South-eastern Independent. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1871-1871, 1871-07-21

in the Pacific, and only leave with him q
jack-knife, and he viii get home as soon
as, If not sooner than, the ship that left
him there. " Put him in anywhere, and he
will get out if he wants 20 put hin out
anywhere, and he will get in, if
! he. wishes to- This is the spirit
that gsataDtses success IN evefy calling and
profession. It Is trgss that many persons
have to begin the voyage OF liEe against
both wind and tide; and it seems at times
as if they were doomed TO "wage with
fortune an eternal war" But who ever
heard of q mans falling to succeed at last
in any business which ne had stuck to
faithfully Tor ten ye4rs together? Look
at Bulwer His Whole life hes been Sc
ries of temporary failures, crowned with
ultimate triumphs. His first novel was a
failure; his arst drama was a failure; his
frs. poems were failures; ard 6" were his
first speeches. But he fought his way to
eminence; fought it through defeat and
rid.cut1, til now he has his own enchanted
circle, where "DoIe I1rst vslk but he, :
snd stands on one of the SUBMITS OF ths
three peaked hill, the compeer Of Dickens
and Thsckersy Look at DisraeE. Coughed
and hisssd down on his first essay in Par
lament, he told the Hotice thet, the time
would come when they would hear nim,.
and he persevered until they under whose
laughter he writhed were made to writhe
in their turn under his terrible sarcasm.
Look at Brougham. Ranging during
sixty years over the fields, nSs only OF law
and politics, but of science and literature,
he trjuruphed in all and such was his love
Of excellence, 81 tndsfatigable his perse-
verance, that it has been said that; If he
had begun life as sboe-black, he would
never have rested content till he had be-
come tbs. best shoe black in England.
In ftIrtncf illustration of the same point
l might site the case OF Robert Hall who
broke down in his first extempore address,
and covered his face with his hands, cry
ing, Obi 1 have lost all my ideas" and
who experienced a second and yet more
mortifying failure; yet lived TO be one of
the greatest pulpit orators of England;
and still further the experience. of Curran,
who tells US that, when ne first rose in a |
debating cluD, in Dublin, the features Of
the audience swarm before his eyes, and |
the candles seem to glare most unmerci |
fully upon him, almost depriving him of |
utterance, but who ere long charmed the |
most fastidio'is ear Of the House Of Com
mons, and made coriupt bench tremble. |
Again, / might point to Talma, the great 1
est of French actors-Sheridan, the orator
Golden, the champion of the Corn Law
Alston, the painter-all of
whom failed in their first efforts. Not
long after the latter had taken rank with
the great master of his ait, picture by
young man. was brought to him Tor his
opinion. "To deal plainly with you,"
said Aston, after examining it carefully,
'it is a wretched affair There is no
ground for hope-nOt even for h0ps. Let
him give up the idea. He never can
make painter" at was painted by
yourself" "No-impossibler at was.
Look-there is your name; and here, see,
here is the dste-only seven years ago,
you perceive" Keats first poem wss a
allure; but, though damned By the critics,
ne was not disheartened, for he felt that
he genious of poetry must work out
IS own salvation, and that by leap
ng headlong into the sea, as
le did in Endymion, he had
,ecome better acquainted with the sound
Dgs, the rocks and the quicksands, than if
le had stayed upon the green shore, and
,iped silly pipe, and took tea and com.
ortable advice. g was never afraid of
allure" said he, "for 1 would sooner fail
lldu HOt Dc dLlplB Int SICdtGSS |
1t is this pluck-this bulldog tenacity
# purpose and stubbornness of persever-
rce-which win the battles of life,
whether fought in the field, in the mart, or
4 the FORUM It is the halfa-neck nearer
hat shows the blood, and wins the race
he one march more that wins the cam
align; the five minutes more unyielding
ourage that wins the fight. 1t is not
elp, but obstacles-nOt facility, but diff !
makes men. Indeed, the
of great mind can be estimated
My by the amount of displacement it
reates Washington lost more battles
han he won; but he organized victory out .
f defeat, and triumphed in the end. Bee
hoven said of Rossini that he had the s
Iuff in him to have made good musician
he had only been well fOgged when a
oy; but he was spoiled by the ease with
Ihich he composed. Thousands of men
re bemoaning their poverty or obscuTity,
Tho might have won riches or honor had
hey only been compelled by early hard !
hips to cry, with Burns.
sCome, firm Resolve, take thou the van, Z
Thou stalk Of earle-hemp in mani''
nd to task to the utmost all their facul- /
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