Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-12-28
Day at Middlebury
The Middlebury Historical Societ

ing OF the fiigrlms on lymoutn ROCK IN
1920, by an appropriate, literary enter
taionent and social gathering. In ac-
cordance with this custom. the 251st an
niverssry was celebrated in the Congre-
gational church of Middlebury on Thurs
day evening, December 21st, with the fol
lowip g commemorative exercises.
Orgsn Voluntary by Prof. S. @. Moore
of Burlington.
Invocation and reading of Scripture by
Rev. E. P. Hooker.
Anthem hy select choir under the di
reotion of His Excellency John W. Stew
art.
PRAYER nv Rev. A. F. Bailey.
Pilgrim Ode Of Mr.. Hemans. by choir.
Address by Henry Hall, Esq, of Rut.
land.
Anthem by choir.
Bene3iction by Rev. Dr. Kitchel Presi-
dent of the Middl-bury College.
The aud was then invited to ad.
iourn t. the Lectpra Room of the church,
where the lsdies of Middlebury with their
well known g1ad tarts and liber Atty,
had furnished a upper consisting OF luz
uries and substantials 10 great variety
and abundance, which were partaken of
with the zest which the keen December
atmosphere had melted, and which the
pleasant surroundings assisted in digest-
ing. The room was decorated with pic
turas and various ornaments, and some
of the ladies' were attired in ancient cos
TUNES which accorded we'll with the
character of the anniversary exercises
After ample Justice bad been done to the
to listen to the closing literary and social
exercises of the evening which were hap.
PLY introduced by Rev. DIR. Kitchel,
who read the first trast. "'The auniver-
sary; 1t shines for all" This was re-
aponded TO by Miss Sherman, a teacher in
Burr & Burton Seminary, of Manchester.
who rpsd with remarkable rhetorical skill
an cr'ginal poem of great beauty.
The second toast was eloquently res
ponded to by Rev. DR.. Kitchel. "The
church of the Pilgrims; It's form free, its
spirit free in any form"
The third toast was. "The college
the Prritan tabernacle of liberty and re-
ligion, Of both which learning is the
ark"
Professor L. A. Au,tn, of Burr & Bur-
ton Seminary, Manchester, amplified this
sentiment in the d-livery of a poem of
great force and originality.
The fourth toast was to THE Press.
the University of every people" Which
was app opriately responded TO by Col
Knapp of the Mi6dlehury Register.
The Ladd who had been expected to
respond to the fifth and last sentiment
was not present, but the toast was to "The
Ladies'" with the following suggestive
effusion:
''The Phi rim's required help-meet
Because the Pilgrim 'uldn't help it;
He now through womans timely adj
A lad that answers for the ladies' !"
These pleasant exercises were inter
spersed with music under the direction
of Prof. S. @. Moore who performed sew
erol brilliant pisno forte solos, and &C.
companied some Of the sonqstresses in an
acceptable manner. Probably the mo4t
amusing par 81 the evenings entertain
ment was the exhibition OF "Mrs. Jsrley's
Wax Work." which were produced in
most artistic style and Asoribed in MRS.
Jarley's'' most grandiioqnent diotion-
The evening was replete with pleasant
features-the excellent lecture of Mr..
Hall was was we'll received ard listened
t. with attentou-and the large con-
course departed with feeling of graft
tude t, our frierd Philip B4ttell, E-q.,
the master spirit of the celebration,
whose benign Influence pervaded the
whole proceeairg7,
II our reporter had been called upon
for speech or sentiment, he would have
recited this portion of Edward Hopper's
Pilgrim Fathers:
How strange m xture is this Western World
L mean thu Universal Yansee Mari r.
The debris. some affirm, by tempests hurled
From nations worn out in the earth's rotation
Tribes, k,Ddreds, tongues, long-haird and woolly
curle1,
Torn loose from every part of the creation,
And driven or drittei here aoross the ocean
By every sor of WHO'D and wild cOmuotion.
The Yant ee in a name whose origin,
The con-cient'ous Muse does not deny,
Is xed up somehow wi "riRinal sin
And nucn that's not riginal must lie
Close to the Yankee door, il not within,
Aud haunt some folk, like ghosts, before they
die,
If all that's said about them be half true
OF what they've done and what they mean to
do
Especially they who've had the face 10 claim
The original Pilgrim Fathers as their own!
I sp-ak OF Yankees nov per Sc, whose name
Suggests a sharpness bred in skin and bone,-
sharpness in argain known to fame,
And keen, sharp idioms in tw .ng and tone,-
OF all that tribe and poop e known as folks
Who Ia3iate from the HUB like living spokes.
These mix Is every where In lands and oceans,
Restless as blood is in its natural courses,
Buying up townships selling Yankee notions.
Now laying railroad tracks, now selling horses,
Riding to power on partisan connections,
And pryins into Natures secret forces,
To force them to Their purpose, use, and pan,
AS If her treasures all belonged to man.
Thus Yankees have become the Da'ion's leaven-I
The hood, as one might say, in all its veins;
And th'e4 nav notions to the world they'v-
gver,-
That mans chief end e1nsjste in getting gains,
Thai trade is happiness, and Boston's heaven.
IT'S thus King Yankee DER the nation re,gns,
And by a most audacous usurpation
Has stamped his very name upon the nation.
Go where yOu may 10 almost any State
Throughout the Union, as it was or is,
From numbering Name unto The Golden Gate,
You'll find the Yankee claiming it as his,
And all there is therein of good or great
Has got his super<cription and his phiz;
He's governor. teacher, preacher, keeps the store,
Aud does all sorts Of things and can do more