Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-10-30

Foreign Chnrlatans- Ballroom Beaux. &C.
This Is truly the land Of PROMISE flowing with milk
and honey-the delight OF all nations and light to
them that sill in darkness. Ii is the realization of the
Utopia Of the politicians, and more productive FL
Dorado than the eary advenurer could have pictured
in their widest dreams. No wonder then that it
should be ovcrrun by herds of humbugs, and chera-
Tiers d Hdustrie whom Europe sends forth from it's
lank and eeming SOIL TO devour every green thing,
like the caterplllars of Egypt, (wherc bye the bye
there not much verdure TO feed upon except lin
the land Of Goshen, where there was grass " and
make their fortunes by dlnt Of ctarlotanerie where
the modest retiring, and exampery starve in silence
and solitude, because they dsdan to resort 10 the az
thces of presumpiuous ignorance and impuden i'm
position.
In this country where vrtlous merit when known
is always to vndca,e TO itself the public appro-
baton, respect and support (of which no greater
proof can be exhibited than the Herald and the inu-
exercises the minds of of thousands
in every quarter of the land) IL is miraculous with
what avldty we hasten TO accept the pretensions of
every foreigner at the standard his modesy nxes to
them, and then give him currency through society
when his own eudacity drew ont his passport and
our credulty and innocence countersgneaif. Gentle
mems discarded Wallets, metamorphose themselves
into Counts nj least, when they have been regene-
rated and their old slesgh by crossing the At
antic and bankrupt shopkecpers, or the battered
roues Of London or Paris with veteran brass we'll
oiled whiskers and the second hand airs of dancing
MASTER become the admired of Broadway, or the pre-
feIrod customers of importers and Iobbers That
many respectable and honorable exles have made this
happy land their home, we have pleasure in acknow-
Lodging; their mlsforiunes were a claim TO our hos
pallty, and their virtues were an ornament 10 the
home of their choice Where the BODY is there the
eagles will flock together; and after they have taken
decent and genemanly repas, come the carbon
crows, the reptiles and the owls feeding on o7al and
garbage, and like the obscene harpes Of fable spelling
and poluiIng whatthey cannot devour:
These dave in borrowed plumes, (of which we have
a notable instance in Silk Buckingham, who came
here last week, and Immediately dubbed himself the
Honorable Mr.. Buckingham in the Journal Of Com
merce of Saturday, are generally birds of passage
who come TO make a grab IN trdnsife and then like
the Crawcosrs hurry OIL to secure their booty. The
Reverend Mr. Wof-the Honorable Mr.. Bucking-
ham, Doctor Humbug-R A. Locke, the moon
hoax oaler-Fanny Wright, with crop of mousta.
chss on her lips that would do honor 10 Croot or
Pandour-snd the whole troop of mendic, mlmm,
baatrones,' emptying our purses perverng our NOR
ais, cerruptlng our women, and running the smpici
TO and innocence of the country, worse than the
devastating epidemic their inroads are longer and
more severely felt. The Count de Tilly's adventure
with the Bingham family Of Philadelphia is sti fresh
in the memory of thousands where Partisan gam.
bier palmed himself of as of fortune and fam
ily, and in that disguise married Miss Bingham
When the cheat was discovered, he sold his claim 10
her for $4,000 with which he returned to Paris and
embarked in his evil courses, appropriately terrnina-
ting his infamous course by blowing out his brains in