Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-08-03
TO LoAFFERs.

Stand right up here you lazy rascals,
and let us reason about your daily voea-
ton. Hold up your sheepish heads and
say why sentence of the most unqualified
condemnation Should not be passed upon
your conduct. How can You possibly have
the impudence to stretch your lazy bones
out on store boxes orblock upon the post Of
fee door with Your carcasses, TO the no
small annoyance ofbusy working men who
are engaged in some useful occupation
How can You be content to ''pass away
the time' banging around the streets, on
ly shifting to avoid the rays of the sun
in company of your equally lazy, and
equally useful companions, the dogs and
perchance once in while setting your ca
ME friends to fighting for the sake of graft
flying your brutal love of fun ?-and how
can you have the unblushing imperiinence
to gaze under every lady's bonnet who is
compelled to pass by. and Just before she
is quite out of hearing indulge your vul
gar propensities by remarking, what a
gait "what big feet" or ''what stuck
up air, and turning to some of your COM
panions inquire of him Z" how he'd like TO
hitch horses with that feminine for life q
You poor fools, don't you know that her
to pass such crowd of "human brutes q
And don't you know that instead of criti-
cising a lady's gait you ought to be at
home mending your garden gate? And
that no sensible femenine will Glitch hor-
ses'' with you, as long as you pursue your
present business, or rather no business ?
Do you suppose that you were made to
live for no otherpurpose than to "loaf" and
hinder industrious people by asking un-
meaning questions, or standing in their
way ? And, do you think you are "deci-
dedly sharp when you hail gentleman
who is hurrying about his business, and
ask him if he is ''walking for wages p.
To be sure he is walking for wages and
you are loa6ng for wages for which YOU
will surely get some day if you don't mend
your ways, /. c. free boarding in the poor
house, or you may be promoted to the
rank ola high private in the peneten-
tiary. Time may hang heavily now. but
you may hang heavily in time il you don't
stir yourself and make yourself use
full.
Do you imagine that you were created
TO do nothing, and that brains were put
in your great pumpkin heads for the poor
use you make of them? Do you think il
honorable for you to do nothing because
your fathers have enough TO support you
when you know what they have was got
by honest industry And do you suppose
your mothers and sisters were sent into
the world to cook meals and wash shirts
for such worthless beings as you?
And then when night comes what do we
see you at F.? Why, about grocery or IL
quor store, of course There you post
yourselves and make it rule TO ask any
working man who may chance to come in,
aud who has earned few shillings in the
course of the day, to trent" and at the
same time uIge IA reason, that ''he is the
only man in the only man in the crowd
who is making any money" And then
after you have sponged enough liquor off
Z" clever fellows" 10 make you drunk, you
sally forth and make might hideous" with
your beastly shouts, and finally lie down
in some gutter with your equally respec-
table companions the hogs.
Now, amt you beautiful set of fellows?
I-Fotons, we ought to call you. Your
brazen face ought to be covered with shame
at the idea of degrading poor human ma
ture in this manner, especially, when you
must acknowledge that it is an awful bur-
den to do so. Then go to work like men
or else take arsenic. and thus make your
self of some use. by giving the printers q
chance to publish your departure under
the head of " suicide"