Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1886 — No Chance for the Presidency. [ARTICLE]

No Chance for the Presidency.

“Mamma,” said a little Fifth Ward boy lugubriously the other day, as he laid down a volume of biographical sketches of the Presidents, “I don’t believe I’ll ever be a President. I ain’t got the chance, I wasn’t brung up right.” “Why, child, you have the same chance that other little boys have.” - “No, I ain’t; I wasn’t born in a log cabin, nor I ain’t drove a team on the canal, nor had to read the spellin’ book by the-light of a pine knot, nor had to split rails nor nothin’ like the rest of the boys who got there. I tell you, mother, Pm handicapped on this Presidential business.” From the stress laid on the hardships endured by some of the Presidents when boys, it is not strange that the juvenile mind should draw such a deduction. — Elmira Gazette.