The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-05-07
A New Marshal, New Move, and a sug-
ReStiOn,

gestiOn,
Our Town Council have appointed Constable
Baldwin, Marshal, and he has entered upon the
duties of his office. The Council, or portion
of that body, put him at work on Friday, by
placing in his possession a slip of paper on
which was written the names of number of
our citizens, and ordering him to call upon said
persons and request them to keep their boys off
the streets after certain hour P. NJ. This is
well enough, perhaps, and it will not be amss
for parents to take gentle hint and give lit
tie attention to the welfare of those under their
care and to the general peace and quiet of So
ciety.
Boys who roam the streets after nine o'clock
at night, and disturb whole neighborhoods with
their hideous yells, or lounge about groceries,
playing cards, or looking on while those who
have the care of our youth entrusted to them
are gambling will derive but little benefit from
the four thousand dollars expended for their in
tellectual, moral, and social improvement and
teachers will be blamed for it.
We never found that town yet which did not
have in it the hardest set of boys in creation"
and we are quite certain that we never found
place where young cocks would not learn to
crow from hearing the older ones. We don't
mean to say that boys won't run the streets
when cir fathers are at home but parents
have no right to expect their children to be much
better than they are themselves.
In view of this fact we respectfully submit,
whether it would not be eminently proper and
judicious for our council to inquire into the
propriety of extending their order so as to en-
brace all ages and positions, not even excluding
Councilmen themselyes-for those who make
laws should not be the first to break them. We
are not of those who believe in trying to kill a
tree by Topping of its branches, or by plucking
up the twigs which may chance to sprout from
its roots ;-grdling the butt is the way to do
that job, and when this is done, we will insure
the branches to die. Those living in glass
houses should he careful how they throw stones,
P. S-We learn, since writing the above,
that the order above alluded to did not emanate
from any official source, but originated with a
few persons congregated in the post Office.
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rg~We are not in the habit of publishing
articles without correcting the orthography,
punctuation, &c, when required but tie fol-
lowing Is OF peculiar character, and the author
shall have the full b'neft Of his peculiarti4s
MtsrgR EnIreR,:-T have ben reading the re.
marks Of a tnv Pavar in vonr last nno4r and
after ureat deal Of meditation think Them
YER, oniugt and oyerb.arin against The present
/ horde of E1ucation
! coulJ nick outo oool many thinos in which
them remarks are moi only Oujlsi. bUt ar. most
orlaciou.lv sarcy towards the pr.saut hiuhly
| r,sDectable horde of Education but do not
want tn come into difficulfy With any Of INV
| neyhor, or friends in matter of tits kind
when he 50 d,,in1 us ami ali of us are not onl y
| TO suT.r from tima and Eternity but also onr
| Chillrer and Grand Children
Bnt mnst nat let tbis ali mass in silence--
| NoSir-Nv dntv IN nv chil lran ami f.li.r citi.
/ ssns comncls me to saw snme,Ling about thpm
remarks and shall sHeaR NV cenliments in
the first place bv saving the Mr., tax nave,
d mt know eny Thing abont the dificuIst dnivs
o. One of the borl. of Education. for if h. did
h, woIld not have made sich yilh iusiniations
as he has because I do thinl, that n, thinl,s
som, of MS has not soent ths last Years money
right
This thinI, is a great rlarga auainsi a Cor.
/ PoIa+E lvuS W lh"INl"udIs
NoW uu.t know VIVA, @ re means oy ls'',ls
two y4.rs han evsr ar,ra bnt / can teII Won Sir