The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-06-10
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Ages of Modern Statesmen.

Enlf4t used some times to be made re-
proach to US Americans that no man could
hope to reach our highest political places
until the .yirile age was long past. An" old
public functionary," as Mr.. Buchanan once
called himself, is likely to be a despicable
object; and If it were true that an Ameri-
can citizen conld look to be President only
when he had ceased tovbea fit for that or
any other post Of responsibility, we should
be in poor case. ,-.... -, .,...7 ,..,..f.
But, compared with our English cousins,
we are ruled by a set of young men and
it is perhaps just asswell that our Ptesi-
dents and other high officials haveousually
attained to years of moderation and pru-
Tdence before they are entrusted with pow
.er. sold Men for council, young men for
fight" was an old Indian provefb.e John
G. Breckenridge was the youngest man on
the roll Of Vice Presidents and his hot
blood led him into the most fragrant trea-
sont @ hna ,4onT99oD 9gd g6 b9I9Yii5b aGa
~ Emile Girardiny recently reproached the
blindness Of death, which has removed
Richard Golden, aged, sixty-one, and left
Lord Palmerston, aged eighty-one.'" Cob
den's death was nhourned as untimely and
truly, AMONG the present race of British
statesmen, he counted but asa young man.
Palmerston is Prime Ministers and eighty
one; President johnson isibut fifty-seven,
and Mr. Lincoln was but fifty six. Earl
Russell is Secretary, for Foreign Affairs,
and seventy-three Mr.. Seward, our Forl
eign Secretary, is the oldest man in the adj
omihistration and but sixty-four.a Mr.. Cam
oerOu1the former Secretary Of + war, is two
yearslhis senior.da The'Lord High Chancel.
alorof Eng. is,sixty-fye, but Chief Justice
Chase is but fifty seven Mr.. Gladstone is
fifty six, and reproached as very young
man. He is the future Premier Of England |;
but Earl Russell stands between himsand
the succession ir1case9 of Lord P Palmerston' s
deathgq edt n9Gw sbGm 81 iiIW 1nfr 10 shaT9
Lord Derby, the chief of the English op,
positions is sixty two. Mr.sDisraeli lis sixty
and must some time ago have laid aside the
flowing locks with which Punch still deco
rates his head. Among the lesser lights,
/ men who are Slowly working their way up
wards, and of whom the British public ex-
poets something in the course lofntime, are
Mr.. Miner Gibson, who is ifty-eighty Lord
Clarence Paget, the .laborious secretary of
the Admiralty, 9ifty7fourJ Mr. Whiteside,
the eminent Irish barristeE fifty nine, Sir
less mature ''rising young men.' s.
Let us look for moment at the ages of
own prominent public men.i8 Mr. Buchan-
an became Presidenta thelage of sixty-fve; !;
Mr.. Pierce at forty-eight MIR. Lincoln at
6fty-two; y Mr.. johnson at ffty7seEen.-
Breckinridge was but thirty-four when he
was chosen Vice President Mr.. Douglas
was but forty light when he died Mr. Sew
ard became sixty-five but a few days ago,
and after long life in opposition, reached
the second place in the Administration at
the early age of sixtyionesd Senator Sum
ner is but ffty-four; brave, old Ben. Wade
is sixty-fve:; Senator Wilson is but fifty,
three !; Gen. Banks became Speaker Of the
house when thirty-nine, and is now forty
nine !; Mi. Fessenden is fifty!nfne; Speak
er Colfax is but forty-two; Winter Davis
is forty-eight; vand Senator Sprag1e, Of
Rhode Island, favorit of fortune, has been
Governor, General and Senator, and is yet
but thirty fyesnud JdQi9 h1eso.dj n9g54ldi
~ oiThaddeus Stevens ,isseventyttwo and Rev
erdy Johnson is ;sixty-nine,l Mr.. Harlan,
Just made Secretary Of the interior, is but
forty-fve; Mr.. Adams, our minister to Eng
land, is fifty eight; and among the oposi-
tioh,, oVallandingham is forty -four, and Fer
nando Wood fifty three. y'Senatori Morgan
of New York, is fftylfour, and Mr. Foster,
the presiding officer of the Senate is fifty
rnine.lob rl0i yidpj9 hne helbnDd 334dj bgl
T JEFF Davis was born in the same yearlYith
President, johnson, and the year before
Mr.. Lincoln. Slidell is as old as Thpddeus
Stevens -seventyTtwo Mason his compans
ion in the San Jacinto affair, is sixty Sew
en- Henry "a. Wise is preniaturely old at
fifty-nine fr6ombs is ffty-five,a Orr but for
ty-three = Alexander Stephens ffty-three,
and iLeteher fifty-four Herschel ". john
son, was forty-eight when helwas placed as
Vice President on the Douglas ticket );
oYancy died at fifty; and Porcher Miles, OF
South Carolina, is forty-three; John A.
Gilmer, of North Carolina, who is reported
to be on his way to Washington to confer
with the President on the affairs of that
State is just sixty; and VIM. A z Graham,
who accompanies him, is sixty-fve.3dr
1.-The Emperor Napoleon2isl of the same
age as President j ohnson and jeff. Davis,
The4lat Duke de Morny, the Emperor's
EhalEbrother,, died at fifty three. The En-
.peror of Russia is forty-seven and Victor
Emanuel is forty-fve. md M o-as !.
kysTheY Dutch Ghagev a. sgeod'proverb--7
/ thaftS never enrich aims never lmpONerlSn,