Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-06-05

share of the evils, that fall to the lot of humanity.
ARIA still the type Of her sexs
alt is painful PGtus" still
Is loves word In the hour Of Ill.
No law not even the benecent rule OF the Civil Code
fully protect women from the consequences OF their
own sesacri6ciug spirit of their unseish hearts
There is a point beyond which legal remedy cannot
reach there social evils for which the best consider
ed law has Ii can ward of outrage, but IL
cannot do the Office OF kindness or take the place OF
gratitude When, legislators, have done our
best we shall have done too little. The more impera
tive the duty that the little which is within reach,
should be promptly and faithfully performed.
If there be, in this world social duty more rell-
giousy imperative than another II is that which, pa
rents those to whom we have impaired exis-
tence. And when look upon offspring they
grow up around u.s. passing through the happy careless
of childhood, and approaching those sterner DAYS,
when the shadows of the actual world TO tall upon
their hearts, and its buetngs tame their spirits do
thoughts dwell, with double anxiety, on the IN
ture fate of those, whom, if might, would
suffer the winds of Heaven visit roughly; Of those,
gentle by sex, little fitted by nature for the rude life
warnings that await them of our daughteTs9
Fathers to each of you l appeal The child Of
your love- she, who for long, happy years. has been the
pride of your heart, the bright ornament OF your home
last by fair words, attracted that social
tOn in which alone her genial nature finds Tree scope Tor
its sympathies full exercise for its womanly powers
about pass forth from ou the quiet shelter of the
ternal roof 10 strange threshold and to entruss
TO the keeping ol another that happiness which has
hitherto been your peculiar When she. before the
altar places her hand, with loving in that Of him
whom she has long given her young affections, do YOU
share her nndoubtng conhdenc the cloudeSs faith that
sheds its glow her fast beating heart
and shines, in glorious rays her sunny futureF
That other face that turns proudly 10 hers frank
and bold; the bearing 20 mark kindness upright
ness. generosity. Alas! You know-though she poor
child! has lorgotten-that many sunny morning is fol-
lowed by a dark,and stormy day You know something
about the masks worn in this world; and would fam
read not that outward smile, but the secret heart lying
deep beneath. You have some experience, though Won
gueess bride Is happily ignorant of the worlds sordid
temptations. You have them drown the reason
sully the spirit harden the heart You have seem
now, faces ingenious, full of promise that
which bends your daughter. branded 10y the
foul stain of ntemperanee; or perhaps, flushed with fe~
verish triumph then racked with sudden despair as in
the midnight den of RUM the dice ratified the cards
were turned
And then the thought shadowing like sudden storm.
cloud the brightness of that bridal hour, that upon
proigate like that, your fair child may be, some
day, penness dependant!
Have you made provision against terrible
ingencyf Kindness YOU cannot make constant; mans
virtue you ensure; mans heart you
troll. But against the evil of all you have some
power TO shield. And She wronged though she be- de-
serted her betrayed her affections back up
on lonely heart knows nothing Of LIES worst evil
who has never emptied the last drop, the widows
cruise who has heard her children wall for bread
and known, that she had no bread to give theml
You had the means perhaps, Of preventing this. You
had planned, toed saved that yOnr daughter might
another's house wholly empty handed. And
you now bestow on her independence; an humble
one, it may be. but still a protection from absolute
want. You would shield her against LIES mise
ry-
/ Is your object eIected7 No than If the bridal
dress 10y your child were her sole earthly pos
session. The law has thwaried you The law has Ia
ken from you daughter what you gave her. and has
veyed IL, in absolute properly, 10 another
And is there remedy Yes. You graciousy
permitted to evade the law; you allowed show
suspicion of your future son-naw by expressly depv
inc him-and that, too, tortuous indirect
of the rights which he well knows. but for such evasion
your part would legally be his, and his alone. You
defeat the law, and risk the awaking of the
pent, mstrust before you protect your child. Ad-
mirable eXpedenli ENcelently ina gned leeisationl
pursue the argument further. | have done. The
time is coming, when the wonder will be. that the
statement of a plain was not argument enough.
The time Is coming, when will be found among
us hardy enough TO confess that he opposed
form benefcent this will have proved itself to be.
The prosecuted audaciiy 81 day becomes the
mon. place orthodoxy OF the next. For a there
viii be opposition. For a there NAV still be
abuse. ''Whoever" said Martin Luther, ''has a good
work to do must let the devils tongue wag as il
pleases." Let opponents rail! The Wrong passes
away; the Right endures for In after DAYS il
NAV need some such memorial the rich and graceful
gift that stands before me, remind a more en-
frightened generation, that time when the law took
from wives their property, and from parents the
right convey what they would, a child. That ex-
ertiOns of mine may have contributed, in how
humble soever to remedy in Justice thus fragrant will be
to a pleasant thought, in that hour, the last Of
earh's pilgrimage, when all things, good evil pp
on their true garb and when the deeds OF past life,
standing forth. before Gods throne they might,
masked, unveiled receive Judgment from heart TO
be stirred for by the fears the prompt
Sihgs of censure of praise.