Year: 1867

They have short and sharp ways ofdeaI-


ing with loafers in Boston1ways. which


remind us OF Puritan times and. of prirn-


tive statutes. The other day one Mi.


chaef Nolan, about whom there is moth


ing extraordinary. whatever, but whom


we here kindly immortalize BY mention


ing his ratne, was sent to the House of


Correction for four months for being an


"Idle and dis9fderlY person" ;" Wrathful


in the extreme lie abused the Judge with


insolent abandon, and received sixty days


more for the wild freedom Of his remarks.


Michael. eihhis is IS, not We suppose, what Yon


may call literary; if he were, he might


employ 3. part Of his ,seelusion from the


world, either IN composing satire upon


the fact that millions of idle people in all
parts of the country remain 1T large IN
disturbed by the police, or else in giving


us his views of the policy applvibg the


Massachusetts state. law: to the great
work Of reconstruction. In the most
troublesome, southern localities, if the


idle and disorderly persons could be set


at some useful work, and SO forced. for
portion Of their time to Keep the. peace,
it t:would not 1nakemhch difference whetli-
,er the President meddled with the Ma


jorGenerals or not. It might then be
possible to hold a. convention without a
riot and IN election without a dread Of
one Ene.tenths of all the troubles
which come to as by telegraph and cor
Eespopderee are occasioned by a vaea-
bond social element, by men to whom Or
der is as painful as hard work, and who
pine in peace for the pop of the pistol. ~ ~


Most of the order which is so discourage
ing comes Of lazmess, witch, is congeni-
tai in great deal of the white blood of
Southern regieus, and which is never disI
carded except for the aexcitementsro of q
riot or for an affray in. front OF. a, grocery.
Industrious southern men With a real
stake in the country want nothing so
much as peace while. thereaisi nothing
more thoroughly out of place and out of
seasop, just at this time in these parts
than idleness. There is an old saw that
those who will not work must not expect
to eat';i but somehow they do eat and
drink, and smoke, anddsleepbthe sleep
which they have not earned, and, quarter
themselYes { upon unhappy society, and
Illustrate political economies, and make
themselves thoroughly tunproftable@ @nui-l
sanees, sometimes stealing and sometimes
begging, and always alookoatf for
a shindy or a-lyhehing. In the present
condition Of the. ssouthern States, it is
nothing less than crime for anybody
to shirk his Share of the toll necessary
torestore prosperity; and we know no
better method of bringing the 'drohes to
reason than that adopted with Michael
of Boston. Thejails might be a little
crowded 1T first; but, rather than work,
a great many of the ragged epicureans
would commit suicide, and in time the
rest would muster energy enough to die
natural deaths. We are, satisfied that it
will be a fine thing for the south when
they are all defunct and buried, for we
are perfectly sure that there will never
be another generation ike them thrift
less, lazy, sensual and lawless We ad-
wise them to make the most of the pres
ent opportunity, for we can assure them
we think with perfect confidence, that
their time is short. We do not expect
them to go voluntarily to work, but we
do expect them to live quietly and to
do cnoo1il1r ls- -tt5 -t-r -if.a--fs-f y .l- u