The daily crescent., 1848-12-13
DAILY CRESCENT.
NEW ORLEANS.
wEpNEsDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10 !

PEDIGREEs.-We see from the Northern papers,
that some Yankee is about to proceed TO England
TO hunt up the pedigrees of New England families.
He will make his fortune He has large capital
in the folly and vanity of his customers from which
he may reap profit without limit. Mr.. Smith, we
believe his name is Smith, of the ilustrious house
of Dghrtieforge, intends, suppose, TO establish
a Herald's College in Bcstng, where he will be
prepared on the shortest notice, to furnish the most
undoubted pedigrees to every fellow who has in
herited fortune from miserly father, or has ac-
auired one by the profits of trade the chances of
the stock market, for himself We have already
heard that the Hon. Augustus Dudley Carterett
Ships, whose father was an honest and hard work
ing tailor has established his descent through more
than one channel, from the Merrie Monarch, the
virtuous and honorable Charles the Second, and
that he really puts on royal airs, and looks down
upon the sons of his fathers customers as pie
beian set of fellows, unworthy of his regard. Mr.
Richard Calvert We're Poole Aubrey Hogueson, also
has forgotten that his immediate progenitor was a
respectable butcher, and claims descent from some
Of the most renowned robber barons and famous
boar hunters of the Middle Ages. These are only
two specimens of our new republican nobility, but
the number viii rapidly increase, and the land will
soon overflow with families whose pedigrees run
back farther than Adam, and who claim and re-
ceive the respect of the vulgar because they believe
that some person in the long chain of ancestors
with which they have been blessed since the flood,
has had some distant relationship to the petty ty
rant of neighborhood or TO the hostler or valet of
a king. The Lord bless poor human nature In
our stables, pig-pens, and cow-yards, we endeavor
to improve the breed of our cattle-but in our own
persons we take great merit in being the degenerate
descendants of those who in their best days were no
better than they should be Ore of our cotempo-
raries, the New York Sun, takes this matter seri-
ously, and discourses upon what is only display
Of the little and the ludicrous, in the following pa
thetic manner:
Pedigree Hunting about the meanest dest passion in
the ogue of human vanes As though in this age of
light and democratic aspiration, could gather halo to
his BY Taking the ashes and epaphs OF his
try If God is the father Of all men, forth in scripture
and endorsed by all Christian teaching if Adam the
common progenltor OF the human race who Is King En-
Per0T baron or lore more than the humbest Smith Jones
on earth.
If W. should trace the matter to the bottom we should find
royalties and nobies have ALWAYS and where
from violence and fraud y at they imposition
empty as they high-soundBg The Norman founder of
English artoeacy base born robber, and there
titled istOeTaey the world with better origin. Those
who had to assert and defend the assumption of
sonal ella superiority in the beginning awe and impu
dent they were respectable and oerabe compared
with those who have claim to title and honor by inheritance
The tue would scOR to beg introduction ecla
the strength Of dead relations clothes and regulations
bat there banless creatures who viii swell like tcked
toad fish because OF some affinity to great name, to which
they blot and shame true would strive rather
70 add to the luse of his ancestry than borrow laure
from their tOmbs. We look upon pedigree hunters and
boa indicative Of lack in themselves of all that is
independent and noble iTman