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'.iff""'. '' 1 1 '" '!- . -i - .. VOLUME VII. GREENSBOROUGH, NORTH-CAROLINA, OCTOBER 4, 1845. NUMBER 27 ..3 I . . , . . . . v , : . , , 'TIT 4" 1 IJnblislicb tPrckin BY SWAIM & SHERWOOD. PRIoW'HKKri IKlbUnS A YKAtt, OB $2.50, 1 Y TAII' WITHI Xlt MU.XTII II'TKM THE ,111TB or HI" lM"ll!l'TIOX. Failure mi ill" part of anv customer to order a disroutin tiK-c within tin! sulcri(tiou year, will lie considered i it erative of las wish to continue llie paper. A CHILU'a FIIWT IMlKE44IOX OF A STAR. She bad hern told tlmt God made nil the stars That twinkled up ih heaven, and now she tocd Watching the ruining of the twilight on, ' t A if it were a new and perfect world, - And this were its first eve. How beuutiful Must he the work of Nature to a child In its first impression. I.aura stood By low window, with the silken lash Of her soft eye upraised, and her sweet mouth Half parted, with the new und strange delight Of licauty that alio eould not comprehend, And had notseou heforc. The purple foM Of the low sunset clouds, and the blue ky That looksd so still aild delicate above, Filled her young heart with gladness; and the eve 8toU on with its deep shadow. Laura still Stood, looking at the west with that half smile, . At if a pleasant thought were at her heart, Presently, in the edge of the last tint Of sunset, wheiethe blue was melted in To the faint golJ nu-ll m nc-fs a star Pecp'd suddenly. A laugh of wild delight Bunt from her lips, and putting up herlianda, Her pimple thoughts broke forth expressively Futher, dear Father ! God has made a Star !" .' ; ';; ;t , i There atric-Oiie runnio5vAnd kneclod kown to Jesus, and n.-ked him, saying. Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jeans-said unto hmv Why callesl thou me good! There is none good but one, namely, God. Thou knowest the commandments. Do not not commit adultery, do not kitl, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honour thy father and moili er.v And he answered and said unto him, Mas ter, all jhese have I observed from my youth. Then Jusus, beholding him, loved him, and. said unto him, One thing thou lackest : Go tby way, sell whatsoever thou hast, -and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven? and come, taVe up thy cross, and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sor rowful; for he had great possessions. And Je sus looked round about, and saith unto his disci ples, How hardly shall they that have riches, en ter Into the kingdom of God 1". REMARKS. It is hsnl for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God ; because it is hard for such an one to become meek and lowly in heart, and to lead a life of gospel humility. : It la plain from the concuireut testimony of scripture and experience, that great wealth has a tendency to excite and cherish a haughty and disdainful spirit, and to liccomo the idol of its possessor ; and thereby it indisposes one for em-. bracing the humble and self-denying religion of Jesus. Though there be some rich people, of a God-like bene ficence, whose characters are encompassed with a glorious splendour, whose littcrai hearts devise liberal things, and who, lika bcncvolont angels, do minister for good to the needy family of man ; we must nevertheless, in a general view, yield to the sentiment of an inspired apostle : They who will he rick full into temptation, nnd a snare, and many hurtful lusts, which drown men in drtlruclion and perdition. Men who are struggling with incessant solicitude to heap up immense riches, which they can enjoy but a short time do not seem to consider that they are not only indisposing their own minds fur a better state of existence; but alsoihat the great treasures, which they shall-leave to their 1 children, wintrtTikctyio TfnScrnlicwiWrerrlvaasinyTiulcTciier Tstedpmd" debaucited. NViso wis tharpraycr ofrAgur, Give me neither poverty nor riches. The Christian's motto ought ever to be that of his Great Master : "To this end was I born, and for this cause came Halo the world, that I should bear witness unto the rtfA.", The champion of the cross has to do with exhibiting truth not with combatting error. The true Christian phil anthropist, as he sees a world benighted and op- pre(68ediO"ilh darkness will be led to spend his energies,' not in complaining tof the darkness, or blaming this one or that one for producing it, but he will lake the lamp of eternal truth in his hrmd and press" orr ' through the wildncrness, heeding not the complainers about him, and only showing the path. The 'Christian morality, being most pure and1 sublime, tends to ennoble the human naturrand 4o render ue belter, and happier in all the rela ions of life. CfimpVtre the Christian law with the frigid preempts of philosophy; compare the Chris tian scheme of" relative and social duties with Chesterfield' 's maxims of politeness, professedly founded on dissimulation and hypocrisy of heart; howjstriking is the contrast ! You immediately see the divine origin of the one, and that the other is the mean and selfish offspring of that wisdom which is from beneath. . , The Christian laws are addressed to the heart; they reach and bind us' even as to our thoughts, andhe6ecjxt motives of r apticns,;. 'J'liey incul cate love os thegreat principle of human conduct. Supreme Iavo to God, and iniiversalJcnevolence U.V''' linn rn,'.. . ' w - , t,,,,, iu mci, uiu mi- m iui v.uiiiuiuiiuiiieiu5 in me vuius -Tins loverfikei'riir --Influence 6ft1iC'nfrTa'wntfTj' A would attract mankind: to one anollier, and' cause rach to Vsteem the. interest of another ns if it we'fe his own. yntl if t1,U love might be universal, in urlcs ' of c very. k in4Mvold ease,. oil tlic-rocial and relative duties would be willingly perform - ed, and this world, in a moral come a paradise view; wou Id he- Jav. sneakinrr of the mvsteriesof rlif-ion. savs. "Ask me not for the solution. I only know "the nre concerned 1 Precisely to more beer and con fact, I see two ends of the chain, but the mid- fences of beer ! I may be mistaken ; truly I ii - . , ,i m .....,. T, , , mi I i ns it 1.4 .nviil.In Mv nnn hv. it will hf nrnivn M up. ' . MISCELLANY, A Glimpse, at Mcrrie England, Professor E. Wright, (known as the able and ingenious translator of La Fontaine's Fables,) in his letters to the Boston Chronicle, makes the fol lowing shrewd observations upon the slate of af fairs in England : . Time, which tarries not for mortals, has brought me to the close of my look in England. It is very awkward to sum up and generalize when one has only begun to observe ; therefore understand me as giving generalizations of things as they seem to me what a fly that lights upon England for a twinkling and is o(T, thinks of it. As to the bounties of Providence, substantial blessings and beauties, I cannot conceive how more could have been granted in the same space than is the lot of this so far as nature has made it "inerrie Endand." After seeing the golden har vests of the rich eastern counties and Yorkshire, the meadows of the ThanVes, above all the garden valley of the Tweed ; the mines 6f Derbyshire', and another region to which the wise do not car ry coals; the bens and lochs of Scotland; the pikes and fells, and dales and mores of Westmore land ; the springs' of Malvern ; the valleys of the Severn and the Wye even taking a nap on -the brow of iheAVyndeclifTes surely I have a right to say "A vaunt, all geography ; this is the very spot where the human race ought to develope it-.! self in all its power and gtery." Dut truly, the race as a mass, is far and painfully below what a nurseling of republicanism, alighting on the Wyndeclifle, and drinking m the heauties of the wide landscape, and knowing nothing more of En gland, .would expect to find it. There .is ig noranee end coarse ' brutality, and sullen hopeless ness and haggaid wretchedness, far beyond what their libraries and find that just uch cures have there ought to be in the midst of such beauties I lcer performed at Malvern o hundred years ago, and blessings. Yet there is not a little, but a j and the water when anuly zed is the purest possi great deal among the human inhabitants that is; j lle. And they find cases in which patients with like the landscape, noble, and lovely, and glorious ! raging feverand delirium have broken loose from and that, not in one class, but in all classes, 1 their nunes and jumped into the Thames or some from the highest to the lowest. And a peep at ! horsepond, and their madness has proved better history will convince one, too, that the race is here j lhan the wi3dom of the doctors. f making a progress that is truly encouraging and j Many are coining to the conclusion thatdisease Sublime. Indeed, history writes this upon the i is chiefly somo mysterious modifiiation of that landscape. The old feudarastles, now possess-1 great poison, diet, with which we are sent into ed by ivy and owls i the ruinous abbeys, the J the world to battle, and this redounds greatly to dimly-remembered battle fiejds, aro way-; the advantage of pure water. Setting poisons to marks that show how the race has gone for- J catch poisons is growing into disrepute with these ward. The Alfreds, the Shakspears, the Ilamp. j people, nnd consequently they may by and by be dens, the Newtons, the Meltons, the Howards, the expected to see the absurdity of sending one dram Wesleys, the Hogarths, have not lived in vain. of alcohol into the stomach to cure the disease Their mantles are worn worthily by men whom made by its predecessor. The multitude of ex it might be invidious to mention now, but who : perimehls which have now put the matter fairly will shine as the stars by and by ; men who are to the test, seem to demonstrate that coldness doing what Cromwell did, in a wiser wayr They j combined with pure water, is the best means that have approached in fact, nearer than in form to , has ever been tried to quench human inflainma the desired goal- In enumerating the governing ! tions, and when properly applied will cure any poivers of England, you have not done when you ' patient tplio has strength to be cured in anyway. have mentioned king, lords nnd commons. The j This being true, the occupation I do not say of press is to be named, and that not at the tail of the doctors, for it will require science and wisdom to list. The press has outgrown the power of what . apply cold water hut of the druggist of all me 4 callMt4he goverflmeBtrt- :onlrel-it kh fear or favor. Look-nt the Times newspaper with fnoralcohol be fnduded?" a net revenue equal to that of a third rate Euro- From ihe hold this subject has taken of the pean potentate. Ministers have bribed h till it is most intelligent here, I look for a great patholog- heyond the reach of their bribery. They look up to it with fear and trembling, and a degree of principleof total abstinence upon a more comman humble obedience. It 4s the voice of the most ding-foundation than it has hitherto occupied. -If vigorous intellect of England saying what will be ! you can get the wine out of the heads of the phi most likely to find an echo in the breasts of one I lanthropic of the higher class, then will they see hundred thousand independent Englishmen as they swallow their buttered and boiled eggs. Look at Punch, too, with wit and wisdom enough to insure him a hundred patents of immortality. He governs a great part of England, very much for its good. The Pecksniffs of the land take hints, from him, to edify their dupes. Hence one may conclude that England is growing, and hasgrown wiser, and, of course, happier.. Yet if o ie were to task himself to write down the folly aj(l hum bug and happiness of England it would be diffi cult to decide where to begin, and quite impossi ble to end. England may be said to live under a trinity of evil, kingcraft, priestcraft and beercraft. In this let me not be misunderstood to speak disrepectful ly of that interesting daughter of Eve, the queen who with " such exemplary pat'ience obeys the command imposed upon her aforesaid mother,, nor of the reverend clergy, nor yet of the noble brew ers, many of whom write sir before and barl aht'r their names. They are nil honorable persons, I hope nnd trust ; but the craft to which they were born or bred, I am sure cost England immeasur-nbleTHoes-U that I hadheeye of a prepheland could say that there was visible in the diniest dis- sanguine hopkhouVsek'Byhrguesatia -that deliverance Wal' come somehow : or" at some ItmrorotfaiThV upon- the country seem to me ,lobe, first beercraft second 'prlestcrifJltxUwi ifrl. -thjB' beercraft is removed rtill the people get the clear he; aJi; at;"4'. st ron '1 ie art r v h ic h. pure "atcf''Vv'es: 1 in vain you lift at the others. Suppose you abolish the taxes and tithes and give England a cheap government and free. church and full suf frage, to what will it amount, so far as the masses 1 have found warm and zeulous promoters oftuor ouffh temperance, but they seem to be rejde h i J as the maddest of fanatics. Nine men out often ' VI -ilJU lauui t ii y v i at au iui nine u . u juivv inquisitive, have not the slightest barrier them selves and stupidity and drunkenness, but their inability to get enough beer. It is their undoubt ed creed that beer is a blessing, and one of their deepest sorrows that their wages will not allow them to get plenty of it, with a drop or two of gin by way of a luxury. Look at poor Chartism, befogged in beer ! fighting as often as any way a gainst itself.and selling to its worst enemies even the little suflrase it commanded. If the masses of England could be induced, to enter upon the ca reer so gloriously begun by those of Ireland, they would soon take a position which would settle many of the knottiest questions of politics, and the crafts of the priest and the king would be swept away like the mcshesof the spider. The state and ihe church would then take their places as servants of the people not masters. Yet wit h l ali this which loan American mind is so evident. staring them in the face, there are plenty of sincere philanthropists here, enemies of slavery, of corn laws, of church tyranny, ol a vampyre aristocra cy, who will pity you for not drinking wine with them who will raise the cup of Circe to their own lips and then lament the oppression and de gradation of England's poor! Pui the brewers of England in the same condition with her feudal castles and monasteries, and her poor will soon take care of the other vampyres, There is one sign of the times, however, whielr 's hopeful. The discovery in Germany of the i wonderful sanatorv nronerlics of cold water is making an impression upon the higher and mid dle classes here. . The doctors are not able to laugh it down. . Afterspending fortunes on phy sicians in vain, invalids goto Grafenberg and are healed. A. child with scarlet, fever, js wrapped in a wet sheet and - gets - well. Men ical reform, which I think cannot fail to set -the r clearly the eflecls of beer upon the lower., Both once delivered, the nation would notbe long in discovering the folly 'of working itself to death to support a class of grand, and idle hereditary pickpockets, ior long in devising means of relief. SVe if the new vision bestowed ..upon the Irish people does not work out such results. England wunts an occulist like Father Mathew., -i ' , .. . . Cliaracicr of a True Friend. Concerning the. man you call your friend loll me, will he weep with you in the hour of dis tress? Will ho faithfully reprove you to your face for actions for which others arc ridiculing or censuring you behind your hack ? Will he dare to stand forth in '.your defence when detraction is secretly aiming its deadly weapons at your repu tation? " Will he acknowledge you wiih the same cordiality, aud behave loyou with the same friend ly attention, irt the company of your superiors in rank and .fortune, as when the claims of pride and vanity do not- interfero with those of Friend ship? If mit-for'.une and losses should oblige you to retir'wto-a ' walk 'in life in which you cannot appear with the same liberality as formerly, will mi . 1 1 s. ir ... liesuilL ihiult-iiitosjilC hap , 111 .. i. j i':' iff-. . imleal. of gradually withdrawing himself frani an unprofitable connexion, lake pleasure in professing huiweJf your fricndteMd t uj po'rtne,''Vu rueypT" y6tf r ottlictions ? - "Whenot knowiiTgliv A1 TlitMrua1ef sickness shall call vou to retirer fioif tle Cay rnd. busy fccencs of the vbrld, - wilLhefoljow yoii into 3Wi1r)?y7aVi6r tytth" oue'titrPryuu r 'tale of symptoms,' and minister'the balm of con solation to your fainting spirit ? And lastly, when death shall burst asunder every earthly tie, will he shed a tear upon your grave, and lodge the dearremembranclj of your mutual 'friendship' on his heart, ns a treasure never to be resigned? The man who' will not do all this may be your companion your flatterer your seducer; but depend upon it he is hot your friend. The Quaker's Daughter. a stony or old salcm. The annals of the year 165$ will ever present a blot on the historic page o(Ne England, and the lifted veil discloses a fury of religious intolerance, and a violence of persecution, which darkly stains the character of those who, in other respects, mer it our highest encomiums. It was during ihe height of the popular fury in New England against the Quakers, that the oc currences which I am about -to relate took place. Before a small, tinpainted house in Salem, on a beautiful tummer evening, sat an old man and a fair girl, his daughter Their faces illy conceal ed the anxiety of their enrts, and a Jjstener might easily have seen that their fearful forebodings were riot unfounded. , Verily," said the old man, after a pause in the conversation, during" which he had appeared to be engaged in inward prayer, 'verily the hand of persecution is heavy upon us. Surely it was this place that caused my own wife, Rebecca, to go nown tome grave, ere yet me grassnopper had become a burden as it has to me. And now, i . .r ... , poor William, what will become of h.m ! Twice has he suffered the cruel sentence of an unr.ghte- ous ,aw for v,su,nff 'ou' y J"gh". I pray uoa mat ne may not nave tne temerity to return, j "Amen," with blanched cheeks and tearful : eyes, ejaculated the maiden. Her anxious atti- tude, her clasped hands all told a tale of deep affection. To William Horsley had her youth ful faith been plighted, while she yet Was. in her native England ; and the extent of Ms nflection maybe imagined, when it is remembered that twice, as the reader has already been informed, rum,""ehatr he been publicly whipped for venturing with- in the precincts of that town from which he had been banished. The penally of the third offence was death, and yet in spite of the danger, he dared j week after week to visit her whom he loved ; and j her oflectionajo remonstrances only served to heighten his passion for one who, in her love for another, thought not of herself. Long and anxious did father and daughter con verse about their future prospects. They could nol suppose that, known as ivere they to be Qua- j kers, they should long remain unmolested ; "but there was in the breast of each a carefully nour ished hope that their perfectly harmless and quiet life might, at least, avert for a time the storm which they felt to be gathering. But these hopes were vain. A3 the two arose j to retreat to their dwelling from the night air and dew, their attention was arrested by loud voices and the tread of heavy feet. Shortly a party of rough, ill-favored men stopped at the door of their humble hous. and freely entering ; and seating themselves within, began to pass the usual rough jests which the preser.ee of unprotected beauty will always excite in the minds of the brutal and unfeeling. The visit filled the beautiful Quakeress with undisguised alarm ; she, wholly unprotected, for her faflier appeared stupified by the before un- heanToF liberties with" his property, and said, not a word ; but by the occasional flash of his eye at some new outrage, it was easy to see that in his younger days, a much smaller injury would have called forth something besides angry looks. The object of their coming was soon made manifest. " The town can't, allow vou, old fel- low," said the leader of the gang, "to cumber this j ground any longer. So sir up your stumps and 1 b&jofL l4'iu!reiJi!feMjsix-o!dock-.to-inorrow - i - mornin. lornmg, by the whiskers of the Virgin, you shan't 1 have a roof to cover you M,I obey," said the old man meekly. " But as for this little sparrotv," continued the ruffian, " if she can fancy, me, she shall go home and live w ith me. What say you my dear ?" The girl replied by an indignant gesture. Ah ! I know which way the wind lies. I've seen that Horsley around here before now ; but ventures into these parts again.' So warn him, I for 1 m on the look out. The distress and alarm depicted on the girl's countenance was so evident, that the fellow stop- pedj and, after reiterating his injunctions to the ; old man, the band took awelcome l-ave. ) " The Lord's will be done," said the Quaker ' after a short pause, "L't us obey those who have the 'powcr.'-- A'shofttime was consumed in making prepay-j ouvt iui iv t J vvuduiiil u in iiiuniii i t" ations for their departure, but ere their arrange-' ments could be completed, the old mamvas strick- j en down with burning fevtr. The unusual ex-; citemen'l had been too. much for him, nnd hasten- . ". i .. ,'. . '. - I two or uiree uays. For some minutes after the truth broke upon i fi ii'nr!' tnnA itii.t? Iind hri nriir ririil vl'jljijt i)f ' wrUrt mrtininiT'ic if ' it :t"ri l1ii tu,Llrufliti .f-.ivl;l ,rrr..r,r- : -r ...JT., - -.., r,-.. .. . .... . J3,,. uu jj. nol necessary tor n itiafl to be; irrrormed ol ana : place..; IIeloyerht -s- bistaticcViriieTcaaitl Uutje nude'acjjuamted vitUa8 if ottr path were (ttiewcd. with diamonds; to' gating, he Would!not;.undci standi, 7 ;- her situation, but his presence would only in crease her anxiety : and in any case, she knew not yherc to seek him. But her strong mind soon discovered the only course in her almost helples3ituatTon. . The house, she was aware, would be sacked in the morning, and if she was discovered, nothing could save her from public disgrace. Food and medi cine, too, must be obtained for her father, and her only way to get it was to leave him, returning ut night. To a little ruined out-house, at some distance from their dwelling, she carried a bed, and hav ing rendered the place a3 comfortable as possible, she assisted the old man thither, and having care- r nu' j . . . , im until morning, the early left him, not without fearful forebodings. Nor were her fears entirely groundless. In the morning the house was ransacked and stripped of ('very valuable. But the hovel from its mean appear ance, was not visited, and in the ensuing night, having during the day .wandered twenty miles for food and medicine, as she dared not inquire for it nearer, she returned to her father; although dangerously ill he appeared to be sleeping (juiet- For more than a week the devoted maiden thus watched by night the sick bed of her father, and she-had alfe'tdy begun to look forward to the time when he should rise from it. and seek with her and one other whose name she was too modest to j breathe, a far off spot in the wilderness where j they might dwell in pence, when one dark night, I as she was hastening along the road to the Qua- o ker., bed8ite 8e feh herself clasped around the .;,, u ,l j , ,l , ime voice nol nUogelI)t.r unknown to her ear, cried om t.iI1o, my darljn? sparr0Wt whol nowf f lbouglu much fromeeinglhe. track of a pret. ty foot around the old place,- this morning. Go ing to get what we've left, ch? You slighted me the other day," continued he, in a louder tone, as she commenced a faint struggle, "and by the bones of my mother, you shall smart for it now," Completely exhausted with fatigue and terror, the little Quakeress was dragged along by the men until she wasbrought to the prison, into which, after some j$orl delay in arr examination, she Vas thrust, receiving as she vent, tbe gratui- tous intelligence, uia; every tntng wa prepared i .... . ii- ' -i . A ... .i . 1 0r giving her a public whipping in the morning. ! It was not until the key . turned upon the poor ' gjrl jn the lonely cell, that the full horror of her aituation struck her. Shame and disgrace she fell she could bear when in the way of her "duty,-! but to be publicly whipped it was too much. j Her sensitive nature shrank from the pain and ! the exposure. The old Clunker, too ; what would ! become of him ! The forsaken girl fell on her j knees, and long and earnestly did she pray for deliverance for herself, and health for her father, And diliverance was not far off. As she rose from her knees, a light tap at the window arrest ed her attention. A voice that she well knew pronounced her name. She flew to the spot and a joyous kiss through the iron bars showed that she well knew who was t lie re. But her happiness vanished when she thought of their mutual danger. She gently reproached her lover for exposing himself to so great a risk, and earnestly entreated him to leave her to her fate and save himself., But William Horsley would listen to no such counsel. Having heard of their situation, he had hastened to their assis tance, nnd arriving near the house, was wi'ness to the capture of his betrothed.. He delayed only long enough lo provide himself with necessary implements, nnd appeared, os we have secri, at the the window of the piison, determined to res cue his beloved or pension the attempt. Animated by love, he worked with a zeal to which t he presenec of the Quakeress added not a IjiUe. Her aid, also, within, was very valuable ; nnrl in two hours their united efforts had remnr. ed en0Ugh of the bars to enable' William to draw heT . trough the open irtg; It is needless to say tinrt - iu - hmn. nf'-iWtimrfatiiwrirTfgM-Ttian: poin'tcdf.and that the lovers escaped free. 1 . They found the old Quaker so far recovered, j , more 0d vantage than by proving to the world tha.t with great exertions they were enabled to ' his affection and preference for his .wife.-' v remove him to a place of comparative safety, a-1 Never run on in enthusiastic encomiums on ff bout thrfe miles distant, whence, a short time af-' ter women m presence of your wife; she does i. r .1 r not love you better for it. Much to be condemn or, they removed to one of the frontier towns in ed. is a married man constantly rambling from New Hampshire, where the usual consummation J home fq,r the purpose of .. plrgsifig" awoylume. " to such romances took place ; and one of their ! Surely,' if Be ' wahis employment, his house, and ' detcendants. froin whom last summer I obtained ' d gaT'ns furnish him with it, and if ha banks of the Winnepisseogee. Life iinhc Country. ' The following exquisite gem we take from the third number, just, published, of Colman's Eti- ropeun Agriculture. "To live in the country, and enjoy all its plea Fures, we should love the country. To love the country is to take nn interest in nil th.it belongs v J it n t,iit to the country jts occupations, its fiel forests, its trees and rocks, its valleys. its fields and its and hills, us lakes nnd rivers ; ' to gather the flocks arouii'l us, and feed them from our hands ; to make the . l.j!i r 1 ;r '. .1- .' ' . , io.wear u.ciiupiei4i'roses as 11 ii.wMULjunseiy diadem : to rove over Uie verdant fields .1rtra .ydniansa .uihale the. treshrr hold converse with the trees of the forest, in their" youth and in their decay, as if they could tell lis the history of their own times, and as if the gnarl- , ed bark of the aged among, them were all written TiveTwuh the record of by-gone days of thrjae who planted them, and those who early gathered their fiuiu; to find hope and joy bursting like flood upon our hearts, as the darting ray of tight gently break upon'the eastern horizon J to see the descending sun robin;j himself in burnished -v clouds, as if these were the gathering gloriia ol the divine throne; to find in the clear evening" of winter, our chamber studded with countless , gems of living light ; fo feel that Mwe are never less alone than when alone !" to make eren he stillness and solitude of the country eloquent: and Jibove nil, in the beauty of every object which. presents itself to our senses, and in the unbought ' provition which sustains, and comforts,' and fills with joy the countless multitudes of livinrj ex- " istences, which people the land, the water, the ; r air, every where to repletion ; to see the radiant tokens of an infinite and inexhaustible beneficence, as they roll by us, and around us, in one ceaseless ""' flood ; and in a clear and bright day of summer, to eland out io the midst of this resplendent crea" tion, circled by an horizon which retreats from our advances, holding its distance tindlminisKed, and with the broad and deep blue arch of hea- yen over us, wboje depths no human imaffimv tjon can alhom ; to perceive this glorious temple? jn?tinct with the presence of the Divinity, and !i feel.amidst all this, the brain irrowinir dizzv with wonder, and the heart swe'iing with anldoratioi. and a holy joy, absolutely incapable of utterance; this it is to love the country, and tVmakTnMjof the home of the person only, but of the soul.' Whisper' to Husbands. The happiness of the wife is committed to ths keeping of the husband... Prize the sacred trust- . and never give her cause to repent the confidence she has reposed in you. " In contemplating her . character, recollect the materials human nature j composed of, and do not expect perfection.- Doju8tice to her merits, Land point out her faults t for I do not ask you to treat her errors with indulgence, but then endeavor to amend .1 ...:.u .i ' wiauom, gemieiiess ana iove.v ' Do not jest about the bonds of a marriage stats', Mike it on established rule to consult your v wife on all occasions. Your interest is hers ; and un dertake no plan contrary to her advice and appro- balion j then ifjhejtffiiif Jurosout JU jrovur spared. reproaches both fror hr andrynor iwn feelings. There is in a woman ah intuitive quickness; a sagacity a penerratwrindTforeareEt. in lhe probable consequences of an event, tjiat, makes heT peculiarly calculated 10 give her an ndvice. . r ,j If you have any male acquaintances whom, on reasonable grounds, your wife wishes you to re- -jign, do( so. Never witness a tear from jour wife with apathy or indifference. Words, looks . -actions all may be artificial ; but a Tear is une quivocal? it comes direct from the heart, and -speaks at once the language of truth, nature, and sincerity 1 Be. assured, when you see a tear 00 her check, her heart is touched, and do not, I a gain repeat it, do nol behold with coldness r in" sensibility. Let contradiction be avoided at all times. Never upbraid your wife wiih the meanness of her relations; invectjves ugaiiist herself are not so wounding. Should suULruig flf any- kind as- sail your wife, your tenderness and attention Vr T particularly called for. A look of love, a word of pity or sympathy is sometimes better than raedir , cine. r. ; - Nevei rpproach your wife with any personafor mental defect ; for a plain fa'ceionwtimes con-.' -ceals a heart of exquisite sensibility nnd merit,. an d hef C0iiscif)usn-6S of the defect T mafcesTer a wake to the slightest inattention. When in the ' presence of others, let your wife's laudable pride be indulged by your showing ybu think her an :tecl ol importance a nd f)referencei I he-most " " " trivial ncl or .word of attention and love from you, rrrntihi her leel ns : nnn n man never muuira dren and books. the best society in the wnrlrt. There are some men who wilf sit. an entire dar with their lips closed. Tjiis is wrong; yoi should conver,se freely on all such occasions. B always cheerful, gay nd good humored. Whew ahroirdq4ut avoid speakiug loycQrwifc. Vfif '. women ar insensible to tendertreatmenl 'hey arc naturally frank and affectionate, and in gene ral there is nothing hut aysterity of look, or dis tance of behavior, that can prevent those amiabl v qualities from being evinced oh all occasions. When absent let your letters to your wife '.b warm and affectionate. 'A woman's heart is pe- ' culinrly fcrmetl ffr; tenderness, nnd every expres siou nnd endearment, .from the man she loves is. flattering aud ph-asing to her. ' ' - ! : j A-h'ujibanil. wlieneier he goes frorn tioffls ' - should aiwavs endeayw 10 briig some little-pre- , ' Iq pecuniary niatters, do not be punurious, or , loo particular. Your .wife has nn equal right with ' -y ou rselTio alty oF TgaHy "tt 1 irotoan",,h.as "innumerable'1' trtfling' ' roanas on her purv tnaiiy little wnnU, which it. Y. .1
The Greensboro Patriot (Greensboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 4, 1845, edition 1
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