Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-04-05

cure for poverty may be in yourself; fc
certain habits of labor and econom
will end in poverty in Golconda itself
q Do you wish to make money faster tha
now? If your gains only increase you
love of gain, better stay where you are
/ Do you long for rapid promotion? Ar
you not rising as fast as you deserve
Do you wish to be over-rated? 1t j
not probable the community knows you
: merit, or will find it out as well as yol
know it? Have you been lifted in love
Ooquettes flourish everywhere, and yol
running from the Scylla of Yanke,
| Prudence may fall into the Charybdi
| of Buckeye Glo-iana, or Southern Della
Have you suffered greatly at home? /
may be, home is the place to gain tn,
dicipline of your sorrow, and fight vii
only be escape from your life's choices
opportunity. Is duty too hard in the ole
spot? The devil travels by sea and
land, and will always get ahead of you
can you resist him better in California
or Iowa, than in Ohio or New York;
If you wish to escape Duty you are a
sneak of the first water, and are not fit
to go from home. Why are you goingi
If because you are as certain as may
be that your Manhood, your Woman
hood will be advanced, and your God
better served elsewhere than at your
present post, go. If because you are
tired of being faithful, scared at life's
emergencies, goaded by restless am
bition for gold or praise, or fame, or
lashed by the nervous American Fury
across continent-you will go, of
course, but you will repent it.
Where are you .goinge To California,
because cousin Jake has found lump
there? Are you man who would find
a "lump" anywhere? Men differ, and
while Jake marches on to fortune, your
constitution may guide you to fever,
a gambling house or general bank
ruptcy of body and soul. To Iowa or
Nebraska, because Jonathan became
Justice of the Peace in Byzantium, or
of Carthage, on the North Western
frontier? Jonathan may have hit the
nail on the head, and you may only
pound your fingers to jelly. All these
new worlds are grand places for certain
people, but very bad places for other
people. Don't imagine you can flourish
in any soil. If you must go, choose
the place you are fitted to occupy. It's
a grand thing for Mr.. Chisholm to go
to and from England to Australia, on
errands of protection to female virtue,
but for dyspeptie school girl to marry
a missionary, in fit Of pious romance,
to 60 to Burmah, to fall under the
weight of family cares, is only throwing
away the present opportunity. and dy-
ing for fancy. Of course, send women
to Burmah, but don't send Julia Ann.
Clarinda Josephine, who has read, sung
and dreamed herself into heaven of
Eastern romance, or been upset by the
tropical eloquence of some good man
weighing two hundred pounds, about to
embark with his fourth wife for Bar
Keep within your own
sphere; do your duty; go to the place
best for you;' or stay at home, if that is
best; and don't fret about humanity,
for One has charge of the interests Of
the race, who can do his own work, and
does not need the sacrifice of any man
in the vain attempt to fill post beyond
his capacity.
What lciU you do Uhen you get MereP-
Don't start till you know. Do you
think you can 60 from Yankeedom, or
Buckeyedom, to Texas, or Minnesota,
choose your position, be Doctor, Preach
er, Lawyer, Politician, Speculator,
Saint, or Reprobate as the case may be?
Stay at home and pare your mothers
Ipples, or read the Former to your
blind grandfather, or wait upon your
maiden aunt to the sewing society, till
7ou outgrow this greenness. A man
Who thinks he can do any thing in a new
country, shows, by his superficial am
oition, that he can do nothing well, any
where. Don't leave the shadow of the
roof till you can do some use
'ul thing well. 1t is easier to learn to ,cork
among your old friends, in comfort, and
peace, than amid the selfish competition,
md depressing wants of a new State
When you can do something in manly
way, go where that is required. and
make yourself one of the necessities of
he community in that direction
of men "sell all they have,
md transport themselves and families
o new lands, knowing not what they
,an do; and when they get there, live
oy experimenting on the youthful con-
'titution of the new colony, Be not
'ne of these harpies, but go only to-
,uild up society by honorable toll, d.
'ected by definite aims.
The fact is, Life is about the same
everywhere. The deepest problems of
existence, all come to a man to be solv-
ID amid the narrowest circle of circum-
stances. Sorrow, joy, temptation, duty,
.wait-us in every place, and until we
,ave proved ourselves at home, it is
to run abroad. We cannot
escape Life, we cannot ignore Manhood.
There is no prairie, no valley, no Califor-
MA mine, no Western river bank, no
'ity or country, sea or shore, where we
ian be men, without daily sweat of the
soul, watchfulness, and prayer. After ,
We have, wearied ourselves by running
all over the world, the great busiuess of j,