The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-03-24
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thirty years, but al 40 time has j, at
traciod - much attention as a. the
present moment The fact that Alr
/ " -de Ii Sir johnson IS convicted oi
4 hugh crimes aud mlsdslneenOls MA
succeed % the Pfeadential char under
circumstances such Is never before hap
peaed IN the history oi the country, Is
ol Itself sufficient 81 MAKE The people
desire 10 learn al they cat Ol tie new
f President
H. T. Wade was bern at Feeding
Hill Parish West Springfield, Mass, on
the 18th aay OF October, IeUU, and 10
,nerelofe IA the sIx,y-eighth year oi
Ais age tits father DANES Wade. was
!. aoiuler ~ TIC WaI ot tAe ateYoluiiou,
and iougat at Concord Lexington and
Bunker nlii lie pas made 4 prisoner
in one Oh the battles, and confined ut
haliIaX Tor long TIME. dis mother
Was the aaazhier ~ Igesby yteTian
Clergyman aud q woman ~ great i0rce
+ ~ character and strength oi uHd The
venerable senator otAen SPEAKS Of his
mother, dead iung, long ago, and ms
/ eye wall brighten, AID uls voice grow
soit with emotion, when he tells OF
That good New England mother HIS
mother taught HIM 10 spell and read,
and having kept the small library OF
her father, Benlaunn read the dozen
/ books III 1t through several times. -
4 Wine Als father WAS III the var hgAt-
ln9 FOR the Independence oi hls country
/ the good mother was at home taking
care Of the children. The family, 10
use blr. haaes own words, was the
poorest III New England, and the
mother could barely mud enough food
aud clothing for her children. There
wore ten children, OF whom Benjamin
was the youngest aud ughest. When
/ benjamin father returned from the
war, he was broken in health and spirits
and seemed to have lost all his former
energy and sprghthness. Ben. early
sought to relese his parents OF the
/ burden OF keeping hIm aud lived out
among the farmers, doing all kinds OF
/ work Ior lis boarding and Clothes
Il When almost young man, he worked
he worked hard many day for
twenty-five and fifty cents. Ia VIM
ter, he tended the farmers horses and
cattle Tor ms board, and went to school
often walking several miles daily thro'
the deep snow. lie was III the hablt OF
1 borrowing books and reading them
/ through al night, ana early manifested
a great desire 10 study, especially his-
tory and the biographies OF men. We
viii here relate al anecdote Of MIR.
! Wade, which will serve to show what
kind Of boy he Was, ana point a moral
Tor our American youth. lie had bor-
/ roNed a history OF u ialmer, aud one
evening lett 1t lnylng on tic window
bottom, and the sash beng up, the
/ wlnd bIow Tie ram IN during the night
and ruined tue book. Alucu moruned
young benjamin next morning went to
the talmel aHG tod h.m wAat Aud nap
/ pened, and s.Ia ,uat. although he Was
TOO poor TO gaA 40r any cook ne was VIII
ing To worn !. ou 4 bargain was
4 made, and wnel season opened up,
i benjamin worke.I seven days tor the
farmer to pay for the book. Mr Wade
says the most difficult thing 10 solve, he
ever met with was algebra lie was
working on farm when he commenced
studying il; he had no one to SHOW hmm
and lac read it over fifty times without
understanding it, Often when follow
ing the plow, ne thought for hon over
the mysterious signs and letters in the
book, until they seemed as large as the
palm OF his hand He looked at them
50 often they were constantly before
his eyes, as clearly as if they were pant
cd on canvass, but he could make moth
lang out Of them. Gradually he began
to comprehend them, and he has not
forgotten, to TINS day, the propositions
he then studied and solved. When a
bout eighteen, Mr., Wade came to the
conclusion that the East was poor
place for young man, and determined
10 seek his fortune IN the far Vest
After revolving the proposition in his
lnlnd for two years, he liked upon Chi-
cago, then small village, as the place
Of ais future residence With seven
dollars IL his pocket, pack upon hia
back, in which Was his clothes, and a
stout stick, young Wade set out on foot
10 walk from Massachusetts to Illinois,
by way Of New York, foi he was deter
mined to see the great city about which
lac had heard 81 much
What must have been the feelings Of
the old Senator, when, more than thirty
years afterNard, be, great, rich sur
rounded by friends, was carried IN gild-
ed cars on special trains over the coun-
try, and ia great professions, amid huz-
Earring thousands, through the streets
OF tbs very cities where, when boy, ne
had trudged with his pack and stick.
God bless America, tie poor boy 4
homo God bless her for such exam
pies OF human greatness. Our own na-
tive land where the humblsst lad, # he
can carry al honest heart in has bosom,
may hope TO rise 10 the highest honors
Of tie nation.
Mr. Wade, after tedious journey,
reached Ashtabula county, Ohio, where
BE had brother living. Here he was
persuaded 10 stop for few weeks, and
tue snow falling in tie meantime, be
determined To work until spring. aud
then cross the lake Ia a boat to Detroit,
and make hls way lgoul there u Chicago
on foot That winter he chopped cord