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


had scared SO high collapsed
just like bubbles when they burst.
All at once and nothing first.
In view of improvements marching on
with an ever quickening pace,-I feel that
the organizations of the twentieth century
for enlarging the domains of knowledge, !
as well as for diffusing among men primer
pies which will promote the greatest good
Of the greatest number, must be such as
eve hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither !
have entered the heart of man. Let US
trust that one of these meliorating elements
in the coming age, will be Peace till the
weapons of Mars, as in a Pompeian paint
ing, shall all become the playthlnga of
Cupid. I" Let us have peace J"
Fellow townsmen, though my remarks
have run through wide range, nope they
have not outrun the boundaries OF the tune.
All are but parts of one stupendous whole.
There is a greater as well as lesser Rutland.
Its men have gone farther than Its
marble. AS the Athenians bounded
their valley,-one not unlike thI5,-
north by rye, south by. vines, east
by wheat, and west by Olives, so the
Green Mountain Boy, who has his birth
here, will have his being wherever he can
best make his own the boonS best worth
having. In 1860 three fourths as many ma
tive Vermonters were residing elsewhere as
within their own State. One year ago
last September, on the cone OF Hawaiian
volcano, | encountered one long resident
there, a nephew of Luther Daniels, and
whose sister had been among my earliest
sweethearts.
One among our early members of Cnn-
gress used to say that the yellow butter and
white girls of Vermont were better than the
yellow girls and white butter at Washing
ton. No doubt they always will be, and
yet Green Mountain boys will wander 10
Washington, yes 10 all golden gates.
Nevertheless, they will hold fast their III
dividuality as tenaclously as that English
man did, who, when afraid of chills III In-
diana, was assured by his landlady that
he was out OF danger, because he carried
with him so many British airs, such
John Bull atmosphere he #ouiu DC
safe while all Hoosiers were shaking. Rut-
land will grow beyond the dreams OF It's
founders,
Its hOnOrs with increase of ages grow,
AS streams roll down eniaTgiug mbIle they nov.
New wine will burst old bottles,-A RuJ-
lander, once a school boy here with me,
Moses NJ. Strong, thirIy-three years ago
staked out a town, Il days journey west Oi
Lake Michigan, now my home, and the capt.
tai of Wisconsin which has three Times The
of Vermont, but those born here
becoming continentals Will build up other
Rutlands in Nebraska.
Farmers in this half bushel have hoed /
among rough stones till they have beaten |
them all SMOOTH they will be OF tor |
prairies where there are not stones enough |
10 give stOne-Drulses 70 their bare footed |
boys, or 10 free hOmesteadS, (Which yield |
even the slOyeuly farmer from each acre
thirty bushels OF wheat, tOrty OF barley, nifty |
of oats, or seyenty-hye of CORN, and where /
at harvest time the farmers first nll up all 4
out doors with their crops and then gather /
the remnant into barns, or 10 grazing /
grounds where steers gam three pounds ii
day. Thus their plows,-as was well re-
marked by the earl est and best bisIO-|
rian of Vermont" Will enlarge the bouu- /
daries of the habItable creation"
Some outside pressure is ueedfuI TO push .
one nurtured here out of this amphirheatrei
into that Mediterranean valley where lac /
will never see a mountain until he gets
faith enough 10 move one, but when he ha.
once possessed a prairie, il is harder 10 draw
him east again than to move a mountain
or even Westinghouse. Hence he is like
one of his own country calves. You muei
pull his ears off before he viii begin suck
ing, and then you must pull his tail OFF be-
fore he will stop.
Again, according to the census Of 1860
the males in Iowa Outnumbered the lema rs
by more than thirty-uine thousand. No
wonder when you tell an lOWan he ought
to take wife, be answers, " Whose wife
shall Lake! p and that railroad conductors
at refTcshmemt stations crv out " Twenty [
minutes for dinner and Chicago divorces -
On the other hand New England had nearly .
thirty seven thousand more females than
males. In this hey day of wOman's rights
will the fair, like Jephthah's daughter 20
ing up and down the mountains, beWaIl I
their virginity in Vermont, where they can
no more lind husbands than hair on bald
head, or than Spain can find a king! or
will they hunt husbands in the West?
Neither. Nevertheless, where the carcass
Is the eagles will be gathered. Green Noun
tain girls will cross the Missouri in order
to visit some cousin, or to teach, or even
10 do plain sewing. But school houses
are cupid's mOuse-traps Their needles
may be warranted not to cut in the eve
but it VIII turn out that that is more than
can be said concerning the users Of them.
Where angel visits are few and far between
men cannot pass by angels unawares. \ :
Vermont girl must be grecner than her ma
tive hills, or the Iowa lady she goes 10 see
will be soon writing back 70 her mother in
this style: My son BOaZ and your daugh-
ter Ruth no sooner met bur they looked, no
sooner looked but they loved, no sooner
loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but
they asked one another the reason, no soon
er found the reason but they sought the
remedy, and so they have made a pair Of
stairs TO marriage, which they will iucUnti-
lently climb"
In the future, more and more Rutlanders
becoming not only cOntiuentals but COsmO-
Dolitans, leaving those who will, TO slug
gardize at home, Will see abroad the won
iers OF the world-earth's kingdoms and
heir glory. Notwithstanding, they viii
'eturn, as | did, from all continents OF
memory to our own, as the continent OF {
nope. Standing in karnac, Jerusalem, 8
lhebes, Rome, where stones them selves 10
'uln grown, are gray and death-Ake old, /
nave been haunted by thick-cOming fore
)odlngs, but after all my hopes predUmi-
late. By our government uucursed with
standing army, aristocracy, or hierarchy,
~ the peaceful crusaders who pilgrim AItn-
r in cyer-grOwiug hosts, by the legac:e>
We inherit from all civilizations, 10y en-
ightenment through the school and press,
md religion through the pulpit, here pre-
perVasIye, by our Union cUuse-
rated by myriads of good men who died
hat It might not die, and have passed on
From glory here to glory where.
The banner blue in field of air
Is bright with stars forever tlcre,
Without the stripes Of red.
By all these tokens is ours sealed as the
continent OF hope.
Is honors with increase Of ages grow
- streams roll down enlargiug while they flow
through broader cllmes than Roman ea-Ies say,
Thy boast we liberty restrained by law
Why call we classic spoils from foreign lorcg
Why people SONS Of every race our shore
10 sword uu sheaIhed no hiss Of murderOus ball |
The book of knowledge leglble by aIs
hunger un1eit, commerce silver cord
\ ny false philosophy at length abhorred,
The tongue, the pen, the pencils mysteries, I r
The press an earthquake impulse, wherefore.
these!
lust these all plunge as down a cataract
md tragic sceues OI anarchy enact!
lay, God ordained these marvels TO emerge
Where all the ends OF earth and time CONVERGE
Tod, who an end secures by tiuiest mote
If myrlads that in bOundIess ether float.
md choicest wheat from mlluewed harvest !
CLEANS, 4
Iuch more shall wonders work by wondrous
means,
Wherefore has he throughout our borders d
wrought,
~ enginery transcending human thoughtg
ure the day daWus when all shall hail aa oueau D