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rsEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 13, 1832. 



Miisicellaiiy, 



The following ode, composed by the Rev. Mr Pierpont, 

 was sung at the late anniversary of the Massachusetts 

 Temperance Society. 



ODE. 

 Wake ! wake ! friends of your kind, 

 There 's a demon, a demon abroad ! 

 Ye '11 scent him in every breath of the wind ! 

 Around him is wo, death and hell are behind ! 

 The foe of man and of God, 

 The Prince of the devils is it, 

 Escaped from the bottomless pit ; 

 Escaped in his wrath, or his mirth. 

 To put out the lights o( the earth. 



AValch! watch! creeping by stealth. 

 Like the serpent through Eden's shades, 

 The mansions of peace^ and of worth, and of wealth, 

 Assuming- the form of " a spirit of health," 

 This " goblin damned" invades. 

 He claims, and the claim is allowed! 

 The young, and the fair, and the proud. 

 He claims and he brands them as slaves. 

 And drags them all down to their graves! 



Hark ! hark ! hear ye the chain 



That is clanking in yonder cell ? 

 The demon is there with the felon insane ; 

 He is tearing a heart, he is burning a brain! 



That shriek is a maniac's yell. 



That low, heart-rending moan 



Is a wife's — she is sitting aline ; 



The man on whose arm she has leaned. 



Has left her, to worship the trend. 



Arm ! arm ! good men and bold ! 



It 's a question of life or of death: 

 His banners are floating, beneath are enrolled 

 Your brothers, your fathers, your children — all sold, 



( Bear witness their tainted breath ! ) 



As victims that soon shall expire 



In the flames of unquenchable fire ; 

 _, Expire on his altar arcursod. 



In the fire of unquenchable thirst. 



On ! on ! the fall is decreed 



Of the throne of the evil one : 

 At his feet shall immortals by hecatombs bleed ; 

 His vassals already cry out to be freed ; 



Resolve, and the work is done ! 



Resolve ! and the pits that yawn. 



From dewy eve till dawn. 



That spirits inferiial may rise. 



No more shall insult the skies. 



From Ki 



ledge for the People 



i^IARRIAGE. 



ble chaiacler ; and this reinark may be confirmed 

 by any person's observation." 



The witty Selden has three passages on jnar- 

 riage, wliiob we cannot omit. — 1. Of all the ac- 

 tions of a man's life, his marriage does least con- 

 cern other people ; yet of all actions of our life, 

 't is most metklled with by other people. — 2. Mar- 

 riage is nothing but a civil contract ; 't is true, 't is 

 an ordinance of God ; so is every other contract, 

 God commands me to keep it when I have made 

 it. • — 3. IMarriage is a desperate thing. Tlje frogs 

 in iEsop were extreme wise : they liad a great 

 mind to so.iie water, but they would not leaj) into 

 the well, because they could not get out again. 



fi'liy are Gretna Green mariiages so named? 



Because the first mock priest, by wliom this 

 trade was founded, resided on the common or 

 green betwixt Graimey and Springfield, en the 

 borders of Scotland ; but removed to the latter 

 place in 1791, where his successors have since re- 

 sided. 



Ifhy are not Gretna Green marriages prei^ented 

 h\j the Scottish church ? 



Because the mock priest, or coupler, despises 

 the threats of the kirk, as excommunication is the 

 only penalty.it can inflict. An attempt was made 

 in the General Assembly of 1S2G, to have this 

 sliameful system of fraud and profanity sii]>j)ress- 

 ed, but without eftect. Upon an average, tliree 

 hundred cou])!© are married in the year, and half 

 a guinea is the lowfst fee that is e^er charged. 

 In its legal efiect, the ceremony |)erforme(l at Gret- 

 na, merely amounts to a confession before witness- 

 es that certain persons are man and wife; and the 

 reader is aware that little more is required to con- 

 stitute a marriage in Scotland, a marriage which 

 is perfectly binding in regard to property and the 

 legitimacy of children. 



J'liy were Fleet marriages so called? 



Because they were performed in the Fleet-pris- 

 on, by a set of drunken, swearing parsons, with 

 their myrmidoms, that wore black coats and pre- 

 tended to be clerks and registers to the Fhjot, ]t\\- 

 ing about Ludgate Hill, pulling and forcing ])cople 

 to some i)eddling ale-house, or brandy-shop, to: be 

 married ; and even on Sundays, stopjiing them as 

 they went to church. In this way, from October, 

 1704, to February, 1703, there were performed in 

 the Fleet, two thousand nine hundred and fiftyfour 

 marriages, without either license or certificate of 

 banns. Pennant, at a later period, confirms this 

 account of the nefarious traffic. He says, in walk- 

 ing by the prison in his youth, ho was often ac- 

 costed with " Sir, will you plea.se to walk in anil 

 be married?" and he states, that painted signs, 

 containing a male and female hand conjoined, with 

 the inscrijition, " Marriages jit-rfornied witliin," 



of performing the nuptial ceremony under a veil, 

 or square piece of cloth, held at each corner by a 

 tall man, over the bridegroom and bride, to con- 

 ceal her virgin blushes ; but if the bride was a 

 widow, the veil was esteemed useless .At Sarum, 

 there was a marriage before mass, the ))arties 

 kneeled together, and had a fine linen cloth (call- 

 ed the care cloth,) laid over their heads during 

 the time of pass, till they received the benediction, 

 and then were disiTiissed. — Brand. 



V'liy is it svpposed that torches were home at old 

 English toeddings, us in the heathen mythology ? 



Because of the following lines in Ilerrick's Hes- 

 peritles, upon a inaid lliat died the day she was 

 married : 



That morne which saw me made a bride, 



The ev'ning witnest that I dy'd. 



The holy lights wherewith they guide 



Unto the bed the bashful bride, 



Serv'd but as tapers for to burne, . ' 



And light my reliques to their urne; 



This Epitaph, which here you see, 



Supply'd the Epithalumie. 



r,ri • .1 ■ ji . . .,, I were connnon along the buildmg. This e arms 



/f/ii; is the marriage ceremony celebrated ^ellh\ , ■ , ,..,,.. 



.„j ._i..,j.,. ti... - ....II __ ji. .-.i abuse continued inany yeaijs, to the ruin of chil- 

 dren and destruction of their parents ; and it was 



the poor as well as the rich 



great splendor amon, 

 Jews ? 



Because every guest brings a present, chiefly 

 consisting of plate ; on which account the lower 

 orders are anxious to iijvite as many as possible ; 

 and not unfrequently, when the wedded pair are 

 very poor, these gifts are disposed of immediately, 

 to defray the expense of the feast and assist the 

 young couple in house-keeping. 



The policy of inarrisge in humble life has been 

 thus illustrated by an acute observer: "There 

 are few laborers of either sex, who live to an old 

 age unmarried ; scarcely any, it is said, of tolera. 



only put an end to by the marriage act of 1753. 



JFliy is it customary in some ranks to salute the 

 bride the moment the marriage ceremony is concluded 

 Because of the ancient and nuptial kiss in th 

 church, enjoined by the York aiid Saruin Missals. 

 So in dancing, a kiss was anciently the established 

 fee of a lady's partner. What would the patron- 

 esses of Almacks say to such a custom in these 

 days ? 



liliy does the bride usually wear a veil ? 



Because of its origin in the Anglo-Saxon ctistom 



Young Cleveland, 



THIS truly beautiful and valuable Horse is of the 

 Cleveland hay bieed ol horses, of fine even temper, five 

 years old the 20lh of May, fifteen and a half hands high, 

 and of a beautiful dark bay color, with black mane, tail 

 and legs. 'He walks and trots remarkably easy and fast; 

 and is equalled by very few for .muscular strength, ele- 

 gant movement, and perfect symmetry of form. 



He has proved himself a sure and first rate foal getter. 

 The colts sired by him possess a great share of hone and 

 muscle. 



The pedigree of Young Cleveland : — He was sired by 

 the celebrated bay horse. Sir Isaac, the son of the noted 

 hoisp, Molineux. Sir Isaac was presented to the Agri- 

 cullur'l Society of this State, by Sir Isaac Coflin, and 

 was selected un(!er his order as superior of his breed, and 

 the breed recommended by him as the most highly es- 

 teemed for gentlen.en's carriages, and all draft, larming, 

 and sadille purposes, of any horses in New England. — 

 His dam was a first rate and high spirited native mare. 

 He will stand the ensuing season, at the stable of the sub- 

 scriber, in Franklin. 



Terms : — Three dollars the sinyle leap ; five for the 

 season ; and eight to insure the mare with foal ; the 

 money to be paid when the mares are taken away, ou 

 notes given payable the 1st October next. Those per- 

 sons who put mares to the Yoing Cleveland and have 

 them vparrunted, and part with them before foaling time, 

 or neglect to bring their mares regularly to the horse 

 through the season, will be considered liolden for insu- 

 rance monev. ELI M. RICHARDSON. 



Franklin,'May 30, 1S32. 4t" 



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