Litchfield enquirer., 1857-12-17

| with these very bows which lie had disabled
himself from drawing, had qu,ed the mailed
c'iiva'ry OF Europe, should have looked with
EXTREMIST disdain on one who had SO basely ex-
etnpfed hlmS'if from service, nor that the pol
room, first applied to a coward Of this sort,
should afterward become name Of scorn atfiX
"a to every base and cowardly svadcr Of the
'!uties and dangers Of life. In Bonaparte's
wars exactly the same thing happened, and
young men cut of not now the thumb, but fore
finger, that which should pull the trigger, so
to escape being drawn for the CONSUMPTION :;
and travellers in Egypt tell us that under the
horrible tyranny of Mehemet Ali, a greater
part OF the population in some of the villages
had deprived themselves of the sight of the
right eye, that in like manner they might be
useless for war.
Nor is the true derivation Of the word tar
h@' unworthy to" be tracrd We all know
what it means, namely, fixed scale of duties
levied upon imports. Ii you turn to a map OF
Spain, you will take note at its southern point
and running out into the straits of Gibraltrr,
4 promoltory, when from its posit.oi is admir-
ably adapted for commanding the entrance Of
the Mediterranean Sea, and watching the exit
and entrance Of all ships. A fortress stands
upon this promoutorv, called now, as it was
also called il the times of the Moorish denom-
nation in Spain "Tarifa y the name indeed is
of Moorish origin. 1t was the custom Of the
Moors to watch from this point all merchant
ships going into or out of, the Midland sea !
and issuing from this stronghold, to levy duties
according to Il fixed scale on all merchandise
passing in and ont of the straits, aud this was
called from the place where it was levied, "tar-
fa." or tariff ;" aud in tins Way we have ac-
CURED the word
q" b got" is another word widely spread
over Europe, of which am inclined to think
that We should look for the derivation where 1t
is not generally sought, and that here too W.
must turn to Span for the explanation. 1t
has ninch prrplexed inqulrcr>, and two explain
atoms OF 1t are current one OF which traces 1t
up to the early Norma;ls, Whale they yet retain
ed their northern tongue, and to their often
abjuraton by the name OF God, W tn sometimes
RET renee to Il famous scene i'll French history,
IN which RoIlo Duke OF Normandy played
conspicuous part the other puts It III conicc-
ton with beguines," called often in Latin
"begutta,' a name by which certain COMMIT
mites Of pletst women Were known in the md
die ages Yet cannot but think it probable,
that rather than to either OF these sources
We owe the word to that mighty impression
VIII ch the SpanlarCs began to nake upon ali
Europe in the fifteenth century, and made for
a long time after Now the word "byote,"
m ans III Spanish, mustacilio :" and as Coz
tras:ed with the smooth or nearly smooth up
per lip Of most other people, at that time til
Sp .n.ards We're "mrn of the nl,lstachio'
That 1t was their CHI .ractrri,tic feature, comes
out III ShikSi@are's "Lore's Labor Lost"
where Arm lido, the tanta>tical Span ard
u scrlbeS the ~ his familiar, as sometime, S
ben pra>e' to lean on his poor shoulder, and
d lily ". i must chic L. st they tIleu-
selves 80 Il cled tirnn s, a,d resolution with
the muStacn.o, that It was esteemed the out-
ward >y;nh" 0. these is plain from SUCH para
seS us HON IRE de b GIT :" man OF resoluto.
" tcner b.yote>,' to stand firm. But that 1t.
which tn emmett displayed their f'innrs>
and Resolution III those days was ther adnrr
cncc to Whatever the Roman see required a,
t"ught. Whit then more natural, or NOR,
entirely accord ny to the law of the y ner It o.
OF 'alneS, than tat this striking and ui,tn-
gushing outw 'rl features OF the Span ar
should have been LAID hold of to express that
character and condition which elnlnently wer,
his ani then transferred to all others vino sIiar-
d the same The mustachio is in like mali
ncr i'll France symbol Of military courage ::
and thus " IN vlcux mDuStache" is an old sol
der OF courage aud military bearing And
Strengthening this vi W, the earliest use of the
word which Richardson gives, is passage
from B shop Hill, where bigot' is used to
sign fy Il convert to Ronanis,n he Was turn
ed both biyot and physician" In further
proof that the Spariard was in those times
the Standi X representative OF the got ana
the prosecutor, We need but to turn to the obi
edition of Fox's Book Of Martyrs, where TIL,
pagan prosecutors Of the early .CI riStians are
usually array,d in the armor OF Spanish soldiers
and sometimes yraced with TREMENDOUS b.got,.s.