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CHAPTER XII.

ARISTOCRACY.

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THE very general mismanagement of children; and indulged propensities at the only period of 1 habits of industry, self-government, and integrity ca are, from the ignorance, carelessness, and vanity almost universal.

There is a foolish disposition with parents, wh well to do in the world, to have their children scho and accommodated with pocket money, amusements according to the undefined and ridiculous standar which they form, by a superficial reference to fa them, with whom they have no acquaintance, and domestic arrangements they are totally ignorant.

The children of those in the humble spheres of mitted to range the streets day and night; are n read or work, or furnished with any moral instruc

Thus encouraged, as they grow up, they become vulgar, and profane; hate labor; abuse respecta soon learn to repudiate their debts; lie, swindle, cl and steal, and defy law and religion.

The natural depravity of the human heart is pron vices; to prevent them from being engrafted upon of nature, requires the most careful discipline and youth.

Where these inherent hereditary propensities is no moral remedy.

ey practice and subsist on the credulity of society; ar red from its indignation by the crafty concealment of thei haracters, and spared from the penalties of open perpe n by their inherent precautions and cowardice.

the warm months, thousands of them are seen shooting i and hedges, bobbing upon the flats, and streams, lounging ffs and shades, smoking, drinking, and guzzling in bruta

y.

the winter weeks, they loaf in taverns, oyster-cellars, bi and gaming rooms, at corners, and on fire-plugs; and sen mothers, wives, and children to solicit charity and beg they pilfer, debauch, make fights, fires, riots, mobs; fi houses, prisons, and penitentiaries.

is from this class of society, and those by nature bent o ief, that the roots of aristocracy shoot off, in all its cor d and hidden windings.

ese vile propensities of the human heart are irrespective o ect; and, therefore, this portion of the community furnishe and file for all the pursuits of imposition, duplicity, abuso Oppression.

hese are the pernicious and dangerous sources from whence 1 countries, and in all ages, have sprung the pests and per ors of man.

om the pilfering beggar to the imperial cut-throat; from th 7 swindler to the highway robber; from the nostrum ven o the tilted pedagogue; and from the street brawler to th cious pirate.

nd just in proportion to their impunity, are the suffering 1 portions of men increased and multiplied.

riginally, the word aristocracy was used to signify the dis tion between a despotic and a supposed better form of go ment, placed in the hands of an order of privileged persons When this number was reduced to a few, the government wa ed an oligarchy; which implied a corrupted aristocracy. ut now the word aristocracy is used to express the name o ing entertained for every species of imposition, and unlawfu

mality.

overy set of wrong and iniustion. ovoruthing arnel

ligion-who are lazy, live on others, meddle with their neighbors, disturb the peace, and dabble in for gain-are as impudent and offensive aristocr sphere, and according to their opportunities, as t political intriguer, the feudal lord, the titled baron, despot.

The broad and popular definition of the word ar the United States, now means everything that tre equality and freedom.

It applies to morals, manners, politics, religion, relations of life; and it is really understood to mea ascendency and domination in any of the pursuits ments of life; in all of which it is regarded as oḍic and detestable.

There is no measure or limit to its powers of i singular faculties to annoy.

In various shapes and forms, and under different pretexts, this assumption and abuse of power have more perplexing outrages than were ever suffered fro of toil and sweat put on Adam.

There is no subject now that produces so much citement and bitterness, with the people of the Un as their ridiculous apprehensions, and misconceived aristocracy.

In one sense, perhaps, aristocracy might be said. stigma inflicted by a forfeiture and corruption of the heaviest blow of power; and the titles and orders of the Old World, which secure for the few over the unjust and oppressive privileges.

In this country, there are no such penalties or ad lowed; they are all expressly forbidden by constitu bitions; and every man is put upon an equal footi political franchises; and if he is convicted of a crin no infliction but that which falls on himself; his ch the same chance for success as if he had died a sain And the spirit of liberality in this respect has been derfully exercised in the United States.

been proper, their tainted lineage has been wholly over

should be narrowly watched; for, if the moral virus is blood, their circumspection of conduct will be much kely to be influenced by considerations of policy than y. never a strong temptation, combined with the chances alment, occurs, there will be an inevitable indulgence of ural and inherent propensity to commit crime.

ry large proportion of all the calamities which fall on me from the crafty, adroit, secret, and relentless perpcof persons with these moral obliquities.

of these predominating propensities of man is for place

ver.

intolerant vanity will not stoop to hold talk with the herd, as he considers them; but he will obtain power em by fraud or force; and riot in their control and go

nt.

fierce and unsatisfied lust for this indulgence has in all onvulsed the world, and maintained a perpetual conflict n oppression and liberty.

political institutions of the United States have interffectual barriers against these abuses also; but still there rywhere the most insolent attempts made to pervert these itional safeguards against aristocracy into fraudulent 3 for unblushing acts of treason.

ily, the periodical elections frustrate these artful schemes; us these pernicious and fearful aggressions have been ally confined to the odious and disgusting demonstrations t is called a moneyed aristocracy.

hing can be so precarious or uncertain as riches. Noout slavery has ever so largely contributed to demoralize aracter and enervate the energies of man; and nothing ses so few inducements to excite envy or regret for the of it.

noney is obtained by inheritance, marriage, accident, or or by any means but by industry, the passion for inice is generally too strong for the dictates of discretion; t living, the holder will soon be where he was before he

en chiest of derision and contomnt to othord "sologs to

The commendable habits of frugality, which saved, will not waste it, or suffer the owner to be a possession.

Few have suddenly acquired large fortunes by course of honest industry. This is the result of o ventures, made without labor or capital, and at others; by which patient honesty is blunted, bad a encouraged, the true use and value of money are 1 extravagance is indulged, new schemes for gain are and the drama closes with wasted means and w

racter.

Every sensible person may detect these gambling however genteel or plausible, by watching their p testing their developments with the plain and un ties of life.

Instead of wishing for such leisure and luxury scorn its wickedness, and reprobate its infamous ex What is called respectable mercantile employme partakes of everything opposed to the pure charac tain results, of patient labor-so much of hazard, e disaster, and loss of reputation-as to rebuke down aspirations for intemperate and irrational indulgenc the uneasy judgment to a settled level of absolut in the solemn fact, that all security for the morals a forts of life is lost the instant we leave the beat constant and contented toil.

The aged and decrepit nurse of a female ward, ary, near Philadelphia, was, but a few years since, bride of a proud and successful jobber in stocks an died in the Almshouse.

The heads of two of the largest mercantile h United States, whose means and credit are unb their fathers' board, in obscure villages, who once upon 'Change, and are now poor and forgotten.

Twenty years will twice change every sign, and & firm, in any city in the world.

In a lecture delivered at Boston in 1848, by G

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