The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-03-11

have "A communication from, the young
man who has just attained his majority
who will, at "A date We need not now
fix, be President Of the United States.
The young man exists somewhere. and
We hope he is in training for his high
Office. On the Sth of January last
Prince Edward of Wales, who is pre-.
destined, il ali goes we'll with him, to be
King of England, came of age. He is
marked and set apart; he is under GER
tain bonds of behavior; his education to
be king must seriously begin, and all
England is interested in ii; il will
watch every action and criticise every
tendency. He is no longer free man,
and he cannot te supporting; there
is no occupation he can enter on for
gaining a livelihood consistent with
his coming dignity. The government
must vote him an annual supply of
money, aud he must have an establish
ment, and begin to play his role. Ifhe
is lad of spirit, he must chafe under
this espionage, this restraint, and the
limitations, of his dependent condition.
His subjects hold the purse-string; his
subjects demand that he shall be this
and shall not be that; his subjects have
now the ballot, and can cut him of
with a shilling, or put him one side al
together. Subjects? To what, alas! has
the king business come in this nine
| tenth century?
Our American lad-who may be read.
ing this paragraph about himself, for
we trust that he can read, and has not,
like Andrew johnson, put of this ele-
giant accomplishment till after his ma
jority-is under no such limitations as
his English brother, Edward of Wales.
Bill of the United States-for We have
no fiction by which he would be called
by some fictitious title, for instance,
Bill of Nicaragua-is probably uncon-
scious of his high destiny. BY the
time he take the chair at Washington,
or wherever the chair then stands, he
will be the ruler, more potent for four
years than the King of England, over
loo, 100000 Of people and have to ex.
ecute the affairs of the most vigorous
empire in existence. II he now expects
this honor, ii is safe to say he will dis
appointed, for the voters nowadays
never choose man who lays pipes for
the place in advance. 1t is safe to say
that he is ignorant of his destiny.
iii were otherwise. If we all knew
the young fellow just come of age who
is to be President by-and-by, what an
emI arrassment it would be for us and
for him! What life he would lead
with the reporters of the newspapers;
How could he escape the SHARES laid for
him 10y the mothers who would like to
be the mothsr-in law of President? If
he is in college, how self-conscious the
tutors would be when they marked
him, and how impossible 1t would be for
him to acquit himself well at football
with the eyes Of the nation on him !
/ With what content could he humbly
| follow mule on canal tOw-path,
which he may at this moment be doing,
with credit to himself and with an eve
to the appearance of this achievement
in his biography. Is the young man a
deputy l. he waiting for clients
with his heels on the table in some
country law-oflice? Is he just begin
ming to concern himself with ward
politics with the idea tn At the gentle
man in politics. is to be the winning
card in the future? Is he teaching
school with view of discharging his
college debts ? or is he running up col
lege debts without any view of teaching
school tsdischargs them? Or has he
gone into farming in the West, In order
to come forward as Cincinnatus &C the
right moment, leav ing his steam gang
/ plough i'm the furrow
/ All roads in the United States lead
to the Presidency, and il il impossible
to tell what road our young man Is
travelling. But If we knew him, how
uneasy We should be about him II he
Is poor-and the chance is that he is
poor, and at serious disadvantage
about his education-would Congress
vote him $4,000 year in order to put
him In training for his great place, so
that the nation need not be ashamed of
him when he comes into the White
House? The President of the United