Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1856-08-30

DoN,r DEPEHD ON tsFA1HER."@Stand up here,
young man, and let us talk to you-you have trust
ed alpne to the contents Of fathers purse" or to
his fir fame for your in6aence or success in bust
ness Think you that father has attained to EN-
nence in his profession, but byunweared industry?
or that he has amassed fortune honestly, without
energy or activity You should know that the fac
uty requisite for the acquiring of fame and fortune,
is essential to- and inseparabe from the retaining OF
either of theseS Suppose that father has the rocks
in abundance; if you never earned anything for
him, you have no more business with those rocks
than gosling with tortoisel and if he allows you
to NEEDLE with them till you have learned their val
ne by your industry he perpctrates untold mis-
chief And if the old gentleman is lavish of his
cash towards 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 a scoundrel
through 80 corrupting Influence. Sooner 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, if you have become idle if you have
eaten fathers bread and butter and smoked fathers
CIGARS and cut swell in fathers buggy, and tried
to put on fathers influence and reputation, you
might rather have been poor canal boy, the son OF
q chimney sweep, a boot black-and, indeed, we
would not swap with you the situation of poor,
halfstarved motherless calf! Miserable objects you
are, TO depend upon your parents, playing gentle
man, (alias dand y loafer.) What in the name Of
common sense are you thinking of? Wake up there!
Go to work with either your hands or brains, or
both, and be something Don't merely have it to
boast of that you have grown in fathers house y
that you have vegetated as other greenhorns! Let
folks know that you count one.
Come of with your coat, clinch the saw, the
plowhandles, the scythe the axe, the pick-axe the
spade-anything that will enable you to stir your
blood! Fly round and tear your jacket rather than
be the passive recipient of the old gentlemans boun-
ty! Sooner than play the dandy at dads expense,
hire yourself out to 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 hay
ing fur of your own, buy with your earnings, an
get into it and roll down hill; DON'T for PHYS sake,
make the old gentleman furnish everything, and you
live at your ease.
Look about you, you we-dressed, smooth faced,
do-nothing drones! Who are they that have wealth
and influence in society? Are they those that have
depended alone the old gentleman's purse? or
they those that have climbed their way to their
position by their own industry and energy? True,
the old gentleman's funds, or personal influence,
may secure you the forms of respect but let him
lose his property, die, and what are you? A
miserable hedging-a bunch of flesh and bones that
needs to be taken care Of!
Again we say, wake up-get up in the morning
turn round at least twice before breakfast the
old man-give him now and then generous lift in
business-learn how, 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 will seem to breathe new atmosphere,
possess new frame, tread new earth, wake to
new destiny-and you may then begin to aspire to
manhood. Take off, then, that ring from your lilly
finger break your cane, shave your upper lip, wipe
your nose, hold up your head, and, by all MEANS
never again eat the bread of ideness depend on
your father.