Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-01-17

having tl2; by some sort OF p0tnicdt ma
nevre this was accomplished-and the
joint assembly balloted number of times
each day for more than week without
effecting any result, when at last, by some
means which have never been satisfacto-
rily explained, one of the Republican
members was missing and Martin Chit
tenden was elected Governor by MAORI
ty of one vote, receiving ll2 votes to Ill
for Jonas Galusha.
His administration was period of more
excitement and alarm than any other in
the history of the State, consequent upon
the War then existing between the United
States and Great Britain.
In 1918, when it was almost momenta-
rily expected that the enemy would make
descent from Canada, and portion of
our Militia had been ordered by the United
States authorities to the defence of the
frontiers of New York and were actually
engaged in that state, Governor Chitten-
den issued his Proclamation commanding
them instantly to return "to the respec-
tico ptaces Of their usual residences acith-
IN this State and hold themselves in read
mess to march at moments notice to the
defence of the frontiers Of their own State.
And again in September, 1914, when it
was ascertained that the British Fleet was
coming down Lake Champlain, General
Macomb, the Commander of the United
States Forces at Plattsburgh, made req
uisitlon on Governor Chittenden for the
ammpdiate presence and aid Of the NJ
ltia of Vermont' at that place. He re-
fused compliance assigning as his reason,
which was olso the reason assigned in his
former Proclamation, that by so doing it
would leave the frontier of Vermont ut
terly defcnceless, and that it was uncer-
tain where the enemy would make an at
tack, and that under these circumstances,
his duty to his own State required him to
keep the whole military force of Vermont
N readiness to defend her own citizens
and soil.
These acts of the Governor, though
now generally considered right, under the
peculiar circumstances Of the case, were
handled with much severity by his politi-
cal opponents, and were the means of fl
nally overthrowing his administration.
He held the Office of Governor two
years, and at the expiration thereof re-
turned to his farm.
In addition to his political Offices, he
was member of the Corporation of the
University of Vermont from 1902 to
1918. being during the two years that he
was Governor er eficio a member.
Governor Chittenden, after having ac-
cumulated large property, died at his
residence in Jericho, September, 25th
l84O in the 10Th year of his age.
Z. RICHARD SKINNER.
Richard Skinner, the seventh Governor
of Vermont, was native of Connecticut,
having been born in Litch6eld in that
State on the 3Oth day of May l778.
Early in life he was employed in store
in New Haven, in his native State, and
thus, in part, procured the means which
enabled him to obtain legal education,
at the celebrated Law Schovl in his native
town, then under the direction of that
able lawyer and profound jurist, Tapping
Reeve, l.. L. d. Having completed his
studies at that school, he was admitted to
practice in Litchfeld county i'll 1900, and
sometime during the same year, removed
to Manchester, Vermont. where he contin
ued to reside till his death.
In 1901, being then but twenty. tive
years of age, and having been IN the State
but single year. he was elected States
Attorney for the county of Bennington
| At this time, says one of our ablest Jurists
speaking of another, the Office of State
Attorney was expected to be given to ont
who would be able to sustain himself, ant
to carry his cases securely without ait
against the combined talent and skill o
the bar, as, in important criminal prose
cutions the prosecuting officer was yer.
. likely to encounter an imposing array 0
legal force on the part of the defence.
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