Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-06-12

core-are incalculable, They recognize it
as the great mistake of their lives. The
chain is not to them silk one, but cable
of iron, that tightens around them more and
more, crushing out all hope and energy,
substituting hate for love, and eating out
with its rust, the very inner life of the soul.
Boys and girls now marry to greater ex-
tent than ever before, instead of waiting till
they become full grown and matured men
and women. The young dandy, as soon as
he gets out of short jackets, and finds lit
tie furze gathered on his upper lip-aud the
young miss, as soon as she emerges from the
nursery and abbreviated frocks-think they
are qualified to assume the most solemn re-
sponsibilities of life. And so if "Pa" and
"Ma" won't consent, they post off to some
Gretna Green, and there take obligations
that, in ninety-nine cases out of o hundred,
they will never cease bitterly to repent.
Marriage should never be the result Of
fancy. The ball room and the evening par
ty rarely develope real character. Under the
exhilaratiDg influence of the dance, the glare
of the lights, and the merry squib and joke,
the dissolute young man mayappear amiable,
and the slatternly scold loveable. Matches
made at such places, orunder similar circum-
stances, are not of the class that originate in
heaven. They are more generally conceived
in the opposite place, and bring forth only
iniquity. The true way to learn each other
is to do it at home, in the parlor, in the
kitchen, and on occasions that test the tenn
per- We see the result of these unions in
the almost daily divorces that are taking
place, in the running away Of husbands,
leaving their wives and children to starve,
and in the elopement of wives. Not only
this, but we witness it in broken spirited
men, made old in the prime of life, strug-
Cling on for mere food and clothing and
shelter, and in women cross, dirty, sluttish
and wrinkled.
1t would be quite impossible for US to de-
pict faithfully the multitude Of physical and
moral evils that result from these sinful mar
riages-for sinful they are. They ruin the
body, corrupt the morals, and stultify the
mind. And the result does not stop with
husband and wife. There are the children.
They partake Of the feebleness and the vices
ofthe parents, both physical and moral, and
60 out into the busy world stunted and gnarl-
ed. God pity them!
We would not be understood as speaking
against the institution of marriage. 1t is
holy, beautiful and benefcent. But let eve
ry one take his mate or none. Let not the
brave eagle pair with the stupid owl, nor the
gentle dove with the carrion crow. Like
should have like. It is glorious sight to
see two old people who have weathered
the storms and basked in the sunshine of life
together, go hand in hand, lovingly and
truthfully, down the gentle deeliVity of time,
with no angers, nor jealousies, nor hatreds
garnered up against each other, and looking
with hope and joy to the everlasting youth
of heaven, where they shall be one forever.
That is the true marriage--for it is the mar.
riage of spirit with spirit Their love is woven
into woof of gold, that Eeither time, nor
death, nor eternity can e.--Me Eclectic.