Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1823-09-24

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made contrary TO parental advice. In a
matter so important as the marriage
contract, the voice of the parent should
most certainly have great weight. lido
not say it should always be decisive,
neither on the. other hand will / aver
that it never should be decisive.
A parent should consult always the hap
piness of his child, and when that child's
affections are fixed, think every chance
should be calculated in favor of the pol
icy Of an alliance, and the introductory
authority should be exercised with care
and caution. On one point, however,
would express decided opinion; when
children have married; when there
can be 40 undoing of the matter, and
their fate is fixed, the parents ought not
to pursue them with vindictive spirit,
though the union may have been in op.
position to their wishes. The best eff,
forts should be made to bring all to a
happy issue. 1t has not always been
the case that this conduct has been pur-
sued, and where it has been departed
from, evil has frequently fallen.
remember the unfortunate Julia
Sellers, sweet girl, whose early life
was all sunshine, and whose hopes and
prospects were of the brightest, while
the summer of her youth endured. She
has passed 10 her final home she pass
ed 10 it through bitterness and tears.
and left her example behind her as
warning to others, who blest with youth
and beauty, and enjoying all the happi-
ness that wealth can give, may be tempt
ed to make forfeit like that she made.
and be at last as unfortunate as she was.
Among her suitors, for she had many,
was a gay and volatile young man,
whose vivacity, mingled with persua-
sive and insinuating manner, won her
heart, and yet failed to conciliate the
affections of her father. She saw him
only as lover, the gayest, fondest,
handsomest of her suitors, and confident
Of possessing his affections, she was rea-
dy to pledge her heart to him in all the
faithfulness of youthful passion. But
her father viewed the matter in differ
emf light; he saw him gay, but improv-
ident and poor, therefore without the
means of long INDUCING his propensity !;
volatile and unthinking, therefore not
likely to reform; and without those
principles of virtue, from which alone
reform could be expected; he saw
him fond, but he knew we'll that love
in mind like his, kindled, and blazed,
and expired, a bright, perhaps, but at
best a transient flame. He refused to
countenance the suit, and the marriage
took place consequently without his
knowledge.
The parent disowned his child-he
did not Persecute, but he left her to the
lot she had so venturously chosen. And
without one kind farewell, or one
blessing from a relative, Julia sailed
with her husband to New Orleans.
Here Mr.. Marville, for that was the
name of the gentleman who was now
her husband, engaged in business in a
counting house in the heart of the city,
and the prospect of success was flatter.
ing, but the disasters anticipated by Mr..
Sellers, overlook him in the end-he
gambled and lost his all; he then took
TO drink and abused the affectionate
girl he had made the partner of his
mlstortunes. Times grew dreary, and
he was obliged TO decamp in haste. lie
set out accordingly on foot, for he had
no other means of travelling, for an in.
land town one hundred miles from New
Orleans, his faithful consort with three
children accompanied him all the way
to soothe him in sorrow, to animate him
in dependency, and to cheer him under
his fatigue; but he failed in getting
business there when he arrived, and al
last the poor unfortunate family retrac-
ed the weary way to New Orleans, in
the decline Of Autumn, without shoes Il
their feet, or clothes sufficient to shield
them from the damp air of the even
ings.
! After suferings the most intense, the,
arrived at New Orleans, but oh, how
changed from what they were three
years before.-Fallen from competen
cy to absolute beggary, they were com
PEELED to seek admission into the house
of one who had been in better days theil
friend. 1t was granted, but there /,
something in the worlds most frequen
charities which has mixture Of gall
and tastes of bitterness. The unfor
tunate woman saw and felt this. He
husband, even now abandoned himsel
TO the intoxicating bowl, and every hope
OF his doing any thing 10 retrieve his sit
uation gradually died away.