The New York herald., 1845-03-17
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timee in this age OF activity, refinement, art, and
.nterprize, are duly noted by the observant mora
list, as the legitimate effects of the spirit oil the
/ tge as 80 many segments, however small, of the
/ great circle of human regeneration. Bubbles OF
/ prodigious dimensions are blown, in symmetrical
| foundity, by the expansive force OF well rounded
periods; and what though these bubbles burst, the
| genius who created them is still there. Schemes
| for reforming the whole world, TEEN forth from
day to day with the most gratifying fertility, and
what though they do not effect their obect-that
does not controvert the truth, that the world
stands III need Of publication. Feathers show the
way the wind blows; and the wind is not curtalled
of any Of its force by SO frail an index. No mat
Ter about the sign-the thing signlfied is signif
cant and If political economy be true, why should
| not public estimation put a market value upon
those species OF commodities called movements
and reforms. well as upon ostrich feathers, gold
dust, the dus. of the schools, and we say 1t with
reverence-heraldic escutcheons?
Many have been the benevolent efforts to bless
mankind at large by the multiplication OF law-the
elevation Of theology, the concentration of the
potent resources Of medicine; and country under
the sun Is blessed with more OF these-of which a
large proportion are native, and to the manner
born" than :" the land we live in'' But, to be
just, she has in one respect been behind her des
tiny; in one particular at least the old world has
been in advance Of her; she has, with reluctance
it must be confessed, and with due sense of hu-
initiation at being obliged to make the dsparaging
admission n-hitherto-alack-a-day she has had
no GO Herad's College"
An illustrious reformcr has arisen to supply the
deficiency. In Manhattan there was voice
heard of lamentation and mourning-the Knicker-
bockers srieving for their children, because they
were not" enrolled in the hera!dic register. With
livelypleasure we announce that General Arlington
Bennett has opened !" The American Herad's
College," in the Granite buildings, corner Of
Broadway and Chambers street, in the city OF New
York, State of New York, United States of
America.
It iswith well founded hope that this announce
ment will afford solid satisfaction to that numerous
and highly respectable class who believe that
by any other name would not smell as sweet-that
family wihouta coat OF arms might as we'll have
lis sons without dress coats and it's daughters with
out pettcoats is for the special benefit OF these
excellent citizens that we are so particular in spe-
cltylng the exact location of the American He
raids College, &c. &c. &C.. in order that they may,
one and all Of them, go forthwith and record their
names, show their lineage, prove TO wicked, per-
verse and skeptlcal generation that they had grand
fathers and grandmothers, that they come into the
world in the usual way, but on an improved princi
pie, and that it is not true that
-"their blood
Has crept through scoundres ever since the flood"
How many pearls of purest ray lie buried in the
caves OF the ocean-how many quarts OF patrician
blood course through the arterial systems of our
leather dealers, ship chambers, stock jobbers, and
so forth! How many sweet creatures, blessed with
grace ot person and beauty Of features, commanding
The admiration Of-themselves-are utterly lEh0- |
rant OF the ancestry from whom they inherit these
advantages. Who knows but were there proper
facilities for counting kindred, not lew of those
n n n n e.
obscnrity which pervades this shockngly, vulgarly,
democratic city but by the possession of that qua
lily by which Washington Irving says herring he
comes lu;alnous-who knows but they might dis
cover themselves to be directly descended from
some Paladn Of the time Of Charlemagne, some
Doge of Venice, or Red Cross knight whose bright
sword eclipsed the Sdracen Moon, and at whose
glance the fierce follower OF the prophet quailed be-
fore the crusader II is melancholy such state Of
thinks could have existed; 1t commands our spe.
ca wonder that the march of civilization has not
long ago exploded those pie ebeian notions Of equa-
ty, and as 1t passed along, kept sharp look out tor
those who bear the stamp Of nobility some place or
other, and which is lllegibe and almost efiaced
ynly because OF lts great antiquity.
il is firmly believed that in this city, there live
| at the present day, lord knows how many neal de-
| scendans of Noah, Nebuchadnezzar, and Joseph
wife-Constantine the Great Richard Ceur de
Lion; Guy, Earl of Warwick Jack the Giant
Killer, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London; Esop,
Brutus, and hundreds besides of the great names
Of the days OF yore; and it is melancholy fact,
that nothing stronger than sly suspicion that they
something over and above the consolatory per-
| suaslon tina, they have more money than wit (the
sure mark OF distinction in the 10Th century, ex
lists IN the shape Of testimony, of their illustrious
| lineage. To be sure, in not lew instances, the
advantage may be altogether on the side of obli-
WON, and tradition may furnish as agreeable guide
as the recorded truth; but those who are disposed
to let the bones of their sres rest in peace for wise
reasons, can stay at home and not engage the SER
vices OF General Arlington Bennett nevertheless,
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| in it; and who should blame them for paying 80
much head into the Golfers of The Herald's Col
ese for chart OF their descent rom any Of those
personages above mentioned-of several othersnot
/ to be mentioned-any of those
| Departed spirits of the mighty dead
They who at Marathon aud Leuctra bled."
We have it on the authority of General Arlington
Bennett, that this is illustrous republic, which
ancients, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, attended
| TO heraldry, and therefore,. so should the United
| States Of course, on such capital authority, we
are bound to believe that Americans ough. to en-
| dorse the principles and initiate the customs OF
| their republican predecessors-to have Helots like
the Spartans-an agraran law like the Romans-a
Councllof Ten like Venice, and Protectorllke the
Commonwealth OF England, and by all means cult.
vate the science of heradry Further, on the same
| authority we learn, that mo true American can
refuse to sanction the institution of an American
Herald'sC College.that heradry belongs to to the whole
who has pride Of character, or thirst for immor
tay"-both of which are in the gift of the Herald's
College, to be sure; and, consolatory reflection
| that the Herad's College is supplied with more
than eighty qaarlo and folio volumes Of the most
| approved works on heradry, ancient and modern,
from all the countries of Europe, with many rare
manuscripts, that those who wish to trace their
pedlgrees, will have every facility afforded them.
Verify, we live in great country, where every
man may become immortal for the small charge OF
flye dollars, "and no money returned" /"
"Cheapness is the order Of the day." as was well
said by one of the two-penny postage law orators,
at the Exchange meeting, the other day; It has
and, to the great delight Of this enlightened com.
munty, it has been adopted here. 1t was remark
able change but how irifilng when compared with
cheap heradry? Who will not buy five dollars worth
my basket of oysters" Officers, civil, military, or
naval, presidents senators, judges, doctors OF di-
vnty, law, and medcine-in a word, all ye who
have five dollars and too little sense to know It's