Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-06-12
|sionlI sowt,s u diseord, Who from envy

|tnilleS. and nelghbOurnOOuS, are well N.Y.
las pestileht as thieves and robbers; am
The less they are punishable by civil Law
the more should they be made to feel tina
species Of punishment which public OPT
|.ion in1icts.
Parents and preceptors can hardly u
"a better service for their children. than BY
principling their minds aud fixing Their
,earts against faults so pernicious to SO.
ciety and SO ruinous to character: fault:
which are durable when they first appea
n the young mind, but which grow int
habits by the indulgence Of ne
elect. It is hardly conceivable what
vast sum Of evil might be prevented If the
young were taught as generally and as
carefully in this particular, as they are il.
the first rudiments of learning.
BY those who from habit or fran ten
ger make it their business and delight IL
cry int and publish the failings Of others.
De it remembered, "that at that da,
when the failings of all shall be made ma,
aitest, the attention of each individual
sill be fixed only on his own.''
There is fault, however, directly OPP
,sasite to that Of oficiously modelling with
Lac concerns of our neighbours: / mean
absence of ali heartfelt concern for
4ay but ourselves and our near kin. This
fault, how arifuily soeyer it may be GOV.
cred, springs for the most part from sord-
ID selfshnsss, or from anti-social apathy
IF heart.
.Sesishness, which Is the love Of self
I'D OF every thing else for the sake of
self, has the power OF keeping some per-
sons at vast distance from informed
ding with their neighbors' affairs, for
which they care not a straw any further
than such extraneous affairs have bear
lug upon their own personal interests
So also the cold hearted. in whose bo-
SONS is the perpetual calm OF apathy,
trouble not their neighbors as busy bv-
dies In their matters because they bay
not enough energy of soul either to low,
or to hate in good earnest. Now it ofte'
tails out that some belonging to each oi
rilese two classes value themselves migt
My upon their practical abstraction tron
all concerns but their own, and boast OF
it as if it we're shining virtue. !" We are
not mcddIcrs, not we. 1t is our nanner
to mind OUT own business, and TO lei a.
ather-tolks alone" Nevertheless, if they
would open the folds Of their own hear,s
and observe fairly what is going Oil thers
they would fad that theirnot being mea
dlers is owing to any thing else, rattle.
|than to pure principle OF virtue.
Aad here il is not unimhortant to re-
mark, that it is nc less the purpose an
business Of proper education to ioste.
and encourage the social feelings OF our
nature, than it Is TO eradicate DISPOSE,
ltons Of intrusive medding: for if one
without all warmth of heart any way, be
seldom tempted to become busy body
i'm other mems matters, he as seldom is
much better than mere blank in societ,
dong little mischief, AID as little good.
i'm Imy brothers. Keeper Weknow
who said it. And 50, in manifold instan.
ices, when one is running himself and ia
I,niiy BY the Encouragement oihis affairs,
Or when one betrays the symptoms of all
|,ncipient vice. which, growing into Ia.
bis, Will land him in petdition his neigh
|Dours cooly look on, saying in their
hearts aud to one another, ii is his oarh
Iefair. Mt emplos ing single effort to
save him, though, often. betwizt them
selves, they shake the mead, and remark,
That he is inthe road serum. Perhaps it
Us youth tina, is supposed to have step
lped into this fatal road: young man OF
|yoodly promise, or young women OF
|amiable dispositions, but wanting di>cre
|ticn. perha. IS thai youth is an orphan, &
|errs for lack oil the guiting Land 81 q
parent: tits all the same. Every badly
lis sorry, mighty sorry indeed. but no body
moves the tongue or lifts finger fer tie
purpose of rescue or prevention.
1t is not so that ne act in other re-
lspects. We struggle hard to save tel,
low being thatis drowning before our eyes
Did we see a man stand upon the brink
tof afrightful precipice and unconscious
lof his danger,. doubtless. we would IN
simultaneously give him warning: Hardl.,
(wculd we neglect to snatch even the e,a
ipeisoned bowl from the lips of one that
Imistook the poison for a wholesome be.
lverage, or the knife or razor from the
threat of man or woman ia the act o!
ieommitging suicide. Common humanity
Ewouid impel us to acts of this sort. And
iyet when we see in scarcely less Jeopardy
f. a., E;nIc and oo;vhhniIr an &c.