The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-05-15

siss before us. The following is the title;
"A EEw THoreHTs FoR A FOUNe NAN:
Lecture delivered before the Boston Mercan
tile Library Association, on its 2e'h Anrl-
VsIssry: By HORAcE MANN"
Afies showing how young men destroy
Iheit bodily OtesOs BY gsrnaRd'zing and ia
temperance ID ssseraL. he says'- Star Of
ne West.
Let she yonns man, then, remember, that
for every cfence which he Commits ngninS'
She laws Of health, nature will bring him in'
10 Judgment However graciousIy God may
deal with the heart, al our experience proves
aAat lie never Par1ons stomach, muselss,
lungs, or bIain. These must expiatc their
offences ~ vieariossly. Nay, there are nu
anereds and obvious cases Of violated physical
law, whsre nature, with all her diligence and
severity, seems unable 10 scourge the ofFen~
der enough during his lifetime, and so she
goes on plying her scourge upon his childEen
And his childrea's chiIden after him, even TO
the third and fourth generation. The pua-
sshmept is entailed OIL rostefity ner human
law, 1SS human device can break the entail
meni. And in these hereditary inHiclons,
nature abhors alike the premogeni.ure laws
Of England and the Sllic laws Of france -
All the sons and all The daughters ate made
ihherltorsj mol ia ailquot parts; but, by kind
iOf malignant multiplication in The dis.emper,
zach inherits the whole.
ask tho young man then, who is Just for
ming his habits Of life, or just beginning 10
indulge those habiual trains Of thought oul
ef which habits grow, to look round him and
mark tho examples whose fortune he would
&oVei, or whose tate he would abhor Even
as we walk the streets, we meet with exhj-
Nis;oAs Of each extreme. Here, behold n
patsiarch, whose stock Of vgor three score
Sears and ten seem hardly to have impaired
His erect form, his firm step, his elastic
Simbs, and uhaimmed senses, are so many
certificates of good conduC': or, rather, SO
many iewells and orders Of nobility with
$hica nature has honored him Cor his fidelity
10 her laws. His fair complexion shows that
his blood has never been corrupted; his pure
breath. that he has never yielded his dges-
tige apparatus for Fintel's cess pool; his
O3aet language and keen apprehension, that
Bis btaiti has never been drugged or Stupidsd
by tho posons of dislilier or tobaccoRisl. -
Enjoying his appetites 10 the highest, he has
preserved the power Of enjoying thom -
Despite the neral of the school boys story,
~ has ealen his cake and still kept il. AS
he drains the cup Of life, there are no lees at
the bottom. Ills organs will reach the gaoI
Il existence together. Panessly as can.
siIe burns down in lis socket, so will he ex-
A-:....,J lif,Ia inn. pin q tinu u,oul,I copvor,
him into another Enoch, translated from earth
~ better world without the sting of death
Blu: look at an opposite exitcme, where an
opposite history is recorded What wreck
10 shocking 10 behold as n wreck OF dsso
eute man; the ygor Of life exhausted, and
pes she 6tsl steps in an honorable career moi
sel iakeh, in himself luzar>house of disease; !;
Head, but, by heathehist custom Of society,
hol bssrried! Rogues have had the initial
letter OF their tiiie burnt into lne palms Of
sheir hands; even for murder, Cain was only
fjraRded on the forehead; but over the whole
person Of the debauchee or the inebriale, the
Aignatures OF nfamy nre written. How ma
Rure brands him with stigma and opprobrium!
How she hangs labels all over him, to testify
Aer disgust at his existence, and to adrionish
0,hess 10 beware Of his example! flow she
Acoseas ak he joinls, sends ttemors along his
anuscles, and bends forward his lrame, as If 10
srlng him upon all fours with kindred blutes.
"r 10 degrade him to the reptiles crawling!
How Fhs disGgures his countenance, is if
intent ppon obIiteraling oil traces of her own
snagei How she pcuTs rheun. over his eyes,
sends foul spirits to nliabit his breath, and
Nhrieks, as with trumpet, from every pore
II his body, "EEuoLD BEAsr!'
Such man may be seen in the streets Of
~ur cities every day; if rich enough, he may
ne fouhd in the saloons, and at the tables Of
the "Upper Ten;" but surely 10 every man
II purity ana honor, 10 every man whose
Wissom rs we'll as whose heart is nnblemsb
ed, tho wretch who comes blee ling from the
2illOry. and redolent with its appropriate per-
fumes, woald be guest or a companion far
hess offensive and disgusting.
Now let the young man rejoice in his
Ananly proportions, and his comeliness, look
IN this picture, and on this, ind then say, Of
,cr he likeAess of which model he intends
rs own eract stature and subIim, counte-
rance shnII be conSgured.
What a truthful representation! Let il not
hs forgotten by young OF by old.
Referring to some Of the evils Of money
ahe author adds these observations, the truth
pf @hich ne observing man can doubt.
All above fortune is usually the creates,
VI rnisforiubes 10 children. By taking away
The stimulus 10 effort, and, especially, by ta>
Aing away the restraints from indulgence; il
akes the muscles out Of The limbs, the lrain
nut af llrs head, and virtue Out of The hoari
TITs satiae youas man, who, with moderate
fortune, nigh, retain The full vigor of bis sys-
lem till sixty, md be blessing TO the world
MI his lite long under the depraving infu-
.nce Of d vast palrimony, is likely TO die
sort Of debauchee at fo1y-6ve, if he docs
hot shoot himself rs non compass al thirty.
The father may feel proud of his twenty per
eohl, os Thirty per cent. stocks; but when the
devil churches the son for guilty spenling
what he clutched Inc laihvr for guilty amas.
sing, he surely proves himself the better IL
aaReier; for he doubles capital by single
pueealation. Un:versal experience shows
that the IAherllcr Of penny has better
chance fof success in life Than the nheritor
s,ra sspiump But better far than eitheris the
golden mean Of Agur's perfect prayer. ------
The following anecdute, which believe to
Be authentic, is related Of The late Stephen
Eiard. Meeting wesllhy and active tu-
eibsss man, he accos,ed him thus: "Mr. A .,
Z nm surprised that man having Sd much
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