The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-08-27
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immortality in our Streets.

immortality in our Streets.
| 1t is a remarkable and important fact
that vice and immortality are on the in
crease in our cities. The newspapers daily
TEEN with accounts of murders, robberies
and other crimes committed within these
places. Crime walks openly about. 1t
waits not for the cover of darkness to con-
ccal its acts, but with diabolical effrontery
commits is depredations in broad day
light, and in the face of public disapproval.
I The immense amount of business which
/ large city carries on with the surrounding
country necessarily brings the two in close
relationship, and hence a powerful intlu-
ence is exerted by the one over the other.
The towns in the immediate vicinity of a
city partake with eagerness of the crimes
of the metropolis, and seem to commit
them with double fury. Though not COM
hitting the greater, yet Elkton has not
escaped the deplorable grasp Of the lesser
sins, and the immoral influence of the large
cities will state few habits not highly
creditable to the people of Elkton.
Among the youthful inhabitants of our
town, swearing seems at present very much
in vogue. If one is taking an evening
STROLL with friend of the "gentler SEX"
about the time that he has become inter-
ested in the conversation, a terrible oath is
uttered by a passing youngster, causing
the ears of the lady to burn and her COM
panion to feel very uncomfortable. fupon-
another occasion one is sitting Sin COM
munion with his thoughts suddenly the
pleasant reverie is broken by some preco-
oious youth making use of language,
which, he thinks raises him In everybody's
estimation, but which in fact belittles him
amazingly. And thus it is; OH the streets,
in your house, and every public place, de-
cent people are forced to bear nuisance
entirely unnecessary. The habit Of throw
/ ING stones is also much INDUCED in by "the
rising generation " of Elkton. Ladies are
often in extreme danger, by two boys, one
| in front of, the other behind them, throw
| ing stones over their heads, each INDUCING
in the vain hope of hitting the other
! Window lights are broken and persons are
| injured by this habit, which should not be
tolerated. The only way to put an end to
a nuisance, is by going to the cause of it.
! Thero must be a cause before there can lie
all effect. The causes of these misdeeds
on the part of children can only be found
in the family where they are reared. If
! oil oil "a
run about the streets until a late hour at
night, and would forbid them from asso-
cating with every one, many of these bad
habits would be removed and we could
look with pride upon those who are to
succeed us.
Passing the younger and noticing the
older portion of our community, we find
that among them there is a "grevions
fault" and previously do many lament it.
| | refer to drunkenness. The sun, in all its
course, looks down upon no sadder object,
than on that one who, lost to every noble
action and dead to every human feeling,
| gives way to his passions, and allowing
Reason to desert her empire, permits king
|
assume the control of his moments. Who,
forgetting the duty he owes to God, to man
| aud to himself, seeks pleasure only i'll the
wine-glass The life of the drunkard is
indeed miserable. Forgetting the object
! of life, he passes those precious moments
which are allotted to him, in some dismal
bar-room Knowing not what will "turn
up" tomorrow, he roams about unmindful
of the present; caring not for the future
With " the partner of his bosom " starving
at home, he needs not her heart-rending
cry for bread, and sees without emotion
his babe die for want of food. Oh. the
cursed power of Alcohol!
Turning from this gloomy picture, we
see, however, the heaven-born fraternity
Temperance approaching with truth in
one hand and sword in the other, deter
mined to reduce the power of her
enemy and to raise up fallen humanity
But am DEPRESSING too far. Young men
in Elkton seem to take particular delight
| in becoming intoxicated, and thereby not
only doing an immense amount of damage
to themselves, but also to the community
in which they live. No public occasion
passes without a band of young men col
Letting together, and under the influence
of liquor, make "night hidious with
their noise Such should not be the case
in such an intelligent age, and in such an
intelligent community. The only way to
remove this habit, is for every sober citizen
to join the cause of Temperance, and by
using his influence induce others to join
her standard. OLo.