The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1860-02-07
NUMBER 6.
Don,f 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" or to his fair fame for
Your influence or success in business. Think
you that father has attained to cminence in
| his proisseion but by lnwearied industry? or
that he has amassed fortune honestly without
energy and activity! You should know that
the faculty requisite for the acquiring of fame
and fortune is retaining of either of these Sup
pose father has the" rocks in attendance:
if You never earned anything for him, youhave
no more business with those (" rocks" than q
gosling has with tortoise and it. he allows you
to meddIe with them till you have learned
their value by your own industry, he perpe-
tratcs untold mischief And if the old oeaNe-
man is lavish of his cash towards you while he
allows YOU to idle away your time, you had
better leave him; yes run away, sooner than
be made an imbccie or scoundrel through
so corrupting an influence. Sooner or later
you must learn to rely on your own resources,
or you will not be anybody. lfyou have ever
helped yourself at all, if you have become idle,
if YOU have eaten tdAt,y's bread and butter and
smoked tohier's cigars cut swell in fathers
buggy, and tried to put on taUtcr's influence
and reputation, You might far better have been
poor canal boy, the son of chimney sweep,
or boot back-and indeed We would not
swap with YOU the situation Of poor, half
starved motherless calf! Miserable objects you
arc, that depend entirely upon your parents,
playing gentleman (aias dandy loafer.) What
in the name of common sense arc you thinking
of! Walk up there Go to work with either
your hands or your brains, or both, and do
something! Don't merely have it to boast that
YOU have grown in fathers house-that you
have vcgctated as other grccnhorns! but let
folks know that you count one.
Come, off with your coat, clinch the saw,
the plow handles, the scythc, the axe, the pick
axe, the spade-anything that will enable You
to stir your blood. g Fly round and tear your
Jacket" rather than be the recipient of the old
gcntlemans bounty. Sooner than play the dandy
at dads expense hire yourself out to some po-
tato 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 Ifyou have no other means of having
fun CT Your own, but with Your earnings an
empty barrel, and. put your head into it and
hollcr or get into'in and roll down hill. Dont
make the old gentleman do everything, and
YOU live at Your case.
Look about you You well-drcsscd, smooth
faced, do nothing droncs! Who are they that
have worth and influence in society Are
they those that nave depended alone on the
old gcnteman's purse or arc they those that
have climbed their way to their position by
their industry and energy9 True, the old gen.
tcman's funds or personal influence, may
secure you the forms Of respect but let him
lose his property, or die, and what are youi
a miserable Aedgling-a bunch Of flesh and
bones that needs to be taken care of?
Again We say wake up-sset up in the NOR
ning-turn round, at least twice before break
fast-hclp the old man-give him now and
then generous lift in busincss-lcarn how to
take the lcad and not depend forever on being
led x:i.l Saytao1 sI!dea how the discipline
70. scss a. new iestiny-and You may then
begin to aspire to manhood. Take, of, then,
that ring from your lilly finger broak your
cane, shave your upper lip, wipe your nose.
hold up Your head, and. by all means, never
again eat the bread of idlencss, DON'T DEpssD
ON FATHER!