Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-07-10
For the Herald.
a Word to Young Men.

uDon A political contest of more than or
dinarv interest and importance, which
viii doubtless be pushed forward with |
energy and enthusiasm to successful |
and triumphant victory for the Republl-
can party, and you are anxious, no doubt,
to do your part in the great movements
which are now inaugurating, which is to
insure the complete overthrow OF the |
rebel element that has grown bold under
Democratic rule, and developed its rebel
ism both in our State Legislature and
in Congress. To desire to aid in this
great work is a noble aspiration, and may
be as nobly realized. But don't imagine
that you are required to neglect your
proper industry or business, and tramp
from meeting to meeting, marching your
self lame, singing or shouting yourself
hoarse, and drinking yourself drunk, in
order to effect your laudable purpose
The cause demands no such sacrifice, nor
would it be subserved thereby.
Young men have contracted habits of
Incidence and dissipation under such cir
cumstances which they never overcame.
Excited and little ambitious, they have
identified their personal fortunes with
those of their party, often dreaming of
some post of honor or well-paid place,
as reward for their jealous and persist
ent exertion. The election passes, and
although their party is successful, they
find twenty aspirants for every place, and
of course, nineteen are defeated and left
destitute.
Sometimes habits are acquired in seek
ing a coveted place which render its be-
stowment impossible. The general tri-
umph is achieved, the personal advantage
has eluded their grasp; blighIed in hopes
and shattered in morals, they bid adieu
alike to energy and aspiration, seek OBJ
liviOn and a wretched momentary solace
in the drunkard's poisoned cup.
If you desire, my young Republican
friends, to aid most efficiently the pro-
gress of the good cause, choose the silent
rather than the noisy channels of influ-
ence and persuasion. God made but one
Niagara for all North America, and al
though thousands go to see and admire
this great natural wonder, and are dazed
and deafened by its eternal thunders, yet
the most ingenious Yankee has failed to
conceive of what possible utility it is to
man, while thousands of nOiseless brooks
all over this broad land flow quietly on
over ther pebbly beds, kissing the flowers
of beauty that bloom and adorn their
banks, and visiting the roots of all the
mighty forests, spreading verdure and
glory everywhere; yet they tell no tale
of all the good they do.
Distribute freely among your friends
and neighbors copies of the best speeches
, you can procure point out the paragraphs
of especial interest, and ask other jealous
, Republicans to go and do likewise. Give
, the convincing speeches of our ables
men the widest possible circulation; but
at the same time, keep quietly and stead
+ lily about your own business, not neglect.
: lug nor deserting it in a wild goose chas,
for office. So shall you be a successful
:, worker in the cause of freedom and jus
= tice without having hazarded your socia
n and moral well-being, nor the bread o
a honest industry and manly independence
: P. A. DIcKEY.
Political Items.
A Colored man has been appointed
s postmaster at Harris station on the S
J. & P. r. r. The above place is a strons
y Democratic neighborhood and Mr.. Har
ris, the one appointed, is the only mar
that could read or write in the neighbor
a hood.
During the war some Democrat sho
!, off the leg of the Democratic candidate
r for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio. AnC
!. now the Democratic papers of that Stat
are making a great hurrah over the fac
q that General Rice lost his leg, while the!
!, are extremely retieent concerning tn
g other additional and more important fac
that he would have two legs to-day if
= Democrat had not shot one of them off.
y Atchisoa (Kdn.) Champion.
81 Dan Voorhees, made the declaration Oh
), the floor of the Senate, a short time ago
n that he was better friend of Union sol
: diers during the war than Gov. Morton
His Copperhead friends are making Al
=" effort to reverse the truth of history il
u his favor; but they are confronted wit
lie files of newspapers, both Republican an
.. Democratic, which show that Voorhee
- proposed to put collar around the nee
. of each soldier on which should be in
II scribed the words, My dog-A. Lincoln
ID That's the kind of a friend which tn
, tSpraddling Water-Elm' was to Unio
soldiers.-O. s. Journal.
m In the spirit of fairness, which alway
characterizes the Herald, we endeavore
some time ago to excuse the enormou
length of the recent session of the Legis
II lature. on the ground that it had to pas
i upon the revised Code of Ohio. But sine
we have learned that very considerabl
70 portion of that Code was acted upon b
ID the preceding Legislature, and that tn
r portion voted upon last winter, so ia
from being carefully considered and dis
cussed, was not even read, we perceiv
III our error. 1t looks now as if the Assem-
II bly, had simply made the Code a pretex
a for continuing in sessiun until they coul
n accomplish their mischieVous partisa
" purposes, while they bled the Treasur
. to the tune of 81, 600 per day.-Colum6a
y Herald.
= The law passed by the Democratic ma
1t jority in the FOrty-fifth Congress, for
l. bidding the employment of the army as
- posse c0naitdtus, has had the effect in tn
Indian country to render impossible tn
SC enforcement of property rights. Seve
7s hundred ponies were recently run off b.
white men from the Red Cloud Agency
"A and, though the animals are driven il
full sight of the military posts, the troop
y are by law forbidden to lend a hand i
Sc the recapture and restoration of the stole
In property to the Indian owners. It wa
- the chief design of the Democrats to pre-
- vent the use of troops in assisting in tn
Il raids of the revenue officers upon illici
n. distillers in Southern States, butts effeC
o is broader than that, and it protect
"a as well dS INCONSISTENCIES =
ie Chicago Tribune.
= The Richmond (Va.) State, of July 2t
opens an article on the Ohio campaign b
. saying:
,. General Ewing has been in Richmon
= for some days, but on business connecte
d with our canal, and not relating to tn
u Ohio campaign, which has not fairl
I'd opened, nor will it until the weather gel
~ cooler and the champions of the tw
W great rartiaR have had 5. hraathinn sral