Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-11-23
A Plea rsr the ..Innocen,.-

= ss-opeak gentry tOrtue Itt1e cnlld, IS
haf Its love be sure to gain;n cs2sg 3ss
II Teach it in accents soft and mild an
/ ,aItmay notlong remain.7 GioN sa
/ Every day are the hearts of thousands
of earth's sensitive creatures stirred to
the innermcst depths, by the walls and
plants of outraged, down-trodden, abused
and oppressed humanity aseal sd
The little tender. innocent, helpless
babe, scarce three months old, is scoIded
shook, and even slapped, because it cries.
when alas it has no other way by which
it can give voice to its wants. or make
manifest to us its sufferings. as it feels the
aches and pains which no one of larger
growth can ever properly appreciate
| since no one of these can ever go thus far
back in memory and recollcct his own ex-
pe:ience at this point oflife. 1t is swath-
ed and bandaged so tightly that it is often
with, extreme difficulty that it can draw a
full free, breath-when it should only
have its little tender body covered and
protected by the softest of wrappings and
these made as slightly binding as possible
so that its feeblest efforts of motion. should
be entirely free and wholly unimpeded.
Then to see the cruel pins SO lavishly
thrust into its clothing. each one with the
sha pest of points all ready to pierce the
soft and quivering flesh. should they be-
come in any manner sufficiently displaeed
and added to these modes of torture is
the habit of dosing the tiny stomach, so
weak, tender and sensitive. with physic,
cordials. laudanum. paragoric and such
like drugs. thus creating ten ailments. by
trying to cure one that perhaps exists on
ly in the fervid Imagination of mothers
grandmothers nurse or auntiei
1t is very rarely that healthy child.
properly dressed, nursed, and cared for.
needs any thing more than its mothers
milk, until It's teeth are cut. thus enabling
it to chew and properly masticate some
coarse. strong, and more nutritious diet
Nor will such child, thus reared, be pee
wish. cross. or fretful. The natural con-
dition of babyhood is quiet happy and
smiling, playful, sweet and charming
Therefore if your baby is cross. be very
sure that it is because of some wrong do
ing of your own! So instead Of abusing
the child, look over yourlown, actions and
Try to- discover wherein you have erred
or neglected your duty. Perhaps by i'm
proper diet or imprudence in some other
| way, you have impaired to your milk
some quality that is injurious to the ply
steal well-being Of your offspring. Or
YOU may have given way fits of sorrow
or anger and that has affected it. Or you
may have taken cold. There are. j SC
many ways that one can do wrong in this
respect, that too much care can never be
exercised L -Weare all so ignorant Iof al
most the first principles oflife.9 that it is
| impossible for us to always be OF the safe
side-therefore l earnestly imPlore all
mothers to be patient, tender loving
kind, and gentle always to thelittle opes
I"But" says Mrs. Somebody. "when my
child has been screaming for hours, at the
very top of its lungs. and every nerve il
my body IS unstrung, if | give it a-righ
smart slappipg it will hush up and go t'
sleep-now if it was your case woulden
YOU do the same,!p i do not think
should, for it would seem like punishine
I my child for some error or misjudgmen
of nv own it would be about the same a
if when, 1 had committed some wron:
l.myself whipped another for it. Bu
even if did thus yield to my-passion ant
4 selfshness, it would not make the act it
| self one whit more justi6able.: = But woul'
rather be an evidence of my unftness 10
! the. sweet, tender and holy. duties of
mother! The easiest and qniekestiway
not always the bestiz The whipped chill
may cease its cries, but not because it re
allies that it was purposely punished 10
its wailirg, but because it suffers so muc
4 more from the new pain, that it no longe
notices the old one, or else because it is s
4 exhausted and worn out BY the increase
bur;hen put upon it. that it goes to SLEEP
But. all the arguments in the world wi
never make "a right out Of Far wrong ineAh
Fft cannot be right in any case, for any one
Purposey infct pain upon oqgd'I q child tn TIA
lis too young to. be a reasaDlngn be'pgf5
free moral3agentvuand therefore respons
BILE for its actions.d so1os i9dsl % ilf@
Ffs Let every ssord be kindly spoken
. -. Every act be loye's-owni tekenso ss1a
I And be We patient. gentle. mild,s 7sa.
II FRO the helpless little child. So. -.
tgEn aeiJTeI Topics = T.. d. SLENKER,.
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