The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1860-12-15
From tine Cincinnati Enquire.
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cider and gold spoons. Twenty years Is
great period in the life OF man, ald a
whole geners'ion have grown up who have
no recollection Of the DAYS of " Iippyca-
noe and Tyler too" 1t is difficult to real
iZe The fact that 1910, with all It's memo
rles, has faded back So far ilio the history
% the past, aud that we now stand ~ lar
from that era as We did in lS4O from the
date of the Missouri Compromise Of lS20
yet, when we look around us we see tie
indications Of tie tremendous ravagos
which time has made and the unmeuton4
chnngrs We has wrought.
Nearly all lie statesmen OF l,4O--tlosr
who were connected with The a1miui,trl
ton at that time---are in their graves. or
have long ceased participating in public
affairs. 0g Nr. Van Burens eacin,L o,
1910, John Forsyth, Secretary OF state
Levi Woodbury., secretary of the Treaau-
ry, Mahlon Dickinson, Secretary OF the
Navy, JOHN N. Miles, Postmaster Gen
eral, Benjamin I. Butler, Attorney Gen
eralcral, joel Il. Poinsett, Secretary of
War, are all dead save Butler. There is
not Il man in the United States Senate
who was there in 1910. Nearly all OF the
prominent Senators are dead, Such as
Clay, Calhoun, Webster, SiIas Wright,
Col. Benton, Berripn, Preston, PoindeXtrr
and Choate.
In the House of Representatives, save
Thos. Corwin, we looi, in vain for any IF
the members Of 1910. General jackson
and John Quincy Adams, venerable ex-
Presidents, We're then on the stare of
action and exercising a greh influence on
public affairs. Two Of the chiefs of po-
iitical STRIFE in 1910, Dir. Van buren, and
John Tyler, still live, in extreme old age,
but long ago ceasing to take part in the
sIIiie Of the times. In other respects,
what mighty changes have these two
brief decades that separate Us from 1910
witnessed What a difference between
tile United States of lcl0 and he United
States of 1860! Not mile % tele"raph
wire then in nj our borders; few railroad
mptetcd-scarc"ly any in the West
stages and steamboats, The general method
of travelling; the daguerrean art. invented
in 1882, hardly known in Io|O; seven
teen millions of people in the United
States then, nearly double, or thirty-two
millions ofpeoplo now; California, Oregon
and our Pacific coast. now the seat If
homishiug mcmhrrs Of the American
Union, as little known 20 the people NJ
most as the centre of Africa is now; gold
scarce and hard to be ohtaiu,G. now 4
comes ain, $, al the rrtr f n MI. on Do
l;Ir Vice. from Cl!i. lil. Win We
locked at Europe, We l.,c ed Nicn,,.s rf
Rosa, Louis Philippe" in France, the
Duk" OF Wellington in Lr-ian! Meter
| nietI III Austria, a the great representa-
| Tx mer of that continent They have
ali gone
The youthful Queen Of Great Britain,
hen just married-now a grandmother
Hardly steamer upon the ocean, and tit
teen or sixteen days considered a quick
passage to Europe The vast continent
Of Australia has been lifted up from The
msts IT tn" southern ocean, which had
ohscurcd il from the light Of civilization,
and become great mymber OF the family
| 1t. The twenty years past have indeed
been active ones in the history Of tLa
world, and will keep the pen of the future
historian busy to record their momcntous
events. The twenty years from 1920 to
so were comparafiyrly uuirt and ,,oim.
portant. The world was taking lis resi-.
and recovering from the tremendous locks
and the unparalleled cyoriior. Of the wa,-
of Napoleon and the French Revolution Of
1859. What 81 ir,r,.n.rt flashes across
orr memory Is we look hack to ,~Iot
The annexation of Tnyq.. ;Lc war with
Mexico: the c0noucst Of t1,jorpia ,nc
French revolution, or rather ,he .bo Euro
| ncan revolution in 1873. tie downfall Of
Louis PhiIljupe AID fh, rise Of Nsno,.on
ILL.,. III, l,,u T,.,5. Ia, ali;-trc a.
France and ENGLAND a,~ain.. Russia ,lc
Crimeau war: The STRUGGLE h.t.,., ;, ba..
topoI---a siro. vl,rn Ea. mn ro~ollai !,
modern times: the uu,iuv in india. The