The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-19
RFcBM orr Vi.
MONDAY MORNING. aARCn 10 1855
TIE ARlsrocKAcY.-The New York Times

Strange that we do not see in GU pale waxen
faced men tbs signs of frowug iupotence,
aud in our defc@te, biooGlc's women tokens
tbe race oegeneta.es The EA,tssn war Is de-
velopinE to the ~orli the wretohed ineffcien-
-cY that characterizes The aTistocracy Of Bfitain
Tst IN the nsttn- ot physical education will it
bs nehcd that bitish loros and ladies' far better
trained chan eur 70 made arsfocrasl-selfmsde
VS. oesn as distinguished from thosa that eAnerous
Nature had e hand IN manufacturing The Fpglish
upper Glass pri6es itself even yer On its rational
ou' door anuSen eats its athletic and manly spora g
us @dies feel II disgrace to take long walks and
hcId II not urcomeiY TO be at home in the saddle
Our upper c'sss" has long sped Gli its weSknesses
ard Omitted its most creditabe features Not only
soor, II would be tolerable. But the less pretend-
lag circles infected, too Almost everv retired
merchant W no has family of girls ii ls one among
them who boasts herself of her delicate heath-
no erJoysa hysteTC tit every uuususl noise ard
IS never safe with closed door betweeE her and the
bottle Of invisorating salts. II the father is worth
hundred thousand the daughter too often feels
called upon &c be perpetual invalid except on ball
nights sno when the frat fashions of nv aods ara
ehpossa ps ny the trsdesmen. Five hundred thousand
ln'lhss 'te most robust of all the girls in terrible
s"oonlng hts even IN public aid utter helplessness
about the ankles"
This is sad picture Of the condition of
the ariStocracy of money. Pale, waxen
aced men, bloOdless women, effeminate
youth and hysterical girls We don't seem
to succeed well in this country in any
kind of aristocracy. There is something
so inconsistent with the spirit of our insti-
tutions in aristocracy, that an attempt to
build up an aristocratic system, looks little
betterto our own countrymen than treason,
whilst il excites the laughter of the world
abroad. We have not the mat erials to make
an aristocracy out of. There is something
respectable in the antiquity of German and
British arist0cracy; but American aristoc
racy has no antiquity, and no pretensions to it,
except imposture, sham, counterfeit. The
race degenerates," quoth the Times. We
should think it did. The sturdy, broad back
ed, strong limbed artisans, who begot the
f.thers of the upper ten,' would scarcely
know their own descendants and the young
er sons Of younger brothers, who help TO set
tie the far off American colonies, would be
astounded to see what a pretentious race had
sprung from their unpretending loins.
However, We are glad to see cur American
aristocracy giving the outward signs Of in.
ward corruption and decay. 1t is premature
ly old and rotten. May it depart in peace
Every aristocracy is an outrage upon huma-
nifty, upon common justice and common
sense What could be more insulting and
intolerable than for aristocrats to say in
words what their actions every day declare?
Not one of them is audacious enough to put
in speech the silent utterance of his daily
life. 1t is wonderful that mankind have
borne patiently with them. What can make
one man superior TO another, but superior
virtue, knowledge and refinement? Yet there
is scarcely country in the world in which
these qualities do not distinguish the ''mid-
die classes, as they are called, in higher
degree than the aristocracy. The good, the
intelligent, the noble, are cast into the shade
by rank, family and wealth. In the very
house of God, the poor are often thrust to
the wall or can find no admission. Ii is more
than probable that if one of the apostles,
dressed in the simplicity of the secular vo-
cation from which he was called to preach
the Gospel, could rise from the dead, and ap-
ply for admission at fhe door of one of the
fashionable churches, the sexton would refuse
him admission; and if he became too urgent,
would hand him over to the police
Ubiquitous and unjust as aristocracy is eve
rywhere, it is in this country ridiculous and
n9useating. None but the weakest minds
can possibly yield TO its pretensons