The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-09
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ult. is an article the sentiment of which
should receive the appreciation Of every
true Republican. The question should
not be who,would like the office, but whom
do the people wish to serve them
in these capacities? a man who will
stoop so low us to sacrifice principle to
obtain office, | care not whether he be
Republican or sinner, it is barely posi-
BILE that he may be both, we should not
war with names, but with principles, nine
eases out of ten, for the public good he
he should earn his bread by the sweat of
his brow at home. The Republicans
throughout this nation should strive to
elect to Office men OF undoubtcd integri-
ty, ability and courage to carry out the
principles of right, regardless OF all evil
influences brought to bear against them,
which must tend to demoralize and weak
en- a state or nation. There is no vice
more dangerous, and which the people
should fortify themselves so strongly a
gainst, as the evil influences surrounding
our legislative halls, to accomplish mere
personal ends, which must ultimately, if
persisted in, effect the stability Of this
grand Republic, and overthrow the prin-
ciple of right, the foundation upon which
it stands. There are many noble and
true men who have ever been found WELD.
ing the battle axe with burning words and
eloquence upon the side OF freedom and
right, and in the language Of the poet,
When we have found them just and true,
Change not the old ones for the new
At least not be in haste to adopt the
one term system, Horace Greeley, not
withstanding. What Vermont should
have is the right man in the right place
That she may be beacon star
To ships of state by tempest driven,
And point the way from aiar
To safely anchor in heaven.
Granville, VT, April 3. X.
Professor Morse.
In the death Of Samuel +. b. Morse
in his SD year, America loses another
of those remarkable inventors Of which
our country has been so prolific. His
father, DR.. Jedediah Morse, who was also
1.-THE father Of American Geography,
was a settled minister at Charlcstowr
from 1879 to 1920, and there his eldes
son, Just deceased, was born, April 81
1871. He graduated at Yale in 1910
and at the age of 20 went to Englant
with Washington Allston, and studiec
painting in London under the amiable blu
tiresome Benjamin West. Young Morse
took prize for model Of a "Dyine
Hercules" in London, We suspect OF
Vests account, and returned to New
England in 1915 to paint portraits il
New Hampshire at SIS head. In 1872:
he settled in New York, and there pur-
sued his career as an artist in 1926 hi
became the first president Of the "Nationa
Academy of Design" and held the posi-
ton for sixteen years, lecturing as pro
fessor Of the fine arts in the New Yorl
university considerable part Of the time
But he was not great artist, and hi
fame comes almost wholly from ri
amateur experiments in chemistry ant
mechanics, from 1880 down to the tim
when he brought out his great invention
in 1887. The electric telegraph vii
make his name remembered when all hi
paintings and those Of his contemporaries
are forgotten.
Since 1913, hOnors aud wealth hav
been showcred upon him, and at the sug
gestion of Louis Napoleon, ten Europea
governments, France, Russia Sweden
Austria, Belgium, Holland, Sardinia
tuscany, the pope and the sultan united
dozen years ago, in making up purs
: of 100000 francs as testimonial to tn
inventor.
Of late Prof Morse has divided tn
|, year between his two places of rcsidenc
: New York and Poughkcepsie, and hi
death took place in New York. lie wa
man Of much worldly wisdom and c
an amiaole character, strict in his religion
professions, as became the son of DR.. Mors
and the brother Of the New York ObserV
err ultra conservative in his politics 70
C many years lover of culture and th
elegancies of life. He had reached
good old age, though, until recently, we
exempt from its in6rmities