Washington telegraph., 1855-10-24
Don't Depend On Father.


Stand up here young man, and let US
I talk to you-you have trusted alone to the
contents of fathers purse or to bis fair
fame for your influence OF success in busi-
ness. Think you that father has attained
to eminence in his profession but by un-
wearied industry or that he has amassed
a fortune honestly, without energy ana ac-
tivity! You should know that the faculty
requisite for the requirement of fame or
fortune. is essential to, nay. inseparable
from the retaining Of either of these Sup
pose that father has the rocks" in album
dance if You never earned anything for him,
YOU have no more business with those
rocks than a costing with tortoise and
II he allows you to meddle with them till
you have learned their value by your own
industry, he perpetuates untold mischief
And if the old gentleman is lavish with his
cash toward you. while he allows you to idle
away your time, you'd better leave him
yes, run away, sooner than be made an i'm
beetle or scoundrel through so corrupting an
influence. Sooner or later you must learn
to rely upon your own resources, or Won will
not be anybody. If you have never helped
yourself at all, if you have become idle, if
you have eaten fathers bread and butter,
and smoked fathers cigars, and cut u swell
in fathers buggy, and tried to put on faith
er's influence and reputation, you might
rather have been a poor canal boy, the son
OF chimney sweep. or 4 boot black-and
indeed we would not swap with you ;he ST
uation of poor, halfstarved m.therless
calf Miserable objects you are to depend
upon your parents. playing gentlemen, (ali-
as dandy loafers) What in the name of
common sense are you thinking Of? Wake
up there Go to work with your hands or
brains. or both, and be something Don't
merely have it to boast of that you have
grown in fathers house-that YOU have veg
e;ated as other greenhorus but let folks
know that you count one.
Come. of with your coat, clinch the saw,
the plow handle, the scythe, the axe. the
spade-anything that VIII enable You to
Stir your blood! Sooner than play dandy at
dads expense, hire yourself to stop hog
holes or watch the bars, and when YOU think
yourself entitled to a resting spell. do it on !
your own hook. If you have no other
means of having fun Of your own. buy with
with your own earrings, an empty barrel.
and put your head into it and hollcr, or get
into it and roll down hill don nt-for
PHYS sake, don't make the old gentle
man furnish everything. and live at your
ease.
Look about, you well dressed, smooth fac
ed, do-nothing drones. Who are they that
have wealth and influence in society Are
they those who have always depended alone
on the old gentleman's purse, or are they
those that have climbed their way to their
position by their own industry and energy ?
True, the old gentleman's funds or personal
influence, may secure You the forms of re-
spect but let him lose his property, or die,
and what are you \ miserable hedgine
"a bundle of flesh and bones that needs Ia
ken care Of
Again we say. wake up-get up in the
morning-turn round at least twice before
breakfast--help the old man-give him now
and then a generous lift in business-learn
how to take the lead and you have no idea
how the discipline viii benefit you Do
this, and our word for it, You will seem to
breathe new atmosphere, possess q new
frame, tread new earth, wake to a new
destlny-and then you may begin to aspire
to manhood. Take of, then, that ring from
your little finger. brake your cane, shave
your upper lip, hold up your head, and. by
all means, never again eat the bread Of idle
ness nor depend on 'JdtAer.'