Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1832-06-21


An Act in addition to ana entitled San Act for
I the regulation Of Civil Actions.
Be 1t enacted, &c. That the Chief Judge Of each
county court in this State be. and he is hereby aa-
thorized and empowered to allow and sign wrs 81 err
ror brought for reversing the Judgments of county
COURTS city courts justices Of the peace ln the
same manner the judges Of the superior court are
now authorized to do.
May 22d, 1332-Approved.
Dangers and Ielpptations Of Young
Men.-That very susceptibility ofearthly
enjoyment, which So strongly marks the
period of youth, exposes the heart to the
power of temptations. In youth, the feel
,ings predominant over the judgment. I'm
apprised of danger and delighted with the
objects that every where court hiseyo, the
young man is exposed to the insidious rep
tile that lies coiled. in concealment, and
sees not the lure that is spread for his de-
struction. Hesis alive to every new i'm
preston, and throws open his arms in I'M
suspecting confidence to every plausible
companion.
While such youthful enthusiasm and
generosity are worthy of admiration, they
are also the groundwork upon which the
practical enemies Of hispeace, whether in-
visible or embodied spirits, build their hope
of seducing and destroying him. They
know that he is alive to pleasure, andsthey
mingle their cup and spread their feast for
his enjoyment. They are aware that he is
unsuspecting, and with apparent generosi-
ty, they prof1er him their aid.
Many a youth, bright with hope and unr
sulied in character, has parted from the en-
brace. of his parents to mingle in the busy
scenes of life and left at the parenta
threshold, all the happiness he was everte
enjoy. Tho tear that fell on his cheel
may have betrayed mothers anxiety
but the self-confdent youth has ascribedj
10 no apprehension Of danger, because hi.
But this very confidence becomes the oc-
casion Of his ruin. The insidious Zoe
knows how TO accommodate his young
mind, and graduates the degree Of tempta-
ton to the advance which he has made,
and the facility with which he has yielded
himself up an unapprised, yet voluntary
victim.
From pleasures which may be termed
innocent, to those deeply criminal. there
is an approximationgwhich is not the less
fatal because it is gradaal and unperceiyed,
There is a sort of shading of, in this crim-
inal process Of seduction, that keeps the
mind inattentive to its progress from COM
parativo innocence TO The dark and deep
ening colors of guilt. That which, if pre-
sented in the early stages of his career,
would startle the young mind with horror,
finds, after aggravated Temptations have
gradually weakened his moral powers, an
unresistible and easy entrance to his heart.
There will sometimes flash upon him re-
collection of his former reciitude.
An instructive comparison between what
he now is and what he once was, will for
moment take possession OF his thoughts.
The steps of his downward progress, he
may not discern; but the, extremes will
often strike the soul like The kneIl Of de-
parted happiness. So
tits, therefore, evident that there is dam
ger in young man, who, without the SAFE
guard of fixed religious character, plung-
es into the promiscuous scenes Of life
The danger, generally, Is not that he will
at once abandon himself 70 sinful pleasures.
This may, and often does take place.
Where there had been no previous atten-
ton given TO his morals, and no prayerful
and assiduous efforts to tx in his mind the
couu,eraciing influence Of religious princi-
pie, the youth makes rapid strides in guilt,
and soon transcends the limits Of deconcy
and sobriety. There is, in such one,
scarcely the show of resistance 90 tempia-
ton. He capitulates at once. Most pa
rents feel, If on no other subject connect
ed with religion, something at least of the
pressure of parental obligation, and en-
deavor &c guard their offspring from indo-
[ Ience and vice. Those who have the faith
ofths gospel, feel this pressure. m pecul-
lar and powerful degree. II viii often
start their, tears and heave their anxious
hosons They cannot faii n eonneef with