Year: 1860

The following judicious advice address.


ed by the venerable editor ofthe Memphis


Bulletin, to parents and guardians Of that


city, have an extensive application, and


should be handed around among guardians


of youth in smaller towns aud country


places


Have you bog? If you have take care


Of him. Sec to il that he does not assert


his manhood before his time. See to Il


that he does not contract the vulgar and


criminal practices of bad men. See to Il


that his affections are not alionated from


him by afalsesystem Of indulgence. See to
/ 1t that his morals, as we'll as his mind, are


cultivated. If you would properly appre.


ciate your responsibility as the director of


the character Of youth, read the history


of crime and trace the rushing river of sin


back to its rills-rills that break out from


under the paternal roof, and if unobstruc-
ed, mingle speedily into volume Of
strength that a mothers prayers and =
fathers frown cannot resist It REQUIRES


no effort for boy to grow into depravod
manhood. He has but to roam abroad
aud see the corrupt world-to battle his
bright eye in the ten thousand lamps that
pour upon the walls Of human liells a more
than oriental splendor-to strike his foot
against the curb-stone that look mn 10 the
place where passionslas piled its fuel, But
to keep him from becoming entaneled in
the snares of human devils-to crush the
gilded serpent Of pernicious example that
ever Graves an audience Of his ear, isa
work, labor that hath its difficulties, and
can only be successful by the observance
OF the most untiring assiduty. The les.
sons of mothers love, and the influence
ola fathers counsel, may be counteractcd
In an hour by the agents of depravity that
tifrong through all this world and pene-
trate to the very hearth-stonc that ought
to be kept sacred from the touch of pro.
fame influences


But what must be thought of the future
OF boys who are denied the advantages Of
correct parental counsel-who are either
down .trodden orphans, or what is still as
unfortunate, have drunken beasts or de.
praved brutes who answer to the sacred
name OF parent2 How is il in Memphis?
Go to any place OF amusement, 20 the
theatre, to concerts, to public celebrations
to public meetings, and you will make the
discovery that the boys conduct the an.
plause and stand in the fore ground of the
OCCASION 1t is not twelve months since
school exhibition at Odd Fellows Hall
was nearly broken up by rowdy boys who
greeted the performance with yells and
howls These boys appear to have no
parents or protectors, and float abroad with
the scum OF society and are promising can
didates for places in the calendar of crime.
What names they bear, we know not, and
1t matters not, for names are not things
whcA they come to taSsthcr places in the
rolls ofiniamy.


Men and women of Menu phis:--Docs
your boy run at large? Does he ioat with
that under current of society that recoc-
nizes no law but its own depraved will.
aud no sovereign but the fiery god Of Pas
sion2 Look to it that he go not in the
way that will bring him to infamy, and
your white hairs in sorrow to the grave.
You must be less than human if the voice
of nature does counsel you to curb the
headstrong disposition of your children,
aud mark well whether their way of life
may lead to virtue and usefulness or to
ruin aud remorse


If parents will not look after their boys,
let il be the business of the city to do IT,
1t is bad enough for men to obstruct the
ends of justice, for they, perchase, knew
no councillors but appetite in the days Of
youth; but it is tenfold more disgraceful
TO society that boys shall be permitted to
assault the public institutions of learning,
aud put the teachers employed by the peo.
pie IN fear Of bodily harm, as has been
done in this city But how much worse
eve than that is it that boys shall be allow
ed TO murder men IN the streets Will the
city government not make some attempt
to put check upon the rowdy boys OF the
cityT III they are orphans, it is the inn
perative duty of the citizens to look to
them. If they have parents, then, the
duty of the law is to compel them to afford
the proper restraints. What business has
n boy at the theatre, or a public meeting,
or a fire, or any place where many persons
meet together, unless he is under the pro-
lection OF father, a guardian or friend?
None whatever. lie can only be injured
at such places, for where there is most
passion, and most danger, there he will 20.
We suggest to parents that the time has
arrived when boys must be subjected to
greater restraints, and If they will not do
it, the public authorities will take the mat.
ter in their hands. Memphis Bulletin.


SCENE IN AN EDITORS RooM-The AL
toona Tribune has the following:


Obliging patron-Now want you just
to put in little local notice Of my new
stock will you2


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