Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-05-09
NO. 16.
Low Maria ges.

The Cleveland Herald, speaking Of the mar
riage of Dean, coachman, to the daughter Of
Boxer, the Stomach Bitters" proprietor, gives
snobdom the following meritcd rcbuke
A tyrant of father, who by some eccentric
freak of fortune has amassed more of this worlds
wealth than he deserves or knows how to use,
wishes to make good bargain hy contracting his
daughter to q millionaire, or, maybe, barter his
gold in exchange for distinguished son-in-law,
and fearful she may exercise her own choice in
the selection oil husband, imprisons her. Love
is regular pck-lock. She slips the bolt, throws
herself into the arms of her fathers eoachman,
hurries of to clergyman and the twain are made
one flesh All suob-dom roll up the white of
their eyes and ejocuato, low marriage vulgar
nuptials
That is about the substance of the affair in New
York which of late has fed the morbid appetite
of thin-lipped scandal mongers and pnched nosed
gossips. \ Mr.. Boxer rich and tyrancal, shuts
up his daughter to prevent her falling in love,
but forgets to shut Ibis eoachman. and she, like
! every girl, bound to love somebody. falls in lovo
with the only man in sght-an honest good
looking intelligent llbcrnian, slips out of tho
side door, rushes with her lover to the Rev, Mr.,
Hatfield, who takes the impatient pair into his
bascment-hs parlors being newly oarpeted-
and makes,-as he supposesa couple OF honest
servants lie hel elp-mates~ Tho Rev. gentleman
pockets his v returns TO his unsoiled parlors.
remarks upon the handsome. prompt and liberal
groom. and tells his wife that in his opinion udg-
ing from appearances. the bride of the basement
has the best of the bargain, The day following
all upper tendon is cursing this Rev. because
ho has married all heiress 30 Il laborlng man.
The father is horried and locks up the BRIDE
and in his lurheR efforts to make M rchandse of
! his daughter heart tries to buy off the husband
| from demanding his wife, But the good looking
and smart Irishman says he does not seek gold,
but his lawful welded wife in other words he is
not after the feathers but the bird
While admitting that there are, and always
will be. castles in society aud that between these
castes will exist disparity of tastes, and also ad-
mttng the general fitness of contracting marriges
between those Of similar tastes and positions in
society, we cannot but laugh at the sckly senti-
mentality wasted upon what snobcry characterizcs
as low marriages. By this is meant the marriage
between two parties, one of which is rich, the 9TH
cr poor. Money is the snob rubcon dividing u
low-marragc from hi igh-marniage and this line
between tho two must not be broken down Edu-
cation, intelligence true refinement, have nothing
to do with the question: it il solved alone by dol
lars. The one yarly may be ignorant, iliteratc
and coarse, the other intelligent, educated and
refined, but if the former is rich and the lattcp
poor, marriage between them is vulgar.
We are sick Of the twaddle about low maria
ges when we see 50 many rich mems sons grow
ing up in ignorance, in vice, in idleness ; never
knowing what it is to earn Il dollar, and kept out
Of the poor house only because they have fathers
who having been once poor, know how to earn
and use their money. Who are the men standing
in the front rank of statesmen! Whose energy
and money build our railroads? Who are shin
ing lights at the Bar, and in the Desk? Whose ar
chitectural taste ndorn our cities and towns Who
have given worldwide fame to the American
Press. Poor mems sons who studied out their les
sons by the light Of pitch-pinc knots. Orphan
boys who have seen the day when they knew not
whence would come the next moal or where to fluid
wa-m bed,