The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1847-07-03

stores are misunderstanding roll along telling /
of wealth secured-drays drive about IN rapid |
succession telling of wealth to be gained-and |
the busy scene reminds one ola merry workshop |
where each is toiling, .oing for himself, sure Of
enough. and more, than enough to satisfy MS
desires.
Go out into the country. Nature is glad
The trees in the woods--in fields ripening Tor
harves:-anl the sunshine decking them out IN
natures beauty. speak only of harmony. And
they who toll The smell of the fresh uP-turn-
ed earth, and its cultivated appearance a. Piow
or no, perccs il, AMI the steady, earnest Walk
Of tn. labor he pursucs his task, REMIND
us simply Of healthy exercise and manly EN-
poymeut There il ever sign of abuniance.-
Uappines- would seem to be the lot of all.
But far beyond this surface view of city or
country, if we enter into allies AMI by-PiaceS,
and lif, the novels of the poor and the vicious,
the ignorant and the degraded, then we SHAH
know that there is everywhere human wan
| and human misery. Aye, ami We shall ind
al th, in sight of the very things which
remind Us Of wealth, Successful business,
and we'll paid labor, ami beneath that sun
shine by which all ia lit up in beauty, and
nature made to chsunt forth in sweet harmony,
her glorious anthem.
| IL il no, long since that We had in the Louis
vile Journal article written by good and
earnest sprit-which told of misery among ms that
we dreamed not of-misery of the deepest, dark
est character. There are, it is supposed, seven
thou .and children in Louisville. These are ac-
counted for as follows
Returned last year as attending common
| Schools 2,a65
Say. ATTENDING private Schools 500
1855
Suppose 800 more attend our common Schools
this year--snd that twelve hundred "a large cal
lculation) are instructed at home, We have our
'rO thousand boys and girls among ua ragged,
filthy, uncarei for every way, and running to
riot in every excess. What wonder" asks =.
- if .hey are vicious. obscene, profane. violent
What wonder if they lie, steal, fire buildings,
and engage in every species of wickeiness =
How it can be otherwise ~ Ave. hour can ii
. |
know they are degraded. and Prov. about Of
nights for food or fun. Want. baggard wants,
peers out through their raggei AMI filthy
clothes, aud their very countenances are stamp
ed over with the expression of fraud and fear
They have no hope. no childhood. They ara
outcssts ami civilization. Yet educate these
bOys-let them know their duty, instruct them
in religion. quicken ami direct their consciences
and they will DO well. Continues L. of TN,
Louisville Journal.
But let us follow them 10 their homes. W hal
= is their condition there Facts shall answer
' g In collecting scholars" SAYS teacher in on,
n of our suburb Sunday schools. 4" entered Oh,
house where the mother Law drunk on the foo
u with her child playing about her"
. - In the next house both parents Law in a SIM
/. liar condition, while their children were wan
i drring in the Street
some little hoy wept as though his hear
d would break, when pointed al BY his companion,
as the child of Il miserable wretch who had Jus
been brou.h, home in Il cart too drunk 10 he'll
herself out
\ gentleman on Main street was requested 10y
2 a woman TO come and bury her husband. VIII,
f had Just deceased. tie gave her money TO pro
, cure articles necessary for the burial. and soor
y after followed her 10 her house. On entering h.
d found the dead man stretched on the floor anC
the wife 81 far intoxicated that in attempting Il
q. walk she fell PROSTATE upon thu corpse Of he
husband.
The children We're playing about the room
: as though nothing unusual had happened
5 In another part of the city Il hoy, covered witt
. rags, or rather partially covered. begged 10 b.
removed from the tyranny of his parents an,
: placed where he could be fed and decent!y clothed
= These examples might be multiplied Indefinitely
!, but will refer TO only one other flmily wa
found on the bank ot the river in the depth o
IL winter with no other shelter than few plank
\ laid over Il log. The children. three in number
~ were barc-iooted and almost naked. though III
: weather was extremely cold. Their misery wa
= caused by iniemperancc.
Does not humanity. does not Justice G-man
e that children should be removed from the ruin
y, Gus influence Of such brutal parents
But what shall Ice done We have no plac
l. for them were they removed. \ number O
Is children are every year committed 10 the work
i house with their parents, no; because they ar
guilty Of any crime but because there is no othe
u place for them.
ID In Prussia. the government. which imprison
is the parent, takes of and cducates the chill
drcn. but with the unofending child Is cas-
into the same prison with the guilty parent an
" there made acompanon Of the prof,n. and dis
re- Our city has. for Years. licensed establishment,
, TO make drunkards. Ought she not 10 prcvid
% for the children of those drunkarels ?
Id She has spent her tens and hundred of thou
10 sands for the detection and punishment of crime
> but how little has she done for its prevention
Were il not wiser to begin at the foundatio
l. of the evil, 10 lay the at the root Of the tire
+ instead of the outer branches
"A We have city farm of one hundred acres,
small portion of which il occupied ard used b
the work house to what better purpose coul
ID the remainder be appropriated than to a farm
e. school for boys Of the class above described ,
=, There is an excellent quarry on the place. whic
is wrought by the inmates of the work house 8
~ that suitable buildings could be erected with yer
Of little expense.
IN VIII not our city council give attention 10 tn
matter Shall these children be suffered
Is grow mature in vice and become the scourge {
nj the community. when few hundred or u few
,e thousand dollars ludicious!y expended would res
:. cue them from their present degradation and RI
|, turn many of them TO society useful and res
ld pcctable citizens
O. II so whose l. the fault
~ Let those reply who have it in their power
remedy the cvil.''
= Aye, le, them . For destiny is upon the han
of these children. They are chained down I
crime. and cannot help themselves. They al
bound "a much now. as in prison cells whe
ironedas felons. Then who can reach Them ougl
TO do 20. The God who made US never rnca,
" that any of his creatures should be 80 deep-s
in villainy.