The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-08-19
Extracts from W5liiam Co5betPs
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN, &c

.J AiNSu III your Lnlnu, tnet you have no
Iight TO 1--we IN this world, that, being of
haie BODY and sound mind, you have no
right to an earthly existence without doinp
,Uork of some sort or other. unless Won have
ample fortune whereon to live clear of debt:
| and that, even in that case, YOU have no
right to breed children to be kept by others.
or 10 be exposed to the chance of being so
kept Start with this conviction thoroughly
implanted in your mind, to wish TO live OF,
the labor of others, is, besides the folly Of
it, to contemplate fraud at the least, and
under circumstances, to mediate oppression
and robbery.
suppose you in the middle rank of life.
Happiness ought to be your great object.
and it is to be found only in Independence.
Turn your back on Whitehall and on Som
erset House; leave the customs and excise
success to favor, to Partially, to friendship,
or to what is called interest; write il on
your hearts, that you will depend solely ON
your own merit and your own exertions.
The great source of independence the
French express in precept Of three words,
+" Trre de Peu," which have always very
much admired. "7o live upon little" is the
great security against slavery; and this
precept extends to dress and other things,
besides food and drink.
Endless are the instances Of men of
bright parts and high spirit having been, by
degrees, rendered powerless and despica-
bic by their imaginary wants. Seldom has
there been man with faiTer prospect Of
accomplishing great things and of acquir-
ing lasting renown than Charles Fox; he
had great talents of the most popular sort
the times were singularly favorable to an
exertion of them with success a large part
of the nation admired him and were his
partizans he had, as to the great question
between him and his rival (Pitt) reason and
justice clearly on his sides but be had
against him bis squandering and luxurious
habits: this made him dependant on the
rich part of his partizans made his wisdom
subservient to opulent folly or selishness
deprived his country of all the benefit that
it might have derived from his talents; aud
finally, sent him to the grave without sim
gle sigh from people, great part of whom
would, in his earlier years, have wept at
his death as national calamity.
A great misfortune of the present day is,
that every one is, in his own estimate, rails
ed above has real state Of life EVERY one
seems to think himself entitled, if not TO
title and great estate, at least 10 iVe s0ithsut
tcork. This mischievous, this most destruc-
tive way of thinking has indeed been pro-
duced, like almost all other evils, by the
acts of our septennial and unreformed Par
iiament. That body, by its acts, has caused
an enormous debt TO be created, in conse-
quence, a prodigious sum TO be raised an
nually In taxes. IL has caused by these
means a race of loan-mongers and stock
jobbers to arise. These carry on species
Of gaming, by which some make fortunes
m day, and others in day become beg
gars.
Tho words speculate and speculation have
been substituted for gamble and gambling.
The hatefulness of the pursuit is thus taken
away; and, while taxes to the amount Of
more than double the whole of the rental Of
the kingdom; while these cause such
crowds Of idlers, every one of whom calls
himself gentleman, and avoids the appear
ance of working for his bread.
In spite of every art made use of to avoid
labor, the taxes will, after all, maintain so
many idlers. We cannot all be |" knights"
and "gentlemen J" there must be a large
part of US, after all, TO make and mend
clothes and houses, and carry on trade and
commerce, and, in spite Of ell we can do,
the far greater part of US must actually
tcOrk at something; for unless we can get
at some ofthe taxes, we fall under the SEN
tence of the holy writ.
A young man, some years ago, offered
himself to me, on particular occasion, us
an amGnuenStS, for which he appeared to
be perfectly qualified. The terms were
settled, and l, who wanted the job despatch
ed, requested him to sit down and begin,
but he, looking out of the window, whence
he could see the church clock, said, some
what hastily, 81 cannot stop noio, sir,
must go to dinner" "Oh," said |, "you
must go to dinner, must you? Let the din
ner, which you mast wait upon to-day, have
your constant services, then; for you and
shall never agree" He had told mo that
he was in great distress for want of employ
ment; and yet, when relief was there be-
fore his eyes, he could forego ii for the
sake of getting at his eating and drinking
three or four hours, perhaps, sooner than
should have thought it right for him to
leave of work.
The most confirmed dFunkard We ever know,
was an old man in tho land of pumpkins, who
possessed the greatest OF all possible adherence
for " contemporaries" Having drank nine
mugs of cider at neighbors house one even
ing, he concluded TO leave off in a pure denial
by taking another. al believe, neighbor IT,"
says old Guzzlefunetion, that III take anoth.
or draft of your cider--I do like good cider 40
we'll as any body, but as for swilling it down, a.
some people do, never could!'
Camdex Is. CO. Journal.
| The word "coekney" ID The appellation Of
those cts of London who were never out Of the
sound of ST. Pauls clock, or Bow bell It's
origin has boon thus explained: A Londones,
taking his SON on a first excursion from home,
the lad happened TO hear horse neigh, aSound
| quito new TO him, and hastily exclaimed, How