Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1858-11-10
WHOLE NO. .S66.
Fast Young Men +.


Recently the career Of two fast young men
has been appropriately cut short. An induiged
youth. wirh oily loeks and greesed mustaehe.
whose hauds were TOO tender 10 work. and
whose sensiLilities we're too refpsd TO earn an
homes, living who had never been taughtto
do any thing. aud looked upon labor "a disrepa-
table to h;- gentility who had been told TO
look upon tie man who produced from The
soil the very bread that sustained his being.
as an Inferior. Who was 6t only 10 eat aud
drink aud do wrong Whose mother felt
pride ia her son because ho was so perfectly
III sor nothing. and ~hose father, never had
the moral courage 10 place that son in con
dition suited 70 hrs espaciy. Who was per
United 10 grow up IN ieleDess and dissipation.
without lsaTniug any avocatipn calculated TO
support him in after life. Who was nothing,
aud because he was nothing. was received in-
TO fashionable life. aud became fashionable
young nan. This young ssnlsmsa, beeom'eg
Wild by the course of life he was permitted 10
parsue. repaid. but few days ago. ia The city
Of New Y ors. all the intended kindness Of bis
parents. by choppihg his father 10 death with
an az. and 80 wouuding his mother that her life
- despaired OF. M
The other young scnfi.uasa ~ Mr.. Cook.
of Cincinnati. who labots under the crushing
misfortune Of being the son Of wealthy IA.
thsr. Having nothing TO DO, and never hav'
ing been tsoght anything. he exercised hi-
ptowess few days ago. by madsfing eour
tesan Mt house 0f iH fame IN that city OF
course his fstheris now fully aroused 10 the
fact. that IL his .on had been differently rals
ed-if he had been compelled TO pursue come
honest eslling. and earn. by his own exer.
tlon-. the food and raiment necessary to his
well being. the unfortunate circumstance'
which now surround him. would have been
obviated OF course. every Que nov says
how unfortunate for the parents. What .
wicked son. How po~erfuI is the force o.
evil example.
That the parents q both OF those young
men deserve universal sympathy. ~e hsve nc
doubt-sympaihy. heeaa.e they bad no mor'
sense than to thu. raise boys-syn ynpathy be
cause they never bad the moral courage L
max. ihsir children do that Which was th'
best for them-sympaihy. because they "ef'
fools enough to pander u a fashionable pfsJA
dice. and thus forever destroy their offspring
OF the two. however. the young men m1ci
more deserve public eotnmissersi'on. lhs'
are % De psiss.t TheirsvIl natures have bee'
.na.red IN gst tie start Of all that vas goo'
an ,hem They have never been taid thai thef
were stern da,,es IN this lie that were neee'
-.ry 70 be performed. That to he me". 20
wast be .elf reliant That there - moral.
chri-,ian. paifiosic. ard an undivided obi
CATION resting upon slfcf "a, 10 DO some'h'o
good aud vnuoss ThstlAseI.-no Dot d'sr' y
table. but honorable an every respect. IN
the savior of mankind himself, earped IA
bread 4, The sweat of his brow. That iao'
fnprose- the mind. develops the Indy. sehoo
,hs morals and makes ss every way bell
men. That 49, NAN can have The respect
true men, uhless H. does latoF.