The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-04-28
Mrs. OWNS Ball.

4NIS. wv III . DoAA'
1t is none of our business what Mrs. Senator
Gwin may do, but we cannot resist the oxl rcss-
ion of an idea or two in relation to the Grand
Fancy Dress Ball with which her ''Ladyshp'
recently favored the Washington fashonables.
1t seems from the tenor of the court journals
land most of the Washington papers are strlv-
ing to become simply the recorders OF what Is
done at soiroes, balls and levecs) that no per-
son was allowed to be present except he She or
they were dressed in fancy costume. Some
were Dukes, some Duchesses, some Counts
some Queens, some Kings, some Knaves and TO
complete the imitation of ancient and modern
ROYAL circles, some were Fools. We think that
| the attcm, t, on the Part of the representatives
of a republican people, to bring into respecta-
biity the sickening fummery that attaches to
the monarchies of Eurepo is not only in bad
taste but that it is perversion Of democratic
manners which should call out the emphatic
condemnation OF every press that regards our
government as solidity and its representatives
rs MEN. We know the world progresses, and
that duo allowance must be made for the speed
with which we are now travelling, but if such
trumpery as lately marked the "brilliant rocep'
ton rooms of the accomplished lady of Senator
Gwin'' is allowed to usurp the place till lately
occupied by common sense and democratic
simplicity, how long will it be, before, like the
English and French courts, the Presidential
mansion, built and furnished by the toll and
treasure of the SONS of labor, will be closed
AGAINST all who have the manliness to refuse the
arraying themselves in cooked hats, spangled
coats and such other monkeyisms as may be
prescribed by the imitators of Partisan roue'
and courtezans But a few years will elapsc
if the disease is not checked, before plair
man will he unable to come within gun-shot o
one of our members Of Congress while he Il
on duty at Washington, and even now it re-
ouires as many cards of invitation and ac'ep
lance, as many gilt-edged notes and as mucf
formality generally to get into the house OF
Washington dignitary as there were gates il
the ancient city of Thebes
Will this folly last Isit wise in the Anne
rican people to lose sight OF the simplcit!.
which characterized their early POLITICAL inter
: course, and to throw up their caps, like tn
peasantry of Europe, whenever leading states
I man condescenas to play the turkey cock on
scale of grandeur which is neither creditabie
: his sense nor complimentary to those by who's
voices he was elevated to power.
> We would have every one fill his position i
r life with that dignity which becomes maj
Il but at the same time we would see an exhio
ton of the modesty which becomes morta
r Swell-heads we do most cordially abominat'
u whether they be Of the social, business. relig
ious or political order, but there is no man it
e whom we have more unaffected contempt tina
he who. has been blown into notice by the goo
+ nature of the people, and when fairly on.tf
" wave of popular favor he seems almost shocl
q ed if the Ilebian whose rough hand he Ires
IL ed at the hastings, should come between II
u wind and his nobility"