Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-06-18

when the attempts dance with the horse she gets
broken bones"
"Like plays best with like"
at dangerous TO eat cherries with the great they throw
the stones at your head
"Like seeks ike-a scabbed horse and sandy dixie"
There is very general entertainment of
the fallacy that all the distinctions of socie-
ty are artificial. l call it fallacy, be.
cause l believe 1t to be susceptible of proof
that the most of them are natural. The
aristocracy of town or state is al
ways founded upon what the majority of
the people OF such town or state hold to be
the chief good No class arrogates to it.
self the aristocratic position without the
accordance, tacit or declared, of all classes.
Wherever noble family descent is popularity
regarded as the most honorable of all things,
aristocracy is founded upon blood Wher-
ever high intellectual culture is accounted
the most honorable of all possessions, the
aristocracy will be composed of savans,
| poets, artists and men and women of bril-
! liant parts and attainments. So, too, where
money is regarded universally as the chief
good, alike by rich and poor, the aristocra-
tic element will reside in wealth. 1t would
be easy to cite specimens of these varieties
of aristocracy | suppose that Paris, as
the representative of France, furnishes an
instance Of the ariStocracy of talent and
culture; that London represents England
in its aristocracy of blood, and that New
York represents America in the aristocra-
cy of wealth. In each Of these types there
is blending of the other two. The three
herd together, more or less, bat the nucleus
is distinct in each, and the other elements
crystalize around it.
So l say that the aristocraey of any
country is nothing more than declaration,
in conventional form, and of that country's
sentiment and opinion upon the chief earth
ly end OF man. Every aristocrat is made
such by popular vote, and by the same
vote is he endowed with all the privileges,
tmmunities, pride, superciliousness and ex-
cluslVeneSs which are supposed 10 pertain
to the aristocratic estate. 1t matters moth
ing how humble, genial and good popu-
larly constituted aristocrat may be-he
gets little credit for it, for thepeople regard
him as a superior, who can only be humble
by condescenSions, genial for purpose, aud
good by anomalous exception. Having en-
tered the charmed circle of those who have
won the highest prize of life, his old friends
forsake him, misconstrue him, and force him
into aristOcratic association, whether he will
or no. There is no aristocratic class In any
state possessing Institutions measurably free,
which can sustain itself for ten years be-
yond the choice and voice of the people.
cannot, perhaps, illustrate my propo-
sltion better than by the instance which
Boston furnishes to the country, No Anne
rican city, probably, has had an aristocracy
OF descent and dollars SO well defined as
Boston This aristocFacy for many years
set the fashion in politics, and everything
else, by consent Of the people. 1t was a
J whig aristocracy; and no man was willing,
/ ly admitted into the circle who entertained
adverse political sentiments. Social pros
cription was the price Of political heresy;
aud it was visited upon men OF the noblesl
! character and the finest attainments, 10 q