Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-07-12
WOODSTOCK, VT, WEDNESDAY,, JULY II, 1876


rights are all the same to kings so
that they hold their thrones. "A hu-
name king is a misnomer. lie can
only be so at times under peculiar Cir
cumstances. The present queen of
mother England,-and England is
eur mother, and we proudly love her
TO-DAY as such, ,-chivalrous, glorious
and proud intellectual and scientific,
erudite, poetic and artistic is she. We
revere mother England. Her very
blood courses in our veins, and none
the better for that. In its infancy our
nation nursed at her breasts. In due
time she weaned us. We worked on
till of age, and struck for manhood;
Mother was rich enough, we would
begin to lay up treasures. But l had
begun to say the present queen OF
England is said to be good and amla-
bic. No doubt she is for a queen (;
but once call into question her acts,
and her amiability vanishes, and all
else but her queenly power. Human
nature is such that it must be so. The
truth is the disparity between sover
eign and subjects Is too great to be
salutary, Injurious to both ruler and
ruled Mr.. President, should we be-
come kings we should not only cease
to remember our former friends, but
our former selves even. The trainers
of our government understood this
liability, and as it was their desire to
give the greatest personal liberty com
patible with government that it might
be perpetuated forever, they naturally
and wisely fell upon the highest repub,
lican form, in which every man is
equal to the greatest in having his say
as to what the laws shall be. The
people appoint the lawmakers, as ser
wants to do their bidding. Not the
rich alone make these appointments
not those who possess a certain
amount of real estate or OF learning
but the poor and tho ignorant also
Even paupers vote equally with the
rich, and this is not lenity, but simple
Justice, because every mans secunt..
depends upon the laws over him
and because manhood should not b
reckoned from personal possessions
aside from the ordinary endowment
bestowed by the maker, God. Wei
Mr.. President, the old platform look
, good. Will it stand it? The favor
able signs are too strong to admit 0
doubt. Our schools are educatin!
,, our children in republican patriotism
, Our pulpits irstil the same. Is nc
y, knowledge generally difused in suffi
cient quorum for keeping any govern
ment to at least its present level. Hi:
tories of nations are now taught i
:, , schools, and they will be more sy:
tematically and thoroughly taught
e Libraries, public and private, as no.
read throughout communities, and a
v they will be more read and under
. stood together with the innumerabl
4 newspapers, magazines and religion
tracts, all of which instruct and stim
ulate the rising generation to love
country and of its institutions. Fac
like these ought to settle the question
But as intelligent republics ha,
fallen to rise no more, some supPo'
that ours will some day fall from ii
II HIGH estate. But our masses are III
{ only being mentally disciplined by sc
u entifc study, but what is of great
l. value, they have pervading anon
e them kind Of intelligence more pra
e tical in its application to save go
) ernment, than vas possessed by eve
y the philosophers of Greece or Rom
'r | ask, what can overthrow, when su(
u a people hold the power?
Citizens of Vermont, look at yo'
, own thriving state; canvass your !
,e telligence, piety, morals and wealt
n. and tell me if there be any sign
r. backsliding in the Green Mounta
IL State. What say the farmers! Th'
If are the ones after all who hold Il
e. keys of life. They settle all our gre
at questions, in fact, for they are Il
g people; the great majority, who
es overwhelming power tells for o
i. rights whenever the great day of rec
n oning come. What say the farmers
a Let their garnered stores of last yea
I'd aising. and their present helds
all waving corn, oats, barley and gras
" answer, as they bend in sign of We
~ ship to the God OF our fruitful hi
of and valleys. Let the cattle on the