Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-10-31

Mr.. Barber nominated CaarIes H.
Field, Esq, of Newfaue,
Mr.. Hayden nominated George B.
Kellogg, ESQ, OF Rockingham.
Mr.. Bingham nominated David A.
Smalley, Esq, OF Burlington.
And the ballots having been taken,
sorted and counted, the result was as
follows:
Whole number OF votes, l78
Necessary to a choice, 90
Charles X. Field had 80
George B. Kellogg, 70
d. A. Smalley, IA
o. l.. Shafter,
D. w. C. X, Field,
o. K. Field, l
]. Q. Field,
The Speaker said in q most emphatic
and feeling manner: Gentlemen. : the
Speaker is eith lou, he don't choose to
make q speech on this occasion, but he
will let a-f-ffriend (the speaker slut
ters) speak for him in the Third House
JomnaL Aud the Speakers speech is as
follows:
Gentlemen OF the Third House:
I should be guilty of 3 violation Of
q long established formula If failed to
inform you that your partiality and
kindness in eleCting me to this RESPONSE
BILE and honorable Office, had completely
deprived me Of language to express the
emotions of gratitude with which my
too susceptible heart is filled and If
you would conceive OF the profundity Of
my emotion, you must draw upon the
unwritten poetry Of your imaginatiOns
for a description Of the outpouring Of
thanks with which | should overwhelm
you, If I could but find utterance. It is
difficult, gentlemen, for fancy to paint
the embarrassment OF one situated as
ga led anon to preside
over tho highest body known TO the
people, and to assume responsibilities
from which the stoutest heart might
shrink. II those who are chosen to
similar offices in the l0'cer houses, are
smitten with suffering and embarrass.
ment and language fails them, how in
evitably must 1t follow, that he who is
cleo ed Speaker Of this House, must be
struck dumb with gratitude, ! invoke,
gentlemen, expressive silence to
"muse my thanks.
Gentlemen, in order TO have just per
ception OF the magnitude and Importance
OF our duties, we have but to refer to
their character and extent. We are the
grand supervisory body Of the Common
wealth. We are selected to guard the
rights of the people from invasion, their
interests from neglect, their honor from
stain, their power from dimlnutlon, their
faith from reproaCh, and their principles
from contamination.
Over the inferior branches Of the Leg
islature, this House sits as a restraining
and governing power, to check their
madness and extravaganza, to prevent
the devastation which their unbridled
license might bring upon the land and
to keep imprisoned the dangerous gases
which their convenient patriotism and
frothy elOquenCe epgender and evolve.
Like the fabed EOlus its office is to keep
in subsection and within proper bounds
the Lower House tempests and lorna
does.
-Celsa sedet EolUs arce,
Sceptra teneus; Melligne, animos ct
temperit irus,
Nj Iaciat, maria &C terras celum que pro
fuudum,
Quippe ferant rapid secum, verrant qua
per aurus.
Sed pater omnipoteus spe luncis abidit
atris
Hoe metuems; molenque ct monies ID
super altos
Imposuit; regemque dedit, qui feddere
CertO
Et premiere, ct laxas sciret dare jussus
habemus.
Gentlemen, how appropriate the des'
cription of the great Latin poet. Its
language is prophetic. The THIRD
House, holding the septre OF the PEG
ple's authority, sits upon the throne OF
their affections and soothes the pas
sions and tempers the wrath OF the
sounding tempests and struggling wines
Of the LOWER HOUSE. For unless II
should do this, the LOWER House, run
ming wild, would sweep earth and hea'
ven in one common ruin through the
windows. But the omnipotent people
! fearing this, hath shut them in theii
dark chambers, and placed over them
! mountaiDi weight of authority, and
given them the THIRD HOSE for Gov
| ernor, that knows well both how to hold
them with steady hand, when needful
and give them loose rein when proper
What weight of responsibility rest:
upon this body What difficult posi-
tion does the person who holds this sta
ton occupy! But, gentlemen, L feel 3;
| easv as an old shoe in the chair, for
know fnll well that you are not behind
either bodies in intelligence and kind
ness and all other bodies especially The
Lower Houses) are always bound, &C
cording to the formulas OF their speak
ers. TO make everything smooth, let theil
nresIding officer be IS great fool a.