Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-07-10

green grass as aver crow flew over,
and that week we made 60 pounds
for market. which proved to our sa-
tisfaction. that it is middling good
economy these times. With respect,
&c. b. u.
OBSERVATIONS ON CRUELTY.
The following "Observations on
Cruelty" are extracted from the A
merican Monthly Magazine, and fur
nish just aud impressive lesson to
parents, in the education OF their Off
spring. which cannot,be too fully in
cuicated:
"Like other evils to which human
nature is prone, We may impute the
crime Of cruelty, to errors OF educa-
tioa. 1t does not spring up at once,
IT grows with our growth. Ever too
ready to temporize with our own
faults, and to SEQ quickly the faults
of others. cruelty grows out OF inJus-
tice, and we soon learn to give pam
without compuDction.
"The infant who is allowed to kill
aies for his amusement. will In boy
hood rob birds nests, worry animals.
and tyrannize over his school, fellows.
The guardians Of childhood cannot
at too early an age, check the small
cot pronensity to seek pleasure by
occasioning pain or Inconvenience to
any sensitive being. No Slap given
to nurse that SHE may pretend to
cry to please the chuckling bate, nor
stick given into infant hands to
strike the unoffeDding dog. or beat
naughty puss, bit tends to harden
an infant heart. Above all things,
cruel sights should be kept from the
eyes of children. The bleeding lamb
under The butchers knife, the chick
ems that have eaten the crumbs from
his infant hands, should not fiutter
in convulsive death before his eyes.
Such scenes may lead him on to view
without dismay the timorous hare,
broken beneath the fangs of the iufu-
riate dogs; to watch the big round
tear roll down the Checks of the hunt
7ed stag, his sleathern sides swelled
almost to bursting,' may fit the
young spirit to find delight in all the
cruelties of field sports. He may a.
droitly fix the live bait upon the tor
turing hook, and smile to see his
unsuspecting victim play round the
treacherous lure, and with dexteri.
ty worthy of Tiger or a Roman
emperor, may daily with his poor
entangled captive, uHtil grown wea-
ry, he tears the murderous weapon
from his vitals, and throws him
bleeding and dying at his feet
These, and such sports as these, are
excellent lessons to engraft cruelty OH
the young heart, before the uniform
cd mind has felt the generous charm
ofmercy. And still these trespasses
on humanity are allowed as innocent
pleasures; they are not at once dis
covered as acts of necessitous man to
supply himself with allotted food, but
they are soon introduced to the plas.
tic mind as wanton sports; and the
boy feels it a lordly right to teaze. to
kill, and to destroy. In older
growth he is allowed to see dog fights,
BULL fights, and under the specious
term of the art of self-defeuce,' he
is initiated into all the mystic rules
of pugilism. and consequently at
tends boxing matches, where he may
with the very quintessence of brutal
delight, watch death blows dealt by
two human beings, whose personal
courage is sacrificed at the shrine of
cruelty. for the amusement of re-
fined multitude.
Women less courted than formerly.
A few centuries ago women were
scarcely accessible, but shut up in
houses and castles, living retired
from the hustle Of the world. When
they deigned to show themselves, they
were approached as diviRes. A tran
sient view of them often set the heart
ON fire; and their smiles conferred a
happiness, and raised an enthusiast
tic ardor, of which at this period we
can hardly form an idea. BY de-