The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-20

terent parts of the state, and while he was
and is to-day on his quiet farm among the
hills, sowing seed and Illuminating law, an
indigenous and more rapid growth is rpen-
ing for him outside and he will come to the |
harvest, not like one who has his sickle |
sharp and his granary prepared, but rather |
like ono who is called by the people to a |
field that he thought not of.
Further on, it says GAS for Judge Peck,
we have taken pains to ascertain that he
knows next to nothing of his candidacy, is
absolutely uncommitted to anybody, and
throughout his life has been as free from
all sorts of political complications as the
most retired farmer in Vermont. II he is
nominated we predict that it will not he as
railroad candidate nor as an anti-railroad
candidate not as judge nor as a farmer,
but rs pure. honest, heightened man of
the people, whose spetless character, per-
feet familiarity with our laws, unilinching
courage and his pre-eminent regard for
those fundamental principles spoken of
in the Bill of Rights, justice. moderation,
temperance, industry and frugality,' mark
him as the man Of men whom every honest
and patriotic citizen will delight to support.
He will spare us the disgusting spectacle Of
entering into the canvass and going about
the state to beg or buy support, and when
elected he will be so free from obligation
| as TO have an eye single to the general good.
| Then, too, he will honor the high Office to
| which he is called and make a worthy sue
| cessor of those executives who have
already been promoted from the bench in
| the history cf our state, such as Moses
| Robinson Isaac Tichcnor, Jonas Galusha,
Richard Skinner, Cornelius p. Van Ness,
Charles X. Williams. Stephen Royce and
| Hiland Hall"
To this and what we have already said,
we have little to ladd. Asahe Peck was
born in Worcester county, Massachusetts,,
about the year 1904, but was in infancy
brought by his parents to Montpelier, Yer
mont, where his childhood and youth was
| passed, He lived and worked on his
fathers farm until he arrived 1t the years
of mai 1rity, save when lac was attending
the public schools or ncghborng acade-
mics. and "teachng school winters as so
many of orr Vermont Judges and states
men have done When he reached the
age of twenty-onc years, he made choice of
the law as his life work, and commenced
the study thereof in the Office of his
| brother Nahum Peck of Hincsburgh, at
that time prominent lawyer and legisla-
tor OF Chttendcn county From his
brothers office, he entered that of Bailey
and Marsh, then the leading firm of
lawyers in northern Vermont, and com
| pletng his studies, under their direction.
| he was admitted to the bar, in Chittendcn
county, in March 1892. He Immediately
entered upon the practice of his profession
| in Burlington. and continued it with ever
increasing success until 1851, when, with
out his knowledge, he was made one of the
"circut judges" of Vermont, with such
associates as Robert Picrpoint Jacob Col
lamcr and Luke p. Poland. That court
was abolished in 1851, and Judge Peck
once more resumed the practice of his pro-
fession in Burlington, being elected to the
state senate in 1860 and the same year.
while yet senator, he was made II judge
of the supreme court, in which capacity he
has served the state for fourteen consecu
tive years. How he has discharged these
responsible duties we need not tell the peo
pie of Vermont. They have watched his
course. They know him. An upright
man, an honest lawyer, a just judge, a
good citizen, a man of integrity and whose
purity Of character has never been assailed
by the breath of suspicion, legislator,
jurst and statesman, such man is Asahel
Peck, and such a man we present to our
fellow citizens, the honest men of Yer.
mont, as the fit and proper person for oul
next governor And we trust and believe
that all the people will say "Amcn, so be
, it"