My hearers In the il-iys of Alexandt T
Es.i., it v;is pretty :-iu r:il t y con
sidered, by thtt respectable portions of so
ciety, th:it worth made tin- 111:111 ; th:it hi'
whose limit was Kept from sinking into
li is stomach 1 1 v tho pillars of sUrict inte
grity, and whose actions were governed
hy the impulse of generous principle, was
not only :i man, hut :i gentleman of the
first order: hut, now a-days, it i.; dress
alone that nukes the 111:111, ami fashion the
gentleman. Tho world of late, has grown
so artificial, and so niuneinus are its de
ceptions, that a person has to dij throti:;h
:i vast quantity nl' outward ruhliish hefore
lie can arrive at the pure, fountain of real
merit. 1 mean hy this that there are ma
ny individuals whose outward appearances
arc as rough as the road to misery, who
possess souls as smooth and as delicate as
the down upon the hack of .1 new-haleli-eil
goslin, and whose hearts are as rife
with the genuine seeds of rectitude, as are
peach trees with blossoms in the mouth
of .May w hose bodies, like thatched cot
tages, present humiliation- exteriors, and
yet contain w ithin peat e, happiness, mo
rality, contentment ami comfort. On the
other hand, 1 mean to assert, my friends,
that most of those w hom you see mono
polizing nearly the whole of the m.Ic
ualk of society in displaying the dry
goods hung upon their hacks who are so
puffed up with vanity that they can't
siiie.".e themselves into the doors of ho
nest industry without collapsing their
flues are just as destitute of those enno
bling qualities which should characterize
a man, as a cob is of corn after passing
through a .shelling mill ; and more rotlcu
ahout the cores of their hearts thai! were
those foul transactions which once brought
a disgrace upon Denmark. 1 say, my
friends, that these fabricated specimens of
dignity and worth require, for the most
part, an astonishing elevation of charac
ter to he worthy of a sheep stealer's eon
tempt. 