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

| III. ~ Il
bled through Germany when Its govern,
ments were forty save two SO small thai
| had ridden by diligence through seven
of them in one day; and those "dissevered
discordant, belligerent." In middle life
gazed on Germany consolidated IN union
worth as much to its citizens as ours is &c
rs. united as one individual soul, and
therefore confident against world IN arms
The statue of Luther which | had seer
excluded from the Walhalla, lived tc
/ admire enshrined in that temple of glory.
while Catholics vieing with Protestants
delighted to honor the dedication OF his
monument in Worms.
On my early pilgrimage l had been
locker on in Vienna, and judged 1t CAB
ralter impregnable to reform, and all Aus
tria incurably conservative of medleva
follies. But the summer before my later
tour, the needle guns at Sadowa pierced
the cancer of Hapsburg conceit, not hurt.
fully but healingly.
GAS he who struck at Jason's life,
| Aiming to make his purpose sure,
With malicious vengeful knife,
| Did wound him but TO cure.
But no part of my second journey wa:
more jubilant than my Italian tour.
had left in Italy eight princlpalities; wher
[ returned all had become one kingdom
all but one-half of the old Popedomj q
kingdom with monasteries abolished and
primary schools established, and those or
| Vermont models, thanks to the Vermontel
who represents US in Florence. In Milan
| addressed band of seventeen theology
cal students who had been collected by
another Vermonter, our Consul there.
Venice, so long drugged as with burg lars
chloroform by Austria, | rejolced with as
she clapped her hands in newborn trans
ports. The lion of St. Mark, so glorifed
by her artists, there half appeared paving
to get free, then sprang as broke from
bonds, and rampant shook his brinded
name. But for Napoleonic intervention, |
should have hailed Rome as the queen oil
all Italy. In fact, came to the Pope
while his temporal power hung in doubt
before him, the gates of Rome walled up,
or with earth-works before them, sand
bags on the ramparts, loopholes for rife
men knocked through the ancient walls.
The speech Of the people no less than the
aspect Of the place betokened that Italy
bldes It's time to perfect It's union and re-
gain its -honored head.
In England between my two visits there
had been progress upon progress. EXten-
sions Of the ballot, anti-corn laws, discs
Enlistment of the Irish church, insuring
similar reform of the English, -boons l
had not at my first coming dared to hope
for,-my eyes at length beheld.
In 1912 trial by jury and open courts
were scarcely known outside of England
and France. They were disbursed by
German judges, but quarter OF a century
later l observed that they had crossed
the continent to Moscow. When l said
to a provincial Russian in my hotel there,
. Let US walk to the palace where the
crowns, scepters. Jewels and thrones of the
ten Kingdoms which Russia has success
| lively absorbed, are reposited," nav, "
said he, 9 let us rather visit first the Hall
of Justice, where jury trials were first
witnessed last November During my
first soiourn in Naples counted the heads
of sixteen malefactors hanging high on the
outer wall of the prison. When l was last
abroad, no such sight shocked me even in
grand Cairo.
In ~ l had seen many women harness
ed, and drawing coal carts, in '67 | saw
none. At the former date, beggars We're
everywhere as numerous as at the latter,
only in Spain and Egypt. Having on one
journey heard our country commisserated
as lacking union between the church and
the state, on another journey heard it, in
the self same countries, admired and en-
| Wed, owing to the selt-same lack. When
| was first abroad, and news came Of that
tempest in teapot, DORIS Rhode Island
rebellion, " alas for YOU" cried German
friends, '.you have no standing ARMY and
so you are alike defenceless against foes
without and foes within" Everywhere
was our Union compared to a meal bag
open at both ends. Ny second travels
We're just after that meal bag had been
tied up, and pinned with a million bayo-
nets, and / spoke with few Europeans who
did not confess exemption from standing
army to be the climax Of our blessings,
and the climax Of their own curses to be
the military incubus. But for standing
armies, who believes that France and
Prussia would be at war to-day The
sight of means to do III deeds makes i'll
deeds done. But for warriors ready at
hand, those nations would have been re
conciled before they could get ready to
fight, just as in the quarrels Of lovers it is
proyerbial that they make friends before
they get through returning their kisses,
and other love tokens.
My later travels also carried me into
regions before unvisited, into Spain in
the lull before the revolutionary earth
quake, and there l was promised the reli-
gious equality now enjoyed where eleven
Years after the founding of Rutland, a
hereto had been burnt alive. My travels
carried me among Russian serfs just eman-
cipatei, but each on his own patch of
land, and, like those used to the dark,
seeing much by little light. They carried
NE into Egypt, where L voyaged on the
man-made river which, navigable for all
craft that can sail out Of London, cutting
asunder two continents, and halvIng the
distance between all commercial empori-
ums, will transport Christendom through
out the Orient. They carried me into
Turkey, where [ saw the Sultan on the
very day when newspaper full of satire
on his administration falling into his hands
be demanded all the past and ALI the future
numbers Of that print. They carried me-
among the Sandwich Islanders, who ate
up Captain Cooke long after the era we
now call to mind. but whom l saw doing
more in proportion to their ability to
maintain Christian institutions than we do
On the whole, l stand before you as an
eye witness of such progress during one
quarter of the last century, as you know
we'll from other sources to have been
sweeping on throughout that entire cycle.
History has been called 1.-THE stern-hghts
of ship which illuminate only the wake
it leaves behind" Let me rather iken it
to the head light Of locomotive which
throws its splendOrs forward along the
track it is about to traverse. Whether
we look at Rutland, or our country, or the
world, the century now closing abounds