Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1854-12-22

II which must uuavoidably be degradation
and misery We need not stop TO argue
this point, nor attempt to substantiste this
assertion, for no person who has made the
least examination, can have failed 10 discov-
or that the greater portion Of the crime com
milted 10 our midst, is ascribable 10 the
manner in which The criminals have been
reared, and the vicious influences by which
they have been surrounded in boyhood.
II cannot but be apparent TO every com
mon understanding, that those who have,
from infancy up to manhood, been accus-
toned 10 mingle in none but evil and cor,
rupt society, have a disrelish for anything
tha, is moral or useful, or anything that !.
calculated to ennoble and magnify the soul
But TO be little more practical and
come nearer home. What can the MAORI
ty Of parents in our village expect from
their boys in the future? Go to our pris.
ons and aims houses, and you will receive
most positive answer to this interrogatory
Some may think, and especially indulgen'
parents who always think, when you speak
Of the faults of their children, that you
Judge too harshly, that the above answer
is an incorrect one-that great many
youths spend the first years Of their lives
in what is termed Sowing their wild oats,
and after arriving to the age Of manhood
and discretion. become civil and usefu
members ofsociety. We will admit at once
that there are few isolated cases Of this
kind, land would there were great ma
ny more,) but generally speaking it is no
so; for we discover, after a careful and can
did examination, that bad habits naturally
lead to a bad end.
II any one is inclined to disbelieve tha
the boys Of our village are in danger Of be
ing led astray, let him go down Main stree
after night fall, and see the numerous in
ducements there held out to seduce thu
young and unsuspecting from the path
OF rectiude and virtue, in the shape of vel
furnished and cosy drinking saloons (whicl
are in every way calculated to accomplish
the ends for which they are industriously
striving,) filled with persons of every sg'
and grade. from the boary-headed man
down to the STRIPPING of dozen years, al
participating in the vulgar enjoyments 0
low life, and be cannot come to any othe
conclusion than that there is danger, ant
very great danger, Of the morals OF ou
young men and boys becoming corrupted
and their minds so engrossed with the fol
lies attendant upon life of dissipation a
TO wholly unfit them for usefulness in fu
ture. But is there no remedy for this evil
| believe there must be, for think it i'm
possible for an evil to exist for which ther
is no remedy.
Let parents begin the reformation, b.
strictly guarding the course pursued b
their children, and by closely observing
their habits. encouraging them in what
right. and prohibiting what is wrong
But in conclusion, would say, that a
the vigilance and care which it is possibl
for parents to employ in the reformation {
their offspring in this. or any other yiliag
10 our land, will be of little avail, unles
there be some means invented by whic
those internal mints which are daily an
nightly engaged in coming subjects for tn
gallows. and occupants for prisons. aims
houses and the drunkaEd's grave-can B
wholly and unreservedly extinguished.
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