The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-06-22

way Of dasbing carriage, emblasonee
on its panels with rampant Leopard
quartcred with gilded bars. The ed
: itor Of the Journal says:
This is a palpaole u.urratisu for,
except the Inmates peltes Of IL ANA.
x6h warriors, we know Of no otbsr 20.
pie who adopted them; add do not
imagine that any Of our New York
magnates can trace their i9sass from
such source, especially as the ANA.
IONS did not countenance wedlock."
1t is rather early in the history of
this young an expanding nation, to
adopt any Of the cast of, and bastard
evidences Of nobility; but yet there is
a manifest tendency, not only in Goth.
am, but elsewhere, to indulge in such
miserable 8ummery. Seal rings of
greater value, than the Que Of Sir
Jacks grandfather, are frequently to
be met with nowadays. 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!cbain, regular.
ly emblasoned with some kind Of mex. |
plicable characters, that the owner
would fain call a family 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 &. 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 Gen.
turies are necessary to cast a gloom Of
obscurity over our "antecedents;;' for
= knowledge Of the fact is too fresh in
The worlds eyes, that many of the pro-
yenitors of "some of the first families"
we're sold into servitude, for their pas
age money across the then wide ,
vaters Of the ocean" Is there any.
hing discrcditable about thy? By no 6
means. The light Of reason has taught t
he world. that the only difference in .
men, is to be found alone in the en-
lowments by Divine Wisdom, Of men, t
Il and moral power, and not in the G
net Of . mans being able to show =
hat he can trace himself back to bis !.
Grandfather without stumbling over t
n honest cobbler, or into the tub Of a c
irtuous washerwoman. IS the Jour- A
al Of Commerce says: if We must y
eeds have a wiggle-tale Goldfish aris-
'cracy and equippages with outriders ft
, livery, and coaches with heraldic il
earrings; for the Lord sake lett have N
lem indicative or expressive Of some Fl
ling. Let there be a statute to pre- u
snt fellow who has become a mil
onaire by catching clans, in Crow st
ay, from usidg on his crest either the al
rampant Leopards' the "Firey Drag ~ 81
IN" the English Bull or the Irish e.
ion," without giving the Republican b.
overnment a bonus, for the right 70
hich like the "Woo hoo salve," should m D
patented, for protection sake. Then y,
would be we'll. Let base imitators y,
nobility, such as cannot afford the G
,nuine, con6ne themselves to armori- tr
bearings Of the indicative mood J of
oh as will tell At glance-that the
7ner thereo fis indebted to salt water an
+ bis paaiti0h-that he has made his ha
June Nom opening bi-valves in IN
Ter at Gotham. For such one an ~
ster bank would be an appropriate iii
vice. ca