Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-28
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A MEDLEY. .

SCHOOLS, RELICS, AGES OF LEADERS.
 To the Age Herald:
 "It is the highest duty of the liberally educated to perform public service in pri-
 yate stations. Their practiced ear alone can tell whether the vox popuii is the vox Del. They alone know whether it is the
 bawl of the demagogue or the cry of the well-meaning, but mistaken crowd. To unmask the one and eniighten the other requires independence and boldness."
 Education Is the stimulation of emery and the liberalization of the affections. Ability to pay for it advances In geometrical
 progression upon it's original enjoyment.
 Necessity Is the mother of invention and
 the pivotal necessity of Birmingham today
 is to invent a stumbling block to the en- croachments of those suspicious which
 attack her school system in it's entirety. Can the primaries stand aloneY Is not the guiding light of the system, the incentive to the endeaVor, the crown of the motive,
 the High school? Take away higher
 training and all goes down with it.
 At this moment is before my eyes DOT
 trait in the powdered wig and cue, the pro-
 fuse shirt ruffies and silver shoe buckles of the last century. It is known is "Graud-
 father Dick '-Dr. Dick, one of the four
 consulting physicians who bled and dosed
 George Washington to death for bad
 cold The father of bis country paid thus
 the penalty of exceeding greatness. Had
 he been only farmer Washington his wife,
 Martha, would have resorted no doubt to
 domestic treatment, herbs and foot baths,
 with good success in his case. "Grand-
 father Dick" wac an ancestor of Jeffer-
 son county school teacher. AS to relics,
 there is unobserved in Birmingham an
 English hall clock 8 feet high, more than
 15O years ago imported by the family that
 yet owns it, and which in regular descent
 of the generations once belonged to one of
 th ose twenty.sx senators and representa-
 tives in congress who pledged themselves
 to Thomas Jefferson to follow him in sup
 port of public policies and legislative ineas-
 ures of his devising, which resulted in the
 creation of the democratic party And this
 democratic apostle and ancient clock owner
 was an ancestor of yet another school
 teacher of Jefferson county.
 Reagan was of the ships crew of the
 Southern Confederacy,a trusted cabinet ad-
 wiser of Jefferson Davis whehCulberson waH
 a nursling at his mothers breast. sThe old
 man was defeated by the younger in R
 friendly contest for the favor of the voters
 of Texas recently, and this incident, to-
 gether with the defeat of General Evans, a
 Confederate veteran, by William Yancy Atkinson, man of 35 years, as
 we'll as other instances of successful compe- tition of younger with older men in recent months throughout the south, leads us to remark upon the ages at which distin- guished Americans became leaders,
 Patrick Henry was 26 when he set the ball of revolution in motion by his historic resolutions in the Virginia house of bur. gesses. John Randolph was 26 when he defeated Patrick Henry for congress in the Charlotte district and at once became the leader of MT. Jefferson's first administra. ton on the floor of the house. It was a very difficult aud delicate task, too. h order to head off the Jeffersonian party in l iis infancy the John Adams congress cre- ated large number of vacancies in Lhe federal judiciary by eniarging the number of courts. President Adams responded by appointing to these courts judges who might be relied on 10 neutralize by their decrees the Jeffersonian politics that might come into court, directly or indirectly. One of the earliest measures of the Jeffer- son succession was to abolish the new courts. Here it was that John Randolph, at the age of 27 and 2S, took the lead of the | house, and, after prolonged, persistent and l glorious effort, passed his bill to abolish l the courts and thus free the country from | the expected anti democratic judicial de- | crees. John 0. Calhoun, at the age of 2S, | was the leader of the house in MT. Madi- l sons first term, John Randolph oppos- ing. Henry Clay was senator at 30. | Robert Y. Hayne was senator at 32. John 0. Calhoun Sanders of Greene l county, Alabama, was promoted on his I merits to brigadier- general in the .Confed- crate army at 24 and Joseph Wheeler WAS | Acknowledgements at 28. MT. Yancey was l tbe accepted leader of the democracy of AL l abama at 33.
 "The youth of old age'' tarries longer | and delays young men from their rights in l the public service because of the ever in- l creasiuE contributions of science and art to the ease of mental and physical exertion. | James l.. Pugh goes to Washington in g sleeper, lives there and dictates much of his work to stenographer paid by the l govern ment. Dixon H. Lewis went to the same rfficial labors in stage coach, re, | turne6 every year home and wrote with [ l quill s.l he set down. J. w. D. & l Temperance and beer are synonomq}u5 l There is not fight in 6 case of the St. l TT l A. B. c. Bohemian Bottled Beer, bre ~ | bv the American Rrewinc f,o Mever- N3tr{