The State guard., 1847-08-10
LAND OF CELIBACY. ,


 eto,s' Club of Coneduh CoHaty, South
 Aiabama -GREErISo;
 DEAR BRErHREN-- Though absent from you in body, am ever preseLt with you in spirit. Though many hills and vallies, mountalns and rivers intervene and serve to bar me yft awhile from he ch eering delights of ypnr presence, yet yo.not imagine, my dkar Brethren ihai have ceased to think of ou. or lha the interest feel in your welfare and the success of our calse, for the perpe> iuty of our nsiiutlonIand is universal aid to the happiness pf mankind, has diminished in the least by this unaxpect ed and prolonged at kence. No. my dear brethren rather :t lhe language of the Apostle Paul, the great father and able advocate of our dause, exclaim- Let my right hand fofget it's coming. and my tongue cleave tp the roof of my mou'h," rather than that should cease 10 be interested in the welfare of our great and glorious cau> B.
 When 1 consider Il he object of our Society, the high principles and noble purposes for which it was instituted. lh al it IS to sYmpa'hize win one another. to hnoy each ,lher up from ihe load of grief under which we are ldboring to adminster what lillp consolation is in our power under our nfH Hciions-and as grief ways fads partial relief in the rue condulence of sincere fiji nds, to endeavor as long as possible to bear the load of gtIef winch is weighing us .o ,be earth. With such views and fsei- ings as these, you can imagine in slight degree what III, feelings were when the sad anc melancholy intelligence reac he'd me, that there was division Tn our ranks and in an especial manner when lbe hear,-rendin3 and soul hairassing intel Iigence burst upon me in vivid realty, that one of the long standing members of our honorable Society, viz: J.J. L-- had so far forgotten every precept of our order, as 10 be guilty of committing th. wful crime of maifimony. "Oh! iempora, oh! moIus" But as if even this was rot enough after having my feelings Iaceraied and heart lorn with anguish, other dire reports of the de. clination of our cause have reached me. For have been c,edlbly informed thai even the Magistrate has dared to pull whiskers and look good at he girls that lhe Candidate, too. nas evidently become entangled in the meshes of he Wiley God ;" ihat the Blzaar man has gone so lar as 10 invite Ladies 10 the B ichelors' Hall, and has been frequently heard to excIaIm on beholin. 'hrii pretty faces, Tempting by Munder D and lis also sat thai the man wha, rides the tall pay horse and yellow sheep skir," has resumed his v,srs on the hll-;hat there is serious apprehension that he, too, is abuct 10 gel his head into the Goose of wedlock. Aud lis moreover said, that the Collector of Revenues" fir. quenu, finds t convenient 10 call on ilIe way from B--to Sparta; that the man wha's been 10 Milton has ",pt the ian. rasiic toe" wilh several of ihe fair sex; that the Son of Erln's dark wales" ol> ten inquiries after inc "preiiy girls" aid 'bai ce,iain retailer "f "lhe fdvosiie of Bachelors" has been heard to express ms admiration of ihe ladies' perform, ance upon lhe violin. And il is more" over ailirned, that the Dagua,Iean ope> raior has a, companied some Of "thr helt-r part of creation" even beyond BeuIan." .>l Is it then. dear bl ethien, to t<. as t.t ! eha cd when filoarning oyer he declipe of our noble cause? And then when I reflect that instead of having Mir. L-- io sympa,hize win US. ha Is basking m all the unsppdkable dight of |" lhe pa, aJisr of the hear,,n while we, poor fellows, are destined to drag oui single life Of lone WIT ,tchedness. Yes, that he, at this very moment, IS realizing all those biisslul sensations and delightful emo tlons-ihose untold pleasures and ln. comprehensible joys-ihose bealific iran- cendant and inetiiblr gIories of con jugil love and connubial felicity which has been sung in such heavenly strains, and depIcted in such glowing colors by all the divine poets, wise philosophers a.,d sage legislators. from the days o Homer and Lycurgus down through succeeding generations 10 the present time, and uo doubt he, in his bright yis- ions of future happiness, beholds the young - crawling upon his k"ees and iisping the sweet name of ' .s>Daddy"
 Nov, my dear brethren, will admit that we are sometimes placed in s,,ua- tiors, when il requires inc noblest sffo'i- of nlester mmd to resist the tempting joys--when, for instance, we are thrown iaio the midst of d Paradise of Ladies" and we meet one whose sweet smile, bright eyes, rosy cheeks, ruby lips and !" startled affscllons have for the time