The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-17

" intended to induce him to become can
"didate for reelection" rather than as
formal nomination. As another historian
says, the language of the whole address
was elegant" but II would have given
higher pleasure" to those "anxious for
&c the reputation and honor of the state"
had 1t been "unstained with the pollution
" of party spirit"
But to the so called denomination" In
the course of the session of the legislature,
in October, 1905, in accordance with
somewhat common custom,it was proposed
to make an address TO the president of the
United States, and the proposition was
agreed to without any opposition-the OPP
ponents as well as supporters of Mr.. JEFF
ferson uniting therein. 1t had been re-
ported that he had expressed an intention
to decline another election and retire to pri-
vate life, and referring thereto the address,
which was subsequently adopted, said I:
We venture to hope that the insinuation
"is unauthorized, and to express wish
that in the full possession of faculty and
talent, you will not refuse the citizens
the benefits arising from long political
experience, and deprive them of the full
{" opportunity of exercising their choice
"and judgment, in selecting their presi-
I" dent from the whole number of the peo-
"ple." Something like the arguments of
Generals Grant and Butler that the people
should be free to choose whom they will,
and that no man had right to decline an
election to even a fourth or fifth term ;
and the resolution was, doubtless, Intended
| to induce him to reconsider his determine
ton to retire and to assure him, so far as
the legislature could, that the people of
Vermont would support and vote for him
for third term If he would consent to be
q candidate for reelection.
The language, however, of the address
was remarkably mild when we contrast it
with the language used by previous legis-
lature of Vermont. A reference to that
language may enable us to determine how
much of nomination the declaration
already quoted amounts TO. In replying
to the address of the governor, lamenting
the progress of party spirit, they use this
language relative to Jefferson 1.-THE ami
madversions on the administration of our
"present chief magistrate, our mild, oar
serene, our 6enecolent jefferson, have
been clothed in language, charged with
"peculiar and unprecedented venom. The
"purity of his motives, the applause he re-
ceives from the great majority of his fel.
slow citizens, must, however, sweeten his
injured feelings, and create in his heart @
generous and benevolent compassion for
his revilers." This address was passed
by vote of ninety-three to eighty-fve
whereupon fifty-nne members entered
upon the journal their protest against the
adoption of the address, because, among
other things, "fulsome adulation is be.
slowed upon Thomas jefferson, presi.
dent of the United States, highly unbe.
coming digniied assembly, of the rep
resentatives of free people to offer, OF
"the chief magistrate of a great nation tc
receive, without sensations of disgust,
and because they "cannot know the purity
"of his motives, or that he now receives
"the applause of the great majority of bis
fellow citizens, or what effect such ap
"plause might have to sweeten his In
"jured feelings" and because ''the Ian
"guage of the address is puerile, feeble
and totally inconsistent with that dignity
=" of style becoming legislative assembly.
1t is hardly conceivable that men capable o
using such language should unite in a re
nomination of Jefferson or, if so, that they
should do 1t in the mild manner indicated
but however this may be, Vermonters, lonl
ago, ceased from the use of such fulsom
language and from any leaning toward
l third term