The Yale expositor., 1904-10-28
WORDS TO YOUNG MEN
WHAT LINCOLN SAID IN i948 AND
GARFIELD M 1879.

| Rai hbctdluio tNV SpiSHulu gems VI
thought hive been dug up. Both of
them relate to tho part which young
men can bear and ought to bear In the
activities which make for their coun-
try's good. Both are as interesting now,
as VITAL as they were fifty-six and
twenty-five years ago. respectively.
Both appeal to the young men of today
to bear their part, to do their duty
rightly. First quaint, forgotten thing
from the pen OF Abraham Lincoln, full
of the unstudied simplicity of that
monumental man. Here It Is:
Lincoln's Appeal TO Young Men.
rFrcn letter to William II. Herndon.
Washington. June "a lS4S.
AS to young men. You must not wait to
be brought forward by tho older men.
| For instance, do you suppose that L
should ever have got into notice If had
waited to be hunted up and pushed for
| ward by older men? You young men get
together and form Rough and Ready
club" and have regular meetings and
| speeches Take In everybody you can get.
| Harrison Gr1msley, l.. A. Enos, Lee Kim
| ball and c. w. Matheny will do TO begin
the thing. but as you go along gather up
| all the shrewG wild boys about town,
whether rust of ago or little under age
Chris Logan. Raadiek Rfdgely. Lewis
Zwizler and hundreds such. Let every
| ons play the part he can play best, some
| speak. some sing and all "holler." Your
meetings will be of evenings; the older
men and the women viii go TO hear you;
30 that II will not only contribute to the
election OF "Old Zach" but will be an In
| teresting pastime and improving to the
intellectual faculties of all engaged
Don't fail do this
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Next, the magnificent eloquence Of
Garfield, among the greatest of the
great orators Of all time, also appeal
ing to young men. It's keynote is,
when you pitch your tent, pitch it
among the living and not among the
deadr' To the million and half of
young men who will this year for the
first time choose the political camp in
which their tents are to be pitched
the words OF Garfield must come with
tremendous force:
Garfeld's Appeal TO Young Men.
[Extract from the speech of Hon. James
A. Garfield, delivered at Cleveland, o.
Oct IL, 1871
Now fellow citizens. word before
of Coda fit moment to consecr4te our
selves finally to the great work Of next
| Tuesday morning. l sec in this great
audience tonight a great many young
men, young men who are about TO cast
their first vote. L want to give you a
word of suggestion and advice. l heard
a very brilliant thing said by boy the
other day up in one Of our northwestern
counties. He said to me. General. L
have great mind to vote the Democratic
ticket" That was not the BRILLIANT thing
1 said to him, "Why?' WHY" said he
my father is a Republican. and my
brothers are Republicans, and am Re
publican all over, but i want to be an
independent man, and don't want any
body TO say, That fellow votes the Re
publican ticket just because his dad does,
and have half mind to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket Just to prove my independ-
enee." i did not like the thing the boy
suggested, but did admire the spirit of
the boy that wanted to have some indie
pendence of his own.
Now. / tell you, young man, don't vote
the Republican ticket just because your
father votes 1t. Don't vote the Democrat
ic ticket, even If he does vote 1t. But let
me give you this one word Of advice as
you are about to pitch your tent in one
of the great political camps. Your life Is
full and buoyant with hope now, and
beg you, when you pitch your tent pitch
dead. II you are at all inclined to pitch
Il among the Democratic people and with
that party let me go with you for mo-
ment while we survey tho ground where
I hope you will not shortly lie. 1t Is q
sad place, young man, for you to put
your young life into. II Is to me far more
like q graveyard than like camp for the
living Look at It'll 1t In beloved all over
with the graves OF dead issues. OF buried
Opinions, of exploded theories, OF dis
srsosd doctrines. You cannot live In
comfort In such q place. Why. look here!
Here In q little double mound look
down on It, and read. Sacred to the
memory OF sQuatter sovereignty and the
bred Scott decision million and
half Democrats voted for that. but IL has
been dead fifteen years-died by the hand
| OF Abraham Lincoln, and here II lies.
Young man, that is not the place for you.
But look little farther. Here Is an
other monument, a black tomb. and be-
| side IT, as our distinguished friend said,
there towers to the sky monument OF
| 1000 900 pairs of human letters taken
| from the arms OF slaves, and read on It's
| little headstone this: Sacred to the men,
| DRY of human slavery" For forty years
| of its Infamous life the Democratic party
| taught that It was divine-Gods institu-
| ton They defended IL, they stood around
| It. they followed II to it's grave mdurner.
But here IL lies, dead by the hand OF
| Abraham Lincoln, ueau Dy luS pOWSl Va
| the Republican party, dead by the JUS
tlee Of Almighty God. Don't camp there
young man.
Bat here Is another, little birthstone
| tomb, and read across its yellow face In
| lurid bloody lines these words: sacred
| 60 the memory of state sovereignty ana
secession" Twelve millions OF Democrats
mustered around II in arms TO Keep IL
alive, but here It lies, shot to death by
the million guns of the republic. Here IL
| lies, it's shrine burned to ashes under the
blazing rafters OF the burning Confed-
eracy. 1t is dead. 1 would not have you
| stay in there minute, even in this paliny
night air, to look at such a place.
Come down the glorious stars OF our
banner. Every great record we nave
! made we have vindioated with our blood
and with our truth. IL sweeps the ground
and IL touches the stars Come there,
young man, and put In your young IRE
where all IL living and where nothing Is
aead but the heroes that defended IL
think these young men VIII do that'
Mssber GooSe Rhyme.
Sirg a sonR OF silver
Bryan full Of spleen;
VUt NaNN TnT