The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1854-06-25
EHaraldry.

way OF a dashlng carriage, emblasoned
on its panels with rampant Leopards
quartered with gilded bars. The ed
itor Of the journal says
This i, a palpaole usurpation, for,
except the iunates peites of the Anna
zon warriors, we know Of no other peo-
pie who adopted them; and do not
imagine that any of our New York
magpates can trace their lineage from
such source, especially as the Anna
IONS did not countenance wedlock. y
1t is rather early in the history of
this young an erpdHd,ng nation, to
adopt any Of the cast off, and bastard
evidences Of nobility; but yet there is
a manifest tendency, not only in Goth
am, but elsewhere, TO indulge in such
miserable Aummery. Seal rings of
greater value, than the one of Sir
Jacks grandfather, are frequently to
be met with now a-days, in the hands
of gentlemen who are able to trace out
an uncle's relationship to some kind of
third rate nobleman--some fellow who
knew the name of his grand dad. We
meet such things occasionally dang
ling from modern fob'chain, regular
" emblasoned with some kind of mex
plicable characters, that the owner
would fain call a "fitmtiy coat Of
Arms" This is the universal ten
dency. A nation energies out of Re
publican simplicity, into an aristocracy
Of wealth, that none need aspire to,
without first obtaining a millions worth
of the worlds goods and chattles--it
matters not how. As before said, the
government is as yet too young for this
kind of indulgence three or four CEN
turtles are necessary to cast gloom of
obscurity over our "antecedents; : for
knowledge of the fact is too fresh in
the worlds eyes, that many of the pro
genitors Of some of the first families
were sold into seryitude, for their pas
sage money across the then wide
waters of the ocean" Is there any
thing discrcditable about this ? BY no
means. The light of reason has taught
the world, that the only difference in
men, is to be found alone in the en-
dowments by Divine Wisdom, of men
tai and moral power, and not in the
fact Of a mans being able to show
that he can trace himself back to his
Grandfather without stumbling over
an honest cobbler or into the tub of a
virtuous washerwoman. As the Jour
nal of Commerce says: if we must
needs have a wiggle-tale goldfish arts
tocracy and equippages with outrlders
in livery. and coaches with heraldic
bearings for the Lord sake let us have
them indicative or expressive Of some
thing. Let there be statute to pre-.
vent fellow who has become mil
lionaire by catching clans, in Grow
Bay, from using on his crest either the
rampant Leopards" the "Firey Drag
gon' the English Bull" or the Irish
Lion without giving the Republican
Government bonus, for the right
which like the "Woo hoo salve," should
be patented, for protection sake. Then
it would be we'll. Let base imitators
of nobility, such as cannot afford the
genuine, confne themselves to armori-
al bearings of the indicative mood
such as will tell at glance-that the
owner thereof is indebted to salt water
for his position--that he has made his
fortune from opening bi-valves in a
seller at Gotham. For such one an
oyster bank would be an appropriate
device.