Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-10-02

is often fraught with great evil, and require:
ther or mother, to prevent dissatisfaction or
both sides. How infinitely worse, then
would be promiscuous parentage.
But, not to dwell upon the rationale, ol
philosophical necessity and adoption Of this
pairing principle, suffice it 10 say it exist:
in man, and exists in a far higher degree
than in any of the brute creation. That i
is one of the wise provisions and creations
of the Almighty, that however important
the eating, the anatomy, the constructive
| the benevolent, the reasoning instinct in man
this pairing instinct is placed by nature up
on the same creative basis, and was ordained
for an equally wise purpose, with the other
human elements. If it had not been impor-
tant, it would not have been created. The
Deity never triiles-never makes any thing
| for nolhing-nor especially would He create
as part and parcel of the human mind, tha
| which, when created, amounted to little.
The mere fac. Of this faculty, therefore
in man. should not only awaken our high
est admiration, but should induce us mos
| solemnly to respect, and most faithfully to
fulfill its conditions and requirements. A
man should trille with his eyes, with his
heart, his reason, as quick as with his Union
for Life. Nor should any human being, on
any account whatever, violate, or fail to
comply with this primitive law Of bis being
That compliance should be two-fold: : first
in providing for it-,hat is, seeking out his
mate; and secondly, in being perfectly true
for life to that mate.
First, provision, We ale bound to make
ample provision for every element of our
minds. Endowed with the faculty Of eat
ing, we are under impcrious obligations to
see that we have food. Created with friend
ship, every human being ough. to provide
himself with associates. Having the pro-
perty instinct every Individual should see
to it that he has the where wihal provided
for supplying future wants-and thus of all
our other faculties, Union for Life included
Hence no. only should parents aid in the
provision of mates for their offspring Just,
as they do i'll preparing clothes, food, edu-
cation, both intellectual and moral, etc. but
they should equally make like provision
for this pairing element of their offspring.
and give them opportunity to select their
sexual mates IN season, SO that when this
faculty begins 10 assert lis r1n,r-n- = j.
on wriicn 10 eXpend that power Shal! be at
hand whereas, if this matter is postponed
too long, nature, true to herself, will make
her own provision; and the hapless youth
will fall in love in spite of himself, no mat
ter how much he may protest against and
resist it. Will is powerless when opposed
to instinct. lryoung persons are not pro-
vided with lovers, nature will compel them
to fall in love at hap-hazard, because love
they must, just as they must hunger when
they do not provide themselves with food !;
and the failure to make this provision is the
first great cause Of mos, Of that matrimonial
infclicity which renders SO many human
beings perfectly wretched, who otherwise
would be as perfectly happy. They fail
duly to locate their matrimonial affections,
until the instructive workings of this facul-
ty compel them to choose some one, and
frequently that choice, being spontaneous,
is sorted, and must either be broken off,
or want of cordiality be the consequence
Young man-young woman. jus, budding
into maturity, in the name of your nature
warn you that you make seasonable pro-
vision for the exercise Of this, primitive
element ofyour being. And not only should
you choose your matrimonial mate, bu,
choose suitable one; whom you can love
with your whole soul, and love through,
your entire life; nor cease loving at death
but with whom you can traverse the regions
of space as disembodied spirit, and spend
an oto bo Iia1 of l. X
love principle. For love does not die when
the body dies, bu, will form part of our
being forever; and our true matrimonial
mate in this life, must be that mate in the
life which is to come.
Ii is therefore important that you choose
the very beat one you can, for the influence
Of the husband over the wife, for good oil
for evil, is most powerful and perpetual. |
man, therefore, mates with a superior
woman, she will be perpc,ually carrying
him onward and upward in the intellectual
and moral scale, and the reverse if he choose
one Inferior to himself, for she will be like
lead upon the wings of the eagle. Infinite
lv important is this suggestion. Would te
Heaven that every youth, of both sexes
might read and heed it, for the amount o
human happiness and progress which woulc
result. thcrefrom would be literally infinite
But important as is the right choice, the
perpetuity or permanency of this pairing in.
s,inct is far more so; for it is less INJURIOUS
to mate with an unequal companion than
10 break off this affection when it has once
become established. 1t is like breaking
bone, dslocating joint, amputa,ing foot
severing a nerve, or violating any other frs
law of the human constitution. Ay, more
sacredness appertains TO this element whicl
we do not realize in SO great a degree touch
ing any other. To every reader | pu. ,hi.
question Run the eye of memory back owe