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WASHINGTON, Nov 18Th 1876
III O'Clock PM.
In my sermon lhi, morning, | had time only to
unfold one head Of my discourse o., lac deeply IN
teresting question-How to get an Office from Mr.
Polk! showed how to fail-and now come to
the second part
HOW SUCCEED.
In these matters Judge not from experience, but
from observation, which Seneca calls % the expe-
rience of others" | once heard good old Lorenzo
Dow preface sermon on he'll Gt's bad place, Mr.
Bennett, SO you had better make up your mind to,
&c &c) by these words" My hearers, | am
very sorry can't in this DISCOURSE speak from ex-
perence; but can, for all that, give you pretty
gooG idea of its torments, for l was once SO near
there that know good deal about the road, and
as good many OF my nelghbors have gone there,
| have pretty correct notions on the subject
If you want an office, and must have one, and
can't get along without 1t, and will have 1t, why
really II becomes serious business But let me
expostulate with you little, good friend. If you
any other way in the world, / beseech you not TO
lean the State for your support. In ancient
times it was considered the duty OF free citizen
to support the State, and although this idea
has gone pretty much out Of vogue in our
times, yet if you have one spark of ho-
nest, upright, noble and independent feel
ing, work with your honest hands and gain your
honest Bread rather than go and beg for Office for
tell you, my dear fellow that you will find it a
very dlsagreeable job before you have done with It,
One or two things are rue-there are very few offices
under our government that will pay man for taxi
ing them, il he discharges his duty faithfully and ad-
ministers his trust with honor and integrity. II,
then, you are alter a specuation-f you wish to
make money, it ls more than certain that, being
gifted with the necessary capabilities for such Offices
you make more money by any other pursuit.
unless you abuse your official trust some manner
II your motives are money, then, and you an
honest man. you will do better to choose something
else. But ii your motives be to win honor, to gain
the applause and the congratulations of your fellow
men-lt you seek some post where an official sta nd
ing will aid you in the accomplishment of some plan
that will enable you to throw glory over your coun-
try, by guarding her honor, ennching its literature,
augmentlng its fund OF intelligence-why then
your motive is noble, and any noble man will give
your exertions will awaken the sympathies OF all
good men, and your success will call forth their con-
gratulatons Taking it for granted, then, that such
are your motives, that you may look every honors
BILE man in the face and say, this is my object-sir,
can tell you how you will succeed, II success be pos
sible And speak with confidence, for have seen
the course OF the President and the cabinet we nop
have, till predict with tolerable degree OF ac
curacy the final result of an application.
l. Be sure that your qualifications, your educa-
ton, your habits, your character, your former pur
SUITS all fit you special manner to fill the post
you seek, with honor to the country and to the ad-
minlstratlon. you want a foreign mission, don't
make tool yourself by going abroad when you don't
know the language OF the court you are to be sent
to-. have heard many men speak on this point from
sad experience. Hardly one OF our ministers or
charges speak French when they 60 to their posts
hey have occasion to feel pretty soon after reach
their destination that they have made mistake
why, what must man do when he can't talk p
He appears In a foreign court good deal more
awkward than these Pattawattamie Indians here in
Washington, for they can talk some English, and
when they wish they interpreter, and
this you can't do In the saloons OF Prince. There
you must do your own talking or be laughed at
And, remember, part OF your official duty is to talk
with kings and princes, and ministers and courtiers
and represent the intelligence of your country, and
create good Impressions among strangers and high
personages OF your nation You are sent 10 repre-
sent your natIon and 1t you can neither 60 to court
give dinners nor sources, attend them simply
because you cannot talk, be sure that before you
have learned how, you will have taken level from
which you will afte rwards rise with difficulty, you
rise at all The great object OF your mission will be
lost, let me tell you, and you may be sure of it,
less you understand and can talk French well j
speak of this more particularly, because it is point
little thought OF by applicants tor such stations.
We have now in Europe several diplomatic represen-
tatves, who, although they have been abroad, some
Of them Tor years, cannot utter sentence In French
without making themselves ridiculous, and hardly
one there knew word OF that language before he
reached his destination. When they arrive and
find out their embarrassment, they either shut them
selves up, or run oil travelling The latter is the
commOner course taken, and thus it happened that
during Mr.. Tyler's administration not hall our re-
presenatlves abroad were at their posts. Fine state
OF things we had under that captain, both at home and
abroad; But some Of these evils are now being
ed, and ere long the cure will be complete.
2-Belns sure, first OF all, that you qualified,
well qualified tor your post, get from highly respect
able quarters, testimonials to this effect, and 60
Washington, and lay them before the President IN
person-cal at his house some day at twelve-you
are sure to get one hearIng-enter the room with
your hat in your handmade your business known
Immediately to the Presldent-tell him frankly and
freely hnna ind ndont ApnorI vrybo
you want-put your papers In his hand-let him un-
derstand that he will net be troubled again about
the apphcation-if you are and have been friend OF
the Administration, say clearly and unhestatlng
ly, and tell him that you will try IN the place you
seek to do honor to him and the country, and then
thank HIM for his courtesy IN receiving you and
nearing your application, and leave him without any
delay-don't, tor mercy sake sit down and bore the
good man-don't sit down al all-don't stay more
than two minutes and halt, or at most, even in an
extreme case, more than two minutes and forty or
iorty-iive seconds-and, for mercy's sake, don't
new your application to him in person, nor in any
way except through your friends.
3-Dont try to draw extract from the Presl-
dent any promise or pledge. He will not give II TO
you, even II he intends to give you the office. He
mas the folly OF this In other presidents. do
not believe that there is an honest man who can
come forward and show his face, and say that MIR.
Polk has made him promise, or pledge, OF this
kind, or under these or similar circumstances-or
that he has made any pledge to any man which he
did not reeeem. An honest man take no other
course-if his pledge is worth having, he will be
careful how he gives it-for like an honest man who
gives his note ne expects 10 redeem the day it
becomes due.
q. Don't talk about your application to any body
but your own immediate friends (and the less you
say about it to them the better, without your init
mate friends are more worthy OF that title than
have found mine) Don't repeat the conversation
OF the President-and for gracious sake, don't say
to any body any thing that leads them to suppose
that his words, his look, or his manner, kindled
the slightest hope in your breast.
5. If you have friend in the cabinet that will in
terest himself in your BEHALF go to him and tell HIM
what you have done, ana ask him TO help you-and
don't bore hlm elther-he can't and won. bear IL,
not near halt as well as the President, for several
reasons. First, there is not man in his cabinet,