Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-09-06
From The Ncwarii Uliiy Advertiser.
YOIR CHILDREN.

!es me sly word TO you ahqu: i'iinIy gov-
crnmcai. We good people O! America, in
our race for sell: government, arc IN danger
ornot governing ourselves. Oar lads grow
| up insubonin3lc: finding ou', 10 Our and
| heir cost. TIA, sit is free country" An
| English ;ra, elIor could find no boys in tic
United States; all being children or men,
The evil is undeniable on the increase
Parents are abandoning the reins; and
when once this shall have become universal.
all sorts Of government but dcspo;l IN will
be impraciicable.
Take that forward child in hai.:lat once,
or vou will soon have to be his suppl.an..
rather than his guide The old way was
perhaps TOO rugged, where every thing was
accomplished oy mere dnt of authority; bu:
! tic new way is as bad on the other side no
man is reduced tol The Necessity OF choosing
an extreme.
We often visit houses where tic parents
seem to be mere advisory atlcncan.s. with
painful sncct:re. Let SIGH bear the words
of a wise congress man OF New Jcrsy, and
signcr OF the Declaration. "1here is no.;
more disgusting sight than the important
rage Of parent who has 10 authority
Among tic lower ranks OF people, who are
under no restraints from deceucy, you may
sometimes see faher or mother running
out into the street after child who is fled
from them, with looks Of fury and words Of
cxccration, and they are often stupid
enough to Imagine ;hat ncighaors or pas
scnsers will approve them in their conduct,
though in fact it fills every bcholdcr with
horror" | am afraid none Of US need
90 many rods from home to witness the
like. What is commonly administered as
reproor is often worse than nothing
Seeding r2bukes are like scalding portions;
they isure the patent. And angry chas-
,iscment is little. better than oil on the fire.
Not long since was passing by the rail
road from Newark to New York. The
train OF cars pursued its furious way imme-
dia;clv by the door Of a low "s;lanty," from
which a small child innoccnlly issued,
and crossed the track before us Just in time
to escape being chrushed by the locomotive.
We all looked out with studdcriig, when
| 10. the sturdy mnlller, more full OF anger
than alarm, strobe forth. and seizing the
poor inf;tn:, which had strayed only in con-
sequence Other own negligence gave it a
summary and violent correction. Infer
encc: parents ofcn deserve tie strokes they
give.
Explicit obedience-and that without
question, expostulation, or de!ay-is the
Keystone of the family arch. This is per-
fec,ly consistent with TIC utmost affection,
and should be enforced from the beginning,
and absolutely. The philosopher whom
cited above, says Of parental authority: 81
would have it early that it may be absolute,
and absolute that it may not be serere.-
1t holds universally in families and schools;
and even the greater bodies OF men, the
army and navy; laat those who keep the
strctest discipline give the tewest Strokes
Some parents seem 10 imagine that their fal-
lures in this kind arise from the want Of a
certain mysterious knack, Of which they
conceive themselves 10 be destitute. There
is such knack; but it is as much wi;hld
reach as The knack Of driving a horse and
chaise, or handling knife and fork, ann
will never be got by yawning over it.
Not only love your children, but. show
that YOU love them; no; by merely [olid!ing
and kissing them, but by being always
open to their approaches. Here is man
who drives his children out of his shop
because they pester him; here is another
who Is always too busy to give them a good
word. Now would gladly learn ofthese
pcnny-wse and pound. foolish fathers, what
work they expect ever 10 turn out which
shall equal in importance the chl'dr"a who
are now taking their mould ior HE: Hap
less IS that child which is forced TO seek for
companions more accessible and winning
than It's father or lis mother.