American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-17
AND PERSEVERANCE
ny JOHN NEAL,

BY JOHN NEAL,
= There are people, who, having began life,
~ setting thelr boats against the wind and
kde, are always complaining oftheir bad luck,
Ind always lust ready to give up, and for that
cry reason ale always helpless and good for
nothing, and yet, if they would persevere, hard
IS it may be, to work up stream all their life
png, they would have their reward at last
GOOD voyages are made both ways?
A certain amount of opposition is great
elp to a man. Kites rise against not aCith the
Wind. Even a head wind is better than moth
ING. No man ever worked his voyage any
where, in a dead calm. The best wind for
anything in the long run, is side wind. Iii
blows right aft, how is he to get backl
Let no man wax pale therefore, because OF
opposition. Opposition is what ne wants and
must have, to he good for anything. Hardship
is the native soil of manhood and selt-reliance.
He that cannot abide the storm, without finch
ne or quailing-strps himself in the sunshine,
md lies down by the way side, to be overlook
ed and forgotten. He who but braces himself
10 the struggle, when the wind blows-gves
up when they have done, and falls asleep in
he dleness that follows.
Did you ever know anybody stick to any kind
of business, no matter how unpromising, ten
years at most, who did not prosper? Not one!
no matter how bad it might be at the begin
Iang--if he stick to it earnestly and faithfully,
l;lnd tried nothing else; no matter how hard he
may have found it sometimes, to keep his head
above water; still if he persevered, he always
came out bright in the long run-didn't he'
whatever it might be, at the beginning, by the
end of ten years, he had made business for
himself
The mischief is, that although beginners al
ways get along we'll enough at first; being al
ways wary and watchful, and saving at first,
Lhey are never satisfied with doing well-they
must always be doing better. 81 was we'll
wanted to be better and here am" is their
epitaph
And how better? By toilng harder in their
chosen path-by getting up earlier and going
10 bed later-in their pre-apponted workshops
by eating the bread of carefulness? No in.
deeG-nothing of the sort. What they call
doing better is changing their businessmen
iarging it, and trebling their expenses-or leav-
ing it altogether to the wretched plodders, who
lack enterprise and spirit, and are satisfied
with doing well, though everybody about them
IS doing better.
And what are the consequences? Unwil.
lingness on the part of the old to help the
terprise-the payment of young mans first
notes, and q protest on all that have more than
twelvemonth to run.
Stick to your business! whatever your bust
ness may be, stick to it and you are safe! Dc
so for ten years and no mortal man can take il
Rom YOU. No matter how bad it may be al
the beginning, if you are fool enough to entel
npon it, be wise enough to persevere. If the
\ tide is against you to-day, for that very reason
I it will be with you tomorrow. They wht
cross your path will soon die off, or give up j
they find YOU are in earnest. Better stick to
bad business, than be always changing, ever
from good or better. Better have Bad reason
than none at all for moving your piece, if you
ever hope to be player.
ssBe sure you're right and then go ahead, )
said Davy Crockett. That's the motto for
business man, whether young or old, in othe
words for useful man; but for the young, it i
mine of wisdom. Show your enterprise BY
striking out a new path for yourself, in the be
! ginning, and your perseverance to 1t, needles
Of the jibes and sneers of all that may seem t.
be going ahead faster than you are. Wait ant
see. The end is not yet. Do this, and if yo'
] live ten years, you cannot die poor man, no
! live undlstinguished Keep changing, and yo
are lost.-The rolling stone gathers no moss
| A bad business well followed up, is worth hal
q dozen better kinds not followed up.
"Three moves are as bad as fire, sal
Franklin. So are three changes, whether of bu
STRESS, or partners, or names, or places. Wha
we most want in this country, is old firms, oil
places of business, men who have stuck t
something no matter what long enough to b
known. These are the truly enterprising, be
cause they are the only persevering Of on
earth.
Be of good cheer, young man, though
may not rain gold into thy porringer! thong
tho plaughshare thou drivest, may not turn u
as it were fire in thy path at the very begiI