New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-29
HIST A WORD.

Young friend you are anxious to do your part
in the great Reform movement which the feopie
are now inaupuratDg, and which is to secure the
triumph of LINCOLN and HAMLIN in the election
of November next 1t is a noble aspiration, ana
NAV be nobly realized. But don't imagine that
YOU are required to neglect your proper industry
or business and tramp from meeting to meeting
marching yourselfame, singing or shOutingyourseli
hoarse and drinking yourself drunk, in order to
effect your laudable purpose. The Cause demands
of YOU no such sacrifice, would it be subserved
thereby. Give your hours of labor to your proper
duties, and LET attendance on political gatherings
be your occasional recreation rather than your
habitual employment.
Very many young men contract habits OF indo-
lence and dissipation in Presidential contest
which they neyerm0re overcome. Excited, Gu
thusiastic ambitious, they identify Their personal
fortunes with those of their party, often dreaming
of some post in the customs, some p0st-ofhce, OF
other well-pad place, as the reward OF their
Jealous, persistent exertions. But the election
passes. and their party is defeated; or, even II
successful, there are forty aspirants for every
pointed and destitute. Sometimes, the habits they
have insensibly acquired in seeking their coveted
place render its bestowment impossible The
general triumph is achieved; but the personal
advantage they hoped from it has eluded their
grasp. Blighted in hopes and shattered in
constitution, they now bid adieu to energy and
aspiration, seeking oblivion and wretohed mo-
mentary solace in the drunkard's poisoned cup or
the suicides miserable end.
If you desire, young Republicans to aid the
progress of the Good Cause, choose the silent
rather than the noisy channels of influence and
persuasion. Procure a copy of the Illinois Dis
cussions between Lincoln and Douglas, and master
the arguments, not on one side only, but on both
sides of the great question. Keep few copies OF
Lincoln's Speech in this City at hand, and when
you hear any one brawliDg that the Republicans
have nominated second. rate man. just a. him to
read that speech, and then judge-if its au-
thor is second rate-hOw irresistible the arguments
of our frst-rate champions must be. There are
One Million Voters to-day in the Union whom the
perusal of that Speech would fayOrably affect;
there are many thousands whom it would win to
our side. Distribute it freely among your friends
and neighbors, and ask other jealous Republicans
TO 90 and do Likewise. Then take Mr.. Grows
plea for the Homestead bill, with Gov Stewards
and other convincing Speeches, and give them the
widest possible diffusion. If there are German or
other voters in your neighborhood who cannot read
English, Try to supply them with the best docu
ments in language they oan read. But
keep quietly ard steadily about your own business
each dsy. and let ii not be said that you have de-
serted or neglected it in a wild-goose chase for
office. SO shall you be an effective worker for the
cause of Free Labor, without having put at hazard
your social and moral we,l-being or the bread Of
honest industry and manly independence