PRINCIPLES OF THE MULE. 
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the intermediary race — of the mixture proceeding from the cross 
of these two species — of the citizen proprietor— of the mule. The 
mule is the emblem of moneyed feudalism. Like the horse, he de- 
lights in little bells, in plumes, and embroidered caparisons : thus 
the vain citizen seeks decorations and titles, and his wife aspires to 
figure near great ladies in the train of princes. 
The mule likes to be attached to the car of and of queens 
— pacific royalties. The citizen is not less eager in his interested 
adulations than the gentleman courtier. 
The mule marches with stateliness, shaking his bells ; thus the 
citizen of distinction in small towns, frequenter of the Exchange, 
likes to speak of his riches, and to jingle his crowns. 
Unhappily for the mule, I seek and do not find in him that ar- 
dor of combats, that boiling courage which render poetical, if they 
do not legitimate the oppression of the aristocratic class. 
Vainly does the rich citizen try to give himself an imposing air, 
as he draws over his head the redoubtable bear-skin cap of the 
citizen militia. He aims at the majestic, and only attains the 
ridiculous. The martial head-dress, instead of assisting to conceal 
the end of the ass’s ear — the paternal ear — seems, on the contrary, 
to impart to it more gigantic proportions. 
One of the unfortunate passions of the shopkeeper, of the clerk, 
of the officer of the National Guard, is the passion for the horse. 
Now there is an insurmountable antipathy between the two spe- 
cies, and it is rare that the forced marriages (which from time to 
time are concluded between them) do not soon end in separations. 
The generous stallion, like the true gentleman, is always ready 
to fly to the assistance of the Republic in danger. The mule 
(read citizen) prefers to employ the services of others in this un- 
pleasant function. The mule (read citizen) likes well to abuse all 
the privileges of real estate, hunting, fishing, free gathering, leisure 
time ; but he would at the same time like to avoid their charges. 
He prefers paying others for the defense of the soil — paying for 
the maintenance of order, rather than to charge himself with these 
offices. What does he ask, this brave and worthy appropriator, 
who has made two or three millions out of the public by dealings 
in flour? He asks this society to secure him the peaceful enjoy- 
