The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1865-12-28
y WESTMINSTER, MD, THURSDAY. DECEMBER @2s,.
aNew Yorkt SIloddy.

New York ShOddy.
EFfpm the Richmond Inquirer.
General Grant lately spent ! day J
mpng the fast men and fast horses !, Of
New York city. Behind Bonner's fast
and $40, ,QOOo team be rode to the Cen
tral Park and Up the Bloo,p ird iprgdale road sad
|to a race cezcourse, ! where Il a aitnuesss.ed aitu s.d
The trials Of speed and y exhibition
|of al the fast; horses Of New York. k.s,i CITY. !.
But the significant part of the tste
was at Niblos Garden, where the coin
cidence Of his introduction just as. Gloe
tiers says, Z. e TIE King Is coming was va
most adroitly seized upon to give point
Ito the Lieutenant Generals entry. !.
Look where one may throughout this.
country, and the ''King is, coming
h salutes you on every side. Imperial
mandates ~ are addressed to States COM,
mannding their compliance and exacting
the their obedience at, the bayonet's point
to the sovereign power at Washington.
LrIf Individuals are tried, not by jury, but
by military commissions-and the mod
crate debt Of a republic has swollen to
imperial proportions, An oil aristocra-
tcy Of petroleum and sham nobility of
shoddyo vie with, that Of the uniform in
the prizes Of the fashionable world, and,
after the manner Of England, this coun-
try, is soon to have its Omitted Service
Club, /" and already we read of the bond.
ocracy as q siperate and privaleged
class for whose use and benefit all the
trade, commerce and mechanics arts
pay the stipends of internal taxation.
The simplicity of, our forefathers' re-
publicanism has passed away, or only,
remains in the affected humility of a
pretended democracy. We have pub
he and private palaces, while ushers
and guards wait at the doors of the So
| called public servants, which are, in
reality, the peoples masters. It was
Gracchus that first turned his back
upon the Comitium and spoke with his
face to the Forum, and it is this modern
Gracchi that, having cut loose from all
characteristics Of Republican liberty,
are fast tending to monarchy through
4 the forms Of democracy. : r., .l,,s.
~ With a pharisaical cant about equali
4 lty for the negroes, Northern Republi
cans practice daily the most crushing
I inequality toward white men. The
Hines of so-called f'society" are more
distinctly drawn liiin New York and
| Boston than anywhere else on earth
and they are more easily broken there
4 than in any other cities of the world. y
without money no man can enter, and
with money any man may enjoy all the
Society" Of these cities and towns
This country is fast tending to'the low
est and most vulgar style of royalty
the monarchy of the mob and the aris
tocracy ofthe dollar. hauE,d ~ 5iea.
| One of the commonest taunts against
the slaveholding States was that of aris
tocracy. 1t was pretended that there
existed in these States privileged
class, which enjoyed the blessings Of
wealth without the tolls Of labor, and
that by the sweat of other mems brows
they earned their daily bread. False :as
it was in every particular, it was In
every wise different from what daily
takes place throughout the Northern
States, where the pittance doled out to
labor is growing daily less and less, ,un-
til the song; of the shirt is the onlyfmel
ody that the lips of its impoverished
working classes an4utter with truth.
i aThe king is coming,i's and so is The
day of retribution. q The spriyileged
class" of the South has been, struck
down by the rude hand of power, in de
iance of law and the constitution, ians
T a precedent established, and, example
\ set Off how property may be 5seizee
| sgainst thessanetions of law, . that vii
yet returnlstoo plague its inventors. >
Loyalty and royalty are convertible
terms, with butveryI little difference o.
significance, and when aewhole people
are crazed with the one, they will MOI
long hesitate about the other. 45T ii
4 The New Bedford Mercury says tina
a gentleman, now a distinguished mer
chant Of Boston, but formerly residen
Of Nantucket, was one day engaged i,