
there?
Enter some, bringing IN the Clerk Of
Chatham.
/ Smith. The clerk of Chatham: he can
write and read, and cast accompt.