New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-07-09
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A PROTEST AGAINST THE TOO EARLY RETIREMENT
OF EFFICIENT OFFICERS on ACCOUNT OF AGE"
TO the razor OF The TriLVne,
SIR: desire to philOsophze "A little about
one of the most potent and alarming evils of our age
for which have to coin a The madness Of youth
and Juvenocracy not the government OF YOUTH Dn the
government household of the school Of the Army
and Navy and Of the church, well as state by youth
the rule OF Young America" the headstrong ineXperl-
enccd ignorant and passionate way of the young OF both
sexes every where rejection the wisdom Of age in
every responsible station OF society and the installation
Of the verdaucy of youth into authority, is one OF the
most portenous Signs OF the times" i'll which we Ve'
MANY of us have lost youth, though we have not
lost our mental bodily strength Our bodies are
full Of vigor and energy minds are stored with all
the wisdom that the learning and experience of the past
have given u.s. all mental faculties exercised by
dircut training and thoroughly qualified by practice,
are ready TO exp.ore and OIen for the OF mankind
new fields of science But just when we are ready to
give TO our benighted and suffering fellow mOrtas the
fruit Of our toll in benecent demonstrations OF truth
and practical wisdom, which 1t has cost us many years
of patient study acquire and which no others except
those who been trained for the quarter OF century III
such laborious pursuits can possibly npart apply,
we are Laid upon the shelf" retired" by Juveno-
mania.
This rcgn,un jurea the curse Of our country and our
age 1t lays US aside and il threatens to retire the ma
val and military branches of the Government pen
sion Fftyhree years is the limit of naval officers
active fighting or exploring life, recommended by the
voupg men, and about fifty FOR a clergymans ser
vices az n parish minister Soon the rule will be
arped TO the Army and TO whole educational sys.
fem Shades OF Plato and Humboldt What are we to do
with this tyrannical Juvenocracy Camilius expelled
the Gaus Paulus Emlius conquered Macedon, Butcher
rave the finishing blow to Napoleon at Waterloo. and
Tedcr,ck the Great liberated Prussia, when each one
. had hoy hoo in Tho
Of This Land of the Free. Our Congress, judiciary
and Executive Departments VIII he soon hled with heed
less self-couce.ed youths our church councils and
our mari shes already ruled by them Soon they will
sity chairs Our Army and Navy will be differed eH
clusivev by them. Thou shalt stand up before the
S had and honor the face Of tho old >" il an obsolete
nrecspt with the Juven0cracy. The substituted
date Of Abaddon Is, Retire. we hoary heads Give
The article in the May number Of The North american
Rerjstr nv Lieutenant Commander Gorringe Is, in
respects, admirable There Is one ia" IN H. however
ented Young officer He is infected with the spirit Of the
,en5crnts He recommends active service only for
officers under ffty-three years OF age II he is familiar
with naval history, he should remember that In the
greatest naval battle fought, that OF Lepanto in
157I in which 300 600 seamen and others actively
engaged in mortal conflict, the comnander-n-chef OF
the Venetian fleet, Andrew Ncneiro VINO did the best
gbfing was seventy-sx years DID, and the famous
mauder sixty GcnOcsc gaeys Andrew Dora, was
octogenaran when he humbed the power OF Persia and
Cato the Censor headed the Roman Iegios az did old
Kent wrote his commentaries after he had been - re-
tired from the bench, believe at the age OF slXtyhye
by the JuyenOcracy." Humboldt wrote his Cosmos
after he was an OctOgenaIian, and Plutarch studied
Latin and his Roman Lives, and his comparisons
of them with his Grecan heroes, after he eighty
years old.
account OF age! General Joseph l.. Johnston Is more
than seventy years old but should dislike To meet the
wary old chief enemy, al the head Of "A grand
army! MOtke whose tactics ruined France az Sedan,
was then seventy years Of age. But enough OF TINS
nonsense issuing from the fools who ST. Paul said should
appear in 1.-THE last times Of the present era They
themselves will be retired In due SEASON. l.. L.
Netr- YORK.; July !, 1851.