Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-01-18

|
nence Is not, in this country. to be reached by
fight. but upon steps of long and constant
ascent, and on foot, 100, with burdens on The
back, that siagger and often almost weigh
down he traveller. To learn and TO understand
all this, is the mos, affecting and generally The
mos, difficult lesson of aspiring youth. The
buoyancy of youthful aspiration will recognise,
no, that man walks by his feet, but II fancies
that he scars with wings. Ask the graduate
of college if, in his wish to be the conductor
of some leading journal, he would be willing
10 learn the trade of The Printers devil and 60
through all the various transformations of tha.
impurIan. parsonage, from being the blackfaced
errand office boy up to being the nditer of the
leading article. A hundred to one Of such grad
yates would shrink from such vassalage, and
yet the trade cannot be well learnt without so
doing. The statesman, frs. among The FORE
most, maintains his position with apparen, ease,
and the whole nation bows down before his
genius with admiration but ask youth 10
submit TO The nightly watches, the long siuings
the suffering and general affllc,on by which
lhe power is won 10 obtain that ease and posi-
lion. and hundred 10 one he will cbwer under
the demand that is made upon his time ahd
peace. The orator has been created only by
understanding aud stud dylng life in all lis varie
Ties. and then by hard study, and thus fitting
himself 10 express his ideas in The mos, vigor.
Gus way.
The mechanst has by his fame and name
spoken in the powerful machinery of The loco
motive, or in the engine of the steamboat, or in
the common spinning jenney; bu, that mechln
ist won his way from the poverty Of boyhood,
IN the humble task of cleaning The machine
snop. or putting coal on the fire that started all
The machinery of the workshop. 1t is at the
beginning hings are learnt well. When We
begin 10 build, we begin under ground even,
and The fabric stands only as we lay the foun-
daion firmly. But in these beginnings ii is
that every youth can find something TO do. If
there is not employment in building above
ground, go In and dig out the cellar. Rely
upon it that whatever Irue genius or real indus
try and honor exist, the master workman will
in due time discover and promote it, if for no
oher reason than this at IS his interest so to do
A difficulty of finding employment we ap-
prehend, if combat,ed with such principles as
we here lay down, will not often exist, certain
ly not with those " no have no families depend
ant upon rhem and no can, therefore, submit
TO temporary sacrifices Of wages aud time with
out injury to others Our country is so clamor-
Gus in its demand for labor, above all for incl
lIgent faithful devoted labor, that wherever il
exists i, must find employ, iii, only make ITSELF
known, or show itself, so that it can be known.
There is scarcely an employer in one of our
cities who has not place for such laborer as
we describe. even lhoug every place is seem
ingly full. |, is true, lie will no. take the word
of man that he is every thing he says he is
bu. if he can obtain the opportunity to show
what he is, and then his acts come up 10 his
words, employment is sure, aud his way 10
fortune Is started