The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1853-11-04
ADVICE TO YOUNG LAWYER.

TO appreciate what IS trut and right:
WASHINGTON, July 23d, 1852,
My DEAR SIR: Your kindly expressed
note Of the l7lh instant finds me with
head and hands full Of occupation. But
| can never turn away from young man
asking from me a word Of counsel, any
more than could from drowning man
To save a fellow being from death is .
small thing. To save him from error 9
great one. ..... .,. .,...- ......
As you are an entire stranger 10 me,
and have given me no information in
regard to your age, or the circumstances
Of your early life, and only mention that
you propose TO be lawyer, cannot
give my remarks So pointed as / other
wise might, must, therefore, speak
more generally; and pon, out in their
order, some Of a young mans necessities
| hope you will find in yourself, bu, liule
to be supplied. .#t u8a.
First, you need Health. An earnest
student is prone to ruin his health. Hope
cheats him with the belief that, if he can
study now without cessation, he can do
so always. Because he does not SEQ the
end Of his strength, he foolishly con-
cludes there is no end. A spendlhrift Of
health is one Of the most repreht nsible
of spendihrifIs. am certain that could
have performed twice the labor, both
better and with greater case to myself,
had | known as much Of the Laws Of
Health and Life, Of tweRiy>one, as do
now. In college, l was taught all about
the motions of the planets, as carefully
as though they would have been in dan
ger of getting off the track il | had no,
known how TO trace their orbits: but
about my own organization, and the con.
di,ions indispensable 10 the heal;hful
functions of my own body was lea in
profound ignorance. Nothing could be
more preposterous. ! ought TO have be-
gun at home, and taken the stars when
il should have come their turn. The
was, broke down at the
beginning of my second college year, and
have never had u we'll day since. What
ever labor 1 have since been able to do,
| hnvo done it all on cred, instead Of
most iuinous way, either in
regard to eallh or money. For the last
twenty five years, so far as j, regards
health, have been put, from day TO day,
on my good behavior; and during the
whole of this period, as an Hibernian.
would say, if ! had lived as other folks
do for month, I should have died In
fortnight. ..-. ~. ~, .... ~.
Health has great deal to. do with
what the world calls talent. Take
lawyers life through, and high health is
nj least equal to fifty per cent. more
brain. Endurance, cheerfulness, wit !,
clnquence, attain force and splendor,
with health, which they can never ar
proach without it. 1t often happens that
the credit awarded to the intellect be-
longs 80 the digestion. Though do no,
believe that genius and good digestion
are convertible terms, yet the former can
meyer rise to its lofiies, heights unaided
by the latter. aaa's ... TO- *'7'#a ad'
Again, a wise man with great en,er-
prise before him, first looks round for
sntable instruments wherewi,h TO exc
cule'is; and he thinksit allsimportant 10
command these instruments, before he
begins his labor. Health is an indis>
pensible instrument for the best qualities
and highest finish Of all work. Think of
the immense advantage you would have
in suit in court, il, afier a weeks or
forlnigh,'s laborious investigation offac;s,
you could come in for the closing argu>
ment, OIL The las, day, fresh and elastic ),
with only SO much more Of momentum
and fervor for The velocity and glow you
had acquired, while your wilted opponent
had little more vitality than bag of sand,
How long will our teachers and trainers
Of youth suffer boxers and racers 10 be
wiser in their generation than themselves.
Have you ever studied Human Ply
siology2 # not. get such a work, as
Iarves, or Cutters, Or Coles, or Carpen>
ier's,e and ''read, Jearn, and inwardly
iigesl" it, and then obey !, ,religiously.
say religiously; forhealta comes within
he domain Of conscience and religion
The materials being given, man is as