The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-05-24
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1t used sometimes to be made 3 ra.
prOach 10 US Americans that no man could
hope to reEch our highest politicsI places
until the viriIe sgs was lorg past An
" old public fun otiOnsry, ss Mr.. Buchanan
once called himself is likely TO be q desoi-
cable Objsct; and if it were true that an
American citizen could look to be Presi
dent OEly when he had ceased 10 be fl for
that oJ1any otherpost of res possibility, we
should be in poor case.
Bot, compared with our English cousins,
We are ruled bg 3 set of young men; and
it is perhaps just IS we'll that our Presi-
dents and other high officials have usually
sttsined TO years IF moderation and pru-
dence before they are entrusted with pow
e1, sold men Tor council, young men for
fight, y was an old Indian proverb. John
o. Breekinfidge Was the youn gesE man in
the roll of Vice Presidents-and his hot
bloOdIed him into the most fragrant trea-
son. s5ii-l ri1l. .-s-a -'
Emile Gifstdin recently reproached the
blindness of death, % which has removed
Richard Golden, sged sixty-one, and lef.
Lord PalmerstoD, aged eighty-one" Cob
9en's deAth was mourned as untimsly; and
truly, among the present race of British
statesmen, ne counted but ss q young man.
Palmerston is Prime Minister, and eighty
one President JohnSon is bat ff;y-leven,
and Mr.. Lincoln Wss but fifty siT. Earl
Rus sell is Secretary Of Foreign AfF4irr, and
seventy three. Mr.. SeWard-our Fo. e'gn
SecretSry-is the Oldest man in the admin
istrati5n, and but sixty. four. Mr.. Came.
rUn, the former Secretary Of War, is two
Years mis- senior. The Lord High Chan
cellOr of England is sixty FIVE, but Chief
Justice Chase is but fifty. seven, Mr.. Glad
5. on Is fifty six, and is reproacbed as 8 young
man. He Is the future Premier of Eng
land; but Earl Russell stands between
him and the succession in case Of Lord
Plme7ston's death. - tfaf
= Lord D5rby, the chief of the English
opposition, is si1Ly-six, and his second, Mr.
DIsra4li, is six y, aGd must some time sgO
havs laid aside the flowing locks with
which Punch stil dseorates his head
"A noDg the lesser lights, men who are
slowly wor king their Wsy pwsrds, and of
whom the B iIish public expects some
thing in course Of time are Mr. Miner
Gibson, who is fitye Lord Clsrelcs
-Paget, the lsborious Secretary Of the All
mifalty, a6fty- four, Mr. Whiteside, the en-
inent Irish bArrister, ifty-nine, Sir Filzroy
Kelly, sixty-seven, and other not less ma
ture .'.rising young men. .-
Let US look for y moment at the ages of
our Own prominent public men. M.
BuchAnsn became President at the age of
sixty. i've; Mr.. Pierce ut fOrty-eight;
Mr.. Lincoln at fitty-two; Mr.. johnson
at fifty seven. Breckenridge was but
thirty-flur when he WAS chosen Vice
President; Mr.. Douglas was but forty
eight when he died; MIR. Seward became
sky five but few days ago, and, after
long life in opposition, reached the second
place in the administration at the early
age of sixty. one Senator Summer i but
-hfLy-fOur; brave old Ben Wade is sixty
five; Senator Wilson is but fifty three;
| General Banks became Speaker of the
II juse when thirty-nine and Is now forty
nine; Mr.. Fessenden is fifty-nins Speaker
0olfax is but foFty-two; Winter Davis ls
forty-eighT and Senator Sprague, OF Rhode
Island, q favOrits OF fortune, has been Gov
/ ernOr, GsnerAl and Senator, and is yet but
thirty i've s7aa.5s4 .il .t
lo 1hsddeus Stevens is seventy-two, and
ReVsIdy johnson is sixtynine. Mr.. HAr-
Ian, just ma Secretary of the Interior,
!
10 England, is fifty eight; and among the
.opposition,V Allsndighsm is forty four, and
Fernando Wood ffty-three. Senator Nor
gan, OF this State, IS ifty-four and Mr.. FOs-
ter, Lbe prfsidipg officer of the Senate, is
ifty-nine,. ,..T al --s.. g.. ,..-
ssi jeff Davis was born in the same year
with President johnson, and the year be-
fore Mr. Lincoln, Slidell is rs old zs Thsd-
deus SteYens-seYenty two; Mason, his
companion in the San JscintO affair, is six
ty seven; Henry a, Wise is Premsturely
old at fitJ -nint; Toombs is ffly- i've; Orr
bat forty three; Alexander Stephens fity-
three, nd Leleher flly four; Herschel
n. johnson forty eight when he was
placed as Yiee-President J on the
Douglas ticket; YAHcey died at fifty; and
rProctar Miles of South Carolina is forty
three. John A. Gilmer, of North Caroline,
who is reported to be en- his way 10 Wash
fbgton, to confer with the President on the
Affairs eFthatState, is Just sixty and VIM
A. Graham, who accompanies him is sixty
five.
The Emperor Napoleon is Of the same