Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-10-06
multiply that he will be placed in the niche
he was ordained to fill,


In new communities, wages measur ed
by the price of wheat are enormous. They
are also high In money. With view to
keep them down, one Of the earliest laws
in Massachusetts forbade any one to give
or to take more than two sh1lings for a
days work. Mauger all this, prices ran up.
When the carpenter had finished the town
stocks his charge seemed so exorbitant that
the indignant magistrates forced him to
sit as the first culprit, with his own feet
fast in his own handiwork.
In States newborn no tall trees keep
down the underbush, every mans ener-
gies find ample room, an exciting object
and often an ideal, elements in whose en-
nobling stir he feels himself exalted.
| Hence an idler is there monster, and
pauperism is well-nigh unknown A boy
who had grown up in 1'iconderoga as a
| pauper migrated to ST. Louis, and there
became worth more than all the inhabit-
ants of his native town. Like Saul, he
went out seeking asses, but he found a
kingdom. Crimes, also, in new States,
except those springing from sudden pas
sion, are few.
so the pure limpid stream when foul with
stains
| Ofrushing torrents and defending rains, F.
| Works itself clear, and as 1t runs rehnes,
| And new heaven in its fair bosom shows.
The first steps Of the movement mira
continental and trans-continental, | date
just one century ago, and simultaneous
with the planting of Rutland.
Tn 1868, Carver returned to New
England from exploring the upper Mis-
sissippi, and first proposed opening pas
sage across the continent as the best route
for communication with China and the
East Indies. In 1869, Pontiac, the evil
genius so long repressive of Western ad-
venturers, persisted. In the same year
| Daniel Boone first saw the Kentucky. In
ITO, forty Virginians reached the Cum
berland, Carolinians penetrated to Nat
ches, Connecticut men were at Wyoming
were seeking land-grantsl on the lower
Mississippi were claiming eight hundred
miles west of the Alleghanies. Hear the
prophecy of these last knights Grant,
one that we see more than fulfilled:
In ifty years." said they, " our peo-
pie will be more than half over this tract
extensive as it is in less than one century.
the whole may become even we'll cuItivat-
ed. IF the coming period bears due pro-
portion to that from the landing of poor
distressed tugitives at Plymouth, nothing
that we can fancy of the state Of this
country at a period equally future, can
exceed what it a0W then be-"
Besides all this, l have CHANGED to dis
hot +o01r ,,l,ao an tho
self-same year, and month and day which
we now commemorate, one hundred years
ago this day, and which emphatcally
marks that era as the day-spring of COL
onzation breaking oUer the limits of the
Atlantic Colonies. In the very hours
when the first corners to Rutland were
here arriving, George Washington, GU
horseback, was making his first days
march on a nine weeks expedition be
yond the Virginia mountains.in search of
Western lands-farms in which had been
granted his soldiers by the Legislature.
His journal thus opens
s. October 9Th, 1910. Began a journey
to the Ohio, in company with DR.. Cralk,
his servant and two of mine. Dined at
Towlston, and lodged at Leesburg, dis
tant from Mount Vernon about forty-hye
miles"
This coincidence in the movements of
Washington and of the RutIanders should
seem to US as remarkable as a cats eyes
coming Just where there are holes in herI
SKIN, then seemed to the liege lord of both
of them, George III. Neither RutlanderI
nor Washington was content to vegetateI
like the rhubarb pie-plant under barrel,
and see the world only through It's bung-
holes.
The hamlet here hundred years agoI
was Lilhputian, almost contemplate lnI
itself Yet it was the baby figure of 2
giant mass henceforth to come at large.
1t was among the first outbreaks, or rather
jn-break8, of the irrepressible Yankee.
That Yankee spirit-colonizng IN order
to cultivation and culture, my eyes have
seen its miricles beyond the Missouri, be-
yond the Sierra Nevada, in Hawaiian,
Honolulu, in Egyptian Thebas, in Syrian
Blyroot.
Thus the spring which here gushedI
forth century ago, was one head of a.
river that was to flow on and on, making
clad the cities of the world. To what
shall [ compare this fountain? 1t seems
to me like picture of the signing of the
Declaration of our Independence small to
the eve. great to the mind. To the eye it
is fifty men in plain clothes, in a room
plainly furnished, writing their names.
To the mind it is nothing less than the
LAYING Of the corner stone Of the empire
of hope
She that lifts up the mar hood of the poon
- Of the open heart, aud open hand.
With room enough about her hearth Tor all
mankind.
Mr.. Halls pictures of Rutland in its
swaddhng- seem to- me the best,
that can be painted by one shut up by his
sources of Knowledge. But he was not
an eve witness how Rutland began to BE-,
and | doabt if he ever had an historical
talk with no more than one anti revolution
airy settler, or if he ever entered town
not yet five years old.
Nevertheless, the truth is that history
repeats itself What Vermont was inI
1770, Nebraska is in 1870, Or rather ali
social eras are co-exiStent and contempor-
aneous. Accordingly, whatever Mr.. Hall
has described from tradition, my eyes
have seen beyond the Missouri. Noyag-
ing up that river, | have sailed up the
stream of time. Let Mr.. Hall 20 cut
West, and there, names and dates being
changed he shall behold, as waking
realities, what after all antiquarian re-
search here, must remain the baseless
fabric of vision. The Rutland &" of the
dark Backward" he shall there survey
cut out of the distant past and brought
safe into the present, How shall l par
don him that he has not long ago pilgrim
med where such ravishing views of settle
ments in babyhood. are as familiar as
babies themselves? Why seeks he the
living among the dead ?
Many years ago, happening by lucky
chance to procure license for myself and
friends to inspect the iron crown of LON
hardy, on arriving at the cathedral where
it is enshrined, | discovered a score of
naOnIe in the treasury adnoirinU q frc