The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1855-07-18
Don't Depend on Father.

N'''A W yOu- gOu uefO duSteu dlVHe W the
contents Of fathers purse or to his fair
fame for your influence or success in busi-
ness. Think you that he has smassed a
fortune honesty. Without energy or actiy-
ity? You should know that the faculty re.
quisite for the acquiring of fame and fortune,
is essential to, nay inseparable from the re
tanning Of either OF these? Suppose thai
father has the rocks in abundance: if you
never earned anything for him, you have
no more business with those rocks than a
gosliag with toIsortel and if lie allows
you to meddle with them till you have earn
ed their value by your own industry, he
perpetrates untold mischief. And if the
old gentleman is lavish of his cash towards
you, while he allows You to lille away your
tint, you'd better leave him, yes run away,
sooner than be made an imbece or a scoun.
drel through SO corrupting an influence -
or later you must learn to rely on your
own resources, or you will not be anybody
If you have never helped yourself at all,
il you have become idle, if you have eaten
fathers bread and butter, and smoked faith
er's cigars, and cut a swell in fathers bug.
gy, and tried to put on fathers influence
and reputatien, you might rather have been
poor canal boz, the son Of chimney
sweep, or boot black and indeed we
would not swap with you the situation of
poor, half starved motherless calf! Miser.
able objects you are, to depend upon your
parents, playing gentleman, (alias dandy
oafer) What in the name of common
sense are you thinking of? Wake up here
Go to work with either your hands or brains
on both. and be something! Don't merely
have it to boast of that you have grown in
fathers house-that you have vegetated
as other greenhorns!ebut let folks know that
you count one. 75#
Come, off with your coat, clinch the saw,
plow handles, the scy;he, the axe, the pick
axe the spade any thing that will enable
you to stir your bIool! Fly rolnd and tear
your .cket rather than be tac passive re.
cipent of the old genteman's bounty
Sooner than play the dandy at dads ex-
pense hire yourself out to some potatoe
patch, let yourself to stop hog.holes, or
watch the bars, and when you think your.
self entitled to resting spell do it on your
own hook. If you have no other means o.
having fun ofyour own, buy with your earn
ins, an empty barrel, and put your head in
to it and holler, or Sc. into it and roll down
hills don't for PHYS sake m IKE the old gen
tlemen furnish everything, and YOU live at
your ease. ...,......,.... ...
Look about you, you welldressed. smooth
faced, do-nothing drones? Who are the J
that have wealth AMI influence in society?
Are they those thai have depended al ne on
the old gentlenan's purse? or are they those
that have climbed their way to their posi-
ton by their own industry and energy?-
True. the cd gentleman funls, or person :
. al influence, may secure you the forms OF
respect, but let him lose his property, oil
die, and what are you? A miserable fledg.
ling-a. bunch Of flesh and bones that needs
to be taken care of!
Again we say, wake up--ge. up in the
m ,rning turn round, at least twice before
breakfast--help ths old msn-give him
now an4 then generous lift in business -
learn how, take the lead and don : depend
forever on being led; and you have no idea
how he decipliue will benefit you. Do this
and our word for it, you vii, seem to breath,
a new atmosphere, possess a new frame
tread a new earth, wake to a new destiny
and you may then begin to aspire to man
hood, Take off, then, that ring frem yoal
lilly finger, break your cane, shave your up
/, per lip, wipe your nose, hold up your head,
and by all means, never again eat the brcat
of idlenesss, nor depend on your father
A Coon OSE-We published the Decla
ration Of American Independence as adop
ted in l776 in our last issue, under tn
head Of "Our Platform" Well, there5
hangs tale. ea@ ie u g. toeg aas.
John Shane, not John the candidate 70
Shelf, but John the ex Mayor, who was
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: Know Nothing, but has lett them--like
orun a say upon adhering members Of III,
order as we'll as any one John had th
Union in his hand, and there being five o
six persons present, says he "Have yo
read stuart's platform?' a general mega
live was the response. and he proceeded
"Well I'll read it to you," aud on he e,wen
+ with "When nthe course Of human events,
) dc. When he had completed the parsgrap
-vhich reads: :-"Ie has endeavored (
prevent the population Of these states; fo
that purpose obstructing the laws Of nattl
ralization Of foreigners; rcfasing to pas
J others to encourage their emigration hithei
: aud raising the conditions of new approprl
atoms Of lands" 's Saai 1as
One Of the listeners couldstard It no longer
! and breke out. III Is just such d ID 10
: eofoco concern as i would expect And
| Stuartito writeH The others assented, Y /
is scarcely necessary to saytbat they wer