Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-24

Orc of the best of the many capital Short
speeches made at Bennington, was that by
Goy. Joseph H. lIawley ,ex- Governor OF Con
necticut, ex-Prcsdent Of the United States
Centennial Commission and present editor
of that sterling paper-one of the few that
count hundred Yeas of life-the Hartford
Comanf. 1t was worthy of a fuller report
than the brief extract given in our report OF
Wednesdays proceedings. Gov. llawley
said
find myself more afraid than | thought
should be. supposed that | should be
among the "and Others" who might be call
ed on for remarks but | find mysel; the
first one called upon-invted to address an
audience still thrilling with that noble
poem to which we have Just listened, and to
the grand grafton which preceded it. But
if no other Connecticut pian is here to speak
for her. ! am happy TO do so NO good
word can he said for Vermont which we OF
Connecticut will not re-echo. | should
hardly dare to have gone as lar as
your chairman, in saying that Vermont was
child of Connecticut but | believe it.
1t - with no little pride that Connecticut
man finds in your accomplished President
Phelps of the Litchfield, Conn, stock and
in your orator Roberts also of Litchfeld
ancestry, while your venerable historian and
Ex-Governor here present, Is OF the Halls, OF
Guilford, Conn. where found the best wife
in the world. Here is our distinguished
fellow citizen, Mr.. Evarts, Dissemination
Roger Sherman, a Connecticut man. When
We remember that Ethan Allen, of Litchfeld,
t, * Ticonderoga, We also remember that
Il expedition to capture that fortress was
D. .nned in Connecticut and that Hartford
paid the bills BY the way, your orator said
that Vermont believed in paying her bills
but here is one she has not paid. The
speaker held up specimen of the ancient
paper currency of Vermont, promising to
pay one shilling in silver of definite weight,
to be paid at Windsor. Instantly State
Treasurer Page, and others, including Mr..
Evarts, offered to redeem the bill, the latter
remarking that if it was payable at Windsor
he would be happy to pay it there. 1 have
had such offers before, said Gen. Hawley,
but must decline them. The bill is not for
sale
Returning to the subject of Ticonderoga,
Gen. Ii. remarked that it was the State OF
Connecticut that kept Allen in command at
Ticonderoga, after its capture and it was
Seth Warner, of Connecticut, who took
Crown Point The files of the Hartford
Comdnt (Which, he was happy to inform his
hearers, still lived, though perhaps It was
not as able paper as when Ira Allen and
Nathaniel Chapman were among its con-
tributors) of a hundred years ago, showed
that among the pioneers of Vermont were
such Connecticut men as Remember Baker,
Gideon Brownson, Nathaniel Chapman,
Thomas Chittenden, for nearly twenty years
Governor of Vermont and man who, as the |
poet says, "stood iour-square to all the
winds that blow" Stephen Bradley, and
others. The first paper in Vermont was pub
lshed by Timothy Green and j. Paddock
Spooner, Of Connecticut. The speaker closed |
with a reference to the fact that flty-fve |
Connecticut towns have their namesakes |
among the towns of Vermont and that the
early Vermont Statutes were taken rerbGtim |
ct Merat'm It punctuatm from those of
Connecticut