Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-12-20
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for the high places of life are seldom or never OBJ
tanned but through long and painful vigils stern
appreniiceshipS or the most profound devotion To
whatever ones business is. Our own eyes will
show us that the men of the eminence in their
various pursuits about us have risen TO that emf
nence by slow, laboTiOus, and tedious steps, En-
inence is not, In this country, TO be reached by n
flight, but upln steps of long and constant ascent,
and on foot, ido, often with burdens on the back,
that Stagger and almost weigh down the traveller.
To learn aud 70 understand all this, is the most az
fiicting, and generally the most difficult lesson of
aspiring youth, The buoyancy of Youthful aspira-
ton Will recognise, not that walks by his feet,
but II fancles that he scars with wings. Ask the
graduate of cllege f, in his wish to be the CON
duc,or OF some leading Journal he would he willing
! 10 learn the trade of the Printers devil, and go
through all the various transformations of that in-
portant parsonage, from. being the backfaced GRAND
office boy up to being the nditer of the leading ar
tlcle. A hundred to one of such graduates would
shrink from such vassalage, and yet the trade can
not be well learnt without SO doing. The states
man. first among the foremost, maintains his posi-
ton with apparent ease, and the whole nation bows
down before his genius with admiration but ask
youth to submit TO the nightly watches, the long
sltings, the suffering and general alliction by
which the power is TO obtain that ease of posi-
lion, and hundred to one he will cover under the
demand that is made upon his time and PEACE
The orator has been created only by understanding
and studying life in all its varieties, and then by
hard study, and thus fitting himself 10 express his
ideas IN the most vigorous way. The machinist
has by his fame and name spoken in the powerful
machinery of the locomotive, in the engine of the
| steamboat, or in the common spinning jenny, but
that machinist won his way from the poverty
of oyhood in the humble task of cleaning the ma
chine shop, or putting coal on the fire that started
all the machinery of the workshop. 1t is at the
beginning things are learnt well. When we begin
TO build we begin under ground even, and the fab
rlc stands only as we lay lis foundation firmly
But In these beginnings il is that every youth
find something TO do. If there is not employment
in the building above ground, 60 in and dig out the
cellar. Rely upon il that wherever true genius or
real industry and honor exist, the master workman
will in due time discover and promote it, if for no
other reason than this, that is has interest so 10 DO
difficulty in finding employment, we appre-
bend, if combated with such principles as we here
lay down, will not often exist, certainly not with
those who have no families dependant upon them,
and who can, therefore, submit TO temporary sacr-
fees OF wages and time without any injury TO 9TH
ers. Our country is clamorous in its demand
for labor, above all for intelligent faithful devoted
labor, that wherever 1t exists it must find employ,
II 1t only make itself known ShotD itself, that
| II can be known. There is scarcely an employer
in one of our cities who has not place for such a
laborer as describe, even though every place is
seemingly full. 1t is very true, he will not take
| the word of man that he is every thing he saws
| he is but if he can but obtain the opportunity Il
show what he is, and then his acts come up 10 his
words, employment Is sure, ana his way 10 fortune
| is started.