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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 246, 18 January 1878, Page 3

" Worn out," were the dying words of Senator Morton, as Ms whole frame and system gave way at SJ. What a commentary on the strain and fevfer of American lite r Morton dies about the age that an European Statesman is, perhaps, entering on his career. Thiers and] Palmerston died in harness .it 80. ' Disraeli and Gladstone are active now at an advanced age, hardly represented in our Congress, save by Senator Cameron, while the tremendous war Which carried the Prussian eagles into Paris was fought out by veterans •of- 70 and 80, who led their forces on horseback— Emperor William, Von Moltke, Von Wrangel. Bismarck, and others just as old," as hardy, and as brave.— '-PhUatlehthUt Press. > - „<■„' .'