Litchfield enquirer., 1858-06-10
Whole No. 17ss

the habits OF his countrymen. He thought
that those living in this vine-region were much
more soLer than the Germans of the cities and
that the native wine was already driving GU,
whisky and brandy from use among the Amer
leans. spoke Of slavery, but he was not dis
posed to express himself much on this, except
to say that his countrymen wished to have
retlling to do with it, and that the only thing.
thus far, which had kept Germans from such
BEAUTIFUL State as Missouri, was the fear Of its
being permanently Slave State. If il wasn't
for Slavery, they should have had what Iowa
and Wisconsin aud Illinois has enjoyed of the
German emigration. They never saw slaves
there, he said, and did not wish to see them -
In time, he was sure Missouri would be a Free
State, but not OF all so soon as MANY sansu;ne
people believed. In his little town Hermann
he sad, they we're oil but three Reuublicans .
and they were the only yifare In ssf, that
had Fremont ticket, though thew onld onlv
lind three electors in the State. f1ut If tha
2oO, 600 Germans in the State, he did not no.
lleve there were more than Is or twenty WIN
held slaves, and those house-servants. c. In
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DoN'r TELL FArHER-Thcrc is many a good
mother who plans the ruin of the child she
dearly loyes--teaching it the first lesson az
wrong doing, by simply saying, "Now don't
tell father" Surely mothers do il theuvht.
iesay, lgnorantly, not considering that il is a,
hrst lesson in deception. It'll not at aIlstrange
that gamblers, and liars, and thieves, and nv.
pocrlts, and dstrustfnl eyel minded people SO
abound, when weak loving mothers, with hon
eyed words and caresses, sweeten the little
teachings that soon ripen into all kinds Of mean
ness and unprincipled rascality3, /. heard a
kind we'll meaning mother soy to the puny ba-
by in her arms, Well, birdy shall have its
good candy every day !; bad papa shan't know
lt--see how it loves il I" and the little thing,
whose reach Of life had not whole winter in Il.
snatched at the bright red and blue colored
poison and made as many glad motions, as tho
it took its whole body to suck il with, The
poor little thing had been fed on. candy, almost,
and fretted for more whenever It's lnoath
wasn't filled. Even the nourishment nature
provided did't wholly satisfy it, for it wasn't as
sweet as candy thought it was no wonder,
if children were taught even in boyhood that
papa was bad and ugly and unkind, that in
youth they should call him "'snop and the
"old man )" and the mother, whom they had
learned by experience had notability Of charac-
ter, and was capable of deception, not strange
they should 50 little respect her as to call her
the old woman" shpdder when hear the
frequent words drop from young Inns. "Oh,
must rot let father know that P- The father
may be stern man, rigid In bis way Of bring
ing up his children, but he has O heart some
where---and surely truthful honest, loving words
from bis own:rhiid will find that warn. place.-
So it is best never to deceive him ip anything,
but keep his confidence whole and unshaken and
the whteness of the soul unstained by that
loathsome sin, deception. Father don't allow
me to read novels" said young lady to me
lately, but mother Docs and SO we read all
we can get, and he never knows it.n And she
giggled as though they were very cunning aud
worthy of praise, for so completely deceiying
poor, and good father? Ny soul sickehed at
the idea of a wife, daring to teach her children
to disobey their father--of the daughter, vain
and unprincipled, with such mother to teach
and guide her. Better for the world had she
never been born.--Ohio Custivator.
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