Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-12-27


behind a couple of pretty boarding school
misses. with whom he was esSaying small
Irritation AS the train passed into a tunnel
he leaned forward and smartly kissed his
hand. As the ear emerged from the obscurl-
ty he chuckled to see the glahces of mutual
suspicion which passed between the yorng
ladies, each being morally certain that the
other had been kissed by man in the dark.
Oh, the stories those damSel~ told Of each
other when they got homel
ANIcrm gr EoorIsN.-After all, it l. Of
far more moment to know how men live than
how they die and Mr. Greeley history
shows that his life was a good one, though
nota fautlesS one Like most men who be-
long not to d" the common file, his great
est failing was the inteuSeness of his egOt-
ism This it was that led 70 the greatest
error Of his lite,-and which caused lis
death, according to those who -ay that his
failure to get the Presidency killed him.
Had he not been the victim of an egotlsm
that Is almost without parallel IN American
history he never w0uld have allowed him
self to be put in nomination for the Pre~l-
dencv. with the expectation that he could
concentrate the support OF the entire demo-
cratic party of the nation. 50 eXtraOrdln-
evidence that he was suffering from the
malady that proved fatal to him, before he
was nominated Nomination and failure
were the consequences of the disease that
removed him. not the causes of that disease,
and when the disease reached the height.
the oyer-w0rked sufferer could not resist the
attacks to which he was subjected. But
that very egotism which led Mr.. Greeley 70
his ruin. it must be admitted, was the
source of much of the good that he did a. a
man and as a journalist. for il caused him
% make vigorous war on abuses. and 10 ac-
complish much for the world. lie was
very honest man. and as free from corrupt
and selfish motives as any person whose his
tory has become known t. the world. Even
his strange desire 10 get the Presidency
was largely due 70 his sincere convictions
that he could do great good as chief magiS-
trate Of the Republic. lie erred on some
occasions, but his errors never implied
bad heart or a weak head. That he expert
enccl '- the last infrmity of noble minds. ~
;-ambition,-iS true but he had ends to
accomplish that, in his honest estimate
' made ambition virtue, and justified his
action 10 himself And what is ambition
4 great poet tells Us, and tells us truly
that
In God p, is zlory.-and VIXEN men aspire.
r is outa spark too much of heavenly lire"
Boston TrareHcr
The Woodstock Post does not seem to
like the style of chi>elling done by young
Mead Of Brattlebor5, else why should it
say
There Is certainly such thing as punish
mcnt after death. Larkin G.. Mead Is to
apply monument to Jim Fisk grave.
The same paper also comments upon the
appropriation recently made by the Legisla-
ture for a statue of Ethan Allen and it,
subject in this wise
Aliens statue Is to be made by Mead 1t
Will, therefore be merely mechanical
image ; besides, the subject is hardly n rep
reSentatiye of Vermont early days Ethan
Allen was in his make up something ike a
cross between an Old Testament prophet
and pirate he WAS Il man of great per
sonal courage. and one who said and did
a great many singular things, proper and
otherwise and he has somehow become a
sort of popular idol but in intellectual ca
pacity Ira Allen was immensely his supe-
rior, and it was Ira Allen who, a. the real
head of the old Committee of Safety, did 50
much in tashioning the times and in max
ing Vermont.
10 which the Bennington Banner adds
Which is true enough perhaps, except as
to his being n represen ntative Of Vermont :
early days. Oar reading of Vermont early
| history inclines US to the belief that the bar
dy pioneers who settled the New Hampshire
Grants, had, after fighting Gov Tryon' and
I the Duke of N0rk's piratical emiSSaries
] !, L. -,
/ lust such a people as the rough, bold old
| Ethan could represent. HIS brother Ira,
| Gov Chittenden, the Robinsons, the Fays.
and their compatriots, did most of the coun-
! cling, but old Ethan, the hero of Fort Ii /;
| Seth Warner, Remember Baker, the COch-
| rams. Satfords and others had the rougher,
| harsher work to do, and they did it well g,
| each class, IN their various ways, being
| equally the 4" representatives of Vermont :
| early DAYS, - and we hope that in due time,
/ groups Of statuary or memorial paintings
will commemorate their names and their
| deeds In the estimation of historians, and
in the traditions of the people Ethan Allen
is certainly the leading figure to adorn the
/ group. So moteit be.
Col. FISK 5 AssAssIN-It is said thatat the
coming trial Stokes's defence will be that he
shot Fisk in seli-defence that is, that Fisk
| had pistol at the time they met upon the
stairs of the Grand Central Hotel that he
/ drew it and would have shot Stokes, il
| Stokes had not been too smart for him.
/ This theory was advanced at the former
| trial, and saved the prisoners life by secur-
/ ing disagreement Of the jury. 1t will be
supported BY new and pretty strong evid-
ence at the next trial. Already, for use
| at that trial, the deposition Of two men
/ have been taken-the one saying that he
/ saw a pistol in Fisk's hands Just a. he
/ fell, and before any one came near him,
and the other that Fisk told him that he
carried a pistol (Which he exhibited to
/ hm) for Stokes, and that he would shoot
| him on sight as he would n mad dog. These
witnesses were not examined at the former
trial. Should they be credited at the coming
one, Stokes's chance of life will be very ma
terially improved.
The DIRYMEN's AssocIATIoN.-The Leg
islature did the handsome thing by the far
mers generally, both in sustaining the
| Board of Agriculture, and in voting an ap-
preparation Of $500 in aid of the Dairy
| mems Association The meeting of the lat
ter in January, at St. Adams, should be
/ borne in mind. Let there be ;<eood turn
out, and the result can but be beneficial
/ Competition at the West is placing Vermont
! in position where dairying interests can
be preserved from ruin only by strong ef
| fort to maintain and improve the quality of
her dairy products. Only - gilt edged
I butter and cheese are going to pay, here
after, and we must all learn how 10 make
them \ well sustained Dairymen's Asso-
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