Washington telegraph., 1852-08-18

afford to the young men of the country
Build the railroad and along it's line spring
up small villages and manufactures. The
church and the school-house are soon seen
dotting the slopes of the hills and nesting
in the valleys. Refinement and the amen
tiles of civilized life follow as of course
and there grows up generation of intel
hgent and educated young men and wo-
men, to take our places, to whom Arkan-
sas Will be hoDae, and not, as it is to most
OF her present denizens, a mere tagcrn
What are our children to do?--is ques-
tion that is becoming of grave import to
many Of u.s. They are growing up around
us, thick as spring-leaves with what pros
pect! What are our boys to do' | have
four, growing steadily towards manhood
L see nothing in the present condition of
Arkansas which gives me any assurance
that they will be able here, to earn an
honest livelihood. ALI our boys cannot
till the EARTH because one man can raise
as much as forty can eat, and transporta-
ton costs so much to send the products of
our land to market. Besides, every man
in the community desires to see his sons
step upward in the social circle. There
is no holier feeling in the human heart
than that which prompts the father to toll
and struggle to the end that his son may
occupy in life and the worlds estimation
lottier position than that which in the
dispensations of Gods Providence has fall
len to his own lot
Look around you, even to-day. What is
there here for the young men to do, who
are just reaching manhood. NMhiug.-
All the professions are full and overflow
ing. Of the lawyers it may be said as of
office-holders, few die and none resign
The older members of the bar never re-
tire. They must work on or starve-leg-
islative niggardliness has placed judicial
salaries SO low, that the old lawyers will
not become judges and make way for the
yOnng. All the other avenues, not to
wealth, but to comfort and competency,
are equally crowded : and each offers as
little hope or cnoouragcnert to the yourIg
man just adventuring on the voyage of life.
No where. in proportion to the popula-
ton, are there more young men and wo-
men, more girls and boys than in the city
Of Little Rock. Ii is absolutely frightful,
considering the prospect for employment
and living. How are our young ladies to
be disposed OF, unless modes of living, re-
spectacle occupations, are offered to our
young men. With what heart can thev
prepare to adventure on the awful state of
matrimony, in a land of dirt roads, no
schools, and utter want Of employmont.-
To pettifoe at the bar, to stand behind the
counter and retail goods, or to ve"etate up
on the pitiful income Of young doctor in
a poor country-these are the delectable
avenues to wealth. and means of maintain
ing family, which dit-roadiSm presents
to the young men; and such are the fate
and fortune, young ladies, which they ask
you to share
1t is this, of which [ am thinking. It is
this, Of which we had better all think
lVhat are our children to do for LiUimg?
Really, this is getting to be the most i'm
portant OF all questions Those may sniff
and sneer at it, who thrive by turning de-
preciated scrip into good money, and who
at that business have made fortunes and
all the other tua,gi (toad-stools, in plain
English that wax tat as Jeshurun by spec
ulations rendered practicable only by the
disastrous state of our pecuniary affairs
They may sniff and sneer; but every man
who has children and wishes them to fol-
low some honest, and respectable occupa-
ton for livelihood and be neither drones
nor blood-suckers to prey on the body-po-
litic, is beginning anxiously to ask himself
the question what such children are to do
for a living.
We feel deeply, sir, on this subject, anu
we may be pardoned for being little in
dignan5 when some pampered official OF
selfish Speculation. fed by his States misfor-
tunes and enriched by her poverty, recon-
pours upon us his hbation of cold water,
perhaps the only thing that he was ever
known to give gratuitously to any one--ex-
cept advice.
Why, sir, it is a matter of life and death
to US. We cannot live here any longer in
this condition. If we are to have no inter-
nal improvement here, and that presently,
we must abandon the State and go elsewhere
Our children must have something to do
And it is utterly intolerable, when we are
making an effort to better our condition,
when we are struggling with all our might,
to the utmost tension Of every muscle. to
throw off the load that oppresses US, it is
utterly intolerable, say, that any one
should be found, not merely unwilling to
help US, but forward in language of cold
encouragement, opposing us by underhand-
ed devices and means, and even setting
falsehoods and SANDERS on foot to prevent
our success, for fear it may injure the pros
poets Of some partizan who is swimming.
buoyed up with bladders, zealously towards
some petty office.
Such men deserve the title ''Aostes hu-
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