The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1862-05-28
THE Wifa,s Walooma

Is the unciouded welcome Of WIFE"
we believe THAT with ali our hearts We have
tested some of the merits of life, aud with as keen
relish for them as any one, but sign to the above
declaration and do not care to know the that calls
il in question.
That welcome has reclaimed mahy Wauderer on
the verge of run--has preserved many, who but for
it, would have gone given life and peace to the
heart Of many son Of toll and care, and made the
cot Of the poor an Eden.
II is hard thing to feel lonely and desoate;
our friends depart-to feel that we have no one
sole or consult WITH or to care forus But there
worse things in the world than deathwolse than to
be left by the deada living death!"-to be left by
the living ard want Of this unclouded smile are far
worse. The want Of 1t has driven many 10 the
bowl the gaming table the company Of the dissolute-
to destruction. It has made many home prison,
many husband enemy many father tyfant-
many children fatherless, and many wives widows,
whose fathers or husbands yet ve-and when we see
neglecting lovely looking wife, and seeking
pleasure in the haunts Of sin know whether
blame or to pity him, we wish to learn if the wife of
his bosom always gave him the ''unclouded welcome
Of smile when he entered his own door.
If she did, and he cared not for tiff she made it
sunshine always in the house, and vas cheerful in adj
versy as well as gay in the hours Of oy and still he
wandered from the arms that embraced him, to seek
the embrace Of others-eyen the abandoned then be
is a villain hatedof God and justly dspsed Of men.
And there are many Of those whom We daily see Oh
the road to ruin, the love Of fond wife would have
saved bat they rejected il and deserve to perish But
if-and it is serious IEif She whom he loves meets
him returning from his days and toll without the
JOYOUS welcome Of glad heart and sun-lt eye Or with
rown or lock Of cold indifference; or the mere ab-
sence Of delight il is not strange to that his heart
sinks and tha he seeks for pleasure where lie looks
not for love He can be happy without love abroad
but HOME, though heaven full Of angels, without love
is perdition itself Thus Ellis has drawn perfect por
trait Of a wife, "a being to come home tor Ifloye
dwes not there, JOY is also stranger
wish to please and be pleased the sllrest pass
port to happiness, and it i such happiness to the pure
to love; but, OIL how much more than happiness to
believe in the worth Of the one beoyed-to share the
confidence, sympathy and very thoughts Of true,
coafding heart. Love and confidence sometimes Ian
guish, depart entirely for season from the
''hearth Of home but the ''gnawing Of that worm
[remorse which never dies, frequently makes lie
Giving DEATH until Tie desolate hearth and heart HE
made cheerful b. their return-uatil an "Unclouded
welcome" il exchanged Changes come over almost
all Of us-perhapa i, is wise arrangement Love aud
hatred depart and return almost without cause and
when person has once loved it i proof positive lie
same aay be done again Even hatred ofto-day nav
change into compassion or good viii tomorrow Our
love is not to give and take back IS ge please
1t is dreadful thing to live on year after year with
heart full Of love and have t love desPseI and re-
jected-to be obliged when the soul is racked With
anxiety to wear those sunny smiles, and chat look Of
cheerful animation, which constitute our passport to
society, and claim an uaclouled welcome" fron our
friends.
It is a melancholy thing to depart from home With
ou, being regretted, Of to return without a welcome
ooh! man NAV hear with suffering: his heart
Is strong thing, Godike in the grasp
of pain that wHngs mortality; but tear
One chord affection cilngs To- part one Tie
That binds MIN unto woman's delicate love,
and his great spirit yieideth ike a reed
one Of our friends wrote to Us short time ago her
plan Of ruling Der lord--we admire her sentiments
she says: he has perfect confidence in me and 10
him; # want him to do any thing be leaves To me- ~
try to please him. but he always leaves every thing for
me to decide Coed II al should take the same
course" all would do different, and an uuclouded
welcome" would await ALL
A dream! 0 how the memory Vi the loved and the
lost must come up when the broken circle is thus
brought back to the soul How sweet the thought that
ia that circle no word, no look eer sent pang to
any heart-that every hour Was summer houy-every
face thereaeetion IF bright spirit How sweet,
when sorrowing Ger some stone We bend
Which covers all that was a friend
to know that the memory Of unknd word can never
marhe Joy We feel when the years of our intercourse
With the departed racur to the mind So et US i've
50 Let Us desc let Us remember those whom have
loved aud who have gone before Us.
But We are wandering from tie 'uncloaded vel
come, in making selections, for we do pretend
to have originated the ground WORK Of our production
We are too 'od" and toe insane" to have only
mind that is void Of reason, and we have on IN
til the reader bias probably left us 10 run alone.
Once n9re, as the preacher sayeth, and are done
for the present. When the promise IS giyen--@hen
lie knot il ted-thers s solemn certainty their fu-
ture lot must be oYrbat for veal or voc the two are
bound together and that let the rest Of the world take
what course thee may, seiF path whether rough or
smooth, among roses OF thorns, must be the same
their happiness must be one Or monet
There Is love that DER The war
OF jarring passion pour IFS light,
And sheds its influence like star
That brightest burns in darkest night.
'yTis never quenched by sorrows tide
No, tits flame caught from above
tie that life may not divide
'Tis the bright torch of Welded LOVE-
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The New Yor, Herald, of the 5ta inst, states that
it IS the intention Of president Lincoln to issue