The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-25

RURAL LIFE AND SocIALITY-Occa sional
gimpses at life in the country which brief visits
recently have enabled US to take, have not only
strengthens our bodies physically, but invigorated
and recuperated a waning faith in that social love
which unrestrained by fashion or Formally, wells
up from the deep recesses of the human heart
None but the city plodder can experience the
marked buoyancy of heart that denot ed the ex-
change of the light, stiff garment of city life for the
flowing mantle of rural freedom. Those. too, who
can afford the time for leaving behind them the
busting, excited man built city, aud visit serene
and cheerful Madam Nature in her paradise.home,
the country add to the years that time compo ses .
The unadorned simplicity OF Madam Nature con.
stitutes the chief attraction to our minds.
No Ing rain or Turkey fabric can vie in chasteness
and unfading beauty with her carpets of grass
whose rolling sides aud wales furnish at once com.
modious seats and couches. And, then, the width
and freedom of her mansion! The preserver of
lte-the air-of her domain is not measured by
wooden walls, or confined by brick rampa rts but
free and boundess the music OF the spheres il
gushes out in broad, heathful volume from the
celestial laboratory.
Taere, unrestricted by the form s of fashion and
with simplicity, and taste the sweets of social love
of that feeling OF the heart which low. from De-
ir--that Eghtens the burdens of toiling human itv
-dispes with solst:al rays the msts of seltish.
ness, and bids man think OF his brother as his fell
low. That warm, social love that is shut out from,
the heart OF the slanderer-that never reposes in
the bosom OF him that is envious of his eghbor
Aye! the slanderer. This social love can nevar
sweeten by its joys and comforts, By its delights
the cold and selfish mind of him who looks bnt on
his brother, to hold up to public view his petty
franes The music to whose soul is the song of bro
Ken hearts and crushed hopes, which tell him of the
effects OF his slanderous tongue, hey cheer his can
kerng heart with consolation which testers with
the loathsomeness of the charnel house. III stb;s
principle of seishness that thus sets man q, ,ysr
with his fellow man, and sows the seeds os errr
and dissatisfaction, yelling even the cheerful ,iob,
of Gods counteuance with a chursh, dsrker;,u
gloom. II is the antagonstic principle of th prin
ciple OF social love. We the two prnciples ex.
hibited-the former in its angelic beauty the latter
in its demoniac ug mess in society generally The
social love, the enanation Of Deity that eilds life
with rosy sunshine, wears no dark, forbiddi,.
IL
sparkles in the tiniest sunbeam that floats sro,,a
1t whispers In the tanning breeze that rustes
green .canopied woods. II is heard in the chesr,
carol of the woodland bird. 1t is seen in Its trues
pures holiesttype in sportive childhood Guileless
the angels and merry the thrush Of the wilder.
children sing in their gleeu sports and childish
delights song of social love that may break the
hardest nesrt, that may turn the most conarmed
wanderer back into paths Of Innocence aud purify.
And that love- that social love, kisses the rosese
cheeks of the fair ladies, and the stawartamen-fhe
matron and the maid-imparting kindness and gen.
tleness OF heart and willingness to confer favor.
and desire to please, and an anxiety to promote
the happiness CT others such as in its aggregate
brings tears OF wondering toy the rainbow tinted
cheeks Of the angels, and a IN ghtv song of praise
to echo as rushing thunder tnr-uen the shining
courts OF heaven. How sympalhizing, how touch
ing, how ooundless, how healing this iovei