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gentleman Of your acquaintance, but it would


be worse than folly in you to be ambitious OF


blind admiration.


will only add, that you ought to be on


your guard against the influence of f1attery.
Rely on it, the man who Aatters you is not


your friend


1t were much kinder office, and real
mark Of friendship, to admonish you tenderly,
yet honestly, of your faults. If you yield a
little to fattery, you have placed yourself on
dangerous ground if you continue to yield,
you are not improbably undone.


MARRhGE.-No subject is more deeply
fraught with the JOY or anguish Of the heart,
the happiness or distress of families, the peace
or misery of society, than marriage. 1t min
giles its cup of contentment or sorrow with all
our sensbilities; it pervades our natures, and
all our relations 10 heaven and earth with its
influences, and il we have been fortunate in
their choice, hope has buoyancy, the heart an
energy, and the. arm vigor, that unabating
force can struggle with lifes varying pros
poets; but if unfortunate, our life has suffered
an eclipse Of deep and sombre shade; and, in
the reality of misery, the heart relinquishes
all its long cherished hopes and ideal faculties,
and asks for the refuge and solace of that di-
vorce which death alone can give.


In marriage there should be congeniality
OF affection and feeling. No lady should ever
pledge her hand to one who has not her heart.
From this principle she should not be seduced
by wealth, or fame, or talents, or misled by
oficious friends. Her individual happiness is
at stake, and her choice, which is to fix her
destiny for life, should be, do not say unad-
vised, but certainly, unconslrained by others.
There is too often ONE sad heart amid the fes-
tive Joy of the hymenial hour. The heart
feels as if the decorations of the scene were
its fillets for the alter of sacrifice. The hand,
under foreign dictation and control, is yielded
to one, but the heart has irrecoveraby fixed
its choice upon another AS well might phi
losophers attempt to control the magic influ-
ence of gravitation, as parents or guardians
attempt to awaken and divert the channel of
a devoted heart, by their own mercenary
views Fatal have been the consequences,
when parental authority has compelled a
merely licensed union, for which the heart
felt cherished disgust. The ovelest forms
have thus sunk into an untimely grave, under
the silent, but fatal influence Of a withered
and blighted heart. While parents, who
have thus married the persons of their daugh-
tiers to houses and lands, and silver and gold,
and thus inundated their affections upon the
altar of Mammon, have committed an act of
cruelty to their children, and fragrant out
rage upon the design Of the marriage union,
for which no future kindness or repentance
can fully atone. And what can be said for the
woman who is so base as to marry for money?
nothing! she deserves the sympathy of no
honorable person.