Excerpt from The Young Man: Hints Addressed to the Young Men of the United States Br placing your name on this page, and by dedicating this little volume to you, I accomplish two objects; first, I may remind you, that though it is now many years since an unbefriended youth was struggling hard to overcome difficulties and prepare himself for a life of usefulness, and though the words of encouragement and other acts of kind ness which you bestowed may have passed from your memory, they have not from his. And secondly, I may point my young countrymen to you, as one, who, surrounded by discourage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.