Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-06


they would make him President. They |
told him he was bound to glory. l am
not sure but that he had the smiles of
beauty beaming upon him Gas they are
beaming upon some other occasions) to
coax him from the pathway of his edu-
cation and from the path where his con-
science and his great heart wished him
to go, but when the spider had got the
Massachusetts, fly into its net, into its
kitchen, into its parlor, what good did
it do him ? | say here, to your Massa-
chusetts Websters. to your Massachu-
setts Lorings, to your Massachusetts
Hoar family, that when Virginia has
used you, she will cast you off as an un-
worthy thing. ..Ah but" says my
learned and eloquent friend from Massa-
chusetts (Loring) "we had centennial"
Yes, was here and / saw the prepara-
tions for the centennial. We wanted
$1,500,000 to be loaned by the govern
ment on good security, security which
has returned US every dollar, to celebrate
the Tooth anniversary of American in.
dependence, and [ find that Virginia,
for which we are now to have new
Fourth of July, gave in the native votes
-Cabell, Douglass, Goode, Terry and
Walker-and Virginia gave but one vote
in favor of the Fourth of July of the 100
years, and that vote was the vote of a
carpet-bagger (alluding to StowelD who
was man whom | heard gentleman
from Virginia in this House, bearing the
name of John Goode, taunt with being
a native of Vermont, and address him
as a member from Vermont. My North
ern friends, Democratic and Republican,
clay not the hattering JUNCTION to your
souls" If you are fooled, you are fool
ed with your eyes open. l do not stand
in the way of Virginia. If she will
build cotton factory tomorrow, l will
vote for a tariff to protect her industry
if God, in His providence, would lead
Virginia to build ship, will vote for
a subsidy to that ship; if Virginia will
do anything in order to protect the pros
perity and happiness of her people, ex-
cept talk Democratic politics, 1 am with
her. Oh, but Virginia loves Massachu-
setts had forgotten how much she
loved her.
Mr.. Davis of North Carolina Will
my friend vote to take the tax off Vir-
ginia tobacco, which oppresses her peo-
Pile?
Mr.. Townsend (emphatically)-No.
A man who is not willing to pay for the
tobacco he chews does not deserve any.
We have had specimen within two
weeks of how much Virginia loves Mas
sachusetts. l shall never forget how
"the wind blew and the thunders rolled
and the storm came and beat upon the
House" when the gentleman from Vir-
ginia beside me (Mr. Harris) blew the
party horn and told his friends that they
must turn out from the seat to which he
was lawfully elected man from Massa-
chusetts (Mr. Field) man equal in ed
ucation, equal in capacity. equal in So
cial position to any man whom Massa-
chusetts ever raised, the equal of any
man whom Virginia ever raised since the
landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth,
when my ancestors came and Virginia
''walked up like little man" and show.
ed her love to Massachusetts. Indiyid-
ually have no quarrel with the gentle
men from Virginia. They are most
able set of representatives and very am
liable and excellent gentlemen, but they
are trained in the old Virginia school of
politics, and that is complete perver-
sion of the Assembly's Catechism. The
Catechism which has been taught for
the last hundred years in Virginia is :
Question-Whatis the chief end of man ?
Answer-To promote Democratic har-
mony. That is all that Virginia has
been attending to.
I will not find fault with Virginia
farther than | am obliged to; but Vir
ginia, after a hundred years with sin.
gle industry, is found backing up her
little wagon to the rest of the, world,
and asking the rest of the world if il
will not load a little prosperity into hel
wagon. She is State which started
ahead with better education than any
State, except Massachusetts, with more
wealth and more power and influence
than any other State. And now ever
New Jersey, which God made last of al
things that was made, for it is said tha
when God completed the work of crea
tion He had load of sand over ant
dumped it down on the shore of the At
lantic and called it New Jersey. Ever
New Jersey went to work with her mud
sills, while Virginia went into politics
and now the Yankee notions produced
in Newark would buy out the body ant
breeches of any Democratic State in tn,
Union. 1t is too late for me to set uE
for popularity, or to say that, though
am an old man, am not afraid to b.
called demagogue. am too old fo