Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-05-24
Old Bach elcrs.


| dried-up institution, that can lay his hand,
on bis heart and say he is answering the enc
| for which he was got up? Is there one, then
| that supposes that he was created for the
purpose Of using up wooden manufactures, to-
bacco cigars, tailors and livery stable keep
ers? If he does, he is soulless, and when he
dies will simply be aanihilated. rot into dust
and turn up in time as part of the terra Jtfrmo
of cabbage orchard Mans destiny is to
goyern-to rule-to eommand-to add to the
numerical strength of his district as much as
circumstances and good health will allow
him,-and it is an undisputable fact that every
great man has, in the midst of his greatness,
part of his time devoted to the culture OF a
wife, to the tending Of babies, and to the
study of medicine, as far as the diseases OF
young children are concerned. So, We bach
elors We that have not withered into sapless,
sinewless, hopeless selfshness, brush up the
charms of mind and person that are wasting
and fading, and make one grand attempt for
blissful days, comfortable nights, postsrity,
and an homes. !uture.-Republic
The above has been sent to US, and we have
boen challenged to answer it, or else to let
judgements go nv default, and stand CON
demned as drones in the social hive.
Now, in the first place, it takes two to make
a bargain; if marriage was orse-sided concern,
bachelors might. perhaps, be blamed, and we
venture tue assertion that a bachelor cannot
be found who has Tot tried to put the halter
of domestic felicity about his neck.
Or. JOHNSON said that married life had
many sorrows, but single life had no pleasures;
and some may prefer passive and quiescent
existence, free from pain but wanting in bliss
to the alternate raptures and tonnents Of mat
rimony Besides, it s said by those who
know, that rnatrimony is very hum-drum
affair after few months, and that very often
the indifference passes into disgust. In that
case, the poor devils pay for month Of honey
by life of vinegar.
But bachelors may be actuated by high po-
litical and social considerations; at all events
when they find that they cannot get the
grapes they can show, by such considerations,
that the grapes are sour. MALrHUs, in his
work on Population has shown very conclu-
sively that population increases in 9eo,net'Tcal
ratio, while the productiveness of the earth
cannot possibly be made to keep pace with
the checks to population are war, pestilence,
famine and vice. Every virtuous person
wishes these evils to cease but if they do
cease the world will be overrun with people
and starved to death. The only other alter
native is to resort to what DR.. CHALMERS
calls moral Testaiats, that is, not to get mar
RED. So, the fact is, bachelors are living
monuments of patriotism and philanthropy.
Talk of the selfsacrifcny spirit of mis-
sionary who goes to the Sandwich Islands
with trim Yankee girl tucked under his
arm, and little wee bit thing in the era lie or
tie BASKET Fid llesticks! He has capital time
of it, compared to the long enduring bachelor,
the stole of the taverns the man without a
baby.
The true hero, the martyr to his country
and his race, Is the disnterestsd Caelebs not
Caelebs in search Of wife, but Oaelebs do
ing without wife, surrendering, for the good
-ef his country, the divine charms of woman,
tnoss rites mysterious Of connubial love "
so beautifully described by MnToN in the
Fourth Book of Paradise Lost
MARIus, sitting amidst the ruins Of Car
thage, surrounded by broken arches and col
umns, did not present spectacle of more
desolate sublimity than the self-deDying bach
elor Indeed, he is much worse Of than
MARIUs, for he is not surrounded by broken
fragments of past grandeur which would har-
monize with his condition, but he IS encom-
passed by flowers he cannot pluck, and tanta-
lized with sweets he cannot taste; syrens
glide about him, whom he cannot touch, a
world of music and light, and love is around
him which he can see, but not enjoy. He
Is stern devotee to the welfare Of his coun.
try and his race.
But bachelors have the testimony Of the
great Lord BAcoy in their favor, for he SAYS
Certainly the best works and of greatest meri
to the public have proceeded from unmarried
men. Unmarried men are best friends, best
masters and best subjects. Charity will hardly
water the ground where it has pool to FILL
So says the founder Of inductivc philosophy
And only remember how many great mel
have heen single. PLATo. HUME, GIBBos
the younger PITT, Mr.. BUCHANAN, and ter
thousand Others. OF those who were mar
ried, what numbers repented it, SOCRATES
and XAxrIPPE for example. OF Others, how
many were childless. Gen. WAsHISaToS
for example.
Really, all things considered, bachelors ar.
a much abused set Of unfoTtunates.