Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-09-02
MARRIAGE.
By A BACHELOR.

l HAVE speculated great deal upon Marriage.
have seen young ann beautiful women, the pride
Iof gay circles, marred-as the world says--wel I.
Some have moved into costly houses, and their
friends have all come and looked at their fine fur
nture and their splendid arrangements for their
happiness, and they have gone away and commit
ted them to their sunny hopes, cheeruly and with
out fear. 1t is natural to be sanguine for the
young and at such times l am carried away by
such feelings l love to get unobserved into
corner, and watch the bride in her white attire,
and her smiling face and her soft eyes moving be-
fore me in their pride oflife, weave waking dream
of her future happiness, and persuade myself that
| it will be true. l think how they win sit upon
luxurious sofa as the twilight falls, and build gay
hopes, and murmur in low tones the not forbidden
tenderness; and how thrillingy the allowed kiss,
and the beautiful endearments OF welded life, will
make even their parting joyous, and how gladly
come back from the crowd and emty mirth of the
gay 10 each others quiet company. | picture TO
myselfth young creature, who bushes even now
at his hestatins caress, listening eagerly for his
footsteps as the night steals on, and wishing that he
would come; and when he enters at last, and with
an affection as undving as his pulse, folds her to
his bosom can feel the very tide that goes flowing
through his heart, and gaze with him on her
graceful form, she moves about him for the kind
Offices OF affection, soothing all his unquet cares,
and making him forget even himself in her young
and unshadowing beauty.
go forward for years, and see her luxuriant hair
put soberly away from her brow, and her girlsh
graces rpening into dignity, and her bright lowell
ness chastened with the gentle meekness of mater
nal affection. Her husband looks on her with a
proud eye, and shows herthe same fervent love and
delicate attentions which first won her; and fair
children are growing about them, and they go on
full of honor and untroubied years, and are remem
bered when they die!
say love to dream thus when ! go 10 give the
Young bride Joy. 1t is the natural tendency of
feeling touched by loneliness, that it fears nothing
for itself; and if ever yield TO darker feelings it is
because the light of the picture is changed. | am
not fond of dwelling upon such changes, and will
not infinitely now. l alude 10 it only because
trust that my simple page will be read by some OF
the young and beautiful beings who daily move
across my path; aud | would whisper to them, as
they glide by joyousy and confidently, the secret
of an uncouded future.
The picture l have drawn above is not peculiar.
II is colored like the fancies OF the bride and
many, oh many hour will she sit, with her rich
Jewel lying loose i'll her fingers, and dream such
dreams as these. She believes them too-and she
goes on for while undeceived. The evening is
not too long while they talk Of plans of happiness,
and the quiet meal is still pleasant and delight
full novelty of mutual reliance and attention. There
comes Som, however,a time when personal topics
become bare and wearsome, and slight attentions
will mol alone keep up the social excitement. There
are long intervals of silence, and detected symp-
toms ofwearness; and the husband, first, in his
manhood, breaks in upon tho hours they were wont
TO spe nd tocether-I canno: follow it circumstan-
tally. There come long hours of unhappy restless
ness, and terrible misgivngs of each others worth
and affection, till, by-and-by they can conceal
their uneasiness no longer, and go out separately
TO seek relief, and lean upon the hollow world for
the support which one who was their lover and
friend could not give them!
Heed this, We who are winning, in your innocent
beauty, tho affections of highmnded and thinking
beings. Remember that he will give up the broth
er Of his heart, with whom he has even had fell
Iowship of mind, the society OF his contemporary
runners in the race of fame, who have held with
him stern companionship; and frequently in his
passionate love, he will break away from the are
ma Of his burning ambition, to come and listen to
sthe voice of the charmer.' Ii will bewider him
at first, but il will not long. And then, think you
that an idle Establishment will claim the mind that
has been used for years, TO an unequal communion!
Think you he will give up to a weak da!lance. the
animating themes of men, and the search into the
my stories of knowledge? Oh, no, lady! believe
me, no. Trust not your influence TO such little
letters. Credit not the old-fashioned absurdity,
that woman is a secondary lot, ninistering TO the
necessities Other lord and master. Ii is higher
destiny / would award you. IL your Immortality
is as complete and your gift of mind as capable as
ours, would put no wisdom Of mine against Gods
allotment. | would charge you TO water the indy
ing bud, and give it healthy culture, and open its
beauty 10 the sun; and then you may hope that,
when your life is found with another, you will 90
on equally and in fellowship that shall persadc
every earthly interest.
OREGON We make the following extract from
the speech delivered by Gen. Csss, on :he 9TH OF
July, at the opening Of the Wabash and Erie Ia
nal: Mil. Cour.
s'Perhaps, while address you, measures are in
progress to wrest from US Territory west oil the
Rocky Mountains. Island after Island, Country
aftee Country are falling before the ambition oil
England. She is planting her standard wherever
there is people to be subdued, the fruits of their
industry to be secured.-Witli professions Of phi
lapihropy, she pursues the designs of ambition.
And she is encirciing the Globe with her stations,
wherever she can best accommodate her schemes
Of agglandizelnent. The sun Inever sets upon her
Empire. II is my deliberate opinion, that no ma
ton, since the fall Of the Roman power, has dis
played greater disregard fo the rights of Others or
more boldly aimed at universal domination. Our
claim 10 the Country west ofthe Rocky Mountains
is as undeniable as our right TO Bunker Hill OF to
New 0heans, and who will call in question our
tide 10 these blood-stained fields. And / trust il
will be maintained with a vigor and promplitude
equal to its justice. War is great evil, bat not so
r-eat at national dishonor. Little is gained by
Welding to insolent and unjust pretensons. 1t is
better to defend the first inch Of Territory than the
last Far better, in dealing with England, to raise
sson whether OF Territory, Of impressment or
III search. when first attempted, than to yield, in
the hone that forbearanee will be in just spir-
il. and will lead to an amcable compromise. Let
ne have no led lines upon the map Of Oregon. Let