Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-04-15
aHard Times


and disgusting phrase, emInating from the
Ilounging Loafers that hang about the cor
Iners of our streets, or beStench, if any
thing can do so, BY their continued pres
ence, the inside of some filthy bar room +!
What do they expect Can they expect
anything else but hard times ?! Without
resources of any klnd--too lazy TO work
too mean in fact 10 shake the filth from
their beloued carcasse they stick them
selves under the noses of more decent
people, and with pitilul whine eXcIalm
against the times as if "lhe times" were
al fault. Goto work, you lazy, filthy iel-
lows. Keep yourselves out Of those
sinking, wretched, rum-holeS, those nur-
series of vice, and sinks of inlquity, in
which, one half of your time is not only
uselessIy, but positively crimnally spent
stay away from those lounging corners,
90 to work-uSe your hands and your
brains--and our word for it, you need
have no reason to complain of "hard
times" The times are indeed hard with
you. It's very hard frequently to get
even as much as a dram from your VOHhy
manufacturers, and when You do, 1t IS as
frequently hard for you to carry your bur
then TO your hard bed. You are decided
ly hard case in every sense of the term.
1t is hard to get you out of your filthy
nest, after one of your hard Sprees--lt Is
hard to have no appetite for your hard
breakfast--dinner and supper. Labor
goes hard with you, and il is hard for you
TO eceive any of the comforts and neceS-
saries of life. But the hardest part OF
your hard life TO you should be the est-
innate good people put upon your charac-
ter. You are Stunned as the viper, loa-
thed as the skunk, and hated rs the mis-
cradle, abomnable creatures that you are.
But have you any right 10 complain
| No. You are a "self-made man." The
skunk has more right TO fall out with his
Flavor" and the viper with his "poison'
than you with your condition. With
them it is a matter of compulsion--wilh
YOU of choice. Well, 60 on sIolh, wal
low in the filth Of your own manufacture
to your hearts content, if content 1t have.
But we NAV be mistaken in supposing
you endowed above the fellows of your
kilh. The God of nature may have crea-
ted you for an especial purpose. 1t may
be your especial province and "manleSt
destiny" to act as clogs on the wheels
of time--as drags on the prosperity and
happiness of society. The beauties of
Gods handy work, as spread out III the
andscape--when Spring, that most gIo-
rious season Of the year, Pours her treas
ures into the lap Of early summer, and as
carved upon the Heavens, in the love
time, when "paIe Cynthia" full orbed,
peeps over the hills" or as portrayed by
that still more charming scene, when
bright morning, on wings of fire, mounts
the upper skies, and spreads her luminous
mantle over all animated nature--are lost
upon their debauched senses. They heed
them not. They would not if they could,
and could not if they would. This may
be their unfortunate condition. What say
you loafe,s Shall we continue TO class
YOU among the unfortunate of earth--ouI-
casts of sOciety--despised of both God
and man? Or will you shake of the
chains with which we would (ain believe
on have been bound 10 the car Of indo-
Ience and idIeness, and once more declare
yourselves TO be what your figure deter
mines you 10 be-a sprig of the genius
homo ! Let your actions conform to
vour desires, and your desires be 10 mount
over the obstacles found in the way Of
your onward glorious career, and all will
be well. But continue your mean, loalh-
some habits wallow with the swine, IN
the mire Of yoUr own creation --drInk on
swear on--.loaf on---and you will continue
to be what YOU have been, outcasts from
society," wretched, miserable creatures
fit associates of your assocIates."meaner
than Cars broth, and more loathsome
than the skunk. If you would have de-
cent people regard you with favor for
swear your evil ways-.-shun your vices
as you would hyena, were he stretched
in your pathayoid the snaFes OF your
worst enemy, he who sings the Syrian
song of blood bought liberty in your ear
the liberty tina! has enabled you to make
a mean, filthy, sneaking creature Of him,
who was formed in the image OF his Ma
ker--run from them all as you value your
reput ton, your life, your all. Go 70
work---go TO bnsiness--go and provide for
that dear old father whom your vicious
conduc! has brought well nigh down to
the grave in Sorrow provide for that dear
old mother when you have caused 10
mourn over your loss, as mother only
can mourn for her lost and wayward son.
Support them in their old days, and we
Will hear no more Of the "hard umes that
once haunted your every thought There
is no need of complaint. The times arc