Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-08-09
a cs.,ic. 60 s-r,s.s1Chs,ss IN the
Law of Label.

That allie aud wei cdi'ed paper,
the philad, ,'hia Inquirer. says
PhidiaS inserted his own likeness
among tie devices sru'piured by him
on the shi,li Of his NO III wondrous
statue of Oly'npisn Jovp, and thus
brought the King uf Gods anil the
l'riure Of Artists, into n rather close
comp ,nionship. hut The net involved
the last named gentleman IN y scrape
viii h finally cost him his lie. The
country IL now all agog with the
greatest political event which can
h,ppnu among VA. AMI divers amhi.
ii,u' parisans ara rushing into pint,
aspiring /, be kirg walkers, anJ bo.
Plug ihus to ally th-m>,lve4 intimate.
w with the cause of him whom they
have espnnsed ~ the next President
Of the United STATES. The letters,
arru-ations. denominations, exposures.
charges and oountrr.chsrges, are
flowing in thick and fast upon us. and
waxing warm and wratbful. They
nre becoming personal M well ~ po.
litlc,l. aud Ltginning to be less useful
than abusive. The disprtan's must
hy all means make rerorl for them.
selves they must be able on the day
Of tho inauguration to flourish their
threatening aud bplligerent mis-ivr.
correspondence, or sp ech, ~ the l,asis
of their claim to Executives favor /;
anl II they do not forget that their
lutte hands were never made 10 tear
each others ewes. why then 40 much
greater proof does such Oblivion give
d devotion 10 thslr chief. This i.
all very nice anil chi,alr,c, and if
they happen to he on the winning
sile, IL may turn out play Of trnmps.
hut in the meantime they should
take care that ike the ,spiring Mr..
Phiiias. they do not got into a scrape
l'y assuming too close fellowship
with their favorite idol They should
60 ahead only as they are sure they
ate right and they cannot be- azure
OF that unless they keep on the wind.
warl side of the law otherwise their
triumphant progress to share Of the
spolls viii become very hard road
t. travel, nm Instead of conducting
them 10 an office, will land them in
jiL
The m,xim. 'bas always been the
truth the greater the liI'el, has always
b'en tie legal weapon with which the
big wigged judges Of England, aud
the liz le wigeed ones Of this country
have Knocked down The defendant, in
mn indctmrn', who Offered TO prove
on the t'ial the Truth of his publica.
ton. The law did not allow him TO
protect himself or create sensation,
or win notorietv, 10y spreading his
rich developments before the world.
lie must suffer a. mute ma,tyr. un
h unred and uusung. But we altered
Ill that in 1855, and by a little Act
OF Assembly. then passed. allowed the
truth 10 he given in evidence on the
tial If indictments for libel. This
was great enrou agemeut 10 the free
ua OF printers ink, IL the object Of
your attack did not prosecute you, Of
course you We're safe from the law -
"in which, when snoe you are imbrsnr'.i.
The more y''u stir the 'aofe you're sntanAled
u he dill prosecute, then you had
n cheap and easy opportunity for ac.
quiring fame, Either way he coull
not scnrch or kill you. The three
wis, men who were lately comu is
sioneI to patch up the laws wh;rh
were ,ying about loose like the broken
fragments of Mos $ lwo tables, report.
eG that we o,ght to retain this four
year old provision as part of our
system, and they accordingly included
il in the new code. But the Lsyisla
ture was ton sensitive on the subject,
and thought that we, the people, were
not fit TO be trusted with this privilege,
and 50 they struck ont that part Of the
section aud left the law to stand as it
had stood CIR hundreds Of years prior
10 1856. Thus the ancient maxim Of
the greater the truth the greater the
libel Is restored to its time-honored
position, and we must again take heed
OF the ways Of our pens. We ibe,e-
fore. rsu'ion all epi.,olary sc,ibes to
oil eve the law with the sxactuess Of