Show PAST Gos sippy Sho Sh owin living that ours oiin Is still avery a very tonne nation we think of tile the time of washington as ages said in an elderly gc gentleman tv n aleman ol of antiquarian tastes and yet I 1 can point to many illustrations which will suggest how very near the hie distant alaa past is to us after all lor for instance until within a few months a law partner of aaron burr was in active practice in I 1 I 1 this city he had an all office in the lie building that was torn down to make room for temple court and yet burr came within A a hairs breadth of bein being the third president of the sti states tes his tie tic voto vote with jefferson throw threw the lie election int into 0 the houe peter C cooper cloper who died not long ong t ago ago n remembered the day of 0 funeral daniel webster was avas bo born rn while tile the revolution was in progress and there are mar many trillen men still in their prime in new york who have seen and heard hini him and if I 1 am not mistaken both mr field andlar and andl mr lr evarts have been cri engaged in law cases in in which webster was also also counsel I 1 recently met a hearty man of business just over the line in conne connecticut who was chirman chairman of the te local committee appointed to receive lafayette blieu lie ninde made his second visit to this ali is country tills this mans mails name is J jo in newman and he remembers very wll wall how lafayette looked look ed and what he said on 0 n that acca occasion henry clay and john C calhoun Cil Cal houn lioun were both lads benjie beffi e this government govern ment was or organized 1 anizel but there here is still living a man inan who sat in the united states senate with them I 1 refer to ex sen ator simon cameron there are arc receive pensions today to day as widows of solders sold ers of tile the revolution seven women and there were livin living at the time of the civil war five nien men who lad bad fought fou lit luring during the revolution I 1 I para epard ajl one e of them the daniel waldo preach in 1831 mr po oro tile the 7 ashington lon has told me that lie lias has seen every evev president delit since madison and had hands and spoken to every one since s 1 an ali old friend of mine lia d abijah nessi kessi qua clua of rid ridgefield C afield who vrho died not long ago 1 had bad voted for evry president since madison and he remembered very well all hearing the church bells toll on the hie day of funeral meral fi there is in active buin business cis now a man who was two tire years old when washinton washington ton was first enatt inaugurated president t he is georg cgeorge a L perkins perk ins of norwich and in he a was a man mail grown N hen he sailed down the hudson Hii ilton on the naohi trip that aai i J i namo 0 albany with his Elesta boat the file engineer Z ol of the first locomotive that ever rn in the country was living some months ago and I 1 fl hick dk still iz is there 13 ia now and in good health a i fal famous rions IH tri AB aa who was a mera mem of president folks cabinet forty six yeats ago I 1 mean bancroft BaD croft the historian mr bancroft has met with y ciany men who took part in the revolutionary war and conversed with tta m very many new yorkers not yel old men were well acquainted with tc son of alexander hamilton who tiled not long ago aaa yet alexander hamilton was aid aurill during 1 tile alc revolution and bis first secretary 0 of I 1 the treasury yea will see then from these beso illustrations illustration and I 1 lui might ht to give others other that wo we are still a very young young ic public and that but a few years hav have ased since the thile whan all who now live eve might iiii lit have taken the hands of men 0 wl o had seen cell washington and who had bight under him very many men now living C have in ill fact been able to azoy this privilege 11 y M Y I 1 letter |