The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-07-21

made quarterly.
snobbery and Tuft Hunting.
Ii there be social characteristic which
above all others marks the vulgar upstart or
the emasculated poor. descendant. Of bygone
aristocracy, it is the everlasting spirit Of
toadyism and tuyf-hunting, the adulation
paid to wealth, social position, and Official
station, the sickening iteration Of such eulo-
CYSTIC and cant phrases as are never used by
the really acknowledged members of what is
truly good society.
A celebrity comes among us, and all the
snobs 60 off in Juror of enthusiastic glori-
foation over the distinguished parsonage. A
pretentious and brainless representative of
the titled aristocracy Of ofhcehoders takes
up his residence in community, and imme-
diately half the town is running after him,
and running themselves into still more hope
less bankruptcy in 1.-THE friendly contest of
splendid entertainments.
With these snobs and tuft hunters. charao-
ter goes for nothing, virtue is unappreciated,
learning and wisdom below par; wealth or
position however made and by whoms oev-
er possessed-are the idols of their worship.
And it is very natural that it should be 90,
for the chiefs of Snobbery seldom possess
either virtue, learning, or early association
with persons who did possess them. Poor,
ignorant or boorish in their early days, they
have suddenly amassed wealth and achieved
position; and by hauteur and insolence to their
supposed equals and interiors, and by hum
BILE sycophancy to their superiors they seek
to impress the public with the idea that they
are high toned gentlemen and ladies.
From some cause-which we cannot afford
the time to trace out philosophically at pres
ent-these characteristics have their most
remarkable developments and their most no.
table examples in the Democratic party, at
the present day. In every portion of the
State our readers will readily recall instances
and examples of this Locofooo instinct
amongst their Democratic neighbors, though
they may also find sa few Of the same sort''
in other parties.
This spirit 10 just now having perfect
jubilee of glorifcation in the profound
homage and unbounded admiration, ex-
pressed in every variety of form and phrase,
for the illustrious Augustus Caesar Dodge,
the late associate Of Spanish Grandees, the
equal companion of the high dgnitaries and
ambassadors of royal courts, the great Iowa
Democrat admitted to the presence of the
Queen and honored, beyond all power OF
language to exprcss, BY the present Of her
royal portrait.
Even old President Buchanan, not less than
his admirers, has weakness in the same d.
rection, and it seems from the following par
agraph that the royal family of England
were not slow to discover it. A late Demo
cratic eulogist of Buchanan proudly pro-
claims to the world that j. B. stood very
high in the regards lof the residents of the
royal palace.
"Having enjoyed the friendship and es.
TEEN of the Queen and her family, as vel
as commanded the respect Of her ministers
he was enabled to repose that wise conf
dence which has not been abused, and a
which some raised premature clamor. 81
great is the respect and friendship entertain
ed for Mr.. Buchanan by the family at Buck
ingham Palace and Windsor Castle, that thu
Princess Royal, upon the eve Of her marriag
with the Prussian Prince, addressed an au
tograph letter to him as she might have dom
TO relative"
How can the Democracy sufficiently homo
and reverence their President when they re-
member that little female sprig Of royalt
addressed him note, in her own han,
writing, upon an important occasion!
Why should Democratic President an
his friends plume themselves SO much on thi
incident, when they would have passed owe
a similar letter from an humble America
girl of fifteen with contempt or indifference