Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-02-23

cannot be realized. And is it to keep a
live this deieterious spirit, that time Is sac
rificed talent prostituted and paper squan-
dered by thousands Oh! is it not to be
Iamented; that those gifted with what
creatures, should thus employ themselves.
Oh, that the poet and the painter, the
and the enlightened, would
condesceud 10 look upon the things around
them; view nature and life as they are,
be content with one as God has made 1t,
and Aie other as they find it.
What myria.!s Outright eyes and sensi-
tive hearts have wept over the mistortunes
of u Rosalind or the SORROWS Of d Ner-
ter, which we're never felt land grieved at
the endless perplexities of = Montimer,
and suffered in the hard trials of an A
manda that had never lived.
Nor is this all. These love managers
raise up whimsical notions Of felicity
which never can be obtained; cause
us To he dissatisfied with life as II Is; and
keep us perpetually longing Tor state OF
being incompatible with our present stu
alton, however fortunate it may be. They
make folks act and think, and speak anu
feel. as thes do not, and as nature never
lutended they should. They make ten
derness of heart and perfection ofcharac-
ter the universal attributes of beauty of
person; and moral deplavity and baseness,
The everlasting attendants Of an ugly face,
and reformed figure This is not fair, to
say the least oft
| hope 1 have not Judged Of these
things with a preJadiced mind, or from
ignorance of their tendency. | have read
much of them and can speak trem per-
sonal knowledge as well as from observa-
ton and hearsay And | can safely de-
clare the truth Of experience; their IN
tluence is bad. Few arise from their pc
rusai, without being struck with the pow
erty and meanness of the things around
them when contrasted with the images oil
fancy they have been contemplating; and
feeling discontended with the clrcumstan-
ces an all-wise Providence has seen tit to
place them in, or thin4.in less of their
friends, their hindred. or perhaps them
selves They have been reading OF
courts and castles, wealth, splendor and
delight; of gentlemen La armor, of iatiies
IN dIamo Ids, and Of beat ties IN brocade
without rejecting that the heart beat as
family, the blood flowed as 81 lggishl ,and
the mean passions vi human nature
crouched abJectly beneath such an ap
parei as beneath the plalnest brOadcioth
or the coasres, homespun. They have
been contemplating Youths no are all
honor, generosity and truth; females All
'ioveiiness, all sincerity and Devotion; fol-
whom, In real life, can finG no compare
son; bound together in heart by love as
Ideal as the dream of last night o. the
nope OF yesterday
Deg that may he understood. ! am
not one OF those Grabbed, tyrannicai ne
inss who imagine all love to he phantasy
and al women a cheat. | believe there
are many high-sculed, pure hearted wo-
men, who are not unwOrth. of ali atfec-
ton and tenderness man can bestow up.
on them. And believe there Is love, IN
this world, which time cannot conquer or
fate bend.
But such love IS not written. Nor Is
1t to pe found where writers seek II. Ii
does not dwell in drawing ROOMS ana
band boxes; nor In the bosom OF Jour
teen year Old miss, or unbearded boy -
1t basks not exclusively In the sunshine
Of wealth, beneath the fig tree of luxur, /;
nor Is II always cnvcioped in form OF
beauty. But rather seek it on the bleak
hill sides, and in the secluded caverns o..
the worid, where the winds of adversely
blow, or the serpents OF persecution and
co tumely hiss; for 1t Is In such scenes
that lis strength IS required, and its en-
during nature proved. And it far better
loves the clean hearth and cheerful side
of domestic llte-lts birth place anu its
the noisy tste, the rich
banquet, or the crowded assembly.