The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1877-05-24
NO. 81
Taking Down the Rod.

Ahere ID altogether too much sen-=
timentalism abroad nowadays about
whipping boys. In ancient days boys
were soundly fogged, and they grew,
up into the men who laid the fonnd-
alton of the worlds civilization. Tie
mon who owh our Independence
were all whipped at home and at
school when they were boys. Our
fellows who went ont to Mexico and
walked through the hills of the Mons
tezumas had all been spanked by
their mothers, boxed by their pri-
mary teachers and Aogged by their
fathers and the teachers of their
youth. Every man on either side i'm
our civil war had felt the rod, there
is not a man in the country now over
thirty five who does not remember
good old days of wholesome aogging
at school, and feel the better for the
discipline that made him then smart.
1t ia only these latterday young saints
whose spirits cannot endure the rod.
They are the high toned young bucks
who seize cue 80 soon as they can
look over billiard table, who 60 into
the mint julep business on joint spe-
culation with pocket money just
sufficient to 60 halves ON one iulep
and two straws, who chew tobacco
as soon as they cut their second teeth.
who torture their infant stomaths
with mean cigars, and, as they ap-
proach manhood, 60 home on Satur-
day night into the presence of their
mothers and sisters as drunk aa fools.
They are the same high-spirited fei-
lows who, when they, in the old age
of their young manhood, take to
themselves wives, being removed
from their mothers and sisters, mako
themselves agreeable by frequently
going homie drunk, and making their
families economize for the benefit of
the high-toned fellows with whom
they run. It is all stuff and nonsense
about breaking the spirit of boys
All that has ever been done in the
world has been accomplished by men
who were logged when they were
boys. What Che new sentiment
training is TO do for the world will
be left for time to reveal, but no
person of any intelligence cam regard
the tenderly nurtured and mildly
disciplined youth coming up round
us now, and say that he discovers i'm
them the elements of a greatness that
is to make the grandeur of the past
appear mean and little. Cromwell
and Nelson and Wellington and all
the heroes Of English and American
history were vigorously strapped at
school, and when the attention of
their fond parents was called to the
occurrence, they Justify cried out to
Tutor Macduff to lay on, and be-
hanged to him who first cried hold.
enough. Boy human nature has
not changed since the days of SoloA
mon, and spelling the youth is as
much consequence now of sparing
the rod as in his day. Half the boys
of this generation would be improved
if they were soundly and regularly
trounted three times week. Thoy
might not all need it exactly at the
appointed tine, but it would benefit
all by reminding them that there is
an authority paramount to their own
unbridled will, and it would make
them grow more law abiding, peace
observing, honest, sober and indus.
trious men than three fourths of them
now have any chance of ever being.
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