Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-01-23
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LECTURE TO LOAFERS.

Stand up here, you lazy rascals and let us
reason about your daily vocation. Hold up
your sheepish heads and say why sentence
of the most unqualified condemnation should
not be passed upon your conduct. How
can possibly have the ia1nndenGe 4. 9-l 70
stretch your lazy bones'or block up the rost
Office door with your carcasses, to the no
small annoyance Of busy working people
who are engaged in some useful oceupa-
tion9 How can YOU be contented to "pass
away time" III lounging around the streets
only shifting to avoid the rays of the sun
in company with your equally lazy and USE
less companions, the dogs, perchance once
aud a willie setting your canine friends to
fight for the sake Of gratifying your brutal
love of funs and how can you have the
uublushing imper,inence to gaze under every
lady's bonnet who is compelled to pass by,
and Just before she is quite out of sight ex'
press your vulgar nropensities by remarklng
"what gait" what big feet" or F." what
stuckup air." and turning to one of your
companions, inquiring OF him how he'd
like to hitch horses with that female for
life +"
You poor fools, don't know that her stuck
up air was caused by her having to pass
sucb crowd of human brutes! And don't
YOU know that instead Of cri,icising ladys
nait YOU ought to be at home mending your
garden gatea And that no sensible fem-
nine 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," and hinder
industrious people by asking unmeaning
questions or standing in their way? And
do YOU think it decidedly sharp when you
hail a gentleman who is hurrying about his
business and asking him if he is walking
for wages and you are loafing for wages
which YOU will get some day if you don't
mind YOUR ways, ie, free boarding in the
Door house, or you may be promoted to the
biuh rank of private in the penitentary.-
Time may hang heavily with you, but you
may hang heavily in time if you DO not be-
stir 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 them9 Do you think it hon.
orable for you to do nothing because your
father has enough to support you when you
know what they have, they got by industry
And do you suppose your mothers and 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 at9 Why about the grocery and
LIQUOR stores Of course. There you post
Yourself and make it rule to ask any work.
inc man who may chance to come in, and
who has earned few shilings in the course
of the day, to "treat," at the same time
urging as a reason that he is the only man in
the crowd that is making any money And
then after you have sponged enough Of
clever fellow to make night hideous with
beastly shouts, you finally lay down in some
gutter with your equally respectable compan'
ions, the hogs.
Now amt you beautiful set Of fellows
Fellons we ought to call you Your faces
ought to be covered with shame at the idea
of degrading poor human nature in this man,
ner, especially when you acknowledge that
It is an awful burden to do so. Then 60 to
work like men, or else take arsenic and
make yourself of some use ny giving the
printers chance to publish your departure
under the head of suicide.
DASGERous.-Peoplc who don't like the
headache should never undertake to come
between man and wife while they are ex'
changing smoothing irons. We tried 1t once
and got black eye that costus six shilling;