The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-12-25
A mans a man. for a'lhat.

this dirty terraqaeous ball, you come in
coniact,with a great variety of individuals
belonging to the human race; some white
an skin but black'at heart, Others. all the
way through of color, like a kin OF
June butter. Now; the question, is how
do you judge,of the moral worth, good
ness and nobeness of your fellow MANI
1T is by his duds or BY his deedsl When
you make your obeisance. do, you bow to
the dry goods upon his back or to the
animated mass of sin and sycophancy
beneath theme know that, in too, many
instances, you pay your respects to the
former, while the dirt of depravity may
be found under his dickey, and his heart
covered with thick coat of corruption
while, at the same time YOU would
'tscorn tograsp the hand that has grown hard
in honest toll, especially out were hung
upon the corporeal frame. This is wrong
my friends. 1T shows "a spirit OF weak
ness, loolishness and vanity on your parts,
contemplate in the sight of your Maker,
and ridiculous in the eyes of,all good and
intelligent people. | tell you man is
Il man-whethcr his coat COMFORTS with
the cleanliness Of his character, or his
vest with the value of his virtues-just as
much as potato is potato, whether it
be washed white and clean or covered
with the dust Of its native soil. For my
part had rather associate with The per-
son whose good and noble qualities are
partially obltera,ed by shabby exterior,
than with him whose rotten reputation is
patched up with 5roadcloth and buck
rE1n.
My lriends-there was time when q
'gentleman and a,man were synonymous
terms; but that period is past, forever
The moral material that then composed
the one was embodied in the other; but
now Il days there is as much difference be-
tween them as there is between bone and
Ivory. A MAN is now made up, as he al
ways was, of honesty, frankness, purity
and palnness of apparel; but GENTLE
MAN Is compound of vanity, deceit, hy-
pocrlsy, gold, silver, shinplasers and
brass. The truth is, my worthy friends,
odd Time has taken into his capacious
~maw our whole lump of prmeral virtue,
which mas soured upon his stomach; and
he now vomts vice over the land, to soil
the footsteps Of the innocent and would-be
virtuous; and he that has bcdaubed him
self, Immediately assumes the air, th: at
.'tude and the attire Of a gentleman, in Or
der that he may walk into respectable So
clety, unsupported of the moral filth that
would otherwise cause his fame, if not
his feet, to Sink worse than pot OF
.bears-grease savolcd with the essence of
pole-cat.
Ny respected hoarers-thc difference
that exists between men of the present
day is not so great as that between men
and monkeys. by a long chalk. consid
er that man to be Il gentleman who has in
his heart the true principles Of honor and
integrity don't care whether or not he
De shod. shaver, shorn, or shirtcd; and |
consider that gentleman to be MAN,
whose interior recommendations cores
pendiwilh the nrceness of his outside ar
rangemonts. But virtue, vice, conceit
corruption, integrity, and confirmed ras
calty, have, of late, become SO counfpun
dec together, under the garb of pretended
piety and a whole pair of breeches, that
tits difficult to determine the man from
the monster. Ancient Esau, the favorie
Of his blind father, was hairy man; yet
his cunning and jealous brother contrived
by dressing himself in coon skins, to
pass for Esau in the presence of the I'M
suspectng old gentlemen; but, let me tell
yon, my friends, that if a scoundrel thinks
suit Of good clothes and false collar Of
religion are going to pass him safely with
in the walls of salvation, he will find
himself as much deceived as the philoso-
pher who undertook to amalgamate moon
shine with metaphysics.
My dear 'irienqs-whcn see man bra
wing the bitter blasts of poverty, with
chrislian-like fortitude and without a
murmur-who had rather pick hisrpreca-
rious. food from among the lhorns of
perjury, and subject himself to the con-
tumely of the proud than dishonesty tres
pass upon the fields of wealth and plenty
II say, that mans a man for all of tn at,
and when see all individual, rolling in
aflluence, revealing in the sweets of luxu-
ry, and at the same time robbng the wild.
ow of her'mtc, and snatching the bread
from the mouth of poor orphans-I say,
that gentleman's no gentleman, anyhow
you can fix it. The world, dear friends,
IS growing corrup. and more corrupt, as
each revolving year rolls round. Vice
and venality, are progressing with the
march of intellect and refinement; and
yon might as we'll undertake to extin-
guish the fires of endless torment with a
schoolboy's squirt gun as to prevent their
ravages. Everybody is gentleman who
has money ct his control-everybody is
a man who will allow himself to be rob-
bed-and everybody is loefer whose
coat has been worn threadbare by indus