The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-07
tn VOTING MEN.

10 tand on the sidewalk aud whine about
hard luck, and say that everything goes
against YOU. You are not of half the con
sequence that your talk would lead US to be-
lirye. The world hasn't declared war
against you--no such thing. You are IKE
the rest of us-a mere speck upon the earth $
surface. Were you this moment 10 go oo""
in the living tide, but bubble would Ihser
for a moment upon the surface ana even
that would vanish unnoticed. The heart is
full of hope and ambition, but is not missed
when IL ceases to beat. One such as you
would not leave ripple
Va, are n coward-a coward in the battle.
Tb.,s,. no fight in you. You have surrend-
arsd without u struggle, and now whine be-
cause beaten. You are not worthy of tr-
umph, for you have not yet earned it. In
garrett, hut and dripping cellar, are ten thou
sand heroes who would put you to shame.--
They must toll or starve. The strife is
desperate one with them, for they wrestle
with want while ragged and desparing ones
watch at the lone hearth the fearful contest.
Strong men look death in the eye, when
their sinews are strung with hungry child
hood.
Shame on YOU. In the full vigor OF henlth
and manhood, no mouth bat your own to NIL,
no back but your own to cover and yet crouch
ing under the first screenings of adverse Tor
tune. You know nothing of the storm For
YOU have seen but the summer One cloud
has frightened you, and you think you are
hardly dealt by You will be lucky if you
find no darker shadows across yout path.
Stand up, young ST., pull your hand from
your pocket, throw off your coat and take
fortune by the throat. You may be thrown
again and again, but, hang on. Put away
the nonsense that the world is all against
YOU. II is not so. Your destiny is in your
own strong arm. Weld it like a man.
With an unbending will, and honor and
truth for guide, the day is your own.
No capital, eli! You have capital. God
has given you perfect health. That is an
immense capital TO start on. You have
youth and strength-all invaluable. And
will to do, pat your sinews in motion and
you win. man full of health and strength
should never despair, because fortune does
not pour n stream of gold eagles into his
pocket. II YOU have no money, work and
get it. Industry, economy, and integrity,
10 haui i'm
fortunes have been reared. They can again.
Will you try III Or will you wait for the
stream TO run by, so that you can walk dry
shod into the FL Dorado of wealth! Or will
YOU meet the waves defan,ly, and be the
architect of your own fortune?
Try--it is glorious to conquer in the strife.
THE FIRST BABY.-Just look ut him! Do
yoE see that individual with his hat high on
the bump of self esteeni--his nose turned
up at every ing-distingushed by a frantic
disregard of the immaculacy of his shirt, or
the tie of his handkerchief? Mark with what
superciliousness he views all mundane things.
With what sco.n does he gaze upon youths
and grown people, and how contemplate ap.
pears everything to his High Dantiness that
was 80 attractive before. He is father for
the first time, and the little tiny, whining
cherub il ut home in embroidered muslin;
and the baby--yes, the baby--is as fat as
butter, and weighs six pounds and quarter.
An Intellectual boy, ioo-well "red." Think |
of that? Six pounds and aquarter, and n
boy at that Bless his little chubby SOUL
What projects are running in that mans
brain in regard to the new conner. What n
long wny in the future he is gazing after des
tiny. and he sees nothing less than Cover
nor, and mnyhap u President, in the little
chubby boy at home, weighing six and
quarter pounds. And the wite-the frs,
baby she ever had--she never thought she'd
b. mother; and wild with joy she is cares
sing the shapeless little lump, and goes
mad with happiness at the contempla. |
ton of her dear little sugar plum of an off
spring six and quarter pounds. The first
baby is n new link to bind the welded pair
together and cement 1.-THE chain weighing
six and quarter pounds. We congratulate
our friend upon the hurricane of happiness
that has beIallen him, aud ardently hope he
will fall down no cellar ways, or into any
coal holes in his up.gazing pride, at having
assisted to add one more to the numerical
strength OF the country.