Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-02-28

of my making an exhibition Of temper that
will add to my unpopularity. as it must be
impossible for third person to comprehend
what it is all about. The very bland and
pecious Lady Boothby, or Mrs. Floyd, will
still less allow you to understand them as they
really are and, in both cases, you will be Hat
tered and mystifed in proportion to your
" eligibility" The world abounds with Miss
Collises, and Lady Boothbys, and Miss Raw
sons; and society becomes famiiarized with
the low elements of their teaching, and ex-
ample reconciled to the worthless profession
by which religion is degraded; to the nnscru-
puous scheming, and heartless ambition, that
remorselessly coerce human affections, and
barter the spirit, with its divine capabilities,
for basest of carth's clay; to the pitful malice,
and winged caumny, that also have their
victims, stricken down in the dark, to rise no
more it may be, or resist and retaliate with
painfully acquired strength, and the scorn
that embitters every better feeling upon which
it is enforced.
I sit sometimes and think of what Bertha
more than once said to me-"Never trust the
woman who has no generous impulse about
her." My ideal woman is frank, intelligent,
generous, energetic, gentle, and tender to the
hearts core, and has dash of romance about
her. The romantic are ever buoyant; for So
called romantic feelings are only an evidence
Of the spirits fresh life. They do not readily
sink into the dry-rot of an insane existence
they do notswel the list of the nervous-mind-
ed, and the sordd, and the mean, and the in
triguing, and selfrighteous. Of them are
not made the slatternly or indifferent mothers
the treacherous frieuds, of whose exstenes we
may hear any day on all sides. They are
widely separated from the womeu-cold and
hard, and wanting in intelligence and sensi-
billity-who, with sour and supercilious as
| pect, entrench themselves in their small cir
, elcs, and consider the PRONUNCIATION of tracts
and the patronage of missionary meetings
! equivalent to sitting at the fee: of Jesus
f clothed in the right mind that is never want
e ing in true humility, They take no uugen
j erous advantage of simplicity or timidty
4 they stand not aloof from detracton--the,
n would not willingly sully the pure, bright cur
!, rent of their own thoughts. They ma.
I. startle many around them by an honest out
e burst Of Indignation; but they will not har
d Dor malice, or seek to perpuate the evil the.
t, have denounced.
o Above all, the romantic are strong in reli
b gious faith for the ideas of perfection an
t. benefcence, and beauty, and goodness, an
I truth, are most powerfully developed in then
It Let no sceptic come near them, with his col
n philosophy and cherries creed, that consign
Re I" dust to dust even while the living Acs
TT might alone and we'll confute him by tn
d power of its unconquerable instincts. Thos
lie who have once tasted of the water of life q
l. the fountain head, arc not to be dismayed b
lie the reports Of its after-failing course, ami
| the miry and darkened ways of an mperfet
,r and faithless world.
ages and countries have greately sigpaize
al themselves in true womany ways, beariD
lie witness before, time past and to come, thu
he true nobility soul, steadfastness of purpos
a heroic courage and high faith, are natural
le allied to the earnest truth and the deep-roo
Id ed affections out of which they spring spol
taneously, amid circumstances requiring tt
&c grandest developments of power. Thousand
I'd Of these the bright-spirited and warm.hearte
ne are in our midst; and surely one result of tt
ld wider spreading of intelligence will be Il
he sensible manifestation of their genial inAucn
of quite and unobstrusive, yet let and ackno,
lodged everywhere, and resulting in increase
Id gladness, in increased purity, a perceptible e
ut tension of the peace and goodwill that mu
a herald in the dawn of brighter day.