, 1859-11-11

These are the memorable words used by
the hero of the battle of Bridgewater
when asked by his commanding officer if he
could take the British cannon which were
moving down the American soldiers by
battalions. He did try, and how glorious
ly he succeeded, the pen of the historian
has eloquently described.
This little word is worth all the rest in
the language. 1t is the most magical, the
most powerful, all-controing aud irresisti
BILE. 1t conquers all opposing Obstacles
subdues oil autagouistc forces, and trinmphs
over wrong, oppression, vice and deluSion
1t is the great lever of human prosperity,
greatness and success. BY it mountains
are pulled down, or tunnels cut through
them; roads are made through the pathless
sea, and the lightning becomes an agent oI
the human will
Energy, determination and perseverance
are everything. How weak and irresOute
is man who is wanting in motive power
He faints at phantoms; is ready to give up
the ghost at the appearance of cloud as
large as a mans hand lie dies daily. A
groan in the morning, two at noon, and a
dozen or two during the evening, make up
the sum total Of his monotonOus existence.
He has got the blues and declares he can.
not help it. 1t is a-mStake. He can
help it if he will only try.
Sitting down discouraged will not rene
dy the evil. Be man. Look misfortune
full in the face and like the ghosts Of dis
ordered Imagination, it will soon disappear.
You are far more frightened than hurt
No matter what happens, look up and
move ahead. Suppose you have lost your
money; suppose the hard earnings of years
of patient toll have been swept away; is
that any reason why you should hang down
your head in hopeless dependency as if all
your noble manhood was obliterated? You
have experience lef-you have character,
industry, friends; you only. lack energy
you only need to determine TO try. You
have a capital within yourself to start upon
try, Say anything but II can't" Rouse
yourself and look about you. Rub out old
-scores and bcgii anew.
All our large cities and towns are crowd
ed with honest and capable citizens, who
have been shipwrecked Some of them
over aud over again. But they have got
upon their legs again, because they never
allowed themselves TO be discouraged
Having more to work for, they resolved to
work the harder. They learned to turn
their adversities to good account; to coin
their misfortunes into gold.
1t has been said tina. all young men have
to be ruined once, in order to know how to
live-especially if they commence rich and
prosperously Men do not grow robust on
sugar candies. They do not become giants
iu a hot-house. In order to become men
they must rough it, and the sooner they
begin the better. The oak sinks its roots
the deeper and the more firmly in the
Storm and amidst the hurricane.
Few of us know what we are capable Of
accomplishing until we try We can do
almost anything that we are fully determ-
ined upon, and go rightly to work aboui it.
Some one says the Alps will appear little
more than moIe-hills, when we have made
up our minds to scale them. Hundreds
might have been as brave as NAPOLEON the
First, as philosophical as FRANKLIN, as pru-
dent as WASHINGTON, as ingenious as Full
TON, if they had only tried. Dismayed by
shadows, discouraged by mole-hills, they
fingered in obscurity and died unknown.
Let Us be men. Resolve that We will
not die q cipher or drone-expire like an
empty soap-bubble, leaving the world as
we found it, neither better nor worse for
our having lived in it.