Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-01-10
BARTON, JANUARY 10, 1866.
Old Holland Lyceum--A "Reminiscences

Teekly Times Of the 18th inst, re-
larks by two different correspondents, -
the congressman elect from y
leorgia, which will interest the most y
f our readers in this county. One of
hese correspondents writing from Sa- =
annah, Georgia, Dec. I'd, says =
.In the third district Hugh Buchan-
IN is elected. He is an upright, good !
nan. He could take the oath without
oerjuring himself half so much as a ,
northern copperhead would, were he ,
to subscribe to it. "
The other writing from Macon, De
cember LIST, says:
"Mr, Buchanan is a lawyer from Co
Iumbus, of respectable talent and high
character. He was. [ am informed, a
secessionist, and belonged to the old
State Rights party, but acquiesces III
good faith in the new order Of things,
larboring earnestly i'll the work Of re
construction and harmony. He is
young man, not more than forty years |
OF age
Mr.. Buchanan was born in Paisley,
Scotland. we believe. His father came
to this country with his family, in which
were five sons. when Hugh, the young
est, was not more than three to five
years old. He stopped year or two
in Derby, and then bought farm iii
Holland which he and his sons by IN
dustry and economy paid for-now
owned by Joseph Marsh, and one OF
the best farms in that town. Hugh re
ceived his first rudimcnts OF education
in the common schools Of Holland. and
made his first efforts at public speak
ing iii the Lyceums in the odd South
School House" That Lyccum was an
constitution" in those days,as some who
may read this notice will remember
1t was started by boys from fourteen
to eighteen years old; only one OF
whom had ever seen such a thing. He
had "been to an academy" and came
back to infuse the spirit of doing same
thing into his common school fellows
| They started it, and aided by one MAI
Of middle life, who had also been tC
the academy years before, went OF
f week alter week, and for some years
+ till the young men" left town for 9th
=. er pursuits. After the second meeting
: the citizens began to drop III to see anC
= hear the boys speak; and many time
E the old school house was crowded full
Y and all as orderly as church goers.-
;, We have a mind to give the names o
/ those who sustained it. as some 0
Z them are known more widely thai
:, then, and received some Of the strong
: est impulses to honorable and usefu
e life from that old Lyceum. Well, Their
!, was J. G. Robinson, three Buchanan
a Malcolm, John and Hugh, c. c. AC
i ans, NJ. c. and c. Z. Ferrin, Levi
/, and Grin Allbee, Geo. A. Human, L
V and l.. Pinney, and others who encoW
e aged the enterprise, but "couldn
5 speak" Some of those named didn
= do much at speaking, but all helped t
., make the Lyceum 90. Of these nan
;. cd two have since been through co
% legc and are ministers Of the gOspe
d. Two are well educated physicians, {
y, large practice and high reputation.-
- One has been an active member Of Il
q. corporation of the University Of We
mont for many years, and is now
)r c0rporator OF the new Agriculture
a College. One Of them has been
y member Of the Vermont senate; S
nt OF them have been members Of Il
I'd Vermont Legislature, and others hay
le wanted to be. All but one were re
nj idents and school mates in the sou
district Holland. Hugh Buchan5
d. was the youngest Of the debaters.-
1t. For scholarship he was just fair amor
the boys. But nc read more thu
some OF them. He was aready spe
no ker, was not troubled with diffidenc
re and was "chock full" of AMBITION
nc The questions for debate were Oft
about slavery, and the champions
X freedom were always the three Buc
anans and j. c. Robinson. Two
~ these afterwards went to Georgia al
70 become shareholders and perha
some Of the readers of the Standa
"a can tell whether the other two ha
81 kept clear of the charge Of being CO
fl perheads; whether they could ia
the loyal oath with better grace tn
~ their slaveholding 'secessionist' brot
* ers of Georgia. Hugh prepared
&c college at Bloomington and Der
academies, in 1901. But collie
80 ate course looked so long and difficl
that in 1912 he turned from it a
., went to Georgia, He supported hi
n@ self by teaching while he pursued t
ms studies of law, and being admitted
lal the bar, entered at once on the 81
ry. cessful practice of the profession.
His ambition could of course be or
of itied only as he obtained the confiden
o. of his patrons, and to do this no SIN
'u' of abolitionism, or Yankeeism. mi