Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-11-19

On Thursday evening OF last week the home
81 the Secretary ot the Treasury in Washington 4
became .oF a few hours The exposure Of al eyes.
Carriage after carriage thundsrei Up TO the door
wsys blazing With light. ard from each IN its turn
emerged its fairy freight OF grace and beauty \
cloud AFTER cloud Of "slkcn wonder" miracles /
evoked ny uomans taste and woma.is toll from /
be looms of a hun0.cd lands
To one who watched the gay aud gorgeous \
scene how bright beyond even the optismiatic 7
dreams of Mr. Secretary Seward must the state I
and hope Of the Republic have seemed The
daughter ~ the magiclan who has filed the land I
with green aud growing prvmises 90 pay WAS
that night weeded TO Senator whose name
should be the synonym of prosperous patriot +
ism" Since the marriage OF Aladdin with the J
Princess Badourah no such happy lulGllment OF
opulence. woven from dir aud heaped up by /.
Diinns as potent as impalpable, hath been seen
Wealth and power were striking hands: and the
soul Of jenkins swelled within hisn as he passed
in glittering review the splendid tribute which
these conioined divinites of his hearts alteration
were bringing 10 he shrine OF youth and beauty /.
Let not jenkins be blamed; nor let one harsh
thought be breathed upon that brilliant bridal !
hour.
Bu: the Jewels and the flowers. the diamonds
and the laces. which turned the night a. fragrant
day on that fair festival, rose aud fell a. the
pulses OF women's hearts The scene itself we're
but an empty pageant or worse. save for the
sanctity which the soul OF womanhood sheds
over the marriage feast and the wedding gar
ments And wherever in all the land a woman's
ewes are resting with natural and commendabe
delight upon the fascinating details OF costumes
ncomprehensibe 10 the masculine mind, of
jewels bright AZ the stars. aud embrOderies deli
cate as the rolic frost work the forest trees Of
winter we ask that woman's heart and soul to
turn with M for moment To another scene
which marked that night Of Thursday In another
city Of the great republic In hall IA the Bowery
in New York are gathered together hundreds Of
girls IL Is no bridal feast which they are cele
brating. Hunger Is In their eyes: their hands
are worn and hard with eeaseless labor their
cheeks are wan with and disappointment
and despair. No music hstiers this sad
aud eager throng into delicious dreams;
no flowers wreathe Tor them the gaunt realities of
daily life with whispers OF love aud hopes of hap
piness 10 come To them. the "cup has been
dealt in quite another measure" To them, life
means simply living: the fierce relentless. unre
hitting effort To clutch with those thin frail fin
gers the scanty bread Of every day from the
world that whirls about and above them, noisy,
camorous, needless OF them aud theirs. These
arc no daughters of the Treasury, no brides of
the Senate These are the daughters OF the peo-
Pile: the patient, sad-eyed daughters of labor and
of suffering Like the proudest and ilirest in the
sion from the public eye. Year after year they
work on accomplishing, unheard oil. asking only
20 be suffered to keep body and soul together in
such wise that the hOdy's lie may not be pur
chased by the souls death. Content TO know
little of diamonds as of the stars, of faces as of
the clouds, il they can but save an aged moth
| err helpless father. orphaned household OF
brothers and sisters from the wolf that prowls
forever about the door
| Tho proud AID fair emerge from the sumptu
| Gus privacy of home for n brief moment AT the
summons OF pleasure and happiness, and love
! These emerge from their privacy. dear tor all
/ ts poverty, at quite another summons. They
| come before US, not that We may admire the
| splendors of their trosseaux, but that we may
measure the depth of their despair The pros
porous land which layishes upon the Princess
Badourah its fifty thousand dollars worth of
magnificent parhphernala deals out TO these sis
tiers of hers an average income of two dollars a
weak Once they lived upon this pittance and
made sign; wrnging from it house rent,
| clothing, fire in winter. food IN health where
! health was a kind of sickness medicine in sick
ness where sickness revealed the one sure hone Vt
rest But the wand OF the magician has smtten
their dollar and witherej them. and they must
| cry in their agony or perish
Ii is not possible, Is il, that women and men Of
women born look this fact in the face and
sleep upon it, that here in the chief city of this
mighty people. hundreds aud thousands of women
are working life away. twelve, fourteen. sixteen
hours day, putting their youth, their strength,
| their very heart's blood into the service of our
commerce and our comforts. at such rates Of pay
rs in the present condition OF our national hnan
ces make tnockery of the scriptural saying that
the wages OF sin is death, seeing that something
more pitifui than death is thereby made the
wages OF honesty, patience and virtue, and that
every domneering instinct of human nature
is thereby Ell listed in aid of sin and Us tempta
| tionsI
Years ago all England was stirred to its in
most heart nv Hoods "Sone OF the Shirt" and
! the world has never ceased To fling that terrible
refrain in the face of British opulence and power
We Mt least can do so no longer. The cry OF
our women lis ringing in ears. and will go
out upon the western wind over Christendom. 1t
IL cry OF suffering To day. How long ere il
will be cry of crime and shame if we be deaf
to the appyalY How the appeal shall be an
! swered the gill To il shall reveal To
doubt that will would be indeed to despair OF the
republic if not OF the ace.-[ n. Y World.