The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1851-04-26
Happiness.

common thing i'll the world, and mutual
love still less SO. But that enduring person
al attachment, so beautifully d.lneatcd by
Erin's sweet medodist, and still more touch
ingly, perhaps, in tho wcllknown ballad,
John Anderson, my 10, john" in addition
to depth and col'stancy of character of no
everyday occurrence, supposes Il peculiar
sensibility and tenderness ot nature; IL coi-
stitutiona communicatiyeness, and ut,cr:,n-
cy of heart aud soul; Il delight in the de-
tail OF sympathy, i'll the outward and ,sib.
! signs of the sacrament within, to count, ;,s it
were the pulses of the life Of love. But
above all, it surposes soul which, even in
the pride and sunmer-tdc of life-evcn i'll
the lustihood of health and strength, and
felt oflenest and priced higlest-that which
age cannot take away, aud which, i'll all our
lovings, is the love mean that willing
sense of the nsufiiciency of the self for lis
elf which predisposes Il generous nature to
see. in total being OF another, the supplement
and completion Of its own: that quiet the per-
petual seeking which the presence of the
beloved modulates, not suspends, where the
heart momentarily finds, aud finding, again
| seeks on {; lastly, when liie's changcful orb
has passed the full" confirmed faith in the
nobleness of humanity, thus brought home
and pressed, rs it were, to the very bosom
of hourly experience, it supposcs, say, a
heartfelt reverence for worth not the less
deep because dvested of it's soemnily hy
habit, 10y familiarity, Ly mutual inirnities,
and even by feeling of modesty which
will arise in delicate minds, when tlev are
| respondent excellence nuA leusn 81! u,!A uIsesl
ters. In short, there must be mind which,
while it feels the beautiful and the excellent
in the beloved as ;;s owa, and by right of
love appropriate it, can call goodness it's
playfellow, and dares make sport of time
and intirmity; while in the person of a
thousand-fondly endeared partner, we feel
for aged virtue the caressing fondness that
belongs to the innocence of childhood; and
repeat the same attentions and tender cour-
tesies as has been dictated by the same af-
tection to the same object when attired in
feminine loveliness, or in manly beauty.
Those qualities which 1 have enumerated
are rarely found united in single individual.
How much more rare must it he, that
Two sucii persons should get together in tins
wide world, under circumstances that admit
OF their union as husband and wife. A
person may be highly cstimable on the whole
nay, aniable rs IL neighLor, friend, house
mate, in short, in all the concentric circles
of attachment, save only the last and in
most; and yet from how many causes be
estranged from the highest perfection in this!
Pride, GOODNESS, or f;.stidiousness Of nature,
worldly cares, Ri anxious or ambitious dis
position, passion for display, suleu tenn
per, one or the other, too often proves "the
RI Ipnd IN fI,oo IS 4
one is enough to unfit it for the precious
balm Of JUNCTION. For some mighty good
sort of people, too, there is not seldom
sort of saturine, or if you will. uraine vanity
that keeps itself alive by sucking the paws
of its own self importance. And as this
high sense, or rather sensation of their own
value, is for the most part grounded OH neg.
ative qualities, 30 they have no better means
of preserving the same but by negatives,
that is by not doing or saying anything that
might be put down for fond, silly, or non
scnsical. Or ito use their own phrase by
never forgetting Themselves, which some of
their acquaintance are charitable enough to
think the most worthless object they could
be employed in remembering. The same
effect is produced in thousands by the TOO
general inscnsibility 10 very important
truth this, namely, that the misery Of hu-
inan life is made up of large masses, each
separated from the other by certain inter
walls. One year, the death Of child after,
IL failure in trade; after another longer or
shorter interval, n daughter may have mar
ricd unhappily; III all but the siugularly
unfortunate, the integral. parts that compose
the sum total Of the unhappiness Of mans
life oro o,s;I,, n<.,,,,<,i II
bered. The happiness Of life, OH the con-
trary, is made up of minute fractions, the
little soon-forgotten charities Of kiss, a
smile, Kind Look, a heartfelt compliment in
the disguise Of playful raillery, and the
countless other i',initisimals Of plcasurable
and genial feeling. F" ="
The RrGHTs OF FEMALEs.-Wc find tho
following in one Of our exchanges We
agree with the jury and hope every man
| that kisses awonan without her consent, will
lose his nose, rs n penalty for the offence
"A curious trial was recently held at Mid
dlesex Sessions. Thomas SeverIand, the
PROSECUTOR, stated that lie was in tile tap.
room where the defendant, Caroline Newton,
aud her sister, who Ind come from Birminr.
ham, were present. Tire latter jokinrly Of.
that no man should kiss her while ABSENT
II being holiday time, Severisnd' considered
this el,s'leuge, and caught Hold Of her and
kissed her. Ea'TlIe young woman took it asa
joke, bht her-sister, the defendant; said che
wouhhlike ~ little Of ,tllat kind of fun eas he
pleased. Sareriandn told her Il, ,sho tsas an
CRY, lie would kiss her also he then tried to
do(it, and sheyfeR 10 the ground, On ris-