The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-01-30
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BUSincSs Endurance.


all their days. i'll health may demand change
New and wider fields Of enterprise and success
may be open to them; new elements OF charac
tor may be developed Mcn may have pos
tive distaste for some pursuits, and success
nav demand change. None Of those cases
fail within the general rule. Men may have
rare talents but if they "are everything by
turni, and uothing long they must not expect
to prosper No form of business is free from
vexatiuns; each man knows the spot on
which his own harness claies; but he cannot
know how much his own neghbor suffers. 1t
is said that Yankee can splice a rope in many
different ways an English sailor knows but
one method, but in that method he does his
work well. Life is not long enough to allow
any one to be really master OF but one pursuit.
The history of eminent men in all protes.
sious and culings prove this. The great
statesman, Daniel Webster, was great law
ver His hoyhood was marked only by un'
common industry; as a speaker he did not cX-
Gel in early life. With great deberation he
selected tho law as his profession, nor could he
b. deferred from his chosen pursuit. While
poor student, not the tempting prize of fifteen
hundred d,lars year, as Clerk of the Courts,
then large sum, gained with great difficulty
for him by the zeal aud influence of his father,
nor could all the persuasion OF the father, turn
him from the mark he had set before him /;
and his great culogist the Attorney General
Of Massachusetts is another marked illuStra
ton Of resoIute endurance and indOmitabIe
industry-le long ccntering in one profession,
making him one of the chief ornaments OF that
profession, if not its head in the United States.
Our late distinguished Ambassador at the
Court of st James, Hon. Abbot Lawrence
whose wealth is poured out for all benevolent
purposes in donations large as the sea, can
recall the time when he had / is profession to
select and the first dollar ofhis splendid fortune
to earn. He chose deliberately calling then
pursued that occupation with integrity and
endurance through dark days and trying seasons
aud the rr. ult is before the world. This case
affords an apt illustration of the proverb IF the
wise man that man diligeht in business
shall stand bef,re king aud not before mean
men,
Tie late John Jacob Astor as he left his
native Germany, paused beneath linden tree
not far from the line that separated his native
land from another and made three resolutions
which he intended should guide him through
life: "l. He would he honest. 2 lie would
he in,lu>t.ioms 3 H. wn"ll "-."r Ta'''' ~ -
lie was on foot; his wealth was III the small
buull,, that swung from tie stick on his >h'nl.
der The world VAS before him. lie was able
to carry them ont His success is the best com
mrut on his endurance.
Stephen Girar', at the age Of 40 years,
was in qmitc moderate circumstances being
the captain of small coasing vessel on the
Delaware and Iart owner of the same. No
trait on his character WAS more marked than
,hi: endurance aud tins element gave him n
fortune.
All men WHO have succeeded well in life
have been men of high resolve and endurance
The famed William Pitt was in early life fond
of canning; the p,ssi"n increased with his
wears he knew that be mnst ut once master
the passion or the passion w"nld master him.
lie made firm resolve that he would never
anain plav at game Of hazard He
made such resolution he conll keep it, His
subsequent cmincnce was the fruit Of that
power.
William Wilbcrinrce in his crlicr days, like
most Young men Of his rank and age, loved
the excitement Of places of hazard.-lle waS
one night persuaded to keep the faro bank.
He SAW the ruin of the vice Of gaming us he
never SAW it betore: he was appalled, with what
he hehcld. Sitli rg amid gaming, ruin and
despair he took the resolution that he would
never again enter gaming house. He changed
his company with the change of his conduct,
and subsequently hecame onc Of the most
distinguished Englishmeu of his age.
DR.. Samuel Johnson was once requested
to drink wine with a friend. The Doctor
proposed tea. "But drink little wine.' said
his host, " cannot," was the reply. I" know
abslincuce-l know excess but know no
medium. Long since, resolved, lis could
not drNk IL little wine, would drink not at
ALL" A man who could thus support his
resolution by action, was n man of endurance
and that element is rs well displayed in this
incident, rs in the combination Of his great work.
When Richard Brinsley Sheridan made his
first speech in Parliament, it was regarded on
all hands as most mortilying failure. His
friends urged him to quit Il Parliamentary ca
reer, and enter upon some field butter suited
to his ability. "No," said Sheridan no it is
in me, and il shall come" And it did and
he became one of the most splendid debators
in England.
Loyla the founder Of the order of Jcsuits
the courtier, the man of galantry and dissipa-
ton obtained such mastery over himself by
labor and endurance that TO illustrate the fact
he stood several hours apparently unmoved, in
pond Of ice and muddy water, up to his chin.
Perhaps no other native in Europe, at that
time, could have won the battle Of Waterloo,
except the British, because no other could