we have only half the sort of offices which are sought by men of the
speaking sort of talent. This, I think, is the chief cause. Now, as to
the young men. You must not wait to be brought forward by the older men.
For instance, do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I
had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men? You young men
get together and form a "Rough and Ready Club," and have regular meetings
and speeches. Take in everybody you can get. Harrison Grimsley, L. A.
Enos, Lee Kimball, and C. W. Matheny will do to begin the thing; but as
you go along gather up all the shrewd, wild boys about town, whether just
of age, or a little under age, Chris. Logan, Reddick Ridgely, Lewis
Zwizler, and hundreds such. Let every one 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, will go to hear you; so that it
will not only contribute to the election of "Old Zach," but will be an
interesting pastime, and improving to the intellectual faculties of all
engaged. Don't fail to do this.

You ask me to send you all the speeches made about "Old Zach," the war,
etc. Now this makes me a little impatient. I have regularly sent you the
Congressional Globe and Appendix, and you cannot have examined them, or
you would have discovered that they contain every speech made by every
man in both houses of Congress, on every subject, during the session. Can
I send any more? Can I send speeches that nobody has made? Thinking it
would be most natural that the newspapers would feel interested to give
at least some of the speeches to their readers, I at the beginning of the
session made arrangements to have one copy of the Globe and Appendix
regularly sent to each Whig paper of the district. And yet, with the
exception of my own little speech, which was published in two only of the
then five, now four, Whig papers, I do not remember having seen a single
speech, or even extract from one, in any single one of those papers. With