The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-11-27
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The home of the Secretary Of the Trea- &
Jury in Washington became for q few s
hours the cynosure ofall eyes. Carriage
after carriage Numbered up to its door {
ways blazing with light and from each
in its turn emerged its fairy freight of
grace and beauty, cloud after cloud Of
"silken wonders" miracles evoked by
woman's taste and womans toll from the
looms of hundred lands. gstI
To one who watched that gay and
gorgeous scene, how bright beyond even
the optimistic dreams of Mr.. Secretary
Seward must the state and hope of the
Republic have seemed The daughter
of the magician who has filed the land
with green and growing promises to pay,
was that night welded to q Senator
whose name should be the synonym Of
prosperous "pvtriotism." Since the
marriage of Aladdin with the Princess
Badourah no such happy ful6llment of
opulence, woven from air and heaped up
by Djnns as potent as impalpable, hath
been seen. Wealth and power were
striking hands; and the soul of jenkins
swelled within him as he passed in gilt
tering review the splendid tribute which
these conjoined divinities of his hearts
alteration were.bringing to the shrine OF
youth and beauty. Let not jenkins be
hlamed nor let one harsh thought be
breathed upon that brilliant bridal hour.
But the jewels and the flowers, the
diamonds and the laces, which turned
the night to fragrant day on that fair
festival rose and fell to the pulses Of
+women's hearts. The scene itself wore
but an empty pageant or worse, save for
the sanctity which the soul of woman.
hood sheds over the wedding feast and
the wedding garments. And wherever
in all the land woman's eyes are rest
ing with natural and commendable de-
light upon the fascinating details of cos
tunes incomprehensible to the mascu.
line mind, of jewels bright as the stars,
and embroideries delicate as the frolic
frost work on the forest trees of winter,
we ask that womans heart and soul to
turn with us for moment to another
scene which marked that night of Thurs
day in another city of the great Repub-
lie. In hall in the Bowery of New
York there are gathered together hun.
dreds of girls. 1t is no bridal festival
which they are celebrating. Hunger is
10 their eyes; their hands are worn and
hard with ceaseless labor; their checks
are wan with care and disappointment
and despair. No music aatters this
this sad and eager throng into delicious
dreams; no flowers wreathe for then
the gaunt realities of daily life, with whis
pers of love, and hope, and happiness tc
come. To them the "cup has been deal
in quite another measure" To then
life means simply living; the fierce, re-
lentless, unremitting effort to clutch will
those thin, frail fingers, the scanty breac
Of every day from the world that whirl'
about and above them, noisy, clamor
ous, needless of them and theirs. These
are no daughters of the Treasury, nc
+ brides of the Senate. These are the
daughters Of the people; the patient
8 sad eyed daughters of labor and of Suf
fering. Like the proudest and faires
= in the land, they, too, lead their woman
ly life in SecluSion from the public eye
y Year after year they work on uncom
planning. unheard Of, asking only to b.
t suffered to keep body and soul together
in such wise that the body'S life may no
p be purchased by the souls death. Con
tent to know as little of diamonds as o
| the stars, Of laces as Of the clouds, i
- they can but save an aged mother, a help
less father, an orphaned household o
c brothers aud sisters from the wolf tha
prowls forever about the door.
y The proud and the fair emerge from
+ the sumptuous privacy OF home for
e brief moment at the summons of pleas
ure, aud happiness, and love. Thes
/ emerge from their privacy, as dear 70
l. all its poverty, at quite another summons
They come before US, not that we ma
admire the splendors of their trousseauz
is but that we may measure the depth {
,e their despair. The prosperous Ian
. which lavishes npon the Princess BS
o dourah its fifty thousand dollars wort
- Of magnificent paraphernalia, deals or
,e TO these sisters of hers an average il
t. come of two dollars per week. Ono
y they lived upon this pittance and mad
d no sign; wringing from it house rem
clothing, lire in winter, food in healt
where health was kind of sickness
medicine in sickness where sickness n
g vealed the one sure hope Of rest Br
v, the wand Of the magician has smitte
their dollars, and vii thered them, an
:. they must cry out .stheir agony or pc
IN ish. 'an .uH54a ag.7 a3
to Shall not.their cry be needed
., 1t is not possible, is it, that wome
4 and men of women born can look th
fact in the face and sleep upon it; thu
here, in the chief city of this mighty nj
r. r. tion, hundreds and thousands of wome
q are working life away, twelve, fourteen
a sixteen honrs day; putting their youtl
MS their strength, their very hearts bloc
&c into the service Of our commerce an
. . our comforts, at such rates Of pay as
the present condition of our nation,
t finances make mockery of the ScriI
4 y toral saying that the wages of sin
4 death, seeing that something more pit
If fpl than death is thereby made thewag'
be Of honesty, patience and virtue, and thu
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