Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1855-03-30
VOLUME II. NO. %

Byzsntium, or Carthage, on the North
Western frontier ? Jonathan msy have
hi: the nail on the head, aud you may only
pound your fingers to jelly. All those
new worlds are grand places for certain
people, but very bad places for other peo.
pie. Don't ina iie you can flourish in any
soil. If you must 20, choose the place
you are fitted TO occupy. LIS Q grand
thing for Mrs. Chisholm 10 go to and FROM
England to Australia. on er,ands Of pro.
lection to female virtue. but for dys.
peptic school girl to marry a missionary
in a fit of pious romance, to 60 to Burma.
to falI.undcr the weight Of family cares.
is only throwing away the present op
portunity, and dying for fancy. OF
course, send women to Burmah, but donf
send Julia Ann, or Clarinds Josephine
who has read ami sung and dreamed herself
into heaven Of Eastern romance, or. been
upset by the tropical eloquence of soms
good man weighing two hundred pounds.'
aboutto embark with his fourth wife for
Barumpooter. Keep within your own
sphere doyour duty; go to the place for
you; or stay as home, if that is best /; and
don't fret about humanity, for One has
charge of the interests of the each, who can
do lis own work, and does not need the
sacrifice of any man in the vain attempt to
fill apost beyond his capacity. f
What acW you do yhen you get there -
Don't start till you know. DO you think
you can go from Yankeelom, or Buckeye.
dom. to Texas, or Minnesota, choose your
position, be Doctor, Preacher, Lawyer
Politician, Speculator, Saint, or Repro
bate, as the case may be? Stay at home
, and pare your mothers apples, or read the
, Farmer to your blind grandfather. or wait
, upon your maiden aunt to the sewing So
: cioty, till you outgrow this greenness. A.
, man who thinks he can do anything in =
new country, shows, by his superficial am
bition, that he can do thing well. any
where. Don't leave the shadow of tho
4 paternal roof till you can do some useful
thing well. 1t is easier to learn to work
! among your old friends, in comfort. and
r peace, than amid the selfish competition,
e and depressing wants Of new State
a When you can do something in a manly
: way, go where that work is required. and
: make yourself one of the necessities Of
Q the community in that direction. Thous
ands of men sell all they have, and trans
,, port themselves and families to new lands
n knowing not what they can do; and when
,e they get there live by experimenting OF
,e the youthful constitution of the new colo
= ny. Be not one Of these harpies, but gc
c only to build up society by honora.l'
V toll, directed by definite aims.
a The fact is Life, is about the same eve
c Iry where. The deepest problems of ex
Y istcnce, all come to man to be SOLVED
e amid the narrowest circle of circumstan
2 ccs. Sorrow, joy, temptation, duty
IS await lis in every place, and until we have
V proved oulsevec at home, it is madnes
n to run abroad. We cannot escape Life
o we cannot ignore Manhood. There is nj
N prairie, no valley, no California mine, nj
> Western river bank, no city or country
II sea or shore we can be men, without dali,
to sweat of the soul, watchfulness, and pray
a, er. After we have wearied ourselves b,
ID running all over the world, the great bnsi
I'd ness Of life remains to be done, and ii
to done, all places are alike. Ask yourself
IN what am |? how can be Men, We
or man? Stand up where you now are, an
OF be something and you will not wait Ions
he before hand reaching from the sky, wi
a; point out whittier you shall go.