The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-05-01
Young MeH and That They Hare
Done.

Charles XII, of Sweden was declared
of age by the states, and succeeded his
father at the age of fifteen. Ateighteen
he headed the expedition against the
Danes, whom he checked; and with
fourth of their numbers he cut to pieces
the Russian army, commanded by Gar,
at Navara-crossed Dwina, gaineda We
tory over Saxony, and carried his arms
into Poland. Attwenty-oneh he had con-
quered Poland and dedicated to hera new
sovereign. At twenty-fOur he had sub
dued SaXony and at twenty-seven he was
conducting his victorious troops into the
heart of Russia, when a severe wound
prevented his taking command in per-
son, and resulted in his overthrow and
subsequent treacherous capacity in Tur-
key.
Lafayette was a Major-General in the
American Army at the age of eighteen
was but twenty when he was wounded
at Brandywine; but twenty-five when
he raised supplies for the army, on his
own credit at Baltimore /; and but TWEEN
ty-three when raised TO the office OF
COmmander-in-C hiefof National Guards
of France.
William Pitt, the first earl of Chatham,
was but tweniy-seven wears of age,
waged the war of a giant against the
cOrruptiOns of Sir Walter Walpole.
The younger Pitt was scarcely twenty
years Of age, when with mastery pow
or, he grappled with the veterans of
Parliament, in favor of America. At
TWENTY-FIVE he was called TO the high
and responsible trust of chancellor of
the exchequer. 1t was at that age when
he came forth in his might on the az
fairs 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 nine
teen. planned a REPUTATION of the meta
physical theory of Berkeley and Hume
At twenty he was in the temple, the adj
miratiOn of its inmates for the brillian-
ey of his genius and the variety Of his
acquisitions. At twenty six he published
his celebrated satire, entitled; - vim
dicatiOn of natural society" The same
year he published his essay on the sub
lime and beautiful-sO much admired
for its spirit of philosophy and the ele-
gance of its language. AT twenty-five
he was the first lord of the treasury.
George Washington was only twenty
seven years of age when he covered the
docks defeat: and the same year he
was appointed COmmander-in-Chi of
all the Virginia forces.
Gen. Joseph Warren was only TWEEN
ty-nine years of age, when in defiance
of the British soldiers stationed at the
door of the church, he pronounced the
celebrated Grafton which aroused the
spirit of liberty and patriotism that ter
minated in the achievement Ofindepen-
dence. At thirty-four he glOriOusly fell,
calamity fighting in the cause of free
dom on Bunker Hill.
Alexander Hamilton was a Lieuten-
ant-COlOnel in the army Of the Ameri-
can revolution and Aid-de-Camp to
Washington, at the age of twenty. At
the age of twenty-five he was Member
of Congress from New York; and at
thirty he was one of the members of
the Convention that formed the COnsti-
tuition of the United States. At thirty
one he was a member of the New York
Convention, joint author Ofthe work en-
titled the 'Federalist.n At thirty-twO
he was Secretary of the Treasury of the
United States.
John Jay, at twenty-nine years old,
was a member of the Revolutionary
Congress. being associated with Lee
I4iN IuEStOL. on tie tOnniltttt VI uId4t-
ing an address to the people of Great
Britain drew up that paper himself,
which was considered one of the most
eloquent productions of the time. At
thirty-twO he penned the old eonstitu-
ton of New York, and in the same year
was appointed Minister TO Spain.
At the age of twenty-six, Thomas
Jefferson was a leading member of the
Colonial Legislature in Virginia. At
thirty he was a member of the Virginia
convention; and at thirty-twO a Mem
Der of Congress and at thirty-three he
drafted the Declaration of Indepen-
dence.
Milton, at the age OF twenty, had
written his finest miscellaneous poems,
including L'Allegro, PenserosO, Comus
the most beautiful part of MOnOdOis.
Lord Byron, at the age of twenty.
published his celebrated satire upon the
English bards and Scotch reviewers at
twenty-fOur the two first cantOes of
Childe HarOld's Pilgrimage. Indeed,
all the vast poetic treasures of his genius
were poured forth in thesr richest pro-
fusion, before he was thirty-fOur years
old and he died at thirty-seven.