Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-01-10
DuTIES OF PARENTS.

Why are cases so frequent in which the chill
dren of virtuous parents grow up vicious and
abandoned There are many nice and delicate
adjustments necessary TO secure the highest and
best results in the education Of child, but the
nrinciples necessary for tolerable success must
be few and simple. There are two which we
wish we had voice loud enough to thunder
in the ears Of every parent in the country the
breach of one or the other of which will explain
almost every case Of gross failure on the part
of yirtuous parents which we have ever known.
They are these:
/. Keep your children from bad company.
g. Make them obey you.
Habits of characterization at home, and the
company of bad boys abroad, are the Two great
sources Of evil, which under so much Of what
moral and religious instruction might otherwise
effect What folly to think that boy can play
with the proiane, impure, passionate boys
which herd in the street six days in the week,
and have the stains all wiped away by being
compelled 10 learn his Sunday school lesson on
the seventh; or that children that make the
kitchen or the nursery scenes OF riot and noise
from the age of three TO eight years, VIII be
prepared for anything in after life but to carry
the spirit of insubordination and riot wherever
thew NAV 90. No children must be taken
care off. They must be governed at home,
and kept from communicating influences abroad
or they may be ruined. II parents ask, how
shall we make our children obey we answer
lust the easiest and peasentest way you can
but at all events make them obey. you ask
how shall we keep our boys from bad company
We answer too in the easiest and pleasantes'
way YOU can, but at all events, il in the city
Keen them out of the streets; and wherever you
are, Keep them from bad company The al
Tentative it seems to us, is as clear and decided
as any which circumstances ever made up io
man; you must govern your children, and keel
tba ,taFn natiO n
YOU must expect to spend your old age il
j. abbott
We propose the SlSuery party as new
name for the Aboitionists to rally under here
after, as they have distinguished themselves s.
nobly in the late contest in the cause oil tn
Southern STAKEHOLDER. They have secured Z
them that which, without their aid, they coul
never have obtained. They have rveted up
on the poor slaves, chains which time alon
can sunder, and made themselves responsible
for thesconsequences. Shame on such liberty
Such sympathy for the slave as the Aboltio
party have manifested, in giving to the Soul
The power to extend and iortify the curse
slavery, and thus set the chance OF abolishIn
that system by the true friends OF liberty iol
ever at defiance. They are the worst SLAYER
party which the North have to contend will
and they should not be thus permitted, undt
the name of Liberty, TO commit such HEAVIER
daring acts as they have done in the late COZ
test for freedom. They are the slavery part
ofthe North, and they should go by that nam'
New Hauen HerGId
go
amherst ColLeee.--The Trustees of Amherst Co
Iege have appointed Rev Edward Hitchcock, ii
D., 10 be President Of that institution, and also pr
fessor of Natural Theology aud Geology The
have also appointed Prof. Charles U Shepard 10
p1Af.ssnrf ~ Ne ,niairv and Natural History.