New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-28
LETTER FROM THE COUNTRY

doubt. ESSEX.
LETTER FROM THE COUNTRY
LONELY VALE, April, 1856.
Dear Crescent: I can scarce hope few lines
from the pen of countrie laSsie will be honored
with your approval, but happening to see " Cres-
cent of the 14th ult, was attracted to read the
letters from "Crescenta and " Clair" within its
columns. -aE
Matrimony, the burden Of those letters, IS the IN
spring theme of my own. l cannot deduce from
experience, prospective like Crescenta, or conclu-
sive like "Clare,' for anna soiouner in the dreamy
expectancy of Lonely Vale; but g have wandered III
Dreams, - and the formers denunciations mingled
with her ideas of dear Halls" perfection and the
latters equally mystifying inference from larry
vision compared with her own treble felicity, have
twisted my preconceived opinions somewhat awry
What do they mean? That every one who weds is
to be miserable save themselves and that all love
favors have been bestowed upon them? ~
Perhaps may as well tell you at once, dear Cres-
cent, that am q in favor Of Union.' Not that [
would be immodcst in proclaming an opinion your
city girls would faint before acknowledging but be-
cause am as honest in speaking my mind as I am in
sharing the opinion of ninetynine in every hundred.
We all have long life in expectancy before us. In
youth, life is full of freshness and beauty; the prom
Uses of opening years are fair. In youth we seek
pleasure 1t may be but weary chase after butter
fly whose gaudy beauty lures while it sips here
aud there from the nectarine flowers, posing itself
on gauzy wings it leads us in its wake.
There are passions every day sweeping over the
heart of pride, ambition, envy; passions which are
consuming or perchance like feversh pleasures; pas
sons, which either brighten Or destroy the life of him
who harbors them.
Every life has also its cares. Care is bosterous
sea upon which all must launch, and where all must
struggle in the resistless current
Time comes with hissrepellant hand and marks the
brow once smooth and fair in lines of age; withers
the cheek, dims the eye He leads his victim down
to the banks of dark and dreay river sulen in its
own cold Depths and bids him enter where his strug-
giles only cease he is rescued by angels the other
shore.
| But what has matrinaony to do with all this:
Much at least in my opinion for there IS one ee-
ment, the necessary accompaniment to the welded
state which hormonizes all thngs--Loye. And all
| love is beautiful whether it be the love OF nature,
love of mankind, Or that single love which is pure,
natural, elevating; which is born of the hearts
wealth. and is capable of enrolling and enrlchng all
who are adorned with its presence.
Love unites pleasure and utility, love coos the
heat Of passion, tempers the fiery Imagination love
ligens care, makes toll easy love sees in the finger
marks Of time only cause to lead gently the aged
through the downward path and love stands by the
brink of the dark river and cheers the departing with
words of hope. 49,.
This is the love of our parents for another oul
love for them, theirs for How far the domestic
Preside of comfort and confidence, OF sunny faces
and of SUMMER hearts, transcends in its funess Of life
the lone still retreat, of old bachelor or an old
| maid. " .-..... -@.
| Old bachelors clubs and wines and cigars, will
never fill up the uneasy lcdnt in the heart, will
never smooth the wrinkled brow, or lead gently to
i another life will never stand by his deathbed in
forms of love- and watt him over the stream with
breathings Of peace.
Old maids scandal and snuff will never yield them
sunny memories to cheer their gloomy hours; never
lead them toanother life in sweat patience.
Everything in nature seems to teach that in single
life we outlive pleasure; passions, of an ennobng
nature give place to sorlil and selfish ones cares
unshared wrinkle the brow and bow the form prema
turcly and age is burthen that few care to assist
in tightening. Festus says
| "Iiyiue is a habit and mean
/ To break myself OF it soon. -
Loving is a habit, and when people learn to brcaE
themselves of the habit Of living. they will also ear1
to dispense with loving and I am inclined to loof
upon matrimony as the tlowery chain whose links ar
formed of all the lovely and holy attributes of human
nature.
When I see my glad-faced uncles and aunts, m,
contented looking friends who are living under bonds
in contradistincton to the wizentaced old bachelors
vnegar-faced old maids who pull the hair of, ant
pinch little children, because they have none, cal
you blame me if my castles are peopled, and if an
- in favor Of union
There may be poison in the cup matrimonial which
is not visible through the sparkling wine to eyes TN
initiated but your citybred girls so wordwse
l hope they will benevolently bestow word in sea
son upon yours and theirs open to instruction AM
advice. KATE INGLEBY.