very one hundred persons who obtained their livelihood ursued the business of buying and selling, failed, and olvent.

e should be nothing in the vacillating and perilous forthese classes of men to excite the envy, or nettle the f the poor; and he who acquires wealth, if he appreciates generally does more good than evil with it.

ectable rich men are careful to avoid the appearances of -ity on that account, and maintain rigid habits of fru nd industry to the last.

e who are not respectable, whether rich or poor, ought old any influence, or be so regarded as to suffer their to hurt our feelings, or disturb our composure.

independent spirit of every man should firmly keep its nd not be ruffled or disturbed by vulgar insolence or stentation.

not therefore money, beyond its proper and reasonable t constitutes happiness, or creates any real distinctions ty.

lect, wisdom, industry, and integrity are the only diss which should be recognized amongst men; and acto the political creed of the people of the United States, nstitute the only standards of moral and conventional

n.

ay not be deemed inappropriate here to give some illusof the artificial sources, and criminal character, of a rge proportion of the persons who, in every community, the bearing and affectation of wealth and consideration, ain the sophistries and deceptions of what is called the acy of high life; and to contrast its degraded and prerealities with the elements of true merit and pure honor.

se pungent applications are founded in truth.

of the most insolent and aristocratic fungous patricians er floated in the United States, with immense revenue, ge, cushioned pulpit-pew, gorgeous palace, splendid chaith parks and ponds, upon the river bank-extensive

came the door-keeper and ticket-vender for the ball. old French bawd; married her dissolute, illegitimat inherited her estates; turned genteel, and intrigued his chaste spouse up into the artificial regions of m rogance and aristocracy.

In 1813, the Secretary of the Home Department was waited on by a Quaker lady of manifest intel respectability, who requested the favor of a privat The time for which was fixed, when she informe tary that she was the wife of a gentleman, whom who was born in London, and, in 1780, when he thirty years old, emigrated to the United States, wi ried her; that they had eight children, all grown a were in opulent circumstances, and enjoyed good re

She stated that her husband desired to visit Lond or four months, and had sent her to get his permis

His reason for this special request was that son ble reports had been circulated about him at the England, and he thought it best not to rely on a port, which he could get from the government of States, as he had been for many years naturaliz country.

A very full inquiry was made by the secretary a son, the ship he went to the United States in, who &c., all of which she most promptly answered, sc knew; and she was told to call upon a day that for an answer.

At the time named, she called, and was polite clerk that he was directed to inform her that her r not be granted.

She begged to know the reason, and was told th had been given.

She then desired to speak to the secretary, and w With great excitement, she implored him, not so m her request, as for an explanation of the cause for

The secretary expressed regret that she had tal interest in a matter which could not now be of m

have spent my life," said she, "in peace and outward with a man whose dreams, mysterious connections, cau ormalities of speech, frequent and unexplained absences ofusion of wealth, have made him an object of wonder r, was nothing compared to the horror of having born xsons and two daughters, all of whom are married, and ildren; and every one of whom covertly maintains the oid obscurity of character and conduct secretly with him y sons' wives, and my daughters' husbands," she con "are involved in the same perplexity. I, therefore our lordship to relax the ceremonies of your high sta nd compassionately give me a solution of this afflicting ysterious affair."

secretary replied that it was wholly out of his power - her information that would mitigate her suspicions, and red that the whole disclosure might increase them; tha ld have a written statement prepared, which he would co her, upon the express condition that she would no it until she reached home. She accepted the required obtained the paper, repressed her restless curiosity, and lly kept her promise.

on reaching her home, she encountered the calm and reso ye of her husband, and told him all that had occurred, ex er own part of the embassy. This was the first time sh wer dissimulated to him, and his searching scrutiny de her prevarication. When he asked her if she had asked cretary why he refused the request, and she said "No!" lied, "That is a lie!" and left the room.

convened her sons' wives and her daughters' husbands roke the seal, and read as follows:

lis name is not Jones: it is John Kingston. His fathe known; his mother was a hatchet and bag-womanon beggar and thief of St. Giles. He and one Jonatha news ostensibly kept a conveyancer's office in the Strand were secretly connected with numerous and extensiv s and robberies. They were trailed, got wind of our pu and fled. They pass by forged names, and have been, al lives, engaged with an immense gang of the most adroi uccessful villains.

"They are clergymen, bishops, judges, sheriffs taries, members of Congress, and State legislators, of army and navy, directors, cashiers, and presidents and one of them is now attached to a legation from States on the Continent.

"They maintain covert confederation with pirates robbers, and forgers; give them succor, shelter, an share the fruits of these marauders.

"The secrets of merchants, bankers, navies, a governments are thus sapped and used for the purpo and astounding frauds.

"They revel in silent and secret crimes, poiso swindling, robbery, and arson.

"They are seldom detected: and, when caugh consummate and artful requisitions, and incredibl appliances of secret personal influence, intrigue, and bribery, are employed to strangle prosecutions, dicts of acquittal, disagreements of juries, new trials reversal of judgments, rescues, escapes, and pardons "They can prove anything, and raise any funds. "They are base-born, and their hearts are at ope all honest men.

"Their breed never reforms or regenerates, but ties of its moral pollutions increase, as it descends t blood to their issue, with the certainty of reptile ter

"They have cabalistic signals, signs, words, an phics. They swarm all over the United States, an face of the whole world."

Returning to the political thread of this discussi marked that, however the local institutions of so States have established political privileges in the other property qualifications for suffrage and for are all obnoxious to the free and equal principles a proclaimed by most of the State charters, and which the very essence of their national compact.

It is now the acknowledged and unalterable la western hive of mind, your business republicans, esta

test pretensions to the feudal aristocracy of Europe, or er distinctions by the possession of riches.

e is an intimate and close sympathy of interest and feelall honest men, whether rich or poor.

is view, poverty and riches are indifferent and immatesiderations.

compact of society does not rest on money, but on the y for safety and right; there are conspiracies by those capital to monopolize trade; but rich men are generally connections by which their money will be controlled by

realize an indemnity for necessaries, the maintenance on, and settling out of children, and the comforts of age. accomplished, in some calling or employment, by patien y, cautious dealings, temperate living, and the active ■nly use of our faculties.

e than this, is labor wasted; it sates the proper rationa e, and leads to avarice, the moth of quiet age.

instance of a mere soldier, or military chieftain, assum itical power, is rare. In the United States, it has no

ed.

y sometimes shrink from it, even when it is offered to

lington was evidently surprised when first spoken to o emiership.

eral Taylor was certainly sincere when he said, in reply first invitation to the presidency, that he was but a sol nd unfit for the duties of that office.

ivar was a pure patriot. Nicholas was born a despot. poleon is the only civilized modern instance of a mar as held with force the sword in one hand, and the scep the other.

the United States, this would be absurd temerity an

ess.

Paulus Hook, General Washington in scorn denounce roposal for military treason.

norel Jockson and Gonorel Tavlor in the course of thei