The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-02-01
Engcrness 60 get Married.

cit Is natural for man 10 indulge in the illu
sion Of hope" but far more so for some ladies to
desire husband and for that matter Of that,
We incline TO the opinion, that some women
would like two, or more. Mind, we say some
We by no means inclined to tie opinion,
common to he clowns and coxcombs, that. as a
general thing, the fairer sex s.hunger and thirst
after marriage, IN one sense, however certain
they will do SO in another. We mean that in
nine cases out of ten the Young warn q, who
accepts the patronizns offer 6l enc 3i hasa mn
conpoops Is voluntary canlil-te TOR star,a-
ton. Neither The worth nor tie hardship 1
The sex, is properly appreciated by man IN
ten thousand. and when we think of what they
ere compelled 10 suffer in every rank, situation
and stage Of life, we feel very grateful that a
merciful Providence has given us a beard and
fashioned our limbs to the application of trous-
ers, and-s.aH sicE' When the fair Desdemona,
speaking of Othello, "wshed that heaven had
made her such man, it was only rendering a
little more definite regret which she had occa-
sionally entertained long before she saw the
Moor, that she had ever been made a woman
After hearing some of his long yarns about his
own feats and prowess, she wished that she had
been made like him, which he. in his egregious
egotism and self-love, construed into a desire,
that Heaven had made him for her special APP
preparation, and he had effrontery to tell the
gentlemen of the Senate so, in defence of the
practical anal lgamation of which he stood con
victed BY the way-though it is rather out
of the way. too-speaking of Othello, Mr.. Hud-
son. the great lecturer upon Shakespeare, ascribes
his murder of the unfortunate Desdemona not to
his jealousy but to his self-respect, dignity, and
sense of justice. If this is true, the Moor was
a backer william than Iago: We eau conceive
of the green. eyed monster Intending no allusion
to the tall gentleman in the green glasses, and
high shirt collar) inciting the passions Of man
to pitch whence he will plunge head5ng into
the hell of homicide, and on this ground the
crime of Othello may be paIliated if not pardon
ed, but if he had any less rabid incitement than
this, there cannot be a doubt but what he, and
the 'shonest Iago," accompanied each other down
to Tartarus. The temperament Of wounded dig
nifty, self-respect and justice. cannot of itself SO
blind and be wilder sensible man as to make
him distrust his wife's honesty simply because
malicious knave has informed him that he has
found her handkerchief upon his cashiered lieu
tenant, notwithstanding, that the displaced Of
ficer is good-looking fellow for whose resto-
ration she has interceded. If 0thello was in
any cooler mood than that of jealousy, he was
a stupid blockhead to be SO easily duped, and
''cruel as the grave" to kill woman, who had
made so many sacrifices for his sake, to say nolh-
ing of the modification of having mulatto chill.
dren. At the best, in either case, we think he
was an ass to place more faith in Iago lhan in
the wife Of his bosom but this comes of ill sor
ted marriages. Who can wonder that Desdenio-
mas father thought the Moor had been mesTner
ized. Knowles "Wife" is much more to oul
mind. Mariann's husband has much more cir
cumstantal evidence against her fidelity, but hi:
loving and manly heart spurns it all. Compares
to his confidence in her purity, it weighs ne
more than does all atheIstical reasoning o
Paine and Voltaire against our interior convic
| lions that God Hveth