Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-01-06

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and trust that for many years, l may exercise
my molers and inciSors ON your beef and pud
ding. May the day be long, long distant, when
shall inherit your punch-ladle, ornamented with
Queen Anne's guinea, to say nothing of the
base Maminon, called in the slang of the selfish
world, the Three per Cents. And you, sir, name
and address family friend, can forget the inter
est you, my godfather, took in my earliest well
fare Can | cease to remember that upon your
advice foggcd for truant, when the weak
ness of my parents would have suffered me TO
pass unscathed No, sir, that most healthy fla
COLLATION. shall never forget. 1t is marked, here
again the hand TO The heat,l delibly here. You
are childess bachelor would it were otherwise.
Would could call the son of such a friend my
friend. 1t was not to be, and bow to fate
However, sir, believe this the name with which
you have honored me shah never be sullied nor
shall the estate with which that name is proudly
associated-should it in fulness of time descend
to me, for one month, one day, one hour, one
minute-be sullied by mortgage-be blighted
by money lender. Ladies and gentlemen, for
give my feelings and, in conclusion, believe
and although AMI am-indeeda man, never
felt SO much a child
ii Bridegrooms Speech. q The Health OF the
Bridegroom and Bride
Ny friends /: Ofmyself at this most mystic hour
| will say nothing. No but thank You for nv
wife Wife Blissful monosyllable A blend
ed harmony of all earth's music Wife that calls
up, as with enchanters wand, the homestead
and the hearth the kettle singing, rejoicingly
singing on the bar-and the cat sleeping pro-
ioundiy sleeps on the rug word that intensi-
fics so many meanings! The call of butcher and
baker-and milk below-and a quarters rent
and gentlemen, when only glance at the we'd
ding-ring upon my wife's finger-that ring and
that finger which it has been the summit of my
bliss this morning to bring together-when /
look upon that simple bit of golden of wire, it
seems to me that in the words of the bard Avon,
q | have put girdle round about the world
world of beauty and truth, of constancy andlove.
When | look at that ring-and how can help
looking at it docs not its brightness fascinate
and chain me-yes, will repeat it-I proud
to repeat it-chain me? When look at that
ring arn 1 not reminded of the circle of domestic
circle even and complete, and without
ance-a circle of purity without alloy-a never
ending still beginning roundof earthly happiness.
My friends, when the honeymoon is over-not
that it ever will be over with my own-own-
here gre the BRIDES name drabella or Dorcas as
the name may bel and myself (for we propose
to enjoy twelve honcymoons every year of our
lives when [ enter my house. and here let us
return due thanks to my honored fathcr-in-law
who has furnished that unpretending mansion
with equal taste and Hberality, though he will
forgive me in this confiding hour, when the heart
swels, and the tongue will speak, if jocoscly
observe to him, that the house has a wine-cellar,
and that his taste in tawny port is unexceptiona-
be-when, | say, enter my house, and for the
first time sinking in my chair. place my
'lppcred feet upon my rug-that rug worked by
certain hands with hearts-case and roses-I shall
say to myself, here is my paradise and here
here look at The bride rcry passionatelyI-an
here my Eve!
3.-On reeetrtng Piece of Plate.
Gentlemen In having filled the Office Of
here PIT il, the Office, rbether that of Chancellor
IF tie ErcLeq,er, Chuchwaden OF Treasurer 10
7 Cricket Glib II assure you have had but one
object-your interest That object, fearlcssly
assert. has never ceased to accompany me- 1t
has gone to bed with me; it has slept with me;
it has got up with me; it has shaved with me.
Your interest, gentlemen, has been the polar star
to my eye, and stafto my hand, and the roses to
my feet Do say this to make any claim upon
your gratitude ! No, gentlemen; in giving ut
1arance TO these solemn and profound cr.otions-
ked but upon serious occasions like the present
they are profound, for they come from the very
bottomest bottom of my heart-(gentlemen, it is
sometimes the allowed privilege of deep feeling to
violate grammar, a privilege that my impulsive
soul must lay claim to at this moment) )-in Civ
ing utterance to this, and much more than this,
ly state that, in fulfilling your service. have
fulfilled my own personal pleasure l have
sought no other reward expected none-I
wished for none. Nevertheless, gentlemen, when
l look upon the splendid candelabra before me
a candclabra of fourteen branchcs-I beg to as
sure you that | shall again and again, in the deep
contemplate the fourteen candles
that will be continually burning thereil-only
as so many lights to higher eXertion-as so many
viyifying suns kindling and strengthening me in
your service.
If the piece Of plate should be sa,ai-bor, say:
And, gentlemen, whenever | open this box when
ever my finger and thumb shall take from with
in restorative pinch, and taken, when my fin
ger and thumo shall FLIP off the particles that
may adhere, shall moralize upon those particles,
and think all rewards but dust, but that best re-
ward, your friendship-your support. re
If the toker, presented be a rateh, soy : And
never, gentlemen, shall hear 1T tick, but my