Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-10-09

state to the National Union. Justly does
the whole state this day render its
homage to Nathaniel Chapman. [16.(
The politics of Chapman were of the
purest and highest order, which, in the DAYS
of mere party or personal strife in the
political arena, we are forced to distin-
guish by speclhc name, as statesman
ship. He sought and adopted true princi-
pies, rather than personal or party ad-
vantage, and these principles he persist
entity followed, whether they led him to
personal victory or defeat. Hence it is
observed that his speeches in the
United States Senate were not on local or
sectional matters of policy, but on graver
TOPICS such as the privileges and
saystem of the Senate, and the judicial sys-
tenn which now prevails, after more than
seventy years experience, Is in harmony
with Chipman's opinions in 1902.
He was FederaliSt of the school of
Washington, which meant with him, in
the most comprehensive terms, that he
adhered to the constitution and govern
ment of the United States, perfectly adj
ministered and obeyed, according to the
original interment of the people of the
United States in adopting it. A single sent
Robinson in 1872, is the essence
of Washingtonian Federalism; and
it is pure gold. 1.-The principle of the fed
eral government is VIRTUE; by which
understand sentiment of attachment to
the government and laws" iii Hence
when Federalists of New England, who
were less purely dt@u truly imam
himself, seemed to contemplate hostility
to the government and Union by the
Hartford Convention, he fastened to
Montpelier and prevailed upon the repre-
sentatives of the federal party of Vermont
to withhold all countenanca and encOur-
agement from that movement. The
Union it must and shall be preserved"
was as much the sentiment OF Chapman
then, as it was sof President jackson long
afterward, and the all but unanimous sem
timent of the people of Vermont in 1861.
The lateWilliam c. Bradley once shrewd-
ly said that the two States in the Union
which had ideas, We're Vermont and south
Carolina. The truth OF this remark will be
apparent, when it is remembered that,
not only rs to slavery, but as to the gener-
III policy of the national government in
the most important points, these states
were antagonists. 1t Is also seen in the
fact, that Nathaniel Chapman and John q
Calhoun were the north pole and the sOuth
pole of the political sphere, leaders in the
great controversy of the people of all the
States. within the Union, versus state
rights. LlSl. That long mOoted question
has been decided by the War of the Rebel
lion; and as we stand to-day by the grave
of learned pure, and noble statesman OF
Vermont we NAV be justly proud of the
recollection, that he, in the peaceful
chambers OF tho Tinmouth tarm-hou~e,
was really leading the victorious armies
of the Union. though far, very far, before
the bloody conflict .-.. g..
have purposely left to Others many
things that may be said to-day Of the per-
ton of this wonderful man; and have
only to add, that he was small Ia stature,
but la ge ia brain :. as modest and un0b-
trusive in bearing as he was mighty In IN
teliectual strength; and as free t. D5$tOw
the riches of his wisdom upon the mann
blest neighbour, as he was quick to acquire
his grand attalnmentS. He was fallhtul
servant his state, and country, and one
of it's brightest ornaments, His fame viii
outlast the monument You have tbiS day
unveiled.
!. Irving's Life of Washington, Vol, HI
376, 377.
?. This quotation is from manuscript
note, by Chancellor Kent, in one of the
Journals of Congress in the Vermont
3. Letter to Washington in Life Of Chip
man, b.
l. Letter in Life OF Chapman, 81.
5. G. l.. iHams, III the Ru aud liEEAi y,
Feb, 1913.
Life" by Daniel Chapman. ...
7. New American CyclOp@dia ........ .....-
: legislative journal of 1884. 4 Fiji.
., Ler stature journal; Il. ii. Halls Esl~t-
EN- Vermont. ".-.-...
~. See correspondence of the comnI4-
sionars, and pOndence - Chip
man and Alexander Hamilton. IN life OF
Chapman, and Vermont Historical Co..
lecttons, vol. II, --.....
II. Vermont Gazette, i79 ant life "f
Chapman.
u. Life OF Chapman, p. 100.
-. This il from the legislative Journals
the Life" being inaccurate. ......... ..
II. Life of Chipman. ..-.-. .s.-
IS History OF the Republic, etc, .-..- -.
Is, see Vermont His ,orical >ociety@ 60
lccfiOnS. yO!um" il. ....
L. tiff, orr b 'pnan p. les. -.
Is. Chapman on Government, and thip-
mans Observations on Calho mus expose
% his Nu,inCatiOH doctrines. ...... -. .. .