Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1835-02-09
Nrw LEBANON AND THE SHAKING
W. QUAKERS.

I'VE QUAKERS.
The following graphic passages are from the
Nsw York Mirror, written by N. T. WINS
&C IN the peculiar vein of that agreeable
- md will be read with much pleasure
,eI shanon had history-if it had been the
80 much human vice and human virtue,
ST. s,Sar spots on the earth-if Bulwer who Is
hAe =; .notheosis on the other edge OF the
$50, scroll of the Atantic) had looked on it
9th his creative eye, and the poets with critics.
''.ho are brother editors of quarterlies, had
ar,ng hourished and died within its mountain
of,s horizon-in short, had poems been writ
Ten and praised there, and lovely women been
ade Iovelier by a deifying rank and more del
s,;ng fortune-if the ruins of robbers strong
bold stood on the shoulder Of one hill, and the
walls of a nunnery suppressed Tor hcentious-
ness stood on the slope of another then l think
LEBANON would have been spot tor Pilgrim
age for its natural beauty, 1t is shaped like
iofus with one leaf laid back by the wind. 1T is
n great green cup, with scoop Tor drinking
Mace. As you walk in the long porucoes OF the
hotel. the dark forest mounts up oetorey you ike
. leafy wall, and the clouds seem just to clear
,ha nine tops and the giles sail across from
hor;zon 10 horizon without lifting their wings,
"a IL YOU saw them from the bottom OF a WELL
people born here think the world about Two
miles SQUARE and billy.
THE principal charm Of Lebanon to me, is the
village of Shaker, lying in valley about three
miles off As GlaucuSI wondered al the inert
tortoise Of Pompeii, and loved 1t Tor ITS antlpo-
Iii contrast to himself, so do | affection IA
Tra,cb verb that beg leave to introduce to the
EngIish language the shaking quakers. Ihat
- ,housa I'd men could be found IN the new
uorld who would embrace rehSion ehJolhing
a frozen and unsympathetic intercourse WIN
the diyiner sex, and that an equai hunoef
of females could be induced to 1--we In Iie same
community. without locks or walls, IN Inc colu
and ri0id observance of creed OF celloacy, Is
60 a"a On Uncomfortable and grave wonder. My
deIigbt after breakfast, is to walk over anu
ona4d the forenoon in contemplating them at
tbsir work in the field: they have peculiar ana
most expressive physognomy. Inc women
are male. or of winter redness in the cheek,
and are all attenuated and spare Gravity, deep
and habtual broods in every line OF their thlh
T,cas They 90 out to their labor in company
,u,b those serious men, and are never seen to
smile Their eyes all hard and stony. their galt
i nrecise and stiff their voices are OF croak'
inc hoarseness, and nature seems dead In them.
I yould bake YOU such men and women III
brickkjln. ,,Io
Are there To be no more children. Is Cupld 10
he thrown out of business like coach-pro2rie,,
tor on rail road! What can the shaAels uis""'
| would be pleased to know.
The oddity is that the most OF them are young.
Men from twenty to thirty, and women from SIX
teen 10 twenty-five, and often, spite oil their I'm,
becoming dress, good-looking and shapeiy, meet
YOU at every step. Industrious, frugal and SELL
DENYING they certainly are, and there IS every
appearance that their tenets OF dlhcuit aosh-
hence are kept to the letter. There is little temp
tation beyond principle to remain, and they are
free TO 90 aud come as they list; there they 1--we
on in peace and unrepining industry, and more
thriving community does not exist in the repuo-
lie. Many a time have driven over on sun
dav and watched those solemn virgins dropping
in. one after another To- the church, and when
the inelmbed and rusSet-lace brotherhood were
swimming around the floor in their fanatlcal
dance. have watched their countenances Tor
some look of preference, some betrayal oil an
Unsurpassed impulse, till my eyes ached again;
have selected the youngest and fairest, and
have not lost sight of her for two hours, and she
might have been made of cheese pairlngs Tor
nny trace of emotion. There is food for specu
laton in it, Can we do without matrlmony!N
Can we Strike and be independent OF these
dear, delightful tyrants for whom we live and
move and have our beingr Will it ever be no
blot on our scutcheOn to have attained thirty,
five as an unfructfying unil2 Is that fearful
campaign, with all its embarrassments and awK,
wardness, its inquistions into our money ana
morals, its bullying and backings out-lslt ineV-
ifahlpt