Smyrna times., 1855-08-01
a Lecture to LOafers,

Stand up here, you lazy rascals, and let us
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 on store boxes or block up the post
Office door with your carcasses, to the no small
annoyance of busy working people who are
engaged in some useful occupation How can
you be cOntented to "pass away the time" " in
lounging around the Streets only shifting to
avoid the rays Of the sun-in the company Of
your equally lazy and useless companions, the
dogs, perchance once and u while setting your
canine friends to fighting for the sake of graft
flying your brutal love of fun and how can you
have the unblushing impertinence TO gaze lnder
every lady's bonnet who is compelled to pass
by, and just before she is quite out of hearing
indulge in your vulgar propenslties by remark
ing what gait" what big feet, or "what
stuck up air." and turning to one of your
companions, inqulrmg of him how he'd like
to hitch horses with that feminine for life ~
up air was caused by having to pass such a
crowd of human brutes! And don't you know
that instead of crticisng u lady's gait, you
ought to be at home mending your garden gate?
And that no sensible feminine will hitch horses
with any of you as long as you pursue your
present business
DO you suppose that you were made for no
other purpose than To . loaf" aud hinder indus
trious people by asking unmeaning questions or
standing in their way. And do you think il
decidedly sharp when You hail a gentleman
who is hurrying about his business, and ask
him if he is walking for wages, and you are
oafng for wages which you will get somo day
if you don't mend your ways, i. e. free boarding
in the poor house, or you may be promoted TO
the high rank of private in the penilentiary.-
Time may hang heavily with you now, but you
may hang heavily in time if you do not bestr
yourself and be useful.
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 it honorable for you TO
do nothing because your fathers have enough
to support you, when you know what they have
they got by honest industry! And do you
suppose your mothers aud sisters were sent into
this world to cook meals and wash shirts for
such worthless beings as you are!
And then when night comes what do we see
you at Why, about the grocery and liquor
stores OF course. There you post yourself, and
make it a rule to ask any working man who
may chance to come in. and who has earned
few shillngs in the course of the day, to
"treat," at the same time urge as a reason that
he is the only man in the crowd that is making
any money. And then, after you have eponged
enough of clever fellow, to make mig ht hide.
ous with beastly shouts, YOU finally lie down IN
some gutter with your equally respectable Corr
panions, the hogs.
! Now, amt you n beautiful set of fellows -
Felons we ought to call you. Your faces ought
to be covered with shame at the idea of degra-
ding poor human nature in this manner, espe-
cally when you acknowledge that it is an
awful burden to do so. Then go to work like
men, or else take arsenic and make yourselves
of some use, by giving the printers a chance to
publish your departure under the head Of sui
eide That's so