Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-06-14

DoN'T DEPEND ON FATHER.-Stand
up here, young man, and let us talk tC
you-you have trusted alone to. the
contents of Gathers purse" or his fan
fame of your influence, or success in
business. Think you that "father" has
attained to eminence in his profession,
but by unwearied industry, or that he
has amassed fortune honestly, without
energy and activity? You should know
that the faculty requisite for the acqui-
ring of fame or fortune, is essential to,
nay inseparable from, the retaining of
either of these! Suppose "father" has
the crooks" in abundance; if you never
earned anything for him, you have no
more business with those crooks" than
a gosling has with a tortois, and if he al
lows you to meddle with them till you
have learned their value by your own
industry, he perpetrates untold mischief.
And If the old gentleman is lavish of 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 imbecile or something worse through
so corrupting an influence. Sooner or
later you must learn to rel y on your own
resources, or you will not be anybody.
If you have never helped yourself tall,
if you have eaten fathers bread and
butter, and smoked fathers cigars, cut
swell in fathers buggy, and tried to
put on fathers influence and reputation,
you might far better have been a poor
canal boy, the son of chimney sweep,
or boot black-and indeed we would
not swap with you the situation of a
poor, half-starved motherless calf i
Miserable objects you are, that depend
entirely on your parents, playing gentle
men, (dandy loafers. What in the
name of common sense are you thinking
of? Wake up therel Go to work with
either your hands or your brains, or
both, and be somethingl Don't merely
have it to boast of that you have grown
in "father's" house.that you have veg
etated as other green hornsl bullet folks
know that you count one! Come, off
with your coat, clinch the saw, the plow
handles, the scythe, the axe, the pick
axe, the spade--anything that will ena-
BILE you to stir your blood! Fly round
and tear your jacket, rather than be the
passive recipient of the old gentleman's
bounty Sooner than play the dandy
at dads expense, hire yourself out to
some potatoe patch, let yourself to stop
hog holes, or watch the bars, and when
you think yourself entitled to resting
spell, do it on your own hook. If you
have no other means of having fun of
your own buy an empty barrel, and put
your head into it and holler, and get
into tand roll down hill; don't, for PHYS
sake, don't make the old gentleman fur
nish everything, and you live at your
ease.
Look about you, you well-dressed,
smooth-faced, donothing dronesl Who
are they that have worth and influence
in society? Are they those that have
depended alone on the old gentleman's
purse, or are they those that have
their way to their position by
their own industry and energy? True,
the old gentlemsn's funds, or personal
influence may secure you the forms of
but let him lose his property,
or die, and what are you? A misera-
bic fiedgling-a bunch Of flesh and
bones that needs to be taken care of
Again we say, wake up-get up m
the morning-turn round at least twice
before breakfast-help the old man
give him now and then a generous lift
in business--learnh how to take the lead,
and not depend forever on being led;
and you have no idea how the discipline
will benefit you. Do this, and our word
for it, you win seem to breathe new at
mosphere, possess new frame, tread a
new earth, wake to new destiny-and
you may then begin to aspire to man