The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-03-19
N,mean Grore. n. G. Marcel I. 1910

Nemeaa Grope, N C., March T. 1910.
Miss MARTHA
!" Hail woman, Hail last formed in Elen's box.
ars flowers;
Midst humming streams and fragrant breathing
Thou art, mid light and gloom, through good
and i'll,
Creations glory-nan's chief blessing still
suppose TINT you are about TO conclude that
your very kind letter of the litd Feb is uunoted
by me, but believe it not | have read il over
and over again, and would have written long
since, but circumstances forbid my doing So
The very first line in your letter, or rather the
first sentence is fraught with meaning. There
yon make it canse OF rejoicing to DO me service
don't YOU think it would be better that every
year was Leap Year You talked about plying
my case, | didn't like that SO well, il might be
construed into bad meaning--but then when you
said that you felt determined to make your suit
as comfortable as possible, looked over the 9th.
( er. With regard to my bashiulneSs, Madam, you
rnay be mistaken for though ! do not Ike to
talk constantly, yet | can talk on subjects which
suit my taste. Il is true | dout lka TO tell old
tales that has been told over thousand times five
hundred wears ago-nor second handed thoughts
which have been worn thread. bare for centuries
past. You talk about me thinking myself that
| am not married | would have you know, dear
girl, don't thank myself or any body else that
am not married. You might begin to think this
a rejection Of your proposal, but nc You know
that you and I could nave been married before
now had Providence so ordered it--5ut 50 il is,
and we should be resigned 10 our fate. \ GU are
a little mistaken about attending church with you
regularly for six years past-you know during
Chat time | have been-. \ GU are certainly
/ a joking about the parties, for YOU know that
don't attend any Of them, You charge me with
never speaking Of iore-you certainly remember
one day when we were walking over the green
in the cool of the evening, when proposed that
very theme for discussion, and you argued there
was no such thing as love, and said you never
4 loved in your life; and when | asked YOU if you
could love me, your reply was | cant love. So
you see, | thought Won were in earnest aud have
not sand much about the subject since. But |
suppose | did wrong, for II | had asked You four
or five hundred times you might have said Oh !!
you must not believe every thing we say. But
! you see | was candid and thought others so too
and therefore concluded that what YOU said was
| all a fact J GU talk in your letter about trying
occaslons-squee2ing your hand walking, riding
and keeping company with you-l don't know
how these things could be trying, but perhaps
they were trying to you in manner unknown to
me-but as you Justly observe, these times are
+
year Shout Q We MUSES.! Shout. You
need not be afraid TO tell me You love me- for if
| loved you not, would keep it a secret, so you
/ see nobody would know any thing about who YOU
/ loved It's COMPOUNDED hard that the ladies can.
not be permitted TO tell who they loye-I wouldn't
/ blame them if they would have Leap Year every
/ other year. Martha, you appear to have your
+ mind MAIDS up on this important question now
under consideration. | advise you to go and see
Mrs. T. soon IS you get these lines, and if she
has not sold your choice, to purchase your wed.
ding dress, as you wish the matter to be hastened.
Y GU say your age is -, very good; hut | con-
fess was little surprised; Of yours added TO
/ 81 x 5 is mine. You arc expecting dowry
of Sl5, 000-you are very interesting You were
/ educated at Salom--all very good. | suppose |
heard YOU examined once in my travels in the
/ year -. l can tell you | don't like every thing
there, but then the school is fine one: then
teachers are competent, and | suppose you have
made considerable advancements in Science and
:. Literature, Ethics, Cdsuistry, Natural Law, Law
of Honor, the elements Of Geometry, Plain and
/ Spherical Trigonometry, Slnes, Tangents Sc
like your temper mighty well, if i is as you
say, mild; for l was always afraid of being hen
pocked \ ou remember the case Of old Rip Van
1 Wrinkle, thut this was one of the principal causes
OF his spending such great portion of his time
in state of insonslbility. Oh henpecked hus
band, who can bear the idea. Their are many
now who would be in better condition if they
could get as long nap as Old Rip did. You say
your father is willing for our union-Heavens
that rolls mountain from my mind, for | didn'
know how | should fix it to ask the old folks.
have studied 20 speeches on that subject and lone
Of them answer my purpose. / would rather pre-
pare 30 discourses for the bar-or as many stump
speeches, than to ask the old man for You. But
II he is willing the thing IL settled, because, 4
things stand as you say they 40. can both ask
him for you and ask you for your heart and hanC
with all kind of boldness. 1t is for fear of a re
lection that makes fellow feel all over so, wher
he is about to propose such questions. hop
you will exercise some patience if you love m
as you say you DO, Your BIO b.
r s. You say you would not for The rorld hav
, eng one know how muQ 49, = - Sssiii,;.,
!: !, :, :, :: :: ::
you would have me
case with Miss Ii. f,
do so.
: To Miss MARTHA,
p" ANTED-t a.