The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-02-15

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MoLLIE GoRuAM.
Ashland, Feb. Q, 1860.
At the close of the Banquet most mag
%nificent affair.". w. Smith, Esq, offered
the following sentiment
Our Host and Hostess; may they live to celebrate
their Golden Yielding.
Whereupon remarks were made by Rev. 1.
n. CARMAN, to the following effect:
TLe sentiment is a good one, and has GER
tainly a hearty endorsement in the feelings of
every one here tonight. That our esteemed
Host and Hostess may live in our midst, to the
6ftieth anniversary OF their nuptials, as hap
PLY to themselves and their ~neighbors as they
have up to this suspicious twenty-ffth anniver-
sary we so gladly celebrate tonight, | am sure
is our unanimous and cordial wish.
[ suppose the naming of these SIver We'd
dings and GoGlen ones to be not intended to
convey any invidious implications, such as that
we who are only Benedicts of a few days or
years, have only attained to Copper Weddings!
For they seemed blissfully golden to us, the
parties, however, they may sometimes have
caused the minister on counting his fees, to
exclaim-sAlexander the Copper Smith hath
done me much evil" r
Neither, on the other hand, can the senti-
ment proposed, be seriously designed to hint of
a future festive scene as much finer than the
present as Gold is finer than Silver. Our de-
lighted palates will all avow over this ravaged
board, the iInpossibility of such a thing, in our
respect at least.
The real meaning Of the Golden Wedding,
as SO named, is rather suggestive of a more
chasteDed thought,-thc variety, the opportu-
nifty for such semi-ccntennial celebrations
Few, how few, tread the path of welded life
together for fifty years. Small the proportion
of the welded, who ever see even it's twenty
fifth celebration.
But a kind Providence has smiled on these
dear friends with whom we are met to rejoice
this evening, so that their prospects seem
bright for many an added happy year. TIE
very poetic strains just sung for their especial
benefit, have fortunately, in their allusion to
"~silvcr locks" and .faded cheeks" much more
poetry than truth. It's no silver wedding of
that sort! So much for the bride. As to the
bridegroom. owing to his being un fortunately
slightly indisposcd, he is toned Town tonight
to quite a moderate youthfalness of bearing
Had he been fully himself on social hilarity,
L should hardly have dared to answer for conse-
quences !! -
Finally-not to make a speech-our hearts
are fuller toward our host and hostess than we
can tel. 1t were something to. say they ae
full as this hospitable mansion tonight. May
Gods Providential smiles be long upon them,
making them here in our midst, as in the sun
ny past a JOY to each other and a means of
light and cheer and blessing to those around
them, How much they have been so in the
past, many hearts they have oft ~gladdened can
tell. Especially, amid life's uncertainty and
its burdens, nay Gods grace dwell in their
hearts and hallow their lives, so that whenever
the inevitable separation must come, the true
Golden Wedding may still be theirs in a re-
union in the golden streets of the New Jeru-
salem. And may we all greet them there with
swelling harps of gold.
Where the cea seless song of the seraph sounds
Mr. H.. responded, that he would have glad
ly made a speech in acknowledgment, were he
not unwell but must utter a hearty wish that
all present might as happily meet on the same
spot, after twenty five years more.
Feast, song and merriment ruled the hours,
and about one o'clock in tie morning the party
adjourned, hoping for a return of several
scores of such anniversaries and reunions
and that Tine will permit the hearts, at least
of the silver bride AMI groom to continue
through life as youthful and genial s they
appeared on the evening of the 9th of Feb
ruary, 1860.
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF HERoIsM.-But a