Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-04

lust, ana QraW'd MS sword very re-
luctant. To fact, he wouldn't hav'
draw'd his sword at all, only be had
a large stock Of military clothes on
hand, which he didn't want to waste.
| He SEE the colored man is right, and
he will al once go to New York
and open Sabbath School for ne
gro MINISTRIES.
] The BULLET AND THE BALLor.-1t
is now evident that the tranquility
of restored Union is to be most
dangerously disturbed by that class
Of agitators who most effectually
contributed in the North to tempo
rary disunion. 1t is impossible to
state any Constitutional conditions
which will satisfy them. Before
the wounds of the Union are yet
completely healed, they are pre-
pairing to strike it with newly
sharpened weapons, unless the ut
termost of their demands are granted.
Precisely the extent of those de-
mands they keep to themselves;
only this we know, that they de-
mand more and more with each
concession, as the sibyl raised her
| price on each refusal.
But for the present it is suffrage
for the freed negroes that seems
chiefly to excite their concern.
Without it, MIR. Sumner thinks the
| war was fought in vain; without it,
Mr.. Wendell Phillips deems freedom
for the negroes a delusion and q
| snare, and the Union as still Gov
| enant with hell. Mr.. Greeley, in
loose and incondite, and not very
glittering generalties, adopts these
sentiments, and follows numbering
in the way in which he supposes
John Browns spirit may be still
marching on.
The argument in which they
| claim for freed negroes the right of
suffrage has the popularity of being
independent Of any logical relation
of facts. We have fair sample of
it in recent speech of Cen Butler
when he appealed to the men Of
Massachusetts to say whether the
man who is fit to fight is not fit to
vote; whether a man that can carry
a cartridge box is not fit 10 walk
to the ballot-box; whether the man
who knows how to handle bayo.
net does not know how to handle a
little bit of paper"
This is about as much as to say
that because a fish can swim, be
can fly; or that because man may
have been tolerable stone.cutter,
he is capable of producing an
Apollo Belvedere or a Mcclellan
Venus; or that because anything
has been done, any other thing, no
matter how great or difficult, may
be done by the same agent. Where
is the analogy between the bullet
and the ballot 2 What sequence
unites, or what common principle
includes them?
Elephants fought in ancient bat.
ties; in some instance they may
have saved the state. but we do not
read that they were made its rulers.
There exists not an old country
which at some time did not avail
itself Of mercenary soldiers, but
those soldiers were not invited to
supplant the original citizenship.
Killing is sometimes a trade, and if
political rewards are to be proper
toned to skill in that calling, the
chief executioner would always be
emperor.
Yet, illogically as negro suffrage
is demanded, there are those who
would gladly concede it, if sure that
the radical agitators would then be-
come quiet and sober, and let their
neighbors live in peace. But they
will give no such assurance. After
suffrage was gained, the spirit of
CASTE" in the words of Mr.. Greeley,
would still remain, and be will
hear to no terms of peace until that
intangible monster of morbid opinion
shall be annihilated.-N o. Bee.
WILD PEPPERMINT AS A RAT ExrER-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Robinson writes
to the Canada Farmer:
l have for the last four years proved
to my satisfaction that the "wiId pep
permiDt is sure and reliable exter-
minator Of rats. In proof Of the fact,
I will state the result it has had with
ne. Four years ago my barn was
regularly infested with rats; they
were SO numerous that I had great
fears for nv whole grain being des.