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

UoIulClI IOuuu WHICH WE
played-the chimney corner in which we
have sat to converse and to read-the solo
oaken bucket that hung in the well''-,ht
lruit tree which, year after year, brought us
rich harvests Of delicious apples or peaches
and under which we have so many times
sat to enjoy lis shade and regsIe ourselye:
upon It's delicious produclions-the paths
and groves through which we have walked
at sunset-the old school-house, where We
have learned aud played-,he church ir
which we have sung and worshiped, and q
thousand other Of the first associations o.
lille. We are endeared to them in proper.
ton TO the happiness they have conferred
upon us; and of all the associations of oul
being from cradle to the very grave, the hu
man mind recurs TO none with any thing
like that feeling of perfect sacredness with
which it recurs to the scenes Of first love
This is the holy Of holies of the human
soul. We feel that i. is perfectly invioate
and if we frequently drank from the wei
with him or her whom we first loved, O,
together walked through the shady grove, OF
sat round the ireside, it is this love princi-
pie which intellectually heighens the sacred.
ness with which we regard them. And
when the object of that love is far, far away
the human mind instinc,iveIy repels at once
and even combatively, any advance Of ano-
ther sexual mate; SO much so, that when
a young man knows that the affections ol
a young woman are already engaged, he
leels that he has no business to approach
her as lover-,hat be is treading on holy
ground-that he is infringing on the mos,
sacred rights of felow-human being and
if he himself has previously bestowed his
affections, and they have been reciprocated
he has no disposition to bes,ow them again,
unless, and until, he becomes sensualist at
heart; except in case of death, or some like
eXcep'on-for we speak now Of the gene
raj law, instead of its detailed qualifications.
We would fain bear down effeclually upon
this point. We would have every reader
carry this subject home to the inner recesses
OF his or her own soul. We would fain
have them appreciate the perfect inuiozabii-
ty and The sanctity of this emotion. We
put it upon their inner conscences. We
ask them how they feel when they consult
point. We would fain have them realize
how deep and all-powerful is this feeling of
sacredness and inviolability, for that is the
specific point we would now impress; and
on that we would build up this inference
that, By as much as you feel this element TO
be thus holy, by so much it is holy. This
feeling does not lie. By as much as we feel
i, to be sacrilegious when we have bestow-
ed our affections on another to tear them a.
sunder and bestow them again, by so much
| i. is sacrilegious, and q sacrilege perpetrated
upon one of the most sacred elements of the
human constitution. As we'll violate Con-
scientiousness by knowingly doing wrong
or outrage Benevolence by cruelty .orturing
our fellow men, or abrade ldeality by con-
summaling some gross, vile, polIu'ing series
Of actions, as to violate this pairing prnci-
| pie, or bestow affections upon one which
have previously been bestowed upon anoth'
er. lie is grea, sinner who does either
and by as great as is the sin, by so grea
is its consequence, suffering. AS no mar
can break through any established ordinance
Of his being without inAicting pain upon
| himself, so no one whose affections have
been once bestowed, can transfer them with
out inflicting great amount of misery upor
himself or herself. conjure you, o young
man and young woman, that you hold these
| feelings to be inviolable in practice as yor
feel them to be in the innermost recesses o
your being, and you on no account perpe.
trate upon them SO great an outrage as, wheI
you have mated yourself with one, TO trans
fer your love 10 another.
Perhaps ought here to name some ex
cep,ions. There may be cases in which ;
transfer may be desirable. Suppose, for ex
ample, young waman has bestowed he
love upon young man whose moral cha
racter is objectionable-snPpose her mate
is dead, or is far from her, and there is nc
prospect of their marriage-suppose SHIT
has given off her affections and they
have not been reciprocatcd, and many like
cases-we do not say but that second be
stowment of attachment is desirable; for j
this elemen, is carly blighted in one direc'
lion, it must nevertheless be expended r
another-for expended somewhere it mus
certainly be. Yet in cases where one par
" has never declared his love, and when
eciprocity of it has never been manifested
transfer Of it may even be necessary, fo'
there is not then that feeling of sacredncss
and pligh.ing Of which we are speaking
yet even here, those who have experienced
this feeling for another, should ear y make
declaration Of their love, and secure its re-
ciprocity at once, or else break off before
this element has become fully consolidated
in which even, the damage Of transfer
would be trining. In cases where the frs
love shall be excessively unfortunate in IT:
object, trasfer may be a lesser evil, an'
therefore to be chosen, bnt if the first par
of our article were duly needed, such Ill