The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1841-08-26
From the N,W York Sunday Mercury:
- saURT PATENT SERMON.
Swift az the wheels Of Nature rolls,
I'd ily to meet and mingle souls,
And wear the joyful chain.
BY DOW JR.

! want 10 solder you all together with such
uniaon Of hear, and feeling, as 40 petty earth
Quake Of personal SnmOsIty can ever shake
esunder. Ia order to do this, ] must strength
on tho bonds of social union by telling you
plainly that you are all brothers and Sis,ers by
consan nguinity, and thai, although you may
each claim separate fathers, grandinthOTs and
grOat-grand-lathers, still Adam wac the great
great grandfather Of the whole troop Of you.
You are all related TO ons another. The HOOD
that eircalatas in the veins Q: the dwsr6sh
Greenlander--o the swarlhy inhsbitent of the
esualor-and the giant Patagoaon, derives ito
source from the same fountain As that which
flows in the canals ofus moro refined, and still
moro degenerate GoIhamiteS. You belong,
then, to one fraternity, by nature, and why
don't you, my friends, live together in love,
harmony aud peace, sa a lraierOa' band whoSs
individual interests are watched over and pro-
tected BY the general wbolel Why lie il that
man will revile, trAduce, cheat and murder
his own dear fellow mani can see nothing
within the limits Of my telescope comprehen-
sion that will begin 10 justify bin in go doing
He musi be destitute of even the curdod
milk Of philanthropy, 10 haul down ready
made curses on the head OF one. whose orl'
gnal father was his father and whose moth
er was the primitive mother Of all manknd.---
Though many Of you are bound togeher by
Hymen's kilken cord, in parts, stl these nio
only Subdivisions Of the grea, human family;
and, though they ought not 10 molest, in the
least, that good will and bt tothery Kindness
which should ever exist among kindred Gerge,
whose souls are leaVered with the same lcav-
On, and whose bodies are manufactured from
the same material, the same as separate cakes
are derived from large heap OF dough.
Bot, | ask, with the Indian Philosopher,
why is it that the soft snd delicate hymonIal
cord so often proves a chain of iron ere
The wano Of the honey moon! Why is il that
the physico- -magnetic power, which binds mill
lions o. hearts 10 the fowery wreath of affec'
toD, should so soon after leave them al such
a mOnstrOus loose love? All! my friends!
can penetrate the mists of the mystery. You
too frequently marry for the sake of that sedu-
cling trash, called money, which has the dos
potlc power Of estranging man from man, end
banis5ing Peace forever from her heavenly
possessions. When this eluf is allowed To
bear sway at The nuptaI altar. you only join
hands and approximate canalIy while }tnt
hearts are ss far apart and as co d ss the t"n
poles of the globe. Silver nor gold alone cen
never enlSer hearts togetkrr; hut even II tH"Y
are apparently one, in VIVA scusc CEn they he
C considered sol Why in that same sonss that
the cid ,s'e'-rh" Is and the eFtlll colder rocks
" iih which theV have become nm ,igams'U' F.,
may beist konsd as one, Wiihou mutual feel
tn,, without reciprocal love, aud without that
mem al and moral attachment, which IL the
main piIlur whereon the fabric Of connuha
happiness is based. Sometimes too, you are
sna,ched away ftom The objects OF your own
chOre by too anxious parents, and compelled
To marry, as 1t we're, against the grain and
e'zzard. Parents! appeal TO your sympathies.
If you drive your sons and daughters into matt
r;noniaI engagements repugnsn' 10 their own
natural desires, depend upon il they will fol
ever after be ss miserable as couple ofcaged
parridgcs, and you will have to answef lor it.
Instead of beholdIng Them eli lovingly togeth-
CT beneath the bow Or Of conjugai attachment,
you will see them wander, up 20 their knees IN
tie cold rnows of diecoGten ; the world fni
them shall hear neither bud nor blossom, they
shall lie down vpon q bed of Iettlos al night,
aud they shall scold, hCt and chnle during the
tay, like young child with tow shirt on his
bank; aye, they shall 60 down 10 the grave,
Indian file. and when arrived al Ms verge,
one shall kick the other in, and then after
squeezing out q few crocOtIo tears, cuI sticks
rejoieing. Oh! my young friends! YOU who
ate about entering the green zelda Of mauI-
mony, around which so mauv thorns and this
lies arc spread, beg Of you as you value for
tune peace cad conieotDeni, TO, TO lot the old
folks IGte'!src in tie least with your tender ar
especially If your affections ale
well dove-taiIed together. L,hs two bound
ing brooks tbs rush down the bill eide 10 meet
the lovely vale below, 0e ought you 10 lesp for
ward, propslled by the tende,est end honest
passions, 10 meet together. and 10 niRglo your
heGr.e, sOulS and sympslh'es, like the calm
waters Of The valley, thSt floW Ranlly on, win
tbs sco Of peace shining brightly upon their
bosom. ..
ny lrl'nde! Swift az, the shgel uf nature
To'ia, I'd dhy, if had the wings Of an eagle,
into the presence of my Msksr, to meet end
WIugle aous, aud wear the golden chain Of
jpy. know by experience, thatE & unison Of
tesling, even heiwen t~O individuals, As a moro
pleasuFablc sensation than TO be scratched
when one riches. My good wife, e,ssMrs. Dow,
poor creaturd and lwsre one, her wants were
my wAnls, her feelings; aud although she was
one, and Twas one, you couldn't make two of
us any how you could fix il. When saw that
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