Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1838-02-17
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woman,
Her i1l i on you-sleng tears 10 weep.
Aad patent smiles 10 wear through sufefinRs hour
And sanlc4 riches from affections deep,
10 pour on bnlkea reeds "a wasted shower
And 70 make idols and 10 find them clay,
And 70 hewaa that wonhp-thereldre pray
Her bot is GA yon--io be found untf'd,
Watching the stars out by the bed Of pain,
With pale cheek and yet brow inspird
Wi:h true heart Of hope though hope lie vain!
Meeksy 10 bear with wrong, 10 cheer decay,
AL On to love through all thingstherelore pray"
Trace her experience to the next stage Of her
exlslance. aud woman is more poeiical stlI--be
cause 50 long as her youth and beauty insured
admiration so long rs there is any thing 10 he
gained by her favor she Is subjected TO me deceit.
tal asi'eEles Of man. whom she Is naturally desi.
roas to please, not only as her superior guide,
and inena, but As he holds the reign If govern
ments and can therefore deprive her Of all or mos,
~ moi pleasures. As agIh, she was deceived
only ~ hri own heart, she il now deceived by
the general aspect Ol society. Way is made Cor
her 10 walk forth as queen, and when supplinnt.
haiy before heI no wonder that she should a.
sunis the the dignity Of one, and learn to love the
sceptTe placed ior a moment in her feeble hand.
Trusting and sincere herself she dreams not Of
filsehond, and when told she Is beautiful, she
looks IN the mirror and believes il true. Find.
hng That beauty Is the only sure title TO tho admi-
ration oi that which II is her interest 10 please,
nnc values her personal sharms as her richest
dowcr--and if she smiles, not from tho lulness Of
Z glad heart, but, because smiles are lovely
howns to produce effect, or signs to excite mo-
nientary interest, il is because she has learned in
her intercourse with society," that she must be per-
sonay lovely 10 be beloved and pc, songiiy inter
essIng 10 avoid contempt.
Y when We think Of the .falsehood practisod to-
wards women, at that season Of life when their
minds are most capabls Of receiving impressions,
and when their Intellectual powers just arriving at
maturity. are most liable TO serious and impor. |
ians bias, we can only wonder that there should |
Be any substantial virtue found amongst them. |
But 40 time 10 sleep and time to awake, so |
there comes to almost all women, a time when
their eyes are opened to the irith---wben their
beauty charms nol--and their step il hoard with.
out q INSTRUMENTATION they tune the harp without /
audience, and speak unanswered when they
smile without imparting happiness aud irown
without exciting alarm when others step for.
ward to receive the adulalion once offered 10
mem while they are thrust down from their ina.
Snafy thrones, by tho worry hands which support
Ga Them IN their ascent. Compelled 10 descend,
inough sometimes gradually, from the state of
sdcai extltaiion TO which sho has been raised.
wom1n catches at svery slender hold that NAV
break her fall. To the last voice tina, speaks
h,iteringly, she listens with an ayidity which sub
lecls her to tho Iidcule Of The world; while to
We last kind hand thai is held on, to her she
el'ags with dispairing energy, aud arden, graft
'uur, which permit her not to perceive liz unwor.
'hitcss Hence follow the nbs,rditios for which
snc y more blamed than piticd, and tho rash sa-
crtiire Of herself for which she meets with little
mercy from the world. But the censor Of woman
should be woman herself. to know what il il 10
have lived in that vortex Of fasehood, attery, and
dissipation, which surrounds young and bcauti-
lnI female ; and then 10 pass away into the sui.
len calm OF ncglect--to have basked in Tho warm
and genial atmosphere ofreal OF pretended afFec.
ton and then 10 "bde the peliing Of tho pit,less
Storm" win which envy never fails 10 assn,l her
whose capabiliiy Of loving has out lived her
charms --to have listened 10 tho voice Of adula- :
ton, breathing her praises like perpetual con.
ceH al around her and then TO hear nothing bu,
lhs cold dull language ofirulh, exaggerated into
narshness, or sharpencd into reprool--to have
'vca charmed HE, under the facinaton Of mans
loso, " the very centre Of all that constitutes
Ileai hapriness, mnistered 10 on every hand, and
'eed'ng Ike the butterfly, upon the flowers Of life,
without wish unqualified, thought untold, or
tear implied and then upon the worlds bleak
desert 10 stand alone repeat. that the consor
Of woman should DO woman horsell--a woman
who has bcen admired, and then neglected. IA
Tho following kae instance Of beneyolonco OF
Character. is copied from New Orleans paper
Of late date:
How different was the course pursued b,
iishnnded and generous merchant Of our city.
'swards delinquent clerk, who permitted the
roulette table 10 soduce him from tho path Of hon.
or. Ihs gentleman 10 ham we ande had been
robbed from time 10 time, ind had thus lost thou
sands. Az length he detected his unfortunate
clerk and calling him 10 private room, I'D.
dressed him 4, the kp!lowing etFeci.--
"Wrctchcd young man! inform me Of the full
extent Of your depred,tions; promise me to re-
pent OF yoir CONDUCT, and ask pardon Of God
will not biast your hopes IN lie, and prospects
Of amendment, by making public your dishonesty
and mai-pmcticCs return to your family, my
respected friends Ia The North. Your passage is
paid for here take this hundred dollars--go,
and sin M more =
For obvious rcTsons VIC should not mention
the nane Of this phianthropic merchant But
God bless himi
The Bill for establishing The Sab Treasury
Sy:sem by Law, as recommended by Mr.. Vaa
Buren,, is drawn with admirable ability, aud pre-
Sents that great and important measure before
Congress 10 Tangible shape. Scarcely day
has passed since the stoppage Of specie payments