text:  We do not recommend that distinction of dress according to difference of rank should be carried to an undue limit; for in the present age of the world and especially in our country where the basis of society is shifting and where the pivots of the commonweal are loose too little distinction of rank is allowed; rank is not respected as it ought to be; but nevertheless the promiscuous jumbling together and confounding of all men is carried too far; it is one of the elements of republicanism and anarchy that we should do well to discourage