Oshkosh Democrat (Newspaper) - June 6, 1851, Oshkosh, Wisconsin THE DEMOCRAT U PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT OSHKOSH COUNTY BT JAMBS TERMS To Village Subscribers who have the per left at their dwellings a year To Office and Mail Subscribers a year payable in ADVANCE EF Most kinds of Produce will be taken in payment of subscription KF Job Work of every description dune in a manner that will please our patrons BUSINESS DIRECTORY DRURY b DODGE W DKURT WILLIAM W DODGE Attorneys and Counsellors at Law and ors in Chancery Fond du Lac Wisconsin Messrs D D will practice in all tho Courts in the State and give special attention to collecting and securing debts They have business connections formed the States of Wisconsin northern Illinois and eastern They will also attend lo the purchase and sale of Lands the payment of Taxes the location of land warrants the examination land titles The most satisfactory references will be given to our correspondents in New York Boston and Washington and most of the principal cities 9 DANIEL B AND COUNSELLOR at Law Notary Public and Conveyancer All persons business done in making Deeds and taking by giving him a call can de- pend upon having thorn with All business in the Law line entrusted to his will receive prompt attention Collections attended to All manner of Blanks constantly kept on hand Omro Wisconsin Sept DAVID H of Peace Agent for Land Warrants for the payment of General Land Conveyancer House Oshkosh DR 3 x ISRAEL Surgeon and Co Wisconsin Office corner of Wught and Main Sts NT attention will be paid to and diseases peculiar to women anU R P ATTORNEY Counsellor nt Law and in Chaucer Oshkosh Co Wisconsin C D7 M D PHYSICIAN Surgeon and Obstetrician Of- fice on Hitch Stieet 3 west of Stable 44 3 L PHYSICIAN Office over Ft 38 E L ATTORNEY il Law for of Deeds for York Illinois All donf and papers in best fat le tions attended to Oshkosh Wisconsin J B HAMILTON Attorney and nt Low Solicitor in Chancery District Attorney foi County Land and General ccr A A AUSTIN ATTORNEY AT LAW Public Land Agent and Conveyancer Office in the Post Oshkosh Wis 1 E A ROWLEY ATTORNEY AT LAW Cleric of the Board of Supervisors Land Agent and General Con- of Lands at the Stato and General Land Offices of es in Northern Wisconsin promptly attended lo IT Office door South of the Land Of- fice Oshkosh Wisconsin 1 IS FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN JOEL Host Thus House has been re- fitted and the business season and the Traveling Public ib warranted the best conveniences and prompt attendance O Passengers a net baggage convened to anJ from the of charge April -2 DEMOCRAT DEVOTED TO THE DISCUSSION OF EVERYTHING RELATING TO THE PUBLIC GOOD VOL 3 JUNE 0 1851 14 Epigram A prim city girl With a frown and a curl Of lip that proclaimed her a scoffer Was quite in a panic That Had affronted her pride with an Tis exceedingly queer 1 acknowledge my Retorted a sorrowing But you may depend To yeur very life's end You'll never be pained with another The People's Weapon They have a weapon set And better than the A weapon which comes down as still As fall upon the sod But executes a freeman's will As lightning does the will of Nor from its force nor bolts nor locks Can shield Tis the A True Sentiment The noblest men that the earth Are men whose hands are brown with toil Who backed by no ancestral graves Hew down the woods and till the soil APPLETON WIS By JOHN UJJ and gage conveyed to and from the boats fieo of charge April 9 1851 BY T D BUTLER Corner Bridge and Chute streets near boat Wisconsin gers and taken to and fiorn the boats without charge leave this piace daily on the arrival of Steamers for Grand Chate Appleton and Green Bay Menasha May 2 ft BADGER HOTEL M BY O P DUNCAN Corner of Western and St DU LJC WIS Conveyances leave every morning for gan and Milwaukee Passengers and baggage carried to and from the Boats free of charge May NAT 1 0 N A APPLE TON WISCONSIN BY THOMAS A three story house handsomely built expressly for the convenience of the public Furnished in a styte equal to any Hotel hu the Unton and fitted up so as to cure the best accommodation of the the National Hotel will certainly please all who may desire its hospitality It is a libel the intelligence of tho ago suid the taste of the pioneer to as many do that Western Hotel is necessarily dirty re- inconvenient The National tel without boasting guarantees its guests and equal to anv in the State It pleasantly situated in the most beautiful part of the village a convenient distance from College Buildings and in every way Ing inducements for the sojourner or the ff Carriages always in attendance to con- vey luggage to and from free ef April 1 From the Saturday Visiter in the BY I A During the two yenrs we have heud much about Flagging in the and the enemies of this of man brutality have succeeded in getting some at the hands of Congress But there are species of flogging that reprobation though the law can do nothing to the evil It is true that the hw might authorise a suit for damages to be brought by a child in the name of its ami as the yers siy against the parent for every it receives and tho Stato may also provide for the prosection of the tnt in a action of and battery but the writer of this has no sympathy for additional laws for he would rather diminish the number than have them For thf ion in Family we must look to the of public sentiment tbo of parents and the de- of thai strength of soul which scorns the sword the rod as weapons which may kill but cannot bi ing to life may wound but cannot heal some reader is already what thy writer would be at now what 01 w humbug hu is advocating what chimera what further lusion is growing out cf his morbid Very well wondering reader is not the first who has viewed a proposed change is jth timid dread anguish and disdain In language our tion is that parents have no right to ad- minister physical to their and that the whipping of dren is one of the greatest evils of the age This tho subj ct to two single right and the policy of co er- cioi in the government of the young Before indulging any from long or pir conceived ions let it be thai was when parents the right to dis- pose of their not only to their punishment but lo their sale into slavery and to the taking of their lives at suie In oven now sacrifice their children to their In mothers sometimes tied their infants to a and exclaiming tney were not human beings but boasts hurled them from the lock on which the temple stood Even the Spartans in the palmy days of Greece threw their sickly infants into the valley of These barbarous and most un- natural practices are not tolerated by en- lightened nations arid doubtless the first proposition to change them was met with a sneer these facts conciliate the reader lo a and candid consideration of the reasons for abolishing all forms of punishment by the infliction of bodily pain Why have not parents the right to whip their children? 1 Because no human being is born to be whipped Every child possesses a nature that rebels against the red and feels degraded when it is applied It appeals o its lower propensities and strengthens them while it weakens all the nobler attributes of its humanity No physical punishment ever fails to kindle the passions of i age and revenge in the child The exercise of these sions strengthens them and this is not by any means an end to be aimed at iu the training bf children 2 Parents have right to punish because in attempting it they never fail to show their own malice the excitement is generally the precursor of punishment No one in an angry mood is fit to punish and unless more or less revenge is felt a parent cannot punish The whipping of children under such circumstances is not cold but hot blooded cruelty and a strife of rage and revenge is going on between the parent and child that not leaves the spectator in doubt which puny will triumph True it is often said that parents like Providence strike in pity and but wound to but though this may be true as to Providence it is not true as to parents A blow may be meant iri pity but healing never its effect No whipping has is ever failed to injure the recipient that delectable charity It is true that parents Will sometimes whip a child with tears in their eyes and with many expressions of regret that they are compelled te such a course The child beholds the tears and the whipping seems to do him good but if analyze the affair we shall find it is not whipping but the tears that fit him and if the punishment had bren altogether omitted far greater benefit would have resulted 3 Parents have no right to punish their children because they have no dard by which to guide them Each rent is solely governed by the promptings ot passion or his notion of duty He is totally unable to trace the conduct of his child lo i's causes and therefore knows not what remedy is required or how it can be judiciously applied He cannot discriminate as to the effect which ishment would have upon different dren One will suffer more by a harsh word than another by a severe application of the lash Any parent that is capable of judging these things is capable of governing according to the Higher the law and reason and he will never have occasion to use the rod but he who has not sufficient dignity in his character reason in his understanding and love in his soul to govern without the whip is totally unfit to punish and the public sentiment ought to tell him that he is wicked and in in attempting to correct a child by corpo- real chastisement 4 The parent has no right to punish because his child is in no respect able for its conduct Some begin li whip before the child is out of its It ho cholic and and the parent says it is contracting a bad habit that must bo corrected nt Be it known that an infant never cries without sufficient cause Crying is its of self-defence means by which its may be made known and relief applied Now to whip a child for obeying a law of is nearly as sensible as many other phenomena in human life Why is a child Brcat7se it a disorderly constitution Who gave it that The parents no one else Then they apply the whip lo correct faults which proceeded from The justice of this is transparent If however the rod could serve in any way lo faults and benefit the child there would be some for it but this was never its effect The rod never failed to make the worse Who is insane enough to suppose that benevolence veneration and conscientiousness can be developed by Who does not readily admit that punishments tend to deaden finer feelings of the heart and lo kindle into greater all the harsher passions of human Parents are apt to think their children know bettor and if they do not do better by gentler treatment they should be made to walk the line by such forcible upon persons ns they can understand In this they judge their children and especially people's children by because they see an act to be wrong they think the child sees it likewise This is the rule by which we are too apt to judge our fellows generally and the sooner we abandon so insane a rule the better Children will do right soon as they know what light is and feel the necessity of it and not till then therefore should apply their wits to he instruction instead of the punishment of their children These considerations show also the gross impolicy of in the Family A can be more speedily ruined with the whip than by any other means It had better go entirely proved and come up Spontaneously than be driven up with the lash Whipping is an old custom and is the only mode in which some parents can Show their and dignity But let it be said to such a parent that if you wish your to ba as cruel as yourself whip him If you would send into the world a cowardly son whip him If you would make him a liar whip him for a child will invent a lie wtih which to avoid and if detected m his falsehood find more severely punished he will put his wits to work and make his lies so shrewd that they cannot be detected so that with the whip parents excite tha children not in their own im- provement but in the invention of hood the practice of dishonesty and the debasement of their If you would kill out the child's if pendence and make him a pliant tool him If you make him re- vengeful and malicious whip him If you would dim the luster of his pleasant eye and give it a dull look whip him and whip him frequently for human nature can endure much and it requires a long period of abuse entirely to subdue it If you would efface charming expression of countenance and impart to it a coarse sullen and morose expression whip him and do it more so the more speedily the work can be accomplished If you would make your child vicious and prepare him for the penitentiary whip him by all means as the best mode under heaven of sending him there And ly if you wish your son to hate you while living and damn you when dead you should not fail to give him a sound ping as often as twice a All these effects flow directly from the punishment of children No child of any mettle jj ever whipped without ing in his soul that if he were strong enough he would give his father such a as would remind him lhat il is riot a trifling thing to be whipped sands of children have sworn while pass ing through whipping age that they would repay their fathers with interest they should become men but the restorative powers of human nature which are ever injuries preserve them from so unnatural an act and make them forget the abuse inflicted during their helpless years But the injury has Been written in their characters and follows them through Some are under the impression lhat a stubborn child must be subdued and the rod applied until a complete victory is obtained An illustration of such folly is found in the biography of that great woman Madame Roland who was sent to the scaffold by the bloody Robespierre for her noble efforts in behalf of French liberty After speaking of the ease with which she was governed when a child by bor biographer proceeds though thus easily swayed by Madame her mother child rebelled against the Jeis of her father and would never submit to any thing which she not perceive the reason Any thing ike coercion made her furious as a lion j limes she bit her father while he whipping her When about six old it was one day necessary for ler to take some nauseous medicine icr mother's she several fines attempted to swallow it but turned isr head away with loathing Her her earns in and threatened her with a This roused the native less of her character and from that determined she would not try o do as they wished After a severe shipping sno attempted to throw the Her father being very a second time punished her still severely A violent uproar but the child was not subdued cler father then promised her a third and Hill more cruel whipping Her cries md sobs suddenly ceased calmly and she pushed the cup from her and fie red to the rod determined to die rather than submit Her mother was f course dreadfully agitated having persuaded her father to leave tho room he put the litile girl to and left her vithout saying a word the child lad rested two hours she returned and vith tears in her eyes entreated her to mke the medicine without occasioning iny further vexation the little girl d by her tenderness looked steadily in er face and swallowed it at a single draught From that time her father never undertook to punish her He adopted his wife's system of mildness and and tried to gain his daughter's by walking with her teaching her to draw and entering into kind con- with her Was the little girl ruined by that ure to subdue her stubborn from it she became the celebrated Madame Roland the virtual prime ister of the Republic during her administration She might have I sen ruined had her father persevered in subduing her j but more sensible nother saved that noble daughter Hail Reason and holy deities in the moral realm Ye t re more powerful than armies and vies and at altar ail human despots end earthly kings must bow Before darkness is dispelled and the fierce are subdued In thy presence Enger veils his crimson face malice hides I is bristling head and revenge hies away ti his The human spirit j ields naturally willingly and gracefully t thee for ye constituted it in thy Out of thy serene and genial there is fro peace but disorder is riore riotous as thy sway is less ledged Let parents recollect these hints and siudy the for themselves Their cwn experience confirms these views for have never faRed to the most dis- where is greatest Severity ii family discipline On the contrary where there is the most of love and the hast of violence on the part of parents there is the greatest amiability and lence in the children Let all parents remember the instruction of the great Tasso to the instructor of his son thai he should never whip him would no more punish for said he I child than I would lay violent hands on the image of God Let also the be remembered hand uplifted to strike ancient who stayed his his son saying I would punish thee were I not angry Interview with Fillmore Wo are glad to see that our friend Lawrence W Jerome connected with tha Rochester American has been rewarded for his devotions to Fillmore and the He has received the pointment ot Deputy Collector and In- spector of the Customs at Rochester Lawrence unlike many of the peculiar friends of administration has been a consistent hater of Weed and Seward He was taken with the disease when the Native American faction seven or eight years since promised to swallow up the Whig has not been cured yet nevertheless is a clever We shall never companionable fellow forget his interview with Fillmore the day after the inauguration of Gen Taylor A party of from ten to fifteen after shaking hands with the brave old General started to pay their respects to Mr Fillmore On their way down the Avenue to Hotel it was agreed thad as Jerome was a Western the duly appropriately de- on him to present the party to Our dear Lawrence ADVERTISEMENTS Inserted at the following rates from there will be no One square three insertions One one year of a Column One-Half Column Full EF Yearly allowed the lege of changing their advertisements six months O Legal advertisements published Statute Prices which at the a Yankee A very friend of ours says the St Louis Reveille who a few weeks since was poked out of a very comfortable office up the river has benken himself to Bangor a while to recover the wound inflicted upon his feelings by our arid immolating Change of air must have had effect upon his spirits for Galerm he writes us a very which among other things tells of a quarrel that look on the boat between w real tourist and a real live Vankee settler The latter trod on the tots of the former whereupon the former to out of the cabin the latter kick me out of the sir kick out of tins 81 You'll kick me Mr Hitchcock of this Yes sir I'll kick you Mr Wall I said the Yankee cooly after being satisfied that it was himself stood in such imminent peril since you talk of of assault guess kicking you never heaid nm tell about Vice President old Bradley and my mire there tu remonstrated said he won't recollect The party insisted ever on his doing the honors Finding there was no escape he nerved himsell a stiff smash and as we proceeded up stairs said never he don't me him I'll make ejaculated Lawrence The party was announced by the waiter and ushered into of tha Vice President do you dos Mr exclaimed Jerome with great confi Jenre i do Mr dend Fillmore evidently confused My name is replied rence with a dignified elevation Jerome of the Rochester paper that has more influence in Western New Fork than any journal in the State paper that has been your friend on all Not know me at elevated himself a peg by jerking on the waistband of his loons not know me when I have raked Rochester lo breakfast to bring up votes to elect you Governor roller and Vice President Not know me when I have been fighting your ties in Monroe county fjr ten years Sir I want that you should know me Look at rne Mr Fillmore so that when I come again with my friends from Virginia Pennsylvania Maryland and all over God's creation I feet like A cat in a strange garret I expected it would be just so I told my friends you wouldn't recognize me Sir I tell you that it has become a thit you dorUt your friends The Vice President wilted down liks a wet rag under the irony of the speech Tho whole parly were amazed and an- at Jerome's boldness We never saw a man so confused as Fillmore He evidently fell the force of the language He looked like a fellow in a fight place ready to crawl into the lest kind of a hole The Vice President saw that it was necessary to say thing in reply to the harangue Ha was to say I will know you hereafter Mr when he was interrupted by Lawrence who cut him short and edged in I want that you should know me I don't you to treat mo in this cold and clammy way IPs a way you've got I know find you can't help it Mr Jerome I have taken a of you and I shall never forget said the Vice President with one of his most complaisant smiles at the same time shaking his hand ly Fillmore WAS from his em- by Dave the jolter of the Lockport Courier who changed the conversation by introducing the No sir nor do Wall guess it won't set you much any how as kicking is best to ba considered on You one of those see old Bradley is sanctimonious long-faced hypocrites who put a religious suit on every morning and with a deal of screwing manage to keep on Wall would jump over any sixteen rail fence in and open any barn that hadn't a padlock on it Two or three times I found her in my stable and I told old Bradley about it and he was unruly watch and a hull till after chuich in the afternoon he had an old roan mare that lot of things all said in a very manner with a as long as Fara's on a day serious Deacon I knew alt tho speech on Fillmore evidently a good Ever since that re- markable interview Fillmore has the force of knowing his An old lady of Jersey had an unaccountable aversion to rye and never could eat it in any form till of late they she making it into key I find I can now and then worry down a li tie of that bell Idr What's tho cause inquired Its mv deliberate conviction that body John is pulling the answered time he was lying and so I watched him and his old rotn tu and for three old roan came to my stable about m and just about daylight old bed Bradley would come bridle her and ride her off I then just took my old mare down to the blacksmith's shop and bad some shoes mado with about four inches long and had em nailed o hW Your heels mister ain't nothing to em I took her hum and gave her about fen feet halter and tied her right in the center of the stable fed her well with oats about nine o'clock and taking a good smoke went to bed knowing that my old mare was a true telling animal and that she'd give a good report of herself in the I wasn't fairly asleep the old oman hunched me and wanted to know what on was the matter out at the stable Says I go to steep Peggy it's nothing but Kate she's kicking the flies I soon she hunched me again and says she Mr Hitchcock du get up and see what is the matter with Kate Lay still will care of I guess Wall the next morning about day light Bradley witli his in to the stable and as true as the book of Genesis when ho saw the old head and stern hft cursed and swore worse than you did mister when I cum down on your toes After breakfast that morning Joa Davis cum to my house and says he old roan is nearly dead she's cut to pieces and can scarcely I want to says I how on airth did it Now we were talking up came that cwi lasting hypocrite Bradley and Hitchcock my old mare is savs h M Du says I She's all cut to says do you whether she was in your stablo last night or Wali with this I let Do I know the Yankee in tion inade a sudden advance upon tho dandy who made way for him scious ns it were Do I know it you no souled old you you hay hookin fod whitlin of nothin Kat kicks like a beast I've reduced the thing to a The Yankee had not ceased to ad ranee or the dandy in his retreat now the mot on of the latter being accelerated by an apparent demonstration to suit the action to the word he found himself in the social tumbling backwards arid tearing the scrambled up a over a pile of baggage of his pants HS he perfect scream of laughter stunning bim from all The defeat was total a rew moments after he was seen drugging trunk ashore Mr Hitchcock finished his story on the borler deck Miss Dix the philanthropist is now visiting the poor houses j in the Southern States
