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been powerful in its effect upon the Amer
lean people.
How great a debt Of gratitude freedom
owes to Patrick Henry a boy orator
whose fearless tongue was worth an army
10 the oppressed colonists Of America
Henry was only % years Of age when he
entered the Virginia House or Bursesses,
and became at bound the Leader IN that
body Of those who protested against Eng
lands tyranny. His resolution declaring
the stamp act unconstitutional were OIL
fered In May, 1865, before Henry had
reached his 30th year.
Thomas jefferson was a boy when he
drafted the Declaration Of Independence,
in many respects the grandest document
ever penned by the hand OF man. Jeitor-
son was born In i743, and was only thirty
three years of age in l716, the year In
which he put into immortal words the
protest OF the future against the past.
The state of New York owes its con-
stitutlon TO a boy statesman. John jay
was only thirty-two years of age when
ne drew up the instrument upon which
the Empire State was to erect a great
commonwealth.
Al thirty-hve John jay was United
States Minister TO Spain. BY this time IN
his career nobody dared to accuse him Of
the crime Of ''precocity."
Our early history is made up m large GO
part Of the ,ex afaieyem9 asmiltS OF
was Secretary Of the United
states treasury at the age of thlr-
ty-tWo. The man 70 whom he owed his
death, Aaron Burr, was United states
senator from New York at the age Of
Henry Clay matured early. His elo-
quence had made him famous in his early
fWenties Clay was elected United States
senator from Kentucky before he was
thirty.
John c. Calhoun was Secretary Of War
in President Monroes cabinet at the age
Of thTty-six.
President of the United States IN 1854, was
born thirty-eight years before his nomi-
nation for that office He had been ia
nous for several years before he became a
Presidential candidate.
Philip H. Sheridan was only thirty
years of age at the outbreak OF the war.
Before the war was ended Sheridan had
won fame that was worldwide.
The list given above could be elongated
almost indefinitely. The colonial and rev.
dictionary periods of American history
were prolific of great young men. Later
on, our halls of congress- our army and
our navy brought to the front men whose
genius made its impress in defiance OF
the narrow idea that no man Is fitted
for great achievements until he has pass
ed middle life.
and the union under the stress of an
awful crisis, begot youthful heroes, gem
erals, statesmen, dipiomatlsts whose
names will live In history Well may the
youngest of the great nations be proud
of it's young men.
Let us glance at the history of the race
as we md 1t recorded Of older peoples than
our own. Out of the mlsts and dark
ness that enVelop the nations Of two
thousand years ago arises the figure of
a youth who conquered the world With
the might Of his genius; who wept for new
worlds TO conquer, and, finding them
not lay down in WEAKNESS 10 die at
the age of 80.
Alexander III. King of Macedon. was
well called THE Great" Read the story
of his gigantic achievements.
The son Of Philip, and pupil OF Aristo-
tie, succeeded to the throne at the age
Of 90 He subjugated Thrace and Illyria
at n conquered and destroyed Thebes and
subdued opposition in Greece.
He was % when he started on his east
ern expedition. In that year he gained
the victory of Gramucus, and year later
won the battle of Issus. At the age Of
"A Alexander captured Tyre and GAIA,
occupied Egypt and founded Alexandria
The following year he overthrow the
Persian empire at Arbela. Before his
death, at the age Of 49, the Boy King of
Macedon was ruler Of the world.
Pompey had seen much military service
before he was 30, and on reaching his
thlrtieth year found himself in command
OF the legions operating against the Ma
rians in Spain. He was consul with Cras-
sus when he was thirty-six.
Calus Marius was tribune at the age Of
SO. Years later he was driven from Rome.