The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], A bad place for Morals.

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A bad place for Morals.

--Hon. T. B. Sedgwick has written the appended reply to a note which he received from a clergyman, asking his influence to obtain a subordinate clerkship in the New York Custom-House for his son, a youth he "had never had occasion to punish, and never knew of his being guilty of a falsehood:"

Syracuse, March, 1861.
Rev. Mr. P.--My Dear Sir:

--If you have a son who won't lie nor steal, don't, for God's sake, put him in the New York Custom-House; he would soon loose those qualities there, and get other habits not half so virtuous. Still, if you are inclined to put temptation in his way, instead of being careful and prayerful that it be removed from him, I will give him a letter, provided any friend of mine is appointed Collector.

Very truly your friend, and the friend of your boy,

T. B. Sedgwick,

The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 23, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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