The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-08-31
labor. YOU share none Of his risk or respon.

frequently kept awake by care and anxiety
to provide for your wants as well as his own
While you 60 on smoothly at home, he is
frequently called abroad TO travel through
| stormy seasons on troublesome and per-
picking business. If then at some times
he do not prove to you os kind as at others,
or do not fulfil at all times all that your too
ardent feelings, perhaps may lead you TO
expect; 30 long az his conduct towards you
cannot be construed into wilful neglect Of
the care and protection be is bound to ex-
tend to you, it would i'll become you to
break out in disobedience, and disgrace
yourselves, by unruly behavior In no case
indeed ought you thus to disgrace your
selves. But in all unhappy differences that
arise between you, resolve that if he forget
his duty you will not forget yours that you
will, by the calm dignity Of your deport-
ment your patience under suffering, con-
vince him that you morit bett er treatment
than cold neglect or tyrannical abuse and
If this magnanImity on your part do not a.
waken him TO 4 sense Of Justice, let your
last appeal be TO that law which is the com.
mon protector Of the high and the low, the
bond and free that law which contains
within rs ample provisions shield for ev-
cry right, a remedy for every wrong that
law which is the pride and glory Of our
country, 10 purchase which your tender
mothers have full often gone weeping to
the lonely pillow, while your gallant fathers
went forth to conquer or perish in the field.
To your masters it might be deemed inn
pertinent to address myself on this occasion,
as my business here seems 10 be exclusive
ly with you. But / may be permitted TO
say, that 80 long as you shall perform your
duty TO them, have too much confidence
in their virtue and good sense to suspect
them of bad faith towards you; For osllous
indeed must be the man to every just and
noble sentiment, who viii not cherish by
kindness and affection the virtuous youth
who studies to excel in hs pursuits, and to
discharge with fidelity all his obligations.
Let me warn you against an error, which
too many apprentices fall into, who conceive
that from the moment they are lndented,
their parents have no further claims upon
them. 1t 10 true indeed that the parent
cannot claim any thing which is due TO The
master. But 6lial piety and affections are
ties Of nature which DO artificial or aiven.
ttious ties can sever. Continue, therefore
not only TO love, but to cherish, if requisite
80 far as you can do so, your Iender ana az
ieotionate parents and the more especially,
# they are laboring under age and inhrmi-
ty, and cast into the vale Of poverty. Give
Oll the succor in your power 10 their wants,
soothe their declining years, and their in
frmities, by acts Of gratitude and kindness:
And beware if you would kiDde against
you the wrath of your eternal Judge, in the
great day of account, how you adopt any
of conduct that shall wiring their a.
ged hearts with anguish, and precipitate
their grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.
o never let it be said of you, that you
have with paricidal insensibility dissolved
the tics of filial affection; that you have
barbarously and wickedly
Stcopd a mothers couch in tears,
And nngd fathers glowing check with
shame"
But rather let me anticipate, as ! do with
emotions inexpressble, indcscribable, that
you vii! no, only never disturb the peace
Of fathers mind, but that your mothers
shall realize the bright copsohng picture Of
he sweet Poet of Hope:
"Lo, at the couch where infant beauty sleeps,
Her sllunt watch the mourntul mother keeps,
She while tho lovely babe unconscious hes,
Smiles on her slumbring child with pensive
eyes,
And weaves a song OF melancholy JOY -
Sleep, image of thy father, sleep, my boy:
No lingering hour of sorrow shall be thine,
No Sigh that rends thy fathers heart and NINE; !
Bright as his manly sire, the son shall bo
In form and soul bat, ah moro blest than he
Thy fame, thy worth, thy hbal love, at last, |
Shall sootl'e this aching heart Tor al the past I
With many a smile my solitude repSy,
And chase the worIdsungenerous scorn away /
And say, when summoned from the world and /
thee,
lay my head beneath tho willow tree,
Wit ihJR, sweet mourner, at my stone appear /
And soothc my parted spirit lingering near /
oh wilt thou come, al evening honr to shed /
The tears Of memory oor my narrow bod,
With aching temples on thy hand reeline5,
Muse on the last farewell leave behind,
Breathe deep sigh To winds tha, murmur low, /
And think Of al my love, and all my woe 2"