The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1872-04-11
From the Cincinnati CommefSiah.
The Modern Married Ma.

The Golden Age, in discussing the ques.
ton of marriage. asks, with some anxiety,
'Why does not the modern man marryr'
and then proceeds to give number OF
reasons why 80 many pen in these times Ne
frain from matrimony. The question is fte-
'ouently discussed in the New York papers,.
and still more frequently by the English
press.
But the fact is that the modern man does
marry. He marries, notwithstanding all the
advice the newspapers give him on the SUBJ
ject. He marries just as the man of preoede.
ing generations married. The institution Of.
marriage is not by any means in 2 state Of
decay, but fourishes as gaiy and luxuEiant.,
" as it ever did. IF there be few men, Of
tremendous intellect or extraordinary senti-
mentality or. hardheartedness who. remains
bachelors. those whom Mr.. Lincoln called The:
"plan people" continue to marry ndgiye I'M
marriage just as mankind are said: to. have
done at the time of the food. Nearly; al
men of the proper age for marriage in aaD
parts of this country arc married, as any one,
can find out by statistics or observation. II
anybody has any doubt on this point let him
look around We venture to say he will
find that his landlord is married, and that his
grocer, butcher, baker, tailor, shoemaker.
halter editor. and docteor, are all married.
men. He will find that nearly all his ac--
uuantances, as be counts them up, are mar
ried. He will find that nearly all the resi-
dcnces, poorer and richer, in all parts Of the.
city and suburbs, are occupied by mea who
are married. and who, more over, possess:
families of respectable magnitude. If ne
gets at the feelings of the younger men Of
his acquaintance he will find that almost
every one fthem expects to get etmarried, and
if here and there weak-mindeds one talks
about remaining bachelor all his life, he
will find that few years is pretty certain to;
work a great change in his ideas on the sub,
ject. If he 60 out into the rural districts
among the farmers, he will find that mar
riace is all but universal, and be will see
every reason to believe that the rising gen.
GRAFTON is certain to walk in the footsteps OF
the one which preceded it. Inshort, wher-
ever he looks, we venture to say, his obser-
yations will have but one result. They
will convince him that the "modern man.
marries, and that the ''coming man" also will
marry. We think it would be worth while
for those who. are excited about the matter to
ponder it in the way we have suggested, for
we feel sure that their alarm, about the pros
poets Of the human race and the social state
would be quickly diminished.
! There is not the slightest necessity,
therefore, for anybody troubling himself
about tho marriage of the modern man, who
is already married, or Of the proximate man,
who, unless all signs fail, will he properly
married in due season. The modern woman
may be cxtravagant, or false-haired, or strong
minded. or weak-minded, yet all these thingas
are ineffectural to prevent the modern man
from marrying her.
There is in all large cities small class OF:
men consisting principally of club-loungers,
Byronic poets, literary Bohcmians. n'isers,
philosopher, and such like, who fail to do
their duty in the marriage business We
suppose that newspaper writers who are
afflicted about the modern man not marrying
must have this class in their eye. But this
class is not novelty in the world. II exist
ed in ancient Athens and Rome, and in
medieval Constantinople and Venice, just as
it exists in Modern Paris aud London. It's
numerically a small class, and socially an in
consequent all one In no part ofthe coun-
try does it amount to more than one or two
per cent. of the population. tits absured
to take such class as the basis for morallz-
ing on the condition of society, or the con-
duct of the great mass of mankind.