Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-06-01
From the Troy Journal.
MECHANICS, &c.

/ a strange Meuuilng IN tniS afLlclc, Dut
4 we want to be heard out, and promise
that as many as nine out of every ten
who read what follows, shall justify US
at the conclusion of the article.
4 It is quite natural, we believe, in all
countries, for young persons to marry
into, what is very fifty considered their
own ranks of life.-It is also as proper
as it is natural. The agreement of the
parties in after life will be found to de-
I pend, ina good degee, upon that union
ofhabit which prevailed over the years
Of childhood. But we must not be mis-
understoodin the use Of the term runk.
For we simply mean what is true, and
not what is custom, in the gradations
of society. We want the idle to be
welded to the idle, and the industri-
Gus and the business man to be associa-
ted with his peculiar kind; that the cur
rent of matrimonial existence may run
smoothly-that the ways Of welded
life may not be perpctaally overcast
with dark and stormy clouds. In short,
we desire that some provision may be
made in the habits and customs of soci-
ETY., whereby the industrious young
man may take to himself filter part
ner, in the very outset oflife one that
shall be identified with his rise and for
tunes, that her very existence may be
interviewer with his. Such an one
would be truly wife. in the full sense
of the primeval understanding of that
ancient, and honored, and holy term.
Bet US now inquire how far this
righteous desire may be satisfied, out
of the habits and customs of the present
day.
How many mechanics in the city of
Troy-we like to be local and definite
are educating their daughters in
suitable manner to become the wives
of just such men as they were, when
they set out in the business of life?
The probability is that only very few,
If there be any, of the daughters of me-
chanics on whom the smallest degree
of prosperity has fallen, ever dream Of
commencing life where their parents
commenced it before them. In fact,
many of them look upon that very iden-
teal state ofsociety out of which they
have risen, as very low and degrading.
Their habits of life, their education and
their lady-like idleness of pursuit, rem
der them totally disqualified, lift were
possible to make them consent to be-
come the wives IF young mechanics.
| find they are brought up for the part
ners, exclusively, Of gentlemen of for
tune, and on the whole. are only fit for
some such pianopurposes. A mechan- !
&c may as well marry child out of ,
the cradle Of its nurse, as somarry such ,
a one, for any aid he might expect to !
derive from her in the business of that
life and fortune upon which he is about ,
to enter :
This evil is not wholly confined to {
it extends itself to almost /,
all the business pursuits Of life, and is J
rapidly spreading its desolaiing effects
over the whole land. 1t is precisely !.
similar with the young clerk. Very .
lew ofthese young men are able, in the :
beginning of business, to fit up house,
md maintain that extensive retinue Of : :
'elp and equipage, to which the daugh- :
er ot the old merchant has been accus-
omed, and which her education and
habits would require as the price Of her
mon. She expects as good house, b
nd as much costly furniture as she a
eaveswhen she quits her fathers dwell a
ing. Now it is plain to be seen, that v
is only in few instances this can be
lad. In most families, we believe, there Ii
more than 0ne child. c
And now let us enquire what all this Il
asst host Of young men are to do-this o
rlny, on whom the prosperity and fu- e
lre welfare of the country must de- i,
end! No man, save the idiotic mad n
'an--theopen lnisanthrope-the liccn- oil
Gus outcast and wretchcd barbarian. IL
I'LL attack the divine institution of mar h,
age. The term misogomist applies &C
OF to man but 5c0sl-wc would not Ii,
eet such an animal, without being ic
ny dressed in martial equipage. The hi
nth is, no such monster can be found re
the upright mockery and attitude Of tn
an. And hence we ask to know what wi
to be done, by the million Of young 10,
en- IN our country who are about to ty
ter into business, and who, in most ".
stances, ought to be married. Shall aft
recommend them to your kitchens so,
your parlors? They have no cant ste
but their characters, their trades and
n profession. To marry we shall =,