The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-10-06
Eegin Right.

Are you Just STEPPING on the thro shold Of
lie! Secure good moral chacter. With
ont virtue you cannot be respected without
Integrity can never rise 10 distinction and
honor lon are poor, perhaps. No matter;
poverty is oftener a blessing than a curse.
Look at the young man who Is heir TO half
a million. What is his standing? Ofwhat
use is he TO the world? You must make
yourself The richest man in Maine was
born OF poor parents. and earned by hard
work the first dollar he ever owned. The
wc8lthiC>t man in Massachusetts was born
IN North Yarmouth, a small town in Maine,
Of parents who were in humble ciIcuiustan-
ceS. BY Industry and economy he has be-
come immensely rich. The woalthicst man
in New York, and the richest man in Amer
Ca. was also poor boy. The road 10
wealth lies open be'mc you, young man,
But remember wcaltl j. not everything in
H!e-itis not mans chief good. A viItu-
0uS character /, better than riches. En-
pCct not success where firm integrity is
wanted. Shape your course 10y true wis
dom, and let correct principles govern your
action. ia this way cnly. you will gainthc
confidence end respect OF mankind. You
know many wealthy man perhaps, who is
di>pi>cd by his fellow. citizens. Why is il
50? On account of III, niaeardly diSp0si-
t.on-hi> lack Of upright dealings aud ro-
bust principle lie makes himself obnoxious
To his uCghborS, by his mean behaviour and
grovclIiug character. You had better live
in poverty than initiate such person.
Riches, with Gc>liution of moral printi-
/ pie, would be only curse TO yuu.
There is nothing Ike making n good be-
ginning a. you start in life. The foundation
must be firm, then all viii be safe. Have
an eye about You that nothing shall seduce
your yIltuc no matter how strong the in
duccmcut hclI out For your countcnamce.-
|! you see thi, principle is Involved, do not
for iGht hand persist in wrong doin. Pre-
sent gain, at the sacrifice of virtue. will be
future loss and misery. Tens or Thousands
have ruined themselves by such course.
BE extremely careful tu be gin right, and do
duty carefully, and YOU will most a>Surcdy
Succccd.-Joia Nca!.
limos! Too HorGJlc for B,liG.-ror alb.
lCCl misery and dcgraliun. the following
which we copy from the \. Y. Sun, exceeds
anything of tie kind that we have seen or
read for nany, many years:
On Tuesday night last. MesSrS. Swccry
and Gillespie, two oGthc Sixth Ward police
officers. discovered at No. lCO, Anthony
street, a more loath,umc scene than is often
met with IN that sink crvice. wr,tchcdness,
and dcbaScntu;, the Five Points. a boy
Il eleven years Of age lay in one corner
9th room, apparently in the agonics Of
death. lie and two other children, who
were sitting "u the floor sucking Gin from
an Old root beer bottle, were almost naked
and literally covered with vcrRiiu. The
miserable mother Cn the entrance OF the
officers. tiled 20 hide hcr>Vllbehind the door
bat was too drunk Ia stand still. When She
reclcd back it was discovered that she was
without Il particle Of dress, except all old
pair ul slippers No bed, no chair, no cook
ing u'cu>rlS, aud no sigus of food were Wis
ibc IN tie place. Sick at seeing so much
want @ud dcgratiOu, the Ollie CTS retired and
reported the case TO Captain Magnes, who
repaired 90 the spot, aud with lis usual be-
nrvulcncc. had the poor creatures promptly
cared Tor, preparatory TO their being sen, To
D'ackwcll'S Island as vnglants.
Elder Knapp is abou, to take up his resi-.
hcncc at the West. In an advertisement
Offering for sale Lis house he says:
"lhc misunderstanding house ofJacob
Knapp in the village of Hamilton, n. York,
together with ten acres Of land on which
the house stands, viii he sold low, as he is
abou, ia locate his fomily in Illinois. that he
may he nearer the centre of his parish,
which extends from ,hc shores oi the AtlaD-
tic TO the shores Of Oregon, and from the
rivers to the ends of the earth"