The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-04-08
Selett Mistellamy.

BE \ OUR OWN RIGHT HAND MANI co.
pie who have been bolstered up and levered
all their lives, are seldom good for any
thing il, crisis. When misfortune come s
they look around for somebody to lean
upon. If the prop is not there, down they
go. Once down, they are as helpless as
| capsized turtles, or unhorsed men in armOr,
and can not find their feet again without
assistance. Such silken fellows no moro
resemble self-made men, who have fought
their way to position, making difficulties
their stepping stones, and deriving deter
mination from their defeat, than vines re-
semble oaks, or sputtering rush lights, the
stars of heaven. Efforts persisted to
achievements train man to self-reliance,
and when he has proved to the world that
he can trust himself, the world will trust
him. We say, therefore, that it is unwise
to deprive young men of the advantages
which result from the energetic action. by
boosting" them over obstacles which they
ought to surmount alone. No one ever
swan well who placed lis confidence in a
cork jacket and if when breasting the sea
of life, we can not buoy ourselves up and
try to force ourselves ahsad by dint of our
own energies, we are not salvage, and it is
of little consequence whether we sink or
swim, survive or perish"
! One OF the best lessons a father can give
| to his SONS is this Work; strengthen
your moral and mental faculties as You
would strengthen your muscles, by vigor-
Gus exercise. Learn to conquer circum-
stances you are then Independent of for
tune. The men of athletic minds who leave
their marks on the years in which they
! lived, were all trained in rough school.
| They did not mount their high positions by
the help of leverage; they leaped into
chasms, grappled with the opposing rocks
welding avalanches, and when the goal was
reached, felt that bur for the toll that had
strengthened them as they strove, it could
never have been attained
.--&N-S--
The Conscription act will very likely be
enforced III this State, within the Federal
! lines, with certain restrictions. We hear
that it is contemplated to raise regiment
of rebel conscripts exclusively in this city.
No loyal man will be allowed TO Join il.
The officers, of course, will be of the true
blue and the priyates will be either forced
to fight, or in case they refuse to do so,
they will be held as prisoners of war, to
be exchanged for the Union conscripts in
the rebel army. Ii strikes us that this out
rage of cOnscriptng loyal men to fight under
lne nag ol lteaso!l mas gone TAT enough, anu
that it should be checkmated. Let two regi-
ments composed of the fercest rebels in
the city be drafted Immediately, for duty
in the Federal army and if they refuse to
coerce, subjugate and demolish their South
ern bretlern, let them be swapped off forth.
with for the Union conscripts now at Tul,
lahoma We know of no place where the
conscription law could be enforced with
better effect than Nashville. Its enforce
ment would free the city of many fierce and
stubborn foes of the Government, and il
would afford joyful deliverance to thou
sands of loyal citizens, who have been dra
gooned into the rebel service.