The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1877-10-04
LONG.L LIVED GREATMEN
From the New York Times. |

ltrom the New York Times
The death of the ex-President of the
French Republic at the advanced age of
eighty years suggests the thought that
the civilized nations of the earth are for
the most part governed or guided by old
men. On the 22d of March lastthe En-
peror OF Germany completed his eightieth
year, This mightiest of the rulers off the
world has known adversity as great
as his present prosperity is exalted. A
boy of ten he fled with his mother to es-
cape the victorious armies of Napoleon
the Great. Forty years later he had to
hy a second time from Berlin,and sought
refuge IN London from the resentment Of
his countrymen. Marshal MacMahon,
Duke of Magenta, and President of the
French Republic, is nearly sixty-nine.
His life has been one of steady progress,
but he stands to-day for the first time in
his career in an uncertain position. Alex
ander H., Emperor and Autocrat of all
the Rnssias, has not lived three.score of
years, but his life has been a most event.
ful one. In 1861 he performed one or il
not the greatest act in history, namely,
the emancipation Of 100000 human be-
ings from the bondage of serfdom. The
Russian Prime Minister, Prince Gortscha-
koh, is now in his seventy year.
Prince Bismarck, who was born on All
Fools Day, is over sixty.two. The Elrl
ofBeaconstield (Disraeli) is in his seven
ty-second year; the ex-British Premier.
Mr.. GIadstone,is sixty eight, while Count
Andrassy, the Hungarian statesman and
leader ofpublic opinion in Austria,is old
er than ffty-four years. Admiral Con-
stantine Canaris at eighty-scven is Presi-
dent of the Cabinet and the hope of
Greece. 1t is ffty.fve years ago since he
avenged the devastation of SCio by fast.
ening freship to the Turkish flagship
and blowing her up with many hundreds
of men who were celebrating the Rama
dan. Victor Hugo is just midway be-
tween the three.sCore and ten and four
score years ofthe Psalmist. Earl Russell,
the great Whig leader is S5; NJ. Grevy,
who has been chosen as Gambetta's lieu
tenant, is Ga; Jules Simon is 63,and Lord
Stratford de Redclf, better known as Sir
Stratford Canning, is no less than 80. Of
venerable politicians and statesmen in
our own country it would be easy to null
tiply names. Simon Cameron, the great
Republican leader in Pennsylvania 7S;
Caleb Gushing, of Massachusetts, is N;
Alexander Il, Stephens, a representative
Southern Democrat, is 6j; General John
A. Dix, of this city, has now turned 70;
r. b. Washburne, of Illinois, is 81; and
HOratio Seymour is g. Secretary of State
Evarts, who is both lawyer and states
man, is in his 6lst year.
Turn from those who govern to those
who educate, we find numerous old men
who exercise wide influence throughout
the world. Thomas Carlyle. the English
essayst and historian, is 50; Alfred Ten
nyson, the poet is 81; Professor Charles
Robert Darwin is 6S; and these are the
great lights in English literature and sci
enCe. Of Americans, Henry Wadsworth
LOngfellow has just turned II; John G,
Whittier is 70 Ralph Waldo Emerson is
"a; George Bancroft is II; William Cullen
Bryant, the poet and journalist is nearly
S3; William Lloyd Garrison is 79; TheO-
dore Dwight Woolsey is rs; and Peter
Cooper is SO. Legal jurisprudence at
home and abroad is represented bv
Charles O'Conor, of this State, who is 73;
by Isaac Adolphe Cremieux,a French
lawyer and legislator, who is 70; by Will
liam Ballantine, an English Sergeant at
Law, who is SO, and by Firmin-Agosto
Caballero, Spanish lawyer, journalist
and statesman, who is II. Chief Justice
Waite is 81; the Lord Chief Justice of
England is 70, and the Lord Chief Baron
is over 80. OF eCclesiastics high in auth
ority or position, Plus TX is S5; the Pri-
mate Of all England is 81; Bishop Ames
is 7l,and DR.. Dollinger the German theo-
logian and historian, is 7S. Among lead
ers in religious thought are Bishop Dup
anloup, of France, who is SO; Dean STAN
ley,of Westminster Abby, who is 81; DR..
Newman, who is67; Cardinal McCloskey,
who is II; DR.. Thomas Worcester, who is
over 70; Henry Ward Beecher, who is ga;
Dr. Chaplin, who is SO; Dr. McCJsh, who
is 26, and Rev. Stephen H. Tying, Sr who
is n. In the science of war the chiefs
are Count Won Moltke, who was born in
l800 General W. T. Sherman. who was
born in 1920, and General Garibaldi, the
most popular man in Italy, who is now
approaching his seventy-frst year.