Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-01-22

myself found him watching By my
bed side. i clasped him to my arms;
the fond moment repaid me for all
underwent.
understand several of the party
laugh at my husband aud call him
"hen peck. IL cannot help it--better
so than have his hopes destroyed, and
his family made paupers-you Mr.
Editor | am sure will applaud me,
and every other sensible man. III the
rest OF the wives would take the same
step, they might Danish from them
many Sorrows ly husband is com
plctciy cured OF the initiation, and
our days glide on with the same en-.
dcaring sweetness as during our honey
moon. ELIZA.
We must tell "EHed" that If our
applause of her conduct be at all graft
lyis-, THAT she has it in its fullest
sense. Ii there Is so much JOY in
heaven, over one sinner that repcntetb,
how largely must she OH earth partici.
pate, who was 1.-The happy means
of eileclinsit. Not being aware OF
any very particular purity ofmorals,
as respects ourselves, we wish that
the lair Eliza had not faltered us in
that particular. We were educated
in the Christian Religion, and, conse
qucn,ly, believe in Original san, and
that In adams fail, sinned all"
and therefore, have no right OF exemp-
ton from the common frailties of our
nature.
AS to declaiming against vice in
these days OF degeneracy and turpi-
tide, it would indeed be thanklcss
office, and we might get our "nosc
t,oeched for our PANS" as the sorg
says, we th1efore, very kindly leave
it to the parsons OF the parish, not
doubling that they will exercise it
with more effect. Thus much, we
will say however, that we wish ab
info pectore, that GA MBLlNG and
drinking were both made capital of
fences, without benefit OF clergy, or
the possibility Of the interference of
the prerogative of executive mercy.
."dpplaud your conduct" we do in
deed, Madam--and if the prince Of
poets sung the descent of Ulysses ad
infernum, why should this more mo-
dern descent of yours, to the region
OF despair and death for the rescue ola
husband, be left rntold We wish we
could have been present-we can
form some idea of the feelings of
Macbeth when he heard the knock
lng at the Outward gate, or VIXEN
Hamlet's father "burst his marble
easements" andappeared to him; nay,
our thoughts may attain to some notion
OF the quot Of shame, felt by my la.
dy Venus, when honest old Vulcan
caught her and Mars in the net; but
1t requires great stretch of the ina
g,nation, TO conceive sight so horri-
bly, appalling, as three or four injured
wives, bursting suddenly on pack of
gambling husbands. We must cor
Tess, (were we Of the party we could
.'N' w ~ anu ASCt' VIC tidttiidt fuUy
OF onr cheeks" Bear up good Eliza
under all the depravty which pervades
this very notable district-you have
saved your husband from certain ruin
try and prevent relapse-alil1e
fatal IN the moral, as in the physical
world. All will be set right when
General Jackson is made President
you know he promised TO hang all the
rascaisin the metropolis and its vicini-
y, and we pledge ourselves to you to
furnish BIN the name of every gamb-
ling and drinking, 10 add to his list ofj
prescribed persons.
Before we close our remarks. we
mast hint to. those ladies', who despair
lns of the immediate reformation of
their husbands, intend killing them.
selves, that they keep such intention
pertecdy secret; for we know some
ten ortwenty sturdy old Benedicts,
who would never reform so long as
there was the most remote prospect of
thef wives playing the Roman.