The native American., 1838-08-18
[CoMMUNIcATED.l
TO The Editor of the NatiUe .4mericnn

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To the Editor of the Native american:
| The ladies have heretofore always considered
this gentleman as one of the strong supporters oil
the sex. They thought from the high-toned pa
triotism that breathed through his editorials, as
we'll as the circumstance of his nativity in the
gallant "Od Dominion" where women queen it
DER the heart, as much as in the European world
they rule it over empire that his sentiments must
all partake of a chivaric character. We are sor-
rv to find it otherwise, since even the sex and
inexperienced youth of the maiden sovereign OF
Britain could not shield her from the personal at
tack. Such is not the conduct or language of
pure republicanism-it more resembles the fanatic
violence of the French Of revolutionary memory
for it is the height of illberaty to impugn the
Justice of a sovereign, because OF the unhappi-
ness to which vice and misery will everywhere
give birth. We might just as well call the Presi-
dent to account for all the scenes Of wild violence
that are enacted within the precincts Of our own
Western borders Had the Editor exercised his
usual cool, dispassonate Judgment, he would have
considered this, nor sullied the purity of his pen
by epithets injurious to youthful innocence,
whether applied to queen or pleblan. As to the
gorgeous pomp he so much condemns, it was
suitable to the occasion, and in accordance with
the established usages of the country tiom time
inmemoria. Simplicity, however beautiful in
its place, would there have been entirely out of
character. Besides, it is secret learnt in the
history of monarchles, that the brighter the
halo of spendor around the crowned head, the
greater the respectable stronger the devotion
of the people. Louis the Fourteenth of France
knew how to turn to his advantage this weak
ness of nature-and le grand monarque--a very
despot-was the idol of his objects.
1t is absurd, to make our own standard OF
perfection, the test for measuring others: we
should laugh to hear the unutored Laplander
lauding his bleak and barren country in contempt
of every other, and yet we are no wiser il,
supposing the virtues of good Government, all
locked up in ours
Considered in utilitaran point of view, this
pageantry and pomp was useful, as it encouraged
trade by stimulating the invention and rewarding
the industry of the hundreds who were called on
to contribute. But the really Objectionable part,
upon which, suspect, the lordy sex are most
sensitive, is the act Of feally or homage to the
Queen, from all the peers of her realm they
think it derogatory to their dignity, that men
should thus humiliate themselves at the feet ofa
grl-they do not consider, that it is only the
oath to support and defend the laws of the land, of
which by the peculiar constitution ofthe country
the sovereign is supposed to be Jure dic'no,
the living impersonation. We pay the same re.
verence to the constitution of our country-only
Expressed in different manner; and where the
good results are equally the same, why cavl a
forms
We hope the editor of "the Native" if he
wishes to retain the suhrages Of the American fair
will never again offend against the sacred laws 0
gallantry. Kings he may abuse to the extent 0
his pleasure-but in the name of all that is nob
and magnanmous, spare the Queens, for the SAX
of their sex!-and remember that if TAX
the credit and honor Of great deeds, they are in
debted to us for the motives which inspire them
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