Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-08-26
Speech of ZachJriau Spjcer

On the question, (Which enjoys tae
greatest amount of happiness, the bachelo,
or the married man ?''
Mi. President and Gentlemen. rise ia
advocate the cause of the married man.
And why should L not? L claim to know
something about the institution do.
VIII any gentleman pretend to say do
no'9 Let hlm accompany me home. Let
me confront him with my wife and seven
teen small children, and decide. =
High as the Rocky Mountains tower
above the Mississippi Valley, does the mar
RED man tower above that of the bachelor.
what was Adam before he got acquainted
with EFe? What but n poor, shiftless.
helPless creature? No more to becompared
with his after self than mill dam to the
roaring cataract OF Niagara. (Applause. }
Gentlemen there was time, blush to
say, when was bachelor; and a more
miserable creature you could hardly expect
to find. Every day / toiled hard, and at
night came home to my comfortless gar
ret.no carpet, no fire, no nothing. Ey-
erythlng was Ia aclutter, and in the words
ct the poet f
"Confnsion was monarch of all SURVEYED"
Here lay pair of dirty pants. there a
dirty pair of boots, there a dirty play bill
and here o pile of dirty clothes. What
wonder that took refuge at the gaming
table and bar-room. / found it would new
er do, gentlemen, and in a lucky moment
L vowed to reform. Scarcely had the prom
ise passed my lips, when a knock was
heard at my door, and i'm came Susan
Simpkins after my dirty clothes.
g "Mr. Spicer, says she, .1've washed for
you for six months, and haven't seen the
first red cent in the way of payment. Now
I'd like to know what you are going to do
about it" aa % .t5i'1o
/ felt in my poeketbook. There was
nothing in it, and knew it well enough.
',Miss Simpkins,'' said 1, ..it's no use
denying it, haven't got the stamps. |
wish for your sake / had" 8f.s
Then" said she, promptly, 81 don't
wash another rag for you"
''Stop," said l. ssSusan / will do the
best can for you. Greenbacks / have
none; but if my heart and hand will do.
they are at your service"
Are you in earnest" says she, looking a
little suspicious. 49,
'Never more So" says |. 75
Then" says she. s'as there seems to he
no prospect of getting my pay any other
way guess Ill take up with Your offer"
Enough, said L We were married in a
week; and what's more, we haven't had
cause to repentit. No more attics for me.
gentlemen. live.'ii good house and
have somebody to mend my Clothes
When / was poor, miserable bachelor
gentlemen, | used to be as thin as a wea-
sci. Now L am as plump as poker.
In conclusion, gentlemen, if you want
to be poor, ragged fellow, without coat
to your back or shoe to your feet; if you
want to grow old before your time, and un-
generally as n hedgehog
rolled up the wrong way,"I advise You to
remain bachelor; if you want to live de-
Gently and respectfully, get married. I've
got ten daughters, gentlemen, (overwhel-
ming applause), and You may have your
pick. !. ,.,...e ...,...-- -.r.
Mr.. Spicer sat dawn amid loud and con-
hnued piaudits. The generous proposal
with which he concluded secured him five
Aai, ss.l a.g s,lr.Tsu ISL
Il LETTER WRITER'S state that Mr., Russell
Surney's bill in the British parliament for
The 'fProtection of the Property of Married
will probably become law. II
simply does for poor women what the rich
Always contriye to effect by means of mar
rage settlennents-gives them a right to
heir own property or earnings. Hitherto,
m civilized England, they have no pecuni
lry rag is which their husbands are bound
q. respect For want of such bill, the
'onordtie Mr.. Norton, once police magis-
rate ofIambefh, London, took all the pro-
its of his wife's writings-afferl charging
ler washz zadnltesy .xith- Lord Melbourne,
Who gave him his post. Mrs. Norton in
9aln addressed a letter to Queen Victoria in
1856 ON tins grievancel Her husband not
'nly deprived her of her own property, but
Kept the post to which he had been ap-
pointed by the man whom be charged with
lis wife's dishonor.