Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1851-12-24
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nrDs, or Yallow along the wharfesy m or.
der to see how fast our splendid metrop.
oliais growing. Take sanntey in Broad>
way any Of these November afternoons.
from one to four o'clock, and you viii see
plenty Of the most substantial evidences
that New. York Is growing and increasing
IN all the elements of wealth, fashion and
magniheenee, almost beyond conception
or calculation. Take stand at Stewsrt's
or Beck's at q fashionable hour, and YOU
Will very soon begin 70 perceive that YOU
are in the midst OF q great almost Inn
measurable world of fashionable extraya.
gance and display. Hundreds Of splsn-
did equipages, eaparisoned In silver, and
slirmounted by liyeried eoachmen and
footmen. roll continually by In one gay
and flashing stream, until the eye, satia,
ted with these evidences of social splon,
dor, turns inward and looses itself In spec.
ulation upon the origin and history OF the
new.fangled aristocrasy who thus ape the
show and extravaganza of European no.
bilities, without The dignity, the repOse and
the intellectual brilliRnoy which are there
at once its excuse and justification, ltis
bitter and humiliating moral lesson, Rf'
ter all, which one reads IN an hour In
Broadway"
We know Of nothing more profoundly
disgusting than the picture thus drawn by
the Day Book, It presents such an ep.
ident aping Of foreign customs such
palpable performance of High Life be.
low stairs that VIC turn from It's contem.
plation with shame and humiliation
Liveried coaehmen and footmOn---and
coats of arms, no doubt. Ifso, we should
| lilFa ~ nRNhioansAnA naal.. Lanal-
die device drawn from the history Of the
fathers and grandfathers Of these aspiring
monkeys. The African, who lounges a.
long the pavement Of Broadway, grace.
fully using his eye-glRss, and his upper
lip decorated with small thunder.cloud
of moustRche, is not a more servile imita.
tor Of the manners Of his bettcrs than are
these slavish fashionablcs who copy The
tinsel. glitter and parade of European ar.
istocracy.
For be II remembered that Il is only
the outside Of that sristocraey which they
arc able or attempt 10 initiate. Their
pretensions rest upon no long line Of gal,
liant ancestry, for not one in a hundred OF
them can tell the christian name Of his
grandfather They can claim no superi.
ority in intellectual Intelligence, for few Of
them can so much as read or writo their
mother tongue correctly. They possess
no pre.cminence of moral worth, for they
have all the vices and follies without tho
real refinement of European aTistocraey.
They have none of the unpretending cour.
tesy which marks the true gentleman Of
every country, for their manner Is uni.
formly supercilious and repulsive 10 all
men who are not their equalso on 'ohanRe.
Money is the only basis Of New York or.
istocracy. A man may be illiteTate, yici.
Gus and vulgar, yet arm him In @ golden
coat Of mail, and he becomes Che aeknpwl.
edged leader Of the Upper Tendom-4-fhe
god Of idolatry TO thosofwho hayo 90 eyp
nor car for the unadornod majesty Of gen.
uine worth, and who now. as did the nm.
cient people Of Heaven, forsRke the true
God to worship golden calf.,d .rJ15i9
Such is the character, not Of New York
society in general; not Of It's best society,
for that IS elbowed of by the pretsntious
; uPstarts into an obscure cortjer; but Of
the recognized Upper Ten Th0psand,'
the gilded weathercock which surnOunfs
q spire and an cdiice worthya much. no.
bier ornament. No American can think
Of these attempts 20 initiate Epropean ar.
istocraey without morlifOalun, 9 II our
country had been accustomed 10 these
things from the beginning; &c Il had been
settled by mobiles and our rConsfiiutiOnhAd
recognized orders Of nobility and iftbeso
men were the known descendants fof an
cient lines OF kings and aFiytocratsg then
the whole thing would not appear 80 ~.
premely fantastical and ridiculous. Then,
It would be in keeping with our instifn.
tons, habits and education Bat ih0a
land ofcomm0neTss Rland ofFepublicans
a land whose people think more Of brains
than blood, TO see these creatures playing
lord and lady; 70 behold men whose a.
theirs were glad that they had one wholc
60 20 meeting coat for Sunday, dasliing
about in their splendid ehafiots and iiFe.
ries TO view these footmen playing mas.
ter In eaFnest--is II not the broadest farce
ever performed upon any stage. and one
which might make whole continent
laugh but for shame and vexation tiint 4
had given birth 70 such creatares2 81
Verify great cities are greataoses' ina
Republican countTy.---Bleh. Rzp. ssn
TIE FATHER FfEALLY OUrvTTTED.--A
loving couple who fed from YifEinia 10
Georgetown, a few weeis ago. for The
purpose OF being united II the bonds Of
mstfimony, were defeated through The
diligence Of the opposing father arranged
their plans 20 wen that on the night ofthe
10th inst, they succeeded IN ccnsumraa,
ting their designs. Il seems that com,
Pany Of young perfons were enjoying
themselves IN a social party ~ the house
Of the young 1ady's father (EbeTe she had
been kept confined 20 oiher room ever since
the first attempt and during play that