Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-06-28

der to attain to anything worthy in this life
The severe discipline necessary on board, will
also tend to Undue him with business habits,
and to make man Of him.
lam thus, as you see, rid Of all my children
Except Jane) who were raised up under the per-
nieious notions-ths Goldfish arstocracy notions
with which my dear wife and l started out in
life With the good advice which you have given
me from time to time privately with my own sad
but wholesome experience, and with the relief
occasioned by the dintunition of my family,
may get aloug-so, shall close these letters In
this number Of the ENQUIRER, and go to work
now with better will and higher spirits than
have dene in years past. ..
Messrs. Editors and dear readers, these may
seem hard and heartless words about my chil-
rem, with which close these letters. I.mean
only to. speak the plain truth for the good Of
them and other young people. Solomon ssys,
wise son makes glad father, but foolish son
is the heaviness Of his mother; and this is the
truth. II parents, too, train up their children
to be "foOlish" sons and daughters, they are
sowing the wind Of folly to reap the whiridwind
Of unhsppiuess and family disgrace, II not ruin.
I and my wife were silly In the beginning; and
sad were the consequences to at least three Of
my four eldest children. II now rejoice that
this thorn, by their marriage or otherwise, is
removed from my family's side, deem it not
hard.beartedness bat q wise consideration of
the interests Of my younger children.
My wife and have talked Il over soberiy to-
gether and we have come to the conclusion to
teach the balance Of our offspring not to be
ashamed Of any honest work, as prime part Of
their education. We have bid the Goldfish aris-
tocrats q hearty good bye. We are tired Of the
sponges Of society. Among them two-thiris OF
the gossip and disseueion and pickering Of con-.
munitiss originates. They usvsrstand on merit,
because they never have merit equal to their
vulgar aspirations. They stand mostly money
and show; and they love to see men cape at
their huge display. 1t takes q sight Of money to
do family Of this sort. People Of ordinary
'means are silly to begin such life. ftramps
them, so they never can succeed. 1t will do bat
poorly, for those who are Immensely rich aad
honored; for even then too much Of Ii makes a
man like Esop's ass in the lions skin. =
II and my wife, Isay, have given up an this effort
to show of !; and intend now to follow the more
sensible, il less aspiring class Of people, who 90
in more for merit, character, virtue and utility.
advise all my parental readers-and have the
right, for my experience has been worth some
thiug-to follow our exa1ple. Men and women
Of the right stamp Of really the highest worth,
are not going to be so ridiculoasly vain and os-
tentatious. They repose upon quietiziug con-
sciousness Of their claims to respect; and do
not 60 about bidding for praise here and there,
with transparent mask of condsscending patron
age about them. On this principle, every item
Of genuine .experience-or what is the same,
every step made in the search of true knowl.
edge-mskes Us humber. and therefore wiser
and better. Vanity is desire to be thought
thus and SO, whether We are or not !; and display,
which is the child Of vanity, is therefore, to say
the very least, an equiyotal thing. Teach your
children to be fond Of it, and as they grow up
they will be to your pocket, like the horss.leech
crying more and more. Well for you then will
it be, you are rich; for If not look for troub.
ling perple1i.ies in your business, then losses
and debts, then sheriff sales, and finally an old
age Of squalid poverty and wretchedness.
On the other hand, teach your children not to
be ashamed of any honest calling teach them
how to work, and actually to. work; teach them
to be industrious and to economize; and they will
not only be q source Of comfort enjoyment and
prosperity to You, but credit to themselves
and blessing to their day and generation. Lis
an old quotation in every body's mouth, that
whosoever makes o blade Of grass grow where
none did before, is benefactor to his race. II
this is so, how vastly more true is it Of him WHO
instead Of spelling his children and making them
mere weeds, sapping the fertility Of the soil Of
society, raises them up SO that their sons sre
like trees planted by the rivers Of water, and
their daughters like stones polished altar the
similitude Of q palace! -
Thereare some great things which must be done
aud they can be done only by men and wo
men-or, else. we would 60 back to barbarism.
The fields must be tended; the victuals, cooked :;
the clothes, made; the young folks, educated; the
gospel preached; the government carried ou;
the arts and sciences, supported; sud the press,
made to TEEN with the literature Of the past and
the present. Now it may look little strange to
place the greasy cooks, the sturdy farmers, the
gouty politicians, the sage philosophers, &C., a.
long side each other-itis q little so; but it
shows that we ought not to be ashamed Of each
other, and each others condition in life, when
they are all necessary to the civilization and ad-
vancement of the race. The biggest upstart
you can find, is dependent on the poor laborer
for the very bread he eats and this should learn
him lesson Of humility. Besides, the God of
heaven made the sunshine, and the sleep Of
night for all and this should learn us lesson
OF equality.
Again if we consider the fluctuations of family
fortune, we will be taught the same thing which
have oil along been trying to enforce into these
letters. Three generations are sufficient, it Is
said, to make, to enjoy and to spend fortune.
Who, consequently, has not poor and vile ones of
bis own blood? One brother is poor, another
rich. One is honored, another dishouored. One
is good, another bad. So Of the sisters. Now
If you scorn poor man, or even one that is
or bad, the man you scoru may point
his finger at your brother or sister, to whom
afixes darker STAIN Be firm in opposition to
sin of every kind ;but generosity and mercy were
never yet unbecoming in him, who depends on