Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-07-30
Don't Depend on Father"

Stand up here, young man, and let us talk
to you. You have trusted alone to the con-
tents of " fathers purse" on his fair fame for
your influence or succese in business. Think
you that father" has attaioed to eminence
in his profession but by unweared industry :?
or that he has amassed fortune honestly
without energy and activity? You should
know that the faculty requisite for the ac-
curing 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
these crooks" than gosling has with tor
toise! and if he allows you to NEEDLE with
them, he perpetrates untold mischief And
if the old gentleman is lavish of his cash
towards you, while he allows you to while
away your time, you'd better leave him; yes,
run away, sooner than be an inbecile, or some
thing worse, through so corrupting an infiu-
ence. Sooner Or later you must learn to rely
on your own resources, or you will not be
anybody. If you have become idle; if you
have eaten fathers" bread and butter, and
smoked fathers" cigars; cut swell in
i" fathers" buggy, and tried to put on " ia
theirs" influence and reputation-you might
far better have been poor canal boy, the sor
Of chimney sweep or boot-black; and, in
deed, we would not swap with you the situa
1 hon Of poor. halfstarved, motherless calf
"a ff.ss-'~.ai.ivg ~rss iePsr.4astiss
Ily on parents, playing gentlemen dandy
loafers.l What in the name of common
sense, are you thinking of? Wake up there
Go to work with your brains or your hands
or both, and be something! Don't merely
have it to boast of, that you have grown il
J." fathers " house-that you have vegetatec
as other greenhorns! but let folks know thai
you count one! Come, off with your coat
clinch the saw, the plow-handles, the scythe
the axe, the pickaxe, the spade--anythine
that will enable you to stir your blood Fly
around and tear your jacket, rather than be
the passive recipient of the old gentleman:
bounty! Sooner than play the dandy at dads
expense, hire yourself out to some potatoe
patch, let yourself to stop bog-hoes, OF
watch the bars, and when you think yourself
entitled to a resting spell, do it on your OWL
hook. IF you have no other means of hav'
ing fun of your own, buy with your earnings
an empty barrel, and put your head into il
and boiler, Or get into it and roll down hill
don't, for PHYS sake, make the old gentle
man furnish everything, and you live at your
ease.
Look about you, you well-dressed, smooth
faced, do-nothing drones. Who are they
who have worth and influence in society p
Are they those that have depened alone or
the old gentlemen's purse ? Or are they those
that have climbed their way to their position
by their own industry and energy? True
the old gentleman's funds or personal inhu
ence, may secure you the forms of respect
but let him lose his property or die, and wha
are you? A miserable fedgling-a buncl
of flesh and bones that needs to be takel
care of!
Again we say, Wake up-get up in thu
morning-turn round at least twice before
breakfast--help the old man-give him nov
and then generous lift in Businessman
how to take the lead, and not depend foreve
on being led, and you have no idea how tn
discipline will benefit you. Do this, and
|oar word forit, ,,you.wisl seem to breathe
lnsw atmosphere, possess 4 lew frame, trea'
a new earth, wake to new destiny-anc
then you may begin to aspire to manhood
Take off, then, that ring from your lily finger
break your cane, shave your upper lip, wip
your nose, hold up your head, and, by al
means, never again eat the bread of idleness
NOR DEPEND ON FATHER"