The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-06-04

whose estimate of character was moro
quick and comprehensive and if VIC
honestly weigh his character against that
of the more and less ilustrious Of those
who have filed the Executive chair. we
we shall discover in him the honesty Of
Washington, the brain of jefferson. the
firmness Of Jackson and the wisdom OF
hall dozen Of our later Presidents.
while as writer he is far superior to
them all and it will be something to
boast Of to see once more 10 the chair of
Washington an honest and an able man.
1t will be something to boast of that. at
the close of the first century of onr Gov.
ernment, the ablest writer that ever filled
the Executive chair was elected by our
votes. 1t will be pleasure worth CEN
turys waiting to read his messages.
There is a stubborn error among GER
tain nervous money bags that things are
going to ruin if Greeley is elected. And
this is said by men who have felt proud
of having voted for Harrison, Polk, Lin
coin, and Grant. 1t is not my cue to say
anything against Gen. Grant. / think
the country owes him too much to hear
with pleasure anything against him per-
sonally, but what was he when taken from
his Missouri tannery, in knowledge and
character, compared with Horace Gree.
ley? What was Abraham Lincoln, crack
ing jokes on Western circuits. compared
with Horace Greeley, except what he had
learned, as | have often heard him ac-
| t. .
What was Gen. Taylor, or James X.
Polk, or Gen. Harrison, or all of them
put together, for ability, statesmanship,
and character, before they were elected,
as compared with Horace Greeley ? Clay
Calhoun, Benton, and Webster could not
get to the chair which Harrison, Polk and
lyler filled. and when Lincoln was NOM
mated the same sneers were common
against him that now salute Mr.. Greeley.
His boots and dress and walk and dignity
were 10 better than Greeiey's. He was
rail splitter as Mr.. Greeley Is a wood
chopper, but for all that what rank does
hel hold among our recent Presidents?
Second only to that with which Mr..
Greeley will retire in 1877.
Do these men, who object to him as
wanting in ability, not know that he has
taught most of our living statesmen what
they know? But while knowledge is
power, honesty is the craving of the na-
tion's heart, and in no one 50 much as in
Mr.. Greeley can that craving be graft
fed. He is thoroughly upright and in
grained and s,ubbornly honest There is
not gold enough in California nor stamps
enough in the national currency to brbo
him to do a dishonest act. You could as
easily lriye the most stubborn mule that
ever Traced his foot against his drivers
maniite g., 10 drive Mr.. Greeley into the
poth .~hi"h 'sai, 70 diehonocty.
TIE y Ew METHODIST BIsHoPs chosen
by the general conference on Tuesday
and Wednesday are representative mcn
in the very prime Of manhood ond do
honor to their denomination. One Of
the striking features of the group is the
prominence of the church journalist, Of
whom at least three have been elected.
Rev Gilbert Haven, the New England
bishop and sixty one elected, is yet young,
and shows not gray hair. He is a
Boston boy, attained wide reputation
as fervid, earnest preacher, and still
wider by his conduct of lions Herald.
There were elected with him Rev Dr.
Jesse T. Peck for central New York.
well. known writer of constitutional his
tory, and Rev DR. f. G. f Andrews of
east New York. The FIVE bishops elected
on Tuesday were mostly western men
/ Rev DIR Thomas Bowman is a native of
| Berwick, Pa, and is 53 years of age.
In early boyhood, he became member
of the Methodist church, and soon after
entered Dickinson college, at Carlisle.
Pa. He was graduated in the first class
; after the institution came under the con-
troll Of the Methodist. After travelling.
several years with much success as 4 min.
ister, he was elected president of Dick
inson seminary, at Wiiliamsport, Pa
His popularity was such that wherever
he preached in Williamsport, he attrac-
ted crowds. Desiring to re-entcr the
pastorate, he resigned the presidency,
but hardly had he resumed pastoral du-
ties when he was elected president of the
Indiana Asbury university, at Green
castle, Ind, and was induced to accept.
and here he has remained until the pre-
) sent. Rev DR. William l.. Harris was
born in Ohio, in November, 1917. and
became member Of the church in his
18th year. Two years after he was IL
censed to preach, and the next year he
joined the Chic conference. and spent
ten years in the pastoral work. He was
then elected principal of the Baldwin in
, stitute, and after three years service re-
sized to accept professorship in the
Ohio Wesleyan university at Delaware.
Ohio where he spent ten years, part of
the time under the presidency of the late
Bishop Thompson. In 1850, at the gen.
! eral conference held in Buffalo, n. Y o.,
he was elected assistant missionary secre-
tary, which office he has held to the pres
ent time. He is fine specimen OF vig-
orous manhood, nearly six feet high,
well built, with courteous manners, and
social habits that make him great favor.
ite. Rev DR. Randolph S. Foster was
born in Clermont country, O., in 1920.
Converted in early life, he entered the
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
church, joining the Ohio conference in
1887. Soon after he began preaching
he attracted the attention of the church
authorities, and was appointed to some of
the important churches in Cincinnati and
adjoining places. When Drew theologi-
cal seminary was established at Madison
N. j., he was elected one of the professors
and on the death of DR. McClintock, presi-
dent of that institution, he was elected
to the vacant position, which he still oc-
cupies. Since his residence in the East,
he has published several volumes, includ-
ing Christian Purity" Ministry" and