The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1854-05-24

Ash)-His present Position.
"The Poet" says an old saw, s.is born, not made.
The modern Aristocrat, (species-oodhsN Is made
not born He is cut out to order like pair u breech
es orbrogans.
There are two recipes for manufacturing the arti-
cle.
The first is-take squash headed young man and
make him the Of an honest and thrifty talIow-
merchant. Talow merchant des-son comes into
property, and squanders it like watering pot on his
selfish instincts. He is used up about The same time
with his fortune, and ends his arcical life by ocose
attempt to blow ''his desperate brains out, just as
he had any. However he shoots the top of ms heaa
of and thai amounts to the same thing. So much
for him.
The second s-,akc a dull but industrious flint
scraping fellow. Give him a chance to make little
gold bv pnching and cheating in a small way. Then
fair to grow into large city. He sees shrewder
about him investing in real estate. A blOckhead him.
self, he can initiate well. Finally, (housh he can.
not perhaps give single intelligent reason for the act)
he trem6nsly exchanges his boarded cash for fair
acres. When it is done, he quakes in his boots lest
the price Of land should 60 down. He keeps in
CONSTANT cold sweat, till assured and again
by his five senses, that ''it's going up" This fact
being driven into his thick SKULL he hangs to the land
like puppy to a root He won't sell it, he won't i'm.
prove and occupy it himself. Gradually, however,
he disposes II the poorer lots, but always Keeps
good slice by himself that money cannot buy He
keeps it and would keep keeping it until the day of
judgment, if death ddn't force him part with his
possessions and put up with premises such
cases made and provided.
This second class is the ugliest type Of the Goldfish
aristocrat. He despiscs all below him. and cnvies all
upon his level-though for the sake Of getting up a
privileged class Of which he aims to Ike the central
sun, he consorts with the latter lie dies as he has
lived, "unwept, unhOnOred and unsung." His asso-
ciates may follow him to the grave, but it il only
see him safely under ground. Ills may be re-
corded upon massive monument, for which he inva-
ria,y provides in his will. 1t is else only
bered by the hundreds Of wretchcs he has wronycd
Mere wealth was never very profoundly sincerely
hOnOred in this land. Some may have lodged off
the sidewalk before its swelling strut, but there were
always others who met its pOnOsy face to face, and
py to announce, it is, in Davy Crockett phrase,
''nothny to nobody The result Of the WARD tri-
al shows il. We don't mean the verdict Of twelve
scoundrels in the jury box. Thank Heaven, no
Bat we do mean the voice Of the universal public and
the press-tha sntcs like thunder on the arisoc,at-
&c
Look at the WARDS. What do their paltry dol
lars avail them now? Driven out Of kentucky y-the
aristocratic stronghold-hey are spurncd like foot
ball wherever they go. There is no one-horse village
GALL g'oggeries) SO mcan that would endure their
presence single day. Wherever they touch, com.
mittees are appointed to order them off ag n-and
they may thank the stars they only burned in eff
gy instead Of at the stake. Scourged with whip of
scorpions through the land-they fly prowIing one
knows whittier, with no companions but their own
black hearts-irOm which, as from all else, it were
happiness to flee.
Can the aristocrat read no moral in this Can lie
not see how his wand is broken and his glory gone
forth forever Does he fear the wealth, instead
OF being "garment OF praise, will soon become "a
''shrt of'Nessis,' singing him to death Such
are the signs of the times, and he is wnlly blind
who reads them not Alright.
There il only course for arstocrats to take if
they would avert the impending outbreak between
themselves and the fiery million. That is an easy
beating and overriding your bc,ters in all hut wealth.
Be something in the social compac, but leech that
fattens the public till it boats and dies. Show a
little interest in the community where you live-and
instead of wasting all your aims church for v,ur-
self, give occasional Pence the poor who are cal
ways with you." 1t is astonishing how little public
spirit and kindness will endear rich the mas
1t is no less astonishing that the former do not
secure this respect chcapIy won. They will soon
feel the need Of it, if they do not now.
But all rich men are by no means aristccras ''of
the baser sort" There those who have climed
from poverty, round by round, up The ladder Of for
tune TO the very top. They were known as poor-
pe,haps ragged boys-Iong ago. They had no rich
father to boost them, and didn't blmser upon mine
of luck. They worked out their salvation in fac.
tOres upon railroads, canals, behind the counter.
They are not stagnant pools in society. II they
ceve, they dispense also. They are ever acting cir
cuiatng mediums Of good-binsins money and hap
piness not only to themselves but diiusing it y their
energy and enterprise through every trade and craft
about them. Men Of this kind are not ADORE the REQ.
pie, for they too late from among their numb
to forget they Of them Their interests are 80 in
ternked with those in th"r employ that it is hard
to decide who is benefited The most, he who is labor
ed for or he who Iabrs If one could not flourish
without the services Of the other, the other nigh,
starve without the talent and energy of the one TO
an astocracy Of strong brains and strong arms like
this commend us. All others shave an ancient and
fsh-likc" flavor. "Faugh-how it smells. .'-Clerc.
land Plain Dealer.