Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-12-20
The "old rcderali,t.."


The ''Cid rcderaii,ts."
From tie Boston Chrsnc-.l
!, being fact that length uf days is no, on.
ly desired by all, but that ihuse Who obtain
them are supposed To he peculiarly favored by
Heaven, aud are revercneed by all except such
kind Of fellows as tWiued Elisha with his bald
pate, we wish Ia call the attention Of our Dem.
ocraiic friends 10 the remarkable circumstance
that while not single menihcr Of the Hartford
Convention died young, most If It's members
lived either To extreme old age, or TO be very
ancient men. That Convention consisted III
iweniy-six members, and the ages NJ most OF
them arc well known, aud The daies uf their
deaths. Firs, in influence and IN talent. was
GfoRoE CbEor, Of Massachusetts, who died in
1922, at the age Of seveniy.une (7D, which
was good age bat he was quite juvenile
N Comparison with some NJ his associates
WILLIAM PRescorr. Of Massachusetts, died in
1914. aged eiph,y.iwo (e2) aud DANtrL Wal.
DO, also Of Massachusetts, died At tho same age
(s2), year later. STEPHEN LoNoFgLLow, or
Maine, Then part Of Massachusetts. died in
1910, at tho aye of abnut eighly-f,e (s5).-
SAMUEL 5. WILDE. Of Massachusetts, the late
venerable Judge Wilde. died at eighty fur
go, last year. JosirH LyMAS. Of Massach.
useils, lived to be eighty (so). dying in 1917 /.
while Matthias DASE, Of Massachusetts, reach.
ed to cshty-one (s,), his leaih occurring IN
1895. HAERisoS GRAY Oris, of Massachu
sets, died ia 1913, aged eiehy-threo (s3)
lloDIAH BAyLirs, Of Massachusetts, ftachrd
To elehiy'slx ts0l years, dying in 1912 Josii-
"a THOMAS. Of Massachusetts. died at scvcuiy
(7O), IL 1921. THouAs llASD.sYD PEREiSs
survived unIil tho beginning Of 1854, aud died
in bis nineiieth (0o;h) year BrSJAMN Wrsr,
Of New Hampshire, died in 1917, aged seven
iy-one (7D. We are unacquainted with the
exact ags Of SAMUEL WaRD, II Rhods Island.
be, As he was an sclive snldicr forty years be.
FIRE The meeting u the Hartford Convention.
we may snppose hm 10 have become very old
JAMES HuLnousg. Of Cunncciicut, survived
until 1899. iig the age It ssveniy-ciph
(1s; and JoHS 1REsDwrLL, Of the same State.
died 10 1898, AT the same age. CaLviS Cop.
DARn. Of Connecticut, was sevrniy-iour (74)
when he died, in 1919. Rvcrs MiNor SHrR.
MAN, of Connecticut. was in his seventy second
(i2j) year at the time Of his death. 1874 Tie
lea tlonglived members Of the Convention were
GroRcE Bliss. OF Massachusetts,, whn died IN
1890, aged sixiy-six (Ge); BrNIaNm HAzaRr,
Of Rhode Island, died in lsiI, at sixty FIVE
(e5l EDWARD MAsroS, Of Rhode Island 1,e5
10 1880, at sixty (G0) years ZgPHAs, an Swur
died At sixty-fonr (6i), in ISIS; Ti.oruv
BieELow, of Massachusetts, died in 1891, a,
hiiy-four (5i); D.sisL LyM,y. of Rhode Isl.
and died 'c 1890, At fhy-lour go and
IhAvScrY GoophioH, who died at ifiy.sx (56),
"a 1915. NATHANIEL SMlru. Of Conneciicut.
lived To be all old man. bat his precise aye we
do no, know. OfMr. OLcuTr, of New Ham.
shire, and Mr.. HALL, az Vermont, We know
nothing. As ii IT were nol enough 10 vcx the
Democrats that the members should be 81 lonr-
lived, even the officers. ard 50 forth. of the Con.
'eniion, became old men. Dr. Sraoxo, who
made the frs, prayer before ii, died an old man
and 81 did Mr.. BrLL, the dooIkeepcr and mes
senger. THEODORE DwicHr, who was the
Conventions Secretary, and afterwards wrote
lis History, died in 1916 aged eighiy.twc (s2)
aud Moan WEBSTER. the ablcst of all the Con-
veniion's defenders, was older even than Dsieii,
We believe, when he died. Thus. il length Of
Hartford Conyentiunisis mus, be luoked upan
as having been among the very hes, Of human
beings, and no .'ne ~ho knows anything ofiheir
history would think Of doubiing that they were
as eond as the 'efy best OF their political OPP
ponen's, and Preriuus sight more disinteresl-
ed Than mnsi Of the latter As To- their hsvin.
done anything reasonable. either 10 legal OF
moral sense, or having even 81 much as
thought Of reason, no one hut an ass would be-
lieSe II, and no one but knave wnnld think Of
charging them with II. We must leave it To-
the Democrats to reconcile the ways Of God
10 man" by showing how their charge uf OK.
trene wickedness agains, the Hartford Conyen.
'ionisis harmanizes with the fact that tn seven.
eigh'hs OF their number were given me of the
FIRST of heavens blessings, and that they might.
as Juvenal says Nes,ur did, have made ravens
envious of their engh of days.