Daily national Democrat., 1858-10-29
What Has Been Achieved by Young Men .

William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham
was twenty seven years old, when as u mem,
ber of Parliament, he wagcd the war of
giant against the corrutions Of Sir Robert
Walpole.
The youlger Pitt, was scarcely twenty
years of age, when, with mastery power,
he grapplcd with the veterans in Parliament
in favor of America. At twenty-five he was
called to the high aud responsible trust of
the Chancellor of the EXchequer. 1t was at
that age he came forth in his might on the
affairs of the East Indies At twenty nine,
during the first insanity of George III, he
rallied around the Prince of Wales.
Edmund Burke, at the age of nineteen,
planned refutation of the mrtaphysi steal the
ories of Berkeley and Hume. At twenty he
was in the Temple, the admiration of its in
mates for the brilliancy of his genius, and
the variety of his acquisitions At twenty.
six he published his celebrated satire, enti-
tied "a Vindication of Natural Society"
The same year he published an essay on the
sublime and Beautful-so much admired for
its spirit of philosophy and the elegance of
its language.
George Washington was only twenty. seven
years of age when he covered the retreat of
I
the same year he was appointed commander
in-chief of all the Virginia forces
General Joseph Warren was only twenty
nine years of age, when, i'll defiance of t e
British soldiers stationed at the door of the
church, he pronounced the celebrated oration
which aroused the spirit of liberty and pat
rotisn that terminated in the achievement
OF Independence. At thirty four he glorious
ly fell, gallnnty fighting in the cause of free
dom on Bunker Hill.
Alexander Hamilton was lieutenant-co
mel in the Army of the American Revolution.
and aide-de-canp to Washington at the age
of twenty At twenty-five he was mem
Der of Congress from New York and at
thirty he was one of the members of the Con
vention that framed the Constitution of the
United States. At thirty-one he was a mem
ber of the New York Convention and joint
author of the work entitled Federalist."
At thirty-two he was Secretary Of the Treas
ury of the United States.
Thomas Hayward, of South Carolina, was
but thirty years of age when he signed the
glorious record of the nations birth, the Dec
laraton of Independence. Edridge Gerry,
of Massachusetts, Benjamin Rush and james
Wilson, of Pennsylvania, were but thirty
one years of age Matthew Thornton, of New
Hampshire, Thomas jefferson, of Virginia,
Arthur Middleton. of South Carolina, and
Thomas Stone, of Maryland, thirty three
and William Hooper, Of North Carolina, but
thirty four.
John Jay, at twenty nine years old, was a
member of tie revolutionary Congress, being
associated with Lee Livingston on the com
mittee for drafting an address to the people
of Great Britain, drew up that paper himself,
which was considered one of the most el'
ouent productions Of the time. At thirty
two he pcnned the old constitution of New
York, and in the same year was ppointed
Minister to Spain.
Mozart, the German mu-ician, completed
all his noble compositions, before he was
thirty-four years old, and died at thirty five
| Lord ByI on, at the age of twenty, pub
/ lished his celebrated satire uptn English
Rards and Scotch Reviewers; at twenty four,
the two first eantos of Cbilde lIarold's Pi-
glimage
Pope wrote many of his published poems
| bv the time he was sixteen years old; at
twenty. his essay ON Crilicism at twenty
one, the Rape of the Lock; at twenty-five
his great work the translation of the Had.
Sir Isaac Newton had mastered the highest
| elements of mathematics and the analytical
method of Des Cartes, before he was twenty,
aud discovered the new method of infinite
series, of the new telescope, the laws Of gravi-
tqtion, and the planetary system.