The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-08-22
2aoies' department.
Marrying for Title.

SIOnatelS-We may SAY sd llSdHely
attached t, titles as the Republican
Democratic people of the United
state. Having solemnly declared,
through bills of right and constitution
al law. our adherence for the distinc-
ton that comes from this source, we
socially are slaves to it. In our des-
perate struggles after the absurdity we
have created more judges, generals,
governors and ~honorables than we
have room for, and defeated our OBJ
iect in our liberal abundance.
The philosophy of this strange in
~iatuatiOn may be found, in the first
place. from the fact that we Inherited
the taste from the English. John
Bull is the greatest snob known to
humanity. With all that is strong
and manly in him, that is even heroic,
there is this accompanying weakness.
The commoner bows to gentility, gen.
tility to the noble and the noble to
royalty. The man whose sense of
honor is so keen that 1t a be touched
only at peril of life will accept dishonor
from one socially above him as some
thing not only not to be resented, but
to accept and be proud of. A royal
husband in a noble family, or a noble
husband in that Ola commoner, carries
in it social distinction.
The men who rule mankind-they
who govern the world-are after all
miserable snobs in their social life,
and we, their children, are no better.
Another source of fecbleneSs is to
be found in our literature. Carlyle re-
buked the critics who sneered at
novels. They make our education, he
said. Men and women are married
and live on them. English authors
write for English people. Having no
international copywright they have
10 inducement to write for us, and SO
we take the English literature at
secondhand. These men of genius
are nearly all Democratic in their in
clinations and better Judgment, and
would gladly contribute in their intel
lect to the support of our claimed so
cial and political systems. But in
their eyes we are a nation of pirates
and intellectual tree-booters, prefer
ring to build up such thieves as the
Harpers, Appletons and others, to
creating a literature of our own.
Our common schools, that have
turned out millions of readers without
culture. have greatly strengthened the
tiunkyism natural to us at best. ANY
one doubling this only to glance over
the columns of a cheap weekly or a
dime novel to find princes, lords and
ladies In the greatest abundance.
They punctuate, 50 to speak, the
pages. And our more refined readers
need not nee This sort of thing
pervades u literature from the
"Black Avenger of the Spanish Main
to the latest effort from the pen of
Disraeli, that immortal fiunky, who
won his way to the highest position
by pandering to this very weakness of
our English cousins.
But it remains for an American to
get lower and bump his head harder
on the floor in the presence of born
nobility than any other creature set
on end and endowed with locomotion.
SAID the poetic statesman, Lamartine.
when demonstrated with for snubbing
a delegation of American citizens in
Paris, that waited on him with con
gratulations over the new formed re
public:
Il have no patience with them. If
want to select men more debased as
worshlpers of ariStocrats than anv 9TH
erI will takeAmericans. Look. the same
fellows that waited on me with con
CALCULATIONS are now hanging about
this Emperor, happy if they can secure
AAA' AchN
When the Prince was at our national
capital under the guardianship of the
british legation it was a sickenine
amazement to see the spell-bOund
manner III which our women would
gaze on the rather uninteresting youth
lhey seemed to be in a loving. won
uering sort OF trance, that suggested
IN spite of nes self, the coarse thought
Oh Spanlels, that throw themselve.
upon their backs in the presence O
those they love and fear.
These are the mothers and daughter
of the L. public.
The paper cap of the mechanic
good reader, that is now so mucl
1T appears above the re,
necktle of the communists mucl
better than the laces, v~elvets. fin
hnen and diamonds of that crowd.
Out of this grows the ambitious dc
sire of shoddyites, of mines and O
springs and soap-boiiers and railroa
a~rlstocrats, to marry their daughter
to titled people. Here is our lates
list of successful sales. Our Cir
were not taken to Constantinople an
s)ld to the Turks, but carried to Eng
lane and knocked off to the highe:
bidder. Here read and be enlightened
The marriage of Miss YZnaga d,
Vale to Lord Vaudeville was regard
ed in the world of fashion as the mo:
brilliant AnglO-American match {
late times, although it was parallele
by the marriages of the Misses Cato
at an earlier epoch to the Marque.
Wellesley and the Duke of Leeds. I
the new engagement of Miss Stevel
to Captain Paget, however, must |
assigned only a subordinate place in
worldly point of view, for at lea
three other cases in which America
young ladies nave married into IL
English nobility would seem to be il
qested with superior prestige. II
first III point of time was that of Mi
Juliet Warden, only daughter of
Paris partner in the dry goods shop
A. Z. Stewart & Co., who was marri
on September 90, 1871. to Villa
Henry Peregrine Darlington, a ca
tain in the Grenadier Guards. a
tlnr l.;,. raorn,pfira 70 tho t;t1o