Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1821-11-24
AMERICAN COSTUME & TITLES.


70 my acquaintance: and although he was the
owner of real tile, yet he likewise posses
sed what most OF our officers have lost or
discaIded) spirit sufficiently republican to
desPiSe oil htfes. As he was anxious for in.
formation relaIiv. to every thing concerning
the American people and their government,
did not permit my zeal in favor of our own
country, to sleep on this occasion; but emu.
merated an hundred blessings and advantages,
which our independence and our republican
institutions gave us over every other nation.
lie was DESTROYS of abandoning his title and
his country, and of finding pure and simple
republic for his future residence, il such a
one could BE found on this globe And the
high encomiuIns he had heard in favor of our
Republic, induced him to csDss the Atlantic
aud Investigate our claims to republican sim.
pliciiy himself. And the result thu. far was,
that he had been misinformed on some of the
most important points.
lie denied that we were INDEPENDENT
IN fact, but only in name. For nu,witb.
standing that we had shaken off the shackles
of British legislation, yet Great Britain still
helo us in voluntary bondage by the influence
OF her manufactures, and moro especially by
her fashions! Your very knivrs and FORKS
prove that you are dependent upon her u,
least three times every day; and your 6idn-
hetS testify the same thing at night. Nay,
says he, | have visited Washington, your ma.
tionai capitol, and many OF your state CAPT
tolls, the centres of your republican vir
tues, and there find still stronger evidence
OF your dependence on Great Britain: tor your
PRESIDENT, year Governors, your Senators,
your Congressman and your Assemblymens
all wear the badge Of dependence on Great
Britain either in preferring her cloths, or
what is a thousand times worse, usirg her
fashions; and thereby rendering your country,
tributary TO British Tutors and Rratish
Nahiners!i! Has any nation right to
BOAST OF their Independence, who are stii, de.
pendent or enothsr tor the very cut of their
coatsp
l informed him, that some years ego, l
han anticipated ali his remarks, and commit.
ted them to the press. And that | had even
gone so tar as 10 propose that r,ngres. should
either appoint a reeular committee to en-
quirs into the pcopTieiy Of recommending the
Introduction Of permanent American cos.
tune: or they might meet as private indivi.
duais at Washiu gten, and alter devising a
proper costume, recommend is adoption TO
their fellow ciuaens. / weuld stake my life,
that such recon- m endation would be re.
ceivsd with accidmdt'on Sy the American
people; and That step once gained, would 20
lar towards completing our national chatac-
ter. My plan Included likewise another; that
was for the ladies of Washing on 10 have
general meeting for the same purpose, and
after renouncing adhesion TO France and
England, TO strike Jul into aeau sp6erc OF
their own.
The next, and most indefensi6ie objection
OF this worthy and eniig hten.G foreigner, was,
our national ha0kerang after despicable ii
ties. he was astonishec and COMPOUNDED. at
the great falling off OF our people from their
first scunc principles. Instead of finding
one President 10 Mr.. Mcnroe, he was cont
nuaily hearing and reading OF President a.
dams, TreSl0ent Jefferson and President
Madison. lnsteaa OF one Governor in each
state, he found generally half a dozen: who
notwithstanding they received half dozen
doses of 'Youa EXcELLENcY" st every
corner of the street, or room where thew han
pened to be, still snuifed the tainted breeze
OF fialtery, with all the Importance and com
Placency lha, have seen one rageed noble.
man in Italy address another of no better
plight. Your Judges, your Secretaries, pnd
your CongressmeD are all titled "IHe
Honorable" both an Office and Uut. And
have often smiled to see your Assemblymen
initiating your Congressman, who again inn
tate The British PsTliamentmen in bandying I
about the "Honorabie" titles, like shuttle.
cocks to one another!
But when see the multitude Of EsGuires
" ho like sorrows in u cornfield" elreedy be.
gin to swarm over this republic, and who are
as tenacious Of this ii,tlDcli0n in their inter-
Course with each other, a. your Presidents
and GoUerRo,S are OF their ''EI1e{tenczeS:''
cannot help but exclaimiBg, God help the
republic; for the Devil has been sowing the
fares OF driStocyacy, while the republican.
slept. plainly see the seeds OF formula,
Ole ari tocfacy springing Up amongst you, IN
the shape OF your ErceIenc1es, your Honoyu
blcs, and your ''ESguires''! The favorable
Impressions had imbbed, respecting the
republican simplicity Of your manners and
customs, have received powerful check
And although admit that you are still the
haPpiest nation on earth, yet that is net q
sufhcent encouragement to a man Of philo-
soPhical turn Of mind, who is about seeking
tor permanent resting place for himself and
his posterity, under tire wings of pure and
simple repoblc. And who 10 locking over
The page OF history fnds no instance of any
permanent republic and although he was led
TO expect such one in the u, S. yet he fear
eu toat we were sdvsncing with rapid strides
towards establishing a tilted ur;stocracu. If
MOCK tsHe5 were priced 80 highly by all oar
?DtcerS OF government, he had better remain
IN Europe, and thsfe enjoy the benefits to be
Derived from the possession Of real title; for
ne was sufficiently yersed 10 the machinery of
governments to know, that such anfi-repubH.
can principles never could have attained their
present growth unless they had been secretly
CHERISHED at HEA b QUARTERS
This liberal minded foreigner expressed nv
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