Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-05-11

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tSfhere is no ,accpupting for tastesHi is q
common saying when people marry not
according Ia the stereotype notion of the
fitness of thing Now there a.e illnesses
and correspondence which many people
never see, and there are Iankes:i diicords
where the popular voice has decided the
mating eminentlyin harmony. "A delicate
woman will sometimes cling 10 ai,rough
unseemly man, and find her true compile
ment in him, as lie finds his in her, and
people worrtleT' that it Il SO. This wouder
comes Of ignoraaees siboth Of the true index
in what the misunderstanding consists, and
The real poiuts Of correspondence aud an
tagoilism. The SUBJECTS worthy of close
Escrutinyss and ssiIl gfpN upon Investigation.
But we dtd not lake up eurspcasO much
to enlarge upon Nmatter Of which weihaye
thought very much. and which presents SO
many beautiful pants to one who loves
and honors Labor, asio introduce some re-
marks made by Lord Morpeth, well known
IN America, OH the occasion of laying the
cornerstone of n building for the Sheffield
Atheneum and Mechanics institution, in
which he made allusion to the fabulous
story Of Vulc an aud Venus in the following
happy manner:
Those ofyou who have an opportunity
of consulting the old legends and classical
mythology, are aware that among the fan
cicd dcities with which they peopled their
world, one more especially was regarded
MS the god of the labor and of handicraft,
| Vulcan by name, who was always repre-
sented as employed in huge smithies and
workshops, hammerin2 at heavy anvils,
blowing huge bellows. heating furnaces,
and begrimmed with SCOT and dirt. Well,
ladies and gentlemen, for This hardworking
and swarthy-looking divinity, they wished
to pick out wife. And they did not Sc
lect for him II mere draD-a person taken
from the scullery or kitchen dressery, but
they chose for him Venus, the goddess ol
love and beauty.
Now, ladies and gentleme n, pick out fol
me the moral Of this tale: for believe tha
nothing ever was invented-certainly moth
ing by the polished and brilliant imagina
ton of the Grecian intellect-which ha:
+ not it's meaning and it's moral. have ne
doubt that all the legends of our owl
country-that the one even of our neigh
borhood, the Dragon of Wantley itself
has some allcgory and meaning, if We onl.
knew how to find them out. But what il
| the special meaning of the marriage o
Vulcan with Venus-of the hard workin.
: artificer with his laughterloving queen
Of labor with beauty?-what is it, ladie
and gentlemen, but this: that, even in
busy hive Of industry and toll like this
even here, upon a spot which is in man
: respects no inapt representation Of the ia
- II L - U.,lo 1.
= the clang Of anvils, the noice of furnaces
: and the sputtering of forges-even here
!, amid stunning sounds and sooty blackness
I, the mind--the untrammeled mind ma
. 90 forth, may pierce the dim atmospher
: which is poised around us, may wing it
e way to the freer air and purer light whic
o are beyond, and may ally itself with a
e that is. most fair, genial and lovely in Gre
d alton. So gentlemen, l say, your labor
# your downright, hard, swarthy labor, ma
S make itself the companion, the helpmate
:. and husband of beauty. dare say, an
}, which l am able even now to command
p and have no doubt more intimate ac
IS quaintance with your wives, sisters an
k daughters, would enable me to prove tn;
: | WAS not wrong in my illustration. Br
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p ally itself with intellectual beauty, tn
% beauty connected with the play of fancy
u with the achievepents of art, and wit
e the creation of genius, beauty such as pair
ting fixes upon the glowing canvas, sue
as the sculptor embodies in the breathin
d marble, such as architecture developes
f. her stately .and harmonious proportion:
70 such as music clothes with the enehan
I, mehts of sound. But there is a beauty
le still higher order, with which l feel MOI
e assured it is still open to unite itself:
II mean with moral beauty-bcauty connet
n, ted with the affections. the conscience, ii
rs heart, and the life. ssi"An lfn. ,s}si
n 1t is true, that in the busiest and blacl
n est of your workshops, in the most wearv
i'm ing and monotonous tasks of daily druds
le cry, as also in the very humblest Of yol
ID firesides, you may, one and each Of you,
to the jealous and cheerful discharge of Il
Id daily duty, IN respect for the just right
and in consideration for the feeling of otl
ers-in meekness and sobriety of spiri
- and III thousand charities and kindness,
a of social and domestic intercourse--eve
70 thus You may attain to, and exhibit, u
-, moral beauty to which /. have spoken
a beauty beyond all others in degree and g,
- cellence, because in proportion rs it can
~ reached, it makes up the perfection of man
a. nature here below, and Is the most faithf
\ reflection of the will of his Creator, an
thus close my explanation of the marrias
of Vulcan with Venus, Of labor vii
beauty. ..-
rs EE-We learn from the st. Louis "Den
o; ocrat'' that Mr.. Payne, n Free DemocIa
Q; who stands opposed to the Lecomplc
IS policy of slavery extension and its kmdrt
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