Litchfield enquirer., 1842-12-08
noR 1H r1TcHFnLD kNouHAxIL AMERICAN ARISTOCRATS.

C0ntemptS au <AAuSttCdu <AbASeOCEuS VI V Oau0y' Both are indeed justly the subjects of our unqualified hatred and disgust but heA is entitled to the grea- est share, is matter requiring more reflection than
 have time present to devote to that inquiry; and as its investigation is not Ut all important to the topic in hand, will suspend my remarks on the sub iect of Dandes, until future and more favora- ble opportunity shall afford me leisure to give that brainIess race scathing adequate to their desers merely suggesting at the present time that American ArstOcrats and Dandies have far outstripped all other aspirants for fame in ridiculous folly as to be considered almost the only rivals and that the claim for superiority undoubtedly lies between THEM alone.
 It does ones heart good to see an unbending Aris. tocrat, with lordly air, walk up and down the streets of London, apparently unconscious that there is Cop above. or HILL below. or that all the vaet domain which his organs of vision encircle together with every thing that s above, undeE On in about the same, is not his and that he s not the most important man in all England; for in that govern ment, as he is dependant the popular will or Os-' teem for nothing, he can support it.
 A Yankee, as he passes by such . man has an in- voluntary desire to do something queer; he hardly knows what; whether to repeat the Lords Prayer,. the Creed, to give vent to his feelings in an out right burst of laughter and then whistle Yankee, Doodle.
 But the demeanor of an American Aristocras isf enough to make one sick of humanity and constrain all nature to groan. Whenever see one of these heterogeneous Jumps, nauseous feeling invariably invades my stomach, and extends its influence thro- out my whole physical organization. The fact that fifty of those creatures passed by Mount vesuvisst along the Mediterranean, few months before itS eruption. is sufficient to convince that they have the same effect upon volcanoes for it s said that Vesuvius had for some time previous to that event. by her constant roaring and grumbling, evincsd . nanseous feeling, and disposition tO voms, whics she at last did, and poured forth from her stomack such flood that it entirely drowned the lovely cities of Pompeii and HercHaneum, and laid waste all the surrounding country.
 The very name or idea of an Aristoerat in rept. bcan government ofwhich equality is one ofi,s first and most glaring features, fills us with infinite dis. gust. There never existed in any country or age of the world a specimen of human nature so mean and so deserving of entire disregard as an American Arlstocrat. He is entirely ignorant of those noble and generous feelings which swell the bosom of a magnanimous soul, and the farthest stretch of hia imagination never did nor never will reach beyond the confines of his own sordid interest," or the almosa boundless enclosure which surrounds his ideas of his own importance. Take for example, John Smith. John traces his ancestry back through a long succession of generations, to the crown of England, and claims that his blood began to divsrge from the Royal stock after the reign of Alfred, and that consequently there is sprinklng of Saxon as well as Royal blood flowing in his veins; and brides himself particularly upon these facts, as tho Saxon and ROval hlonI h,at iii others as to render him by the small quantity of the original blood that still circuates in his stem afer the lapse of eight centuries and probably thirty gs- neratons, each of which dvsrged an additional de- gree from the original line, superior to all about him. His dsmaano1 has always been proud and naughty; he has nodded his beaveronN so oSher Ike high and Royal blooded gentry, and treated all oshan wsh irr vdisns contempt. He never loved .hA common people" and the common people never loved hin.
 But he has lattesly received the nomination of Congressman by one party, and one thing is pretty evident to John, his political friends, and every bod ese-and that is, that something mus. be dons or he will not obtain solitary vote of the common people, Accordingly. John and his political friends and friends of the Royal blood-'*In Genssas Assembly,, conuened'-take the matter into cool and calm con- sideration, and 6naly to the deliberate couclu sion that the common people are people of little reflection, accustomed believe all the professions of those who are higher m rank than themselves. and remarkably fond of the attentions of the rich and Gentleman Arstocrats. It is therefore
 Resolved, That John and his friends shall hence. forth, until after the election tip their beavers when ever tEey meet any of the common people, take great pains to cross the street in order to meet them -shake them heartily by tho hand-be particularly anxious about the health of their wives and chidren and at last conclude with lecture on the common peoples political interests aud an invitation to make them visit"
 It would take vast quantity of ink, paper, and time, (which poor cannot afford, especially in these hard times,) to give full account of the var ous proceedings under the above resolution, but suf flee to say, that the boots already out in teous scraSng and the hats that have lost their front brims on account of the too frequent application of the right hand in the way of making polite bows. would have been of more service to the common people, than all the Congresses that have assembled for the past fourteen years. Bus John Is not yet esc' ted, and what will be the result ot the elect'On no one can tell but if might b. allowed to VI scluntseF an opinion, that opinion would b. tAaA tAN eomnGc people know more than John and hiA, ftisnds sup~ pose; that they see through the whole maneuvsa-.. will be very careful to defect his election and aAsr wards ask him "if his mamma is acquainted wih his whereabouts" .~sg r4
 How does such a man as my tabled John Smith stand in the estimation of plain hearted, upright. honest man. whose lofty spirit loathes al decst and