The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-07-12
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
..,.rd.1 Merniss, July ~, 1885.
Youux America.

Younx America.
The European visitor to the United 81.
Nth nothing more impressed In this iand %
.,s. than the rapid development of ehiiafe" '1'o
Young manhood and young womanhooa' -.
ching In fact ~ children. Is In this country "A'o
IT. rrtnown There seems to be out one
md from catnip tea TO mint juleps ana from 10Y
,.,tles TO revolvers. Instead OF i''ie sills' We
80 I,,,e women. with all the coquetfish airs OF
eighteen, eultiva'ing beauI,
women which not quite women,
Yet something more nor gas.
ard "a anxious TO be old as they will be one day
% be young No doubt these things are wisely
orasrea. for the average duration of human life
In America 10 so much less than in Europe, tha'
ga mus, begin our manhood at least fifteen years
earlier 10 make 1t last as long. Like young colts
and other animals, are active and froliesome IN
a few weeks after we are born, and in few years
are all ready for the harness.
An American boy or girl, visiting Great Bntain'
would be profoundly disguised with the mode in
which boys and girls are reared there lie would
think the wrongs of the juvenile population great
er than those which reused our fathers to the as
sertion of their independence. In Great Britain,
the young noble or the young commoner OF sixteen
or seventeen is still boy, with ashess, ooysn
ways, as docile and obedien. as he was at five or
six His parents do not think it necessary, in Or
der TO make man of him, that he take the bit IN
his own mouth, and travel whithersoever II plea
seth him In a well ordered English family, the boys
are not permitted TO be out at night, but, the
evening shades prevail instead Of being left to roam
abroad and learn bad habits and fall into bad com
pany, they take mp their candlesticks ano
march to bed. The English girl is girl at sixteen
completes her educat ion at twenty-one, and, u
she does not marry as early our American lasses
she retains at thirty-fige bloom, freshness ana
vigor which are not often found even among our
school girls. We appreciate the infinite contempt
and wrath with which Young America would vie"
such a condition of society; we have no douo'
that rather than itself be reduced to SUCH state
Of bondage it would draw its bowie knife ana re
yolver and make mince meat of its tyrants. we
only state the fact that our Young America read
ers may more highly prize the blessings OF theil
lot In this land of liberty, where all the men, wo
men aud children are perfectly capable of self
government Let them rather pity than be indig
nant at those wretched inhabitants of the Ole
World whose children are not born like ours, ma
ture In wisdom and virtue, but require training
intellectual physical and moral, Of twenty one
long years, before they are permitted to act thu
part of men and women.
At the same time, it must be admitted that tht
home discipline of English life, the treating c
boys boys and of girls girls, does not, as WI
OIL this side of the water might suspect, proven
them from becoming manly and vigorous race
On the contrary, the manhood and stamina OF thu
English breed are proverbiai. II there is any
thing that John Bull is remarkable for, it is fo
energy and backbone. The men who first settled th
continent the pioneers of civilization and of liberty
in these western wids, and who were more heroic
more virtuous, and capable of far greater physca
endurance than the present cadayerous, dyspephc
-sheuldered, flat-breasted and fainthearttt
race, were all reared in an age when boys wel'
boys and when girls were girls, and when growing
slowly and maturing steadily like the oak, they
became rugged, long lived, and struck their root
deep into the soil.
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