The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-11-10

From the N>wyclk Rveufng Post. 1>-51A5'l
i3Itis sonskimes to be made reproach to Us
Americas that no man could nope O seeco
our highest political place until the vilAe age
was long past. An ''old pubic iunctlonary'
r. Buensnsn once oSsc s:'i and II Il were true
that An American citizen could look 70 Do
Preeident only when he had ceased to b fit tor
Chat or any other post OF responsibility, We
should be In . poor case.
Rut compared with our English cousins, we
are ruled by set Of young men ana !. " per p1S
otber high officials have usually attained to
wears of moderation and prudence before they
are entrusted with power. "O4d men Tor
council. young men for fight, was an Old In
dian porverb. John G.. Breckinridgef was the
Youngest man in the roll Of Vice-Fresadents-
and his hot blood led him into the most ia.
grant treason. --s 20 a.a!2htl.E'L'
Emile Girardin recently repr0ached the
blindness of death, (which has removed Rich
ard Golden, aged sixty-one, and Left Lord
Paimerston, aged eighty oue. Cobdens death
was n.ourned as untimely and truly, among
the present race OF British statesmen he was
counted but as young man. Palmerston is
Prime Minister and .eighty-one; President
johnson is but 6fty-aeven, and Mr. Lincoln was
but ffty-six. Earl Russell IL Secretary of 70.
reign Affairs, and seyenty-three.s Mr.. Seward,
our Foreign Secretary, IL she oldest man.in the
administration and but sixty.fouE. MFR. Came
ron, the former Secretary of War, is but two
Of England Il sixty FIVE, but Chief Justice Chase
IL bat ffty.seven. MI. Gladstone Is fifty six,
and II represented as very young man. He
Il the future premier of England, bat Earl Rus
eel stands between him and tho succession In
case Of Lord Palmerston's death. daaab
Lord Derby, the chief Of the English oppo-
sttion is sixty-six, and his second, M: DIsraeh,
IN ~tw ocpn hov 1o3d
aside tho Rowing locks with which Punch still
decorates his head. Among the lesser lights,
men who are slowly working their, way up
ward, and of whom the British public expect
something In the course of time. are Mr..
Miner Gibson, who 10, ffty.eight, Lord Car
ence Paget, the laborious Secretary of the Ad-
miralty, fifty -four, Mr.. Whiteside, the eminent
Irish barrister, fifty.nine, Sir Fitzroy Kelly,
Sxty-seven, and other not less mature "rising
young men" ~-2ILt hE:s!.. 1isi lIr
Lei us look for moment ut the ages of our
own prominent public men, Mr.. Buchanan
became President at the age Of sixty-five; Mr..
Pierce at forty-eight; Mr.. Lincoln st fifty two;
but thirty. four when he was chosen Vice Pres
ident; Mr.. Douglas was but forty when
he died Mr.. Seward became sixty.fve but
few days ago. and after q long life, in ropposi-
ton, reached the second place In the Admins.
tration at the early age of sixty-one. Senator
sumner l6 out QICy.IOur, brave OlQ Ben Wao0 I,
sixty-fve, Senator. Wilson is but fifty.three,
Gen. Banks became Speaker of the House when
but thirty nine. and is now forty nine; Mr..
Fessenden is ff:y-nine; Speaker Colfax Is bat
forty-two; Winter Davis lie but forty eight and
Senator Sprague Of Rhode Island, q favorite of
fortune, has been Governor, General and Sena.
tor, and is yet but thirty five. - 49, S6e f
Thaddeus Stevens Is seventy-two and Rever.
dy johnson Is sixty.one. Mr.. Harlan, just
made Secretary of the Interior. b but fifty. five;
Mr.. Adams. our Minister to England, L. fifty.
eight; and among the 'oppositinn Vallandig-
ham - forty-four. and Fernando Wood Atty
nine
JEFF Davis was born the came syeAr q. Andy
johnson, and tho, year, before Mr.. Lincoln.
Slidell Is as old as Thad. Stevens-72; Mason,
his companion In the San Jaciuto affair, is 81
Henry A. Wise u pIelnaturely old At 50 +; Orr
but AZ; Toombs is IS; Alex. 81. Stevens So;
Letcher 81 Hefschel v. johnson was q
when placed a. Vice President on the Doaglas
ticket; Yancey died at 50, and Porcher Miles
Il AZ. n99"ss' sin9n3GnhATH 9tl1it3b yJs
John A. Gilmer Of North Carolina, is 60, and
VIM. A. Graham, Of the same State, Is IS.
The Emperor Napoleon IL the srune age as
|, Andrew johnson and JEFF Davis The late
Duke de Morny, the Emperor's half brother,
died at 50. The Emperor of Russia IL ~, and
Victor Emanael Is As. -. -......,. 4 49,,