Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-06
RRORRERY

The snobs of the north are profoundly ex-
ercised over the marriage of Governor Hub
bard's eighteen-year-old daughter to Gov
ernor Hubbard's coachman. The snobs are
shocked at this horrid proclamation Young
ladies whose fathers were brick-masons or
hod-carriers turn up their noses IN disdain at
the idea of governors daughter marrying
an honest man because he rides on the out
side of a coach instead of the inside. Mush-
room aristocracy considers it a terrible scandal
for daughter to marry her fathers coach
man, although he is young man of respect
ability, fne person, agreeable manners, hon
est and industrious. There are hundreds of
coachmen who have more honor and man
hood, more of the essence of what consti-
tutes the real gentleman, than their rich mas
tiers. Nearly every rich man commenced life
in poverty. The biography of nearly every
man who has achieved greatness and fame
commences with the stereotyped expression,
''the subject of this sketch was born of poor
but honest parentaQe." The future life of
Shepard, Governor Hubbard's coachmau.
may afford another demonstration of the be-
nign and ennobling influence of our social
and political institutions. The st. Louis Re-
publican, in discussing this marriage, ap-
propriately says: Suppose that Shepard, in
stead of being coachman, had been mil
lionaire and walking embodiment of all the
wees, would those who are criticising and
condemning her now have criticised and con-
demned her then? No; the millions would
have more than balanced the vices, though
the latter had rotted out the soul and body of
their victim. Suppose that Shepard, instead
Of beng poor young man, had been an ex-
rich old one; old enough to be
Nellie's Notwithstanding on the verge
Of the grave, with grown-up children to vent
their disappointment and disgust upon his
those who are criticising and
her now have criticised and con-
9emned her then2 No; it would have been
a brilliant match" The fine house, the fine
clothes, the fine equipage, the prospect of an
Early and gay widowhood, for which she
'old hsrself-would have pushed the legalIzed
prostitution out of sight and out of mind.
Instead of being an object of contempt, she |
would have been an object of envy. Instead
# being tabooed by her relatives and friends. |
nOJ NOulu hdNO OlOWuCO utI IeCeDIlOlS, |
lied her carriage and her table, and boosted |
f the kinship or friendship which gave them |
hese privileges.
''Ah! honored we'll are charms that sell,
II priests the selling do
Something, then, can be said in behalf of
be girl who has married her fathers coach
IAN. She has at least married unselfshly.
he has at least followed the promptings of
Fiction, and not the impulse of the pocket.
he has at least taken husband for himself,
nd not for the sake of his cash. She has at
asst given her heart where she gave her
and; made love sacrifice and not a mer-
mary bargain. If society and society's
erRymen can invoke the blessing of God !
pom marriages which are wretched mock
les OF true marriage, surely we can afford i
do as much for the young couple who $
ave dared to defy Mrs. Grundy in their a
arch for matrimonial happiness. ~