The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-05-17
For The Cecil Wing.
A WORD TO YOUNG MEN.

MIR. EDIToR:-l take the liberty OF
penning few thoughts for the consider
alton of the young men Of this town who
are in the practice of Longing about
our taverns and grog-shops. have Of
ten thought OF these things and wonder
ed that young men with the awful conse-
quences of rum drinking constantly be-
fore them, will thus tread in the same
path in which SO many thousands arc
annually slain. | have no objections to
your being gay and jovial. have no
sympathy with those narrow contracted
beings whose features are constantly
blackened with a frown. Innocent
mirth has a salutary influence on our
system, but when you resort to rum for
your joviality, depend upon it, the chan
ces for your escape from drunkenness
are slender indeed.
1t is the business Of those who are en-
gagged in the traffic of liquors to get all
the custom they can, and many of them
are never better satisfied than when
they can get within their presence a set
of young men, who by degrees they cal
culate to mould into the most profitable
material. | deprecate as worse than
barbarous tins scheming on the part of
many ofthose who are engaged in the
liquor traffic to decoy the young men in
to their unhallowed res orts of frenzy in
order to drag them down to ruin, and it
is sad thing that so many young men
are so easily coaxcd and cnsnared.
Those Of you who calculate on shining
in society must be very cautious where
you get the gliding; and all places
avoid the grog shop. For rccollect that
rum is becoming more dcspcabe every
day in the eyes of the Elktonians, and
that no man who lays claim to respecta-
bility dares to get drunk; for if he does
he falls 80 per cent in the estimation of
his friends.
There was time when this commu-
nifty could look on the disgusting scenes
OF the bar.room with complacency and
smile at the low slang which is to be
heard there, but their tastes have in a
great degree, undergone very pleasing
and salutary change, and they now
view such things with disgust and alb
florence. They have become fully ac-
quainted with the evils of intemperance,
and have turned their faces against it.
From the most careful observation,
am induced to believe that there is al
least five broken down constitutions
from the use Of Intoxicating drinks to
one from any other single cause, and |
appeal to the testimony of the phys-
clans of the place for the proof of this
position.
We are the creatures of habit. Ac-
quire the habit OF tiplng and before
you are aware of it, you may be on the
verge of ruin. Acquire the habit of
thinking as well as working and you are
free, independent and intelligent beings.
No one should feel that he is fulfilling
his part in the worlds history unless
fully consecrated to the worlds progress;
a valiant soldier on the side of truth,
justice and right. We live in an age
when thought, Of does not, can govern
the world; when to think is to be free, to
be great, to be immortal. Learn then
to think and have the courage to speak
your thoughts, and you may defy ty-
ranny. Whether you earn your bread by
the sweat of your brow or the sweet of
your mind, you should be up and doing.
We want no drones in the social hive.
Work !! Work Work is a hard destiny
when unattended by the exercise of
thought. Why is it that mechanics gem
orally, are not on an equality in the So
cial scale with those whose lives are de-
voted to reflection. Whyl Because
they donot exercise the power of thought
Then curtail your hours of labor-es-
tablish your libraries instead of patron
izing these grog-shops, and soon change
for the better will be discernablc.
| have drawn out these remarks to a
much greater length than | intended,
and commend the subject to your candid
and careful consideration, with the hope
that you may be pro6ted by the sugges-
tons given.
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