The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1856-01-04

For the past fortnight, New Orleans
has been the theatre of the most vio-

fact that the editors OF the COQuefi
True Delta, OrIoaoian and Delta. haze
severally mad tie discovery that there
is nightly, bloodshed aud murder in
every degree, from the first to the last
This is the moro astonishing since il
never was SO before in New Orleans,
and nothing of the kind is known in
other large cities of the commercial
world. The editors seyerally referred
to, deserve to be classified as sentinals
on the watch-tower Of morality, if not
Of liberty. Liberty as it would seem,
has point beyond which it cannot
go-and the editors severally as before
said, are willing to admit that man
may do as he may Gin this great land
Of Liberty. the asylum of the op-
pressed Of all nations" still one man
has no right to kill another without
making restitution of damages to his
family (if he have any and paying the
law its fines and penalties. Calls have
been-a half column, a column and a
half and three columns long, for a
mass meeting of citizens to devise
means to prevent murder and blood
shed-to prevent good, true and hon.
est men from getting drunk, loosing
their reason, running mad, and run
ming into the boot-hole of iniquity and
the bowels Of death. Could such a
thing be done by mass meeting BY
weekly for century to come, it would
justify the kouble and expense. This
is not the object of the mass meeting,
called for. 1t is to keep up political
excitement and encourage the belief
in the minds Of the bigotted portion Of
society, that "the Thugs" 1.-THE mid
night assassins'-"tbe dark lantern
ers. "the what-you-wills," in way of
opprobius epithets-in short the larger
half Of the American people are at the
bottom Of this thing. Now, if one man
knocks another down in the third tier
Of the Theatre, the affair gets into the
local prints after such form of phrase
ology as to lead to the belief that it
was "another Know Nothing agyres-
sion" If there be an election and
there is a riot at the polls-and when
and where has the election yet been
held in a large city that there has not
been-now, it is the American Party
a preconcerted plan agreed upon in
secret council! The Crescent reiter-
ates the call for a mass meeting to put
an end to anarchy, bloodshed and
murder; and suggests that first class
chambermaids, be admitted to the meet
ing, ON Lucy Stones Platform. Tina,
paper says:
The present tremendous condition
of society in New Orleans--unbecom-
ing, unnatural and wicked in.the ex-
treme--has at last, We are happy to
say, aroused the ate ntion, exercised
the imagination, and stimulated the
patriotic upheavings of that large, use
full, intelligent and powerful portion Of
our population, generally known and
designated as--chambel maids
The Chambermaids have held a
preliminary meeting at which pre-
amble and resolutions were adopted.
Below is the preamble /; the resolu-
tons are rather long, and therefore
omitted:
Whereas: In the course of human
events, all women have become as free
and independent as all men; we the
chambermaids of New Orleans having
read in three or four Of the daily pa
pers that anarchy, bloodshed and MUIR
der, reigned rampant throughout New
Orleans-that law was set at naught--