, 1861-05-11

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WARRINGTON, May I. 1861.
When Napoleon descended like thunder
bolt from the Rkies upon the rotten dYnasties
Of France, the oacient Ns5zesz looked upon
him IS worse than Plebe1an- He was not
only vulgar, but bloody He had no past no
famlly-no inherited decoratioER--and few
friends to reward, although very many enemies
to punish. Having rescued the Patriclans
from the Revelation, and punished the keVo-
1utionists, 90 a. to make himself almost
Patrician In their eyes, be would have been
lost between the ingra:itude Of the one and
the hatred Of the other, If, after all, he had
not made firm, fast lodgment in the best Of
all cttadels to bold statesman, the hearts OF
the people. To this day, the nlustrious de-
scendant- is tdbooed, after fashion, by the
1aded relics Of extinct monarchies and deapo-
tisms. We have in this country very weak
imitation OF theee French families. It ID q sort
Of mock China-a Kind Of counterfeit cham
pague, hut 1t pretends to be a. pure grain
and to as rich favor as the original 1t apes
but, like all very bad copies, it is detected as
cham and repndiated Is q cheat. The only
thing In this country that has made noisy pre-
tensions to arletocrecy has been the Southern
0Igarchy. I have seen moneyed a1tstoc1acy
- family atistocraey standing upon the Rev.
olusionaly recolle literary aristocracy
and a fashionable aTistocracy borrowing Its
plumes from foreign standard, and e1ultant
In Its own selEsufficincy. But mean a. some
CT these hu1nbpgs were, and deepotic as 9th
lug ariatocracy is that based upon the institu-
ton ofe1avery. It IL ustless to msnce words.
The whole stock in trade Of the Southern con-
spsrators consists In the fact that they own
some four millions Of negroes; that upon the
profits Of the labor of these negroes they have
labor, to give all their time to politics, and BY
sending their strongest men to Washington
haVe contrived to keep themselves in ctfiee,
and to establish, With all these advantages,
what they have filtered themselves was
an aristocraey Of the purest caste Nov,
while ! think re should constantly
keep In. view that our present struggle
cry, but that it will be maintained to the end
OF preserving the Government and the Uoton,
we cannot close our eyes 10 the profound phi
1osophy Of events, and to the inexorable issue
ola movement which began In the uBurpa-
tions Of the slave oligarchy upon the Cousti-
by aggression and insult on the part Of this
olfgarehy down to the present hour: The
institution Of slavery Is therefore doomed by
no act Of the Government, but by the act Of
those + ho have made 1t their citadel, and who.
in hiding themselves behind 1t, forget that
they are exposing it to the batteries which
they have detied and provoked. Ina few years,
not only Will Maryland be deprived Of its
slave population, but Virginia also. The
slaveowner cannot hold his property tn either
State while raising his hand against the Gov
ernment, and while opposed by the Union
men around him, He will be compelled to
choose between emancipation aud the. dispo-
sal Of his negroes in Georgia, Alabama, and
Mississippi. His Own interest will therefore
rrompt him to assist in making Maryland and
Virginia free States.
Tne departure Of the families that have Civ
en- tone to our Washington society, the small
dukes, pretentio1s counts and pompous baro-
9 dul1ness IN the fashionable quarters in which
they lived. passed along jackson Square,
and through the Presidents grounds and the
fms avenues OF our Weat-eud, a few evenings
ago, and observed many of the tlne palstil
mansions, only lately filed with beautiful NO.
Men and wealthy men, desolate and deserted.
No more gay parties convert the night into
day, and maks the neighbothood musical no
more brilliant caucuses convene to enforce
the DEGREES OF vacilfatiDg President, to pro-
nouncs the doom Of some unofanding Demo-
crat, to push forward such dtsgracefnl hereaies
as Lecompton aud The English bill, to reward
fsvorttes, to carry great plunder schemes, OF to
plot as to the surest way TO of1ng the laWsinto
contempt, and to accomplish the catastrophe
OF the destruction Of the Government. ! see
none of the costly eqnipages Of the slays ar1s<
tocraey rolling along our avenuea. All these
princes and Pslncesses have left Us, and left
lis forever They may return after years Of
experience in tkeir own obecura villages,
where their wives and daughters are now
trembling In the midst Of a sefviIe population,
and where their husbands and sons may be
compelled to embroider tneif delicate hands
with hard, unceasing toll to- earn an n6;;::<st
livelihood. It ia tine, they may look from
this unsafe distance upon their Successors
here with some such feelings as animated the
ed the Napolaonic dynasty which had pushed
taem from their stools. They may cau Mr.
Lincoln and bis party vulgar, unedncated, un-
fashionable, If you please; they may 1idicule
the Northern men and women who will here
alter lead In Our social circles; they msy be-
hold with contempt NEW edifces erected to
adorn Washington By the capitalists Of the
free States; but, with due deierence to them.
think the change will be for the better, that
what ia their loss is our country's gain, and
that the calam1ties brought upon themselves :,
By the abuse Of power when they held it, aud !:
the attack upon the Union when they lost this
power, will stand as an ad1oonition full Of elo-
quent warning, and rife with the most pro
phetic teachings. 49,.