Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-10-06


till they had time to make others better
As to the execution of law, they appointed
the needful officers, and backed them NJ
by the whole force of the community. A
convicted criminal could not get reprieved
for second trial, unless some reliable
man would volunteer to be hanged as his
substitute, if legal trickery should clear
him, -as Ethan Allen once volunteered in
Bennington. Some of them were ignorant
but you have heard how early they estab
lished school and built a school house
Too many of them were personally ire
ligious, but they soon called a minister
and rared a sanctuary, though rather far
off and cut of the way. Moreover thu
Rutlanders brought with them to their new
abode the toapnShip system in which they
had been nurtured. That style of loca
government for maintaining the neighbor
hood poor, as we'll as for providing roads
bridges, police, schools and churches, il
the way which seems best to majority o
the citizens convened in a town or churcl
meeting, was long deemed an expedienr
too simple and natural to deserve any
fame, but since the eulogies of the philo-
sophie De Tocqueville, it has become
famous as the best illustration extant OIL
pure democracy. States made up of such
elements are immortal, and
f.. Vital in every part,
Cannot, but by aunihilating, de-
l need scarcely add that the Rutland
community, like sister townships, by send
ing delegates to Conventions, and then tC
Legislature, gave specimen of many
slender democracies woven together in one
web of representative union, like Esop's
feeble arrows gathered together into a
strong sheaf, or, better, like the soldiers in
an army co-ordnated, and subordinated
till each does what he can do best, and all
are correspondent to the command of him
who can guide to the noblest achieve
ment.
The word Clown" then, which Tex
ans to this day define a place where
whisky is Sold" to a Rutlander meant
protection, education. socibility, religion -
mutual relations which babe
" Each on others for assistance call,
Till each oRe's weakness grew the strength OF
all"
In the next place, the event which we
have gathered to hold in remembrance, has
come to seem to NE more memorable than
| at first thought it, as a representative
specimen of coIORiz0tion.
Colonization has been one OF the great
means by which nan has improved his
Such has been its tendency
among Jews downward from when Abra-
ham heard the voice Of God, saying, "Get
thee out of thy country, and [ will make
of thee a great nation" See Carthage, a
colony of Tyne. See Grecian colonists
spreading from the farthest shore of the
Black Sea, to the Sicilies, where they de-
veloped great Greece. See Rome, becom-
ing tree like that in the visions of Daniel,
the height thereof reaching to heaven, and
the sight thereof to the end of all the
earth, through surrounding herself with a
hundred annular rings Of colonies each
the growth Of all former time.
See European barbarians swarming from
their northern hive, and thus civilized and
Chrtstianized.
H0w does colonizing cultivate ? Through
d change Of base men secure vantage
ground for new start after failure they
gain fair field for new experiments, they
plunge into that necessity which Is mother
of invention; they cast off in their long
march valueless heirloOms, mental no less
than material they are reused to the ut
most endeavors by new hopes, new hav-
ings, new potentialities Of progress-the
blood more stirs to rouse a lion than to
start hare. Looking forth on new hea-
vens and new earth, they become new
men themselves, rejuvenated where all is
young, as if they had discovered the foun-
tain of youth for which the alch7mists and
Ponce De Leon sought so long.
In the occupation Of the new world by
the old, so far as these tendencies Of colon
izaton have had free course, they have
been glorifed. However inferior the
Spanish colonies may be to old Spain, the
creoles there seem neither inferior to their
own ancestors, nor lower In culture than
they would have been had those ancestors
never crossed the sea. The Irish. by en-
igration, have inherited what is often
called " kingdom come" Gas truly as the
Israelites did by their journey to Egypt
before the King arose who knew not
JQseph.) In only three Irish counties do
the highest wages Of farm laborers amount,
besides board, to twenty five cents day.
1t is a puzzle to many that the bubble
of Mormanism proves so permanent de
fusion. There would not be truth enough
in it to make lasting lie, where it not
that colonization is physical blessing tc
almost all Mormons. They whom their
overlooked countries vomit forth, come
from the warehouses of England, from
the mines of Wales, from the marshes Of
Denmark, or from soils where they must
sow bushel in order to reap peck.
Here they have bread enough and to spare,
they own houses and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,
at home beyond their dreams. They have
discovered America, and America has dis
covered them. Their hearts with glad
surprise to higher levels rise.
Thus, removal to America has lifted
Europeans to a higher level than they
could have attained on the continent Of
their nativity. For the same reason a
similar advancement has been promoted
by subsequent colonizations, which l may
call iatra-continental, Or within the con
tinent. Just one century ago, England
essayed by paper proclamations and sur
veyor's chains to dam up the migrahonal
wave which then first began to roll inland
from the Atlantic States. ..#
''she might as well go stand upon the beach.
And bid the main flood bate its usual heig ht."
Now, had she been able to keep all
whites to the east of the Alleghanies, then
at this day how few our numbers, how
small our territory, how seanty our ex.
ports, how effete our elements of prosperity
But what have our domestic wanderers
sought Mines, as in California; furs,
lumber, privileges, [but above
all land privileges broad acres fol
grain or grazing. They were born toe
late to master land, at least much of it, IN
the homes of their birth, but in new States
it was within their grasp. Becoming
landlords, they became lords of the land
They reached the standpoint which Ar
chimelles sighed for in order to move the
world. No sooner are farmers established