The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1860-01-19
Hliarrllatlrnlla Rruaing.
Don't Depend on Father.

Stand up here, young man, and let us talk TO
you. You have trusted alone TO the contents of
fathers PURSE OF TO iis fair fame for Your in.
fluence or success in business Think you, that
| father has attained to eninence In his profes
sion but by unwearied industry2 Oh that he has
nnassed q fortune honestly without energy and
| aetivityf You should know that the faculty re
qrisite for the acquiring of fame and fortune and
is essential to- nay, inseparable FROM the retan-
ing. Of either of these? Suppose "father" has
the rocks" in abundance: if you never earned
anything for, him. you have no more business
with those . rocks" than ghosling Inns with
tortoise &C.. and II he allows yeu 10 NEEDLE with
them till you have learned their value by your
own industry, he perpetrates untold mischief
Aud If the old gentleman il lavish OF his cash to-
wards you while he allows you to idle away your
time, you had better leave himl yes, run away,
| sooner than he made an imbecile or n scoundrel
through so corruptiDg an influence. Sooner Or
later you must learn TO rely on your own fesour.
| ces, you will not be anybody If you have
ever helped' yourselfat all, if you have become
idle, If you have eaten fathers bread and butter
and smoked fathers cigars, cut swell In fathers
buggy. and tried to put fathers influence and
reputation, you might far better have been
poor canal boy, the son of a chimney. y.sweep or
a boot black aud indeed We would not SWAP
with you the situation of poor, half starved
motherless calft Miserable objects you are, that
depend entirely upon your parents, playing gen
tleman (diids dandy loafer.) Go to work with
either. YOU. hands Or your brains, or both, and
do something Don't merely have il to boast
that you have grou's,in fathers house, that you
H., II D.
| folks know you count one. t. y-.y ...yy ~. .....
Come, of with your coat, eliueh the saw, .he
plow handles. the seythe, the axe, the .pickaxe,
the spade--anything that will enable you to sti =
your bloo2i Fly round and tear your jacket
rather than be The recipient Of the old gentle
mans bounty Sooher than play the dandy at
ddds expense, hire yourself out to some potato
patch; let yourself TO stop hog holes, or watch
hthe bars; aud when you think yourself entitled
to q resting speib DO II on. your own hook II
you have no other means CT having fun of your
own, buy with your earnings an empty barrel,
and put your head into IL and hollet, or get into
1t and roll down hill Don't, for pity's sake, don I
make tho old gentleman do everything, and you
! live at yssur easerra' q .prssr s.4 af
Look about yrr, you .well dressed, shioothfaced
do-nothinsdroncs Who are they that have
worth and Influence in soeietyl Are they those
thatrhavc depended alone on the old gentleman 3
pursel or are they those that have climbed their
way TO their position by their industry and en-.
ergy' True the old genticmans funds, or per-
soudf irfiucnce, may seture yon the forms or re-
spcct, out let him lose bis property, or die. aud
what are your rdseeable.ilsdgling-a bunch
OF flesh and bones that nec,ls 10 be taken care Of