The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1843-07-27


i,s osn sSbsirssy wsA :. Ne sols Iul~ ssd
guide Of III IL al sriions;" - og.ss ~ords.
dat sPiIit .hish. Is ssf Fseneh Retuls-
non. eharsrlerz.t tEs tsin. i,.bssplsrrr.
Dsnion. and MaTsL This reckless spl-
~. thsss uodsrD atsufd sslsens nj per-
sSasl rights and eislllsbsny. aud he oui-
rsgssi0 which they have led. hase alrss-
dy struck Severe blos 4 The mersls oi
The people and l.e rsssbIing inslilu.'Ous
Of Amsnra
FOny years sso youth from hfsrea %
twenty ys-ss 81 &c. properly brought
up. would hardly dare 10 pass N evening
Al ns'gLbsI's hrnse wilhout ,ptelsipsI-
mlsslOn Iran their pare..is ~ guardians;
md hey uosid ss soOn Iun lhsir hasds
into the fss 20 give their parents or ~
slrueIers sninsoienlrePly. Whrp thsirI a
rents and ether sduI's we're present. tho.s
youth would conduel IN modest. resp. ca
IUl. and delfrrBi,l manner. looking az 10
them Iof observation-disclosures. Boisn this
!. enlightened age u freedom and indie
Pendenes. esery "spifiled youth il ex-
peoled 10 have his o~n Nay, think and
aet Tor himself. wllhnuI being grsmmeh
led by the loalish obso.stc notions u an
tqasied parents. leaehers. and msgls-
Hases" In this new stats Of " republl-
can simplicity" boys from twelve 10
eighteen years old 60 where they please.
seek What hsunls 81 folly ard wee they
IIesse, snnny and insuI, whom they
Ilssse. and . kick op row" when and
where they please. and i any respectable
citizen rebukes them Tor Any ol their dis
graceful cnnduc,, they turn TO sssail and
denounee him as g al srlslocrslic old iy-
rant" No. one pareal IN Ten 10 our wi
lagrs knows hall lhe time. by dsy or night
where bis boys Of ten. twelve. or fifteen
years old are. or whn.s scIapCs" or siuks
Of lnquiiy they may be N. Aud when
lhese boys are Al home. il asked TO pro.
mote the interests Of The family, ten 20
ne ,ha, they whine and snatl a. he alIeg-
cd hardship, and perhaps utterly refuse.
with offensive and lnsole0l language.
II such boys 90 10 The school or the ly-
ceum. Instead Of behaving with decoran
and moJesiy, and trying 10 lrsrn. their
whole am i 10 or, a,e mischlefana make
as much trouble as they possibly can; and
il the teacher calls one Of them 10 account
for his lawless and insclsnt conduct, some
half dozen Of these young rowjles. back
ed up by their foolish and di-sractful pa
rents, pouncc upon the master, and break
Up or destroy the schonl. We have no
doubt tsst nearly one hundred schools,
lyceums, and other intellectual assemblies,
10 Maine, have been either entirely de-
stroy.d OF greatly injured during the last
twelve months, blythe fully and rowdyism
u such III bred. loa6ug, insulsnt up
stsIis. Aud, wha, adds 10 The evil, is
The feet that there are ~ slmot every
town among The aduI. portion Of sic
community, some envious. little souled
creatures, who, from the must uGwor-
thy motives, will encourage and stimulate
these young despcrators 10 ats Of annoy
ance aud slllary tossrds the advocates u
social order.
Look al The villlge broils. the midnigh,
carous lis, the riots and the mobs which
have so frequently occurred within the
last fifteen years, IN almost every port on
of the Union. Think Of the licen,lous
indulgencies, the prostfsled hot Is, the
sulfe, iumult, and angui.h in the dunss-
tic circle, aud The pern,clous inauencrsap.
on the jury and ballot boxes, and upon all
the diversified interest oil society, which
haye,te.ulled, and musticoutinue TO resu I.
from The CRIMINAL and suicidal neglect OF
parents to bring up their chilirea in The
way they should co."
Who Is so blind as not 10 perceive that
Il something is mol speedily done TO arrest
the downward tendency ui this sad state
OF things, The days Of the Republic mus'
soon be numbered! This 10 just as OBJ
yious as ,ha, water will run down hill in
search of level. It's most unaccounla-
BILE. that parents OF goud sense and sound
ludg nent on most subjects. and who Iea
div admit the existence oil this alarming
evil. aud the general duty Of parental 80.
ye,nment, should fold their arms, look
o.. and do nothing 10 save either their
offspring OF theit county from impending
iniL!