The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1867-10-17

( NA''N oii TIC ihCH dlu HOutIl uTe DidyeIS.
Shakespeare
Men and women, = that is society,
that which forms commonwealth, king
doms, and states; whose league is hu-
manity, and whose object is improvement,
have, ever since Adam was man, grown
and multiplied with rapidity; but only
so, as peace, brotherhood and religion
co-creed their interests. Without these
appliances, they have more or less dwin-
died into barbarism, disease and decay !;
and finally, Time has, with ruthless aud
omnipotent hand, swept them as nuisance
from the scene of life.
Wherever there is an increase of popu-
lation there is prosperity. A wholesome
progeny is itself one of the greatest bless
ings that individual life can be endowed
with. The rosy checked urchin on his
fathers knee, inspires him with more
real manhood than any internal or exter-
nal qualification that may ornament his
character, or establish his fame The
lad is his own, and caprice, reverse of
fortune, or loss of worldly comfort, can
not ALLEVIATE the natural affection between
them. Malthus, when he advanced his
theory against marriage, might have also
added few hints to undermine society,
to crumble commonwealths, and to bring
the high destiny of mankind to shame
and everlasting contempt
A steady and wholesome increase of
population is the surest sign of advance
ment in any country. As population ap-
proaches climax all the energetic re-
sources of the million are developed. =
All must, and all will, find employment.
The machine of labor is ever in motion.
All must find bread, and aided by the in
discriminate companionship of society,
the Division of Eabor is brought of me-
cessity, to meet the demands of every
body. 1t amounts to the same thing in
Legislative power, Jurisprudence, and
commercial monopoly; till the very earth
upon which We stand is compelled to
yield its rich tributes to the wants of
mankind, and supply in inexhaustible
quantity the demands of the million.
Improvement necessarily depends on
the multiplication of human beings =
States only arise from sterility, as they
are trodden by the bread seeking thou
sands, who migrate from the din and
smoke of over-crowded cities. Their in
crease richens the barren territory,
spreading comfort and wealth abroad till
in time they present formidable front
ier, and demand the right of legal repre-
sentation as community and a nation.
But Men and Women, Individually,
present different character. The united
spirit of an age seldom characteristics the
capabilities or the accomplishment of
man, taken in separate aud social view.
History has done much to trace the ma
tional character, but few mparatively
have ever arrived at the true condition of
man as whole or competent part of Gre
alton. His passions are known = they
are exemplifed by the force of habit; but
these, though they characterize the en-
tire race, only do SO in the same light as
national or civil history does to COM
munity or commonwealth.
The interests of man and woman are.
similar, yet they are as different in cir
cumstance throughout life as any two
things possibly can be. The positions of
both are diversified by event, but woman.
very often is uninfuenced BY any external
change. She is generally, or always af-
fected by circumstance. With little or
no will of hers, she is bound to follow in
the same path of duty, 20 matter what
connections agitate the world, or what dis
cords interrupt the order of society. =
Man is entirely opposite in his vocation.
He is his own judge, free to act as he
pleases provided, that his acting inter-
feres not with the interests Of his fellows.
Though his line of action is free, yet
there are bounds he may not pass: bounds
which are marked out by deceDcy, good
breeding, and due amount of selfre-
spect. Of these qualifications, every man
possesses more or less; aud it is these
generally, and not the justice of the law,
which keep men in the honorable and
true path of virtue. They are the laws
of conscience = discerners Of right aud
wrong.
There are differences in the undertak-
ings Of man and woman which are consti-
tutional Man is said to {" chose a wife,"
but it is seldom, or perhaps never men
toned, that a woman "choses husband"
In point of possession man obtains an un-
limited right, but seldom operates upon
it with the same amount of interest as he
would upon any other possession of legal
The leases of marriage are un-
conditional. Man cannot dispose of his
wife as he would his other substance
and, therefore, she becomes eligible for
any interest that the husband may have
at heart. 1t is necessary that their inte-
rests should operate by the same motives.
Colloquially, they are said to be one, but
on closer observation it may be discovered
that their several sufferpgs are brought
about by the carelessness of either. I'm
equal matches are very common; caused