Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-09-09
From the National .idpocate.

VIcE.-Who the following picture IS
meant for we are unable to say it IS,
doubtless, sketch Of real life, and, we
fear, will apply to more than one person in
our city. Habits of intemperance, we re-
greet to say, are daily gaining strength and
additional votaries. Pleasure beckons,
dazzles and misleads-from step TO step 1t
advances 10 dissipation, poverty and dis
ease. Ifparents will have sufficient firm
ness to accustom their children in early
life to habits of industry-if employment
occupies their time, and their attention is
directed TO useful and creditable pursuits,
we shall see more health, profit and indus
try-we shall find the good effects of tenn
perance and frugality by a radica! reform
in society. Rational amusement TO tighten
labour, is salutary and proper, but wild and
extravagant pleasures-the noise and dis
sipation of the conyivial board--the assem-
blage Of noctural rioters, will ever pave
the way for private misery and public Ca
lamity-wll introduce laxity Of morals
"a poverty Of mind and purse, and de-
graduation Of national character. II true
happiness was an object Of solicitude it
never can be obtained by idleness or dis
sipation and he who respects his country
will endeavour TO respect himself as one of
her citizens and guardians, and do nothing
that may sally the reputation which that
country should possess for temperance, in
dustry and frugality.
Picture GALLERY--No. Portrait
from Raphel.-Awhole length picture OF a
dissipated young man squandering the
wealth of his parents-weaith obtained BY
honest traffic and active industry, who re-
tired to finish, as they thought, the remain
der of their days surrounded by family
whose education bad been their constant
solicitude during their YOUTH, and eager
TO render every service in MATURITY but,
alas how visionary are the fond expecta-
tons of this worthy couple.
The subject Of the present canvass is the
DARLING of his mother, was the PRIDE of
his father-with a handsome person and
good educaton-his time is devoted to the
lowest pursuits-the companion of venall-
ty, avoiding his family (for shame and re-
morse sometimes appals his son )-tEe
SLAVE TO negro hackneymen, for he is ge-
morally in their debt-a FREeUESTER Of
the lowest novels, who make an obligation
of even sheltering him, and boasts that
son of so respectable family should con-
descend to visit their GRoG sHoP--his
name is banded about by the lowest order
of society, with all the freedom of an old
acquaintance, and his talentsare violated by
becoming the amanuensis of the lowest
vestals.
% could he once feel the sleepless nights
and joyless days Of nearly heart broken
mother, her emacia;ed frame already a
prey to his vicious habits, fast verging
to the grave, or see the digniied solicit
(tude of GENEROUS FATHER, then would
he sl.un the company he keeps, return 10
his irdulgent parents ; evince disposition
TO reform then, once more, the paths OF
industrious emulation might be opened,
and he would become what he was intend
ed fora WORTHY Man and Good CT
THEN instead of which, he is now like
the TREE OF UPAs, blasting all around him,
and will shortly make one more in our
weekly OBITUARY, while his abandoned
associates vii! calculate his epitaPh-iLAs!
POOR JAck RAPH.EL.
From the Norfolk Herald.