Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-01-24

sous that ought to have acquired earl,
and the consequence is all this" Thes
honest words, forced out by the presenc,
of the awful occasion, death, and gallows
turn back upon a misguided parental ten.
derness fearful possibility. o! wha
a curse TO the child is that overawin.
tenderness on the part that withhods thu
authoritative mandate and the needlu
chastisemeut. Can it be possible that the
exercise Of a little firmness and tho impera
tive duty ofimposing restraints when the
nature Of the case demand 1t, is so un-
! pleasant a task that the parent will aban-
/ don his child, the object of his fondest
affections, to the bulettings of every mer-
| ciIess storm that threatens the ruin Of hi
morals, and the wreck Of his hopes? We
have heard children heap curses upon
their parents heads and aver, with awful
oaths, that they would die before they
would comply with thejust request Of their
parents. envy no such parents their
future happiness. King Henry the 2ud OF
England when he lay even upon his death
bed, racked with PAIN, exclaimed Cur
sed be the day OF my berth and cursed of
God the children 1 leave behind me. -
Beacons Of awful marning are these to in
dulsent parents
How sharper than scrpents tooth it is
10 have thankless child
But we are tod that compulsory meas
ureS are degrading to the child-subver-
slve Of what they please to call manly
Independence. A dotIng parent continue
to cling to thy i'll founded objection and
perish with it, if thou canst not believe
that lie that hath no rule over lis own
spirit, is like a city that is broken down
aud without walls What is acquiring
the prerogatiye o, sc sefgovcrnment subser-
siye Of manly Independence If so you
could say the man that has no control OF
his passion, is nobly independent. Let
those who would cling to this fatal princi-
PIE look around them and they will soon
see that nothing is more common than for
a man who is abandoned to selt-indulg nee
to bot of his liberty to exult in the riot
OF license. The drunkard brags Of his
freedom with tongue he cannot ooutrol,
and with a thirst that drives him to his
cups. True the liberties may spurn the
restraints of virtue but he cannot escape
the meshes Of pollution.
True liberty consists not only in the
power 10 10 bat in the power to ,eStraiu
from doing, Ii parents, then, woad have
their children perfectly free and not bound
AS slaves to their wills, they must add
wholesome restraints and impose Just com
mands while the mind OF the child is ten
der, and must enforce them with frmness
and true, not false affection.
Let all the teachers, parents and direc-
tors apply themselves aSsiduously to the
performance of their respective parts
The youth Hannibal, before the assembled
wisdom OF Carthage offered up his vow OF
unrelenting hatred to the Romans. Let
us with better spirit, but with the same uu.
doubling zeal devote ourselves 10 the per-
formauce OF the dltes conferred upon US.
In the discharge of this our sacred vow,
all our earliest and uuceasing efforts must
be deyoled TO the education OF mind with
out which even freedom Itself would be an
empty name. knowledge is the only safe
protection Of the dignity, the power, the
Siol ), thC HuPpiuGnoS VuC 'iltucj dhb FFSu
OF the exiStcuce of the republic i'se.f.-
Without it our institutions are erected up
Oh the sand defaceless from the shocks
OF Ignorance caprice and passion. With it
they are grounded on the sold rock, and
will defy the storms of foreign and domes-
tic stiiIe. with it our institutions will
shine on brighter and brighter, till it is lost
i'll the etfulgeucc of that day.
"Whcn Heaven its portals shah display,
And break upon US in the flOOd Vi day
Nerved with courage to do what IL
right and armed with the weapons of in.
tellectual and moral warfare let us march
mcrrily into the thickes: Of the co tes' ,
aiming our direct blows at corruption
ignorance and error. And o! it viii be a
pleasure to grow old when the years that
shall bring decay to ourselves shall but
rprn the prosperity and happiness of onr
fellow man. Then
"Far seen shall large the mertinguishel
ray,
A mighty beacon; Lighting freedom
way,
With living lustre this fair land adorn (;
And shine and save through ages yet
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