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It is bound to furnish a sufficient supply of food, ra shelter, for its helpless and indigent members; an necessarily incident to this duty the correlative right employ all lawful means for sustaining its pow that duty.

These means are moral as well as physical. Th the right to forbid and prevent all acts which have a to weaken or destroy the functions required for the p of this obligation. Hence the right, independent gious considerations, to forbid and punish crimes; be direct consequences of crime are, to disturb and int ciety, and thereby consume its time and diminish powers and physical energies, and to wrong it out quired means and stock for the public supply.

Society has the right, and it is its duty to con one who is able to support himself to do so by so and useful employment; because, if he will not su self, his subsistence must come out of the earning who do work; and every meal he eats diminishes th subsistence, and increases the labor of those who ear duce the supply.

Every man who does not earn his living, and is n sustained off of the fruits or productive results of pro viously acquired, is subsisted by the public; and this of others is accomplished by fraud, or obtained by b by trick or fraud, the act is criminal; the perpet swindler, and forfeits to the public his personal libe thereby rendered liable to its custody and control.

If his support is obtained as charity, by reason o to support himself, the public has a right to obtain. any remuneration he is able to give by his own labor to his personal custody, so as to make his support as to render his labor as productive, as possible.

The obligation is reciprocal; he is just as much support himself, and to aid society in the support who are in want, as the public is bound to support hi in want. He can force them to help him if in need

can compel him to forece a part or the whole of thi

wide range of official, professional, comm other employments which add nothing to

They minister to the wants and wishe necessities of man, and cannot be dispens ized community. The burthen is heavy create and produce the necessary supplies, be spared to lighten this load by a care numbers and emoluments of the supernu

The prices of produce and necessary s as the disproportions with these two whenever the latter exceeds its due and a effort is made to balance the scales by th ulent employment of false and spurious

There cannot be too many farmers, gro and manufacturers, nor too much encoura skill and industry; all this serves to incr necessaries of life; but the accumulation engaged in the non-productive employn these productions and enhances their cost

The proposed free schools will have a these pernicious redundancies. The re sufficiently encourage their increase, and vented by restraining the propensity to too much.

Neither the public industry nor mo coaxing "every individual," white and b to learn things which they will have no o and place millions in dependence, and din ties for produce and supply.

To avert these calamities, the preve should be enforced rigidly, without the ceived notions of delicacy, or the sligh universal application.

Every habitation and person should b and placed under the strictest surveill ward police.

No honest man ever suffered in his r

scrutiny; on the contrary, they invite and encou conservative measures of self-protection against vagabonds.

Magistrates and guardians of the poor have the it is their duty, to arrest all beggars, gamblers, prosti bonds, criminals; all lazy and able-bodied perso not work; all those who have secret means for sub all paupers, destitute and neglected minors, and all both sexes, and of all ages and nations, who are ur willing to be employed in some honest calling. Th power, and it is their duty, to enter into their ward, parish, or township.

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They can go and search out the lawful means of of every person, whose conduct, condition, and be nish reasonable ground to suspect that they do honest means, and put them to the proof of a lawful and if they are unwilling to vindicate themselves, go to work at some proper employment, to commit the as vagrants. If they are infirm and needy, to s wants, and give them shelter; and if they are negle to support, protect, educate, and bind them out to

If these good and wholesome regulations were re forced, and rigidly imposed upon a second offence, be the following reformations :

1. The streets would be clear of drunken, obsco volting exposures.

2. The persons and property of society would from violence and murder.

3. All gambling-houses, grog-shops, and brothel banished.

4. The weak, ignorant, lazy, and proud would couragement or bad example.

5. The millions of the hard earnings, of which are plucked and filched, by profligate living, reckl gaming in stocks, trade, banks, monopolies, and would be saved; and the boundless waste of mo sons, refuges, almshouses, free schools, and corpora

nestly reform, and go to work, or inconti parts unknown; or, if they remained, woul their bad examples would not disturb the would be compelled to earn their own liv some elements of practical education and c more in one age to moralize, purify, re learned, industrious, useful, rich, and religio and women, than all the free schools and t accomplish in fifty generations.

There is no sphere so important for m childhood and home. Domestic authority s as unyielding as patriarchal power. The pa should know that temperance in all thin cleanliness, economy, and self-denial, co tion, and reverence of religion, are the e family-government, and he should never fli conditional enforcement.

Home is the only sphere where morals a stilled into the heart.

These duties are much neglected from i cusable indulgence. Many who have had proper information marry early, become the bring up, families before they are themselve yield to a spirit of censurable fondness which excludes all training, constraint, o others, from small beginnings, obtain wher sometimes plenty, aspire to ape their mo bors in all their bad qualities, without havi mination to imitate their commendable hab

They infer that, because they see the dressed well, and in company, the way children genteel is to give them fine clothes and permit them to promenade the streets places of amusement at night; to slight and and obtrude themselves into the society o genteel; to neglect their trades, business, to cherish a contempt for labor, restraint, a

What comes of the boy who, from thirteen to tw not had fastened upon his mind the rudiments of a s cation, well grounded knowledge of some trade or em with habits of cheerful industry and pure morals? but ruin.

It is the critical period when the character is form he does not obtain these advantages, and have them t engrafted upon his nature, he will never get them, will be in their place, ignorance, presumption, vanity impatience, and loose morals.

This state of the propensities seeks kindred associat the mind open to the influences of temptations for mixing with tavern haunters, fire companies, rowdies, reckless, dissolute, and abandoned.

The present system of domestic discipline is in all spects radically wrong. Persons under age are too dulged, and allowed to be in the streets by day and ni ing tobacco, smoking cigars, drinking, swearing, and about at corners, engine-houses, whooping in the theat ing and strolling over fields and meadows, treading do and despoiling crops and gardens, and stealing fruit.

It would seem as if there were no more boys or g now they were all men and women.

"Among all the changes that mark the ninete tury, there is no other so great as that in the use of authority. In the time of our fathers, the power of was understood and felt-the authority of the G Bible, of the husband, the parent, the pastor, the te law. Now, the feeling is so different as to tempt us that those perilous times are come when men shall b their own selves-covetous, boasters, proud blaspher bedient to parents, heady, high-minded. Influence to be all-authority nothing. The son expects to father-the daughter the mother. The rod of di thrown away, and the scholars govern the schools. the administration of justice, the same spirit leads ju