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primary purpose of discussing and advancing the interests of labor.
Let us have here books opened, wherein any one wanting work may inscribe his name, residence, capacities and terms, while any one wishing to hire may do likewise, as well as meet personally those seeking employment.
Pay as you go.
“
Mr. President,” said
John Randolph once,
apropos to nothing in one of his rambling Congressional harangues, ‘I have found the philosopher's stone!
It consists of four short English words—‘Pay as you go.’’
To the lovers of knowledge.
Avoid the pernicious error that you must have a profession—must be a clergyman, lawyer, doctor, or something of the sort—in order to be influential, useful, respected; or, to state the case in its best aspect, that you may lead an intellectual life.
Nothing of the kind is necessary—very far from it. If your tendencies are intellectual—if you love knowledge, wisdom, virtue for themselves, you will grow in them, whether you earn your bread by a profession, a trade, or by tilling the ground.
Nay, it may be doubted whether the farmer or mechanic, who devotes his leisure hours to intellectual pursuits from a pure love of them, has not some advantages therein over the professional man.
He comes to his book at evening with his head clear and his mental appetite sharpened by the manual labors, taxing lightly the spirit or brain; while the lawyer, who has been running over dry books for precedents, the doctor, who has been racking his wits for a remedy adapted to some new modification of disease, or the divine, who, immured in his closet, has been busy preparing his next sermon, may well approach the evening volume with faculties jaded and palled.
To young orators.
A young Whig inquires how are young men who
can speak to be distinguished from the many who only
think they can, and brought into the field.
We answer—Step out into any neighborhood where you are acquainted, and if there is no Clay Club there now, aid in getting one up. You will there naturally be called on to speak at its opening, and be sure you have a thorough acquaintance with
the facts material to the great issue, and the documents under your elbow to sustain them.
After that, if you speak to the purpose, you will be called on quite as often as you will choose to speak.
But
choose small gatherings, until you know that you are master of the questions in issue.
A Washington monument.
We have not much faith in monument-building; yet it strikes us that a monument to
Washington, so planned as to minister at every point to purposes of great public utility, would be a good thing.
Let it contain apartments consecrated
