Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-09-17
s@gSe. 5.
Love and Cherish

AS the sunlight streams Town in golden
showers, there is somewhere in this blessed
land, even as we write, two throbbing hearts
before the altar p~ledging eternal faithful
ness to each other, and. through life's che
que red pilgrimage. to loreand cherish. With
every days sunlight these pledges are given,
and with every days sunlight these pledges
are broken. And the man who takes a con-
hding girl from home, from friends. from all
that is dear on earth to her, p~ledging his pro-
lection, and then breaks his VOW to love and
cherish her, deserves gibbetiug. Is that too
severe denunciation Look att in its length
and breadth before you pronounce.
There is a young and beautiful girl, re-
fined in feelings and sentiment, on whom
the love of a mother and a father has been
; freely lavished from infancy up to this time.
She has been very, very happy. New scenes
2 open upon her, she has won the admiration
of some man AID be seeks her hand in mar
: riage. Time and again he has poured in
. her ear a iattering tale of love with many \
: fair promises until her affections have been
won and she begins to regard him as her flu
ture protector. A great struggle arises in
her heapkLa struggle between her love for
her old home, her birds, her flowers, and the
new love That has Been Observation-Disclosures
Gus life fer the man who has been seeking to
win her. Love for him, whose very name
= awakens the quickest pulses of life, conquer
and she yields. There is a welding day,
when the gay arc gathered and an old moth
: er signs as she sees the bridal robes. She
has lived long enough to learn that human
promises are sometimes broken, and that the
- wedding day is sometimes the beginning of
90 long years of sorrow. A group stands be
fore the man of holy Office and there the sa
!, cred VOW is made to love and cherish. Or
the strength of that vow the bride leans, and
;, leaves her home and all her former loves anC
&c goes to a new home, sometimes in a stran 9
land. Her heart is alive with love, and sh
"A feels with that sacred VOW to protect she ca
go even into a strange land and among strang
o. people, where strange birds sing, strang
hor streamlets flow and strange flowers bloom
,ns and yet be happy.
that ~ 'AA' S"'
III WV lOISOIlCA . 11Oh SOOH lilc pllSultu ldll
broken More than we can tell in number
All if the hearthstones of the land cou
write their autobiography of what they ha,
Init seen and heard, they would tell a tale
hos sorrow to s~tartle. OF how young wives s
I he over them and wept tears of regret that tn,
,is is ever left their fathers peaceful roof
urch cruel words and freezing GOODNESS from hu
who bands who had broken their vows to love a
the cherish.
rink. As the sunlight streams down in gold
NAV showers, there is somewhere in this bless
! nv land, even as we write, many aching heart
yular signing for the love they have lost and wee
Ior of ing over their wretched lots being cast as
6 tba is with husbands whose love has become
ey- tranged, whose affection has fed and "
who have sinfuliy broken the VOW made in sacr
syna- ness 70 love anu 'neiS
tha. -1H9Te Is more misery III eAiS MOr.1 s-a-
r sys- wot of and we say again, the man '
II the breaks his VOW and brings sorrow to
would wife, who has left all for his sake, deser
the gibbeting.