Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-04-10
Letter from Judge MarstOn.

MADISON, Wis, April l. 1878.
Messrs. Editors observing the notice at the
head of your column and approaching the needs
Of the printer more keenly than raw hand
enclose two dollars in paper (presuming You
3" bloated fellows down East dislike silver) to
pay for the WATcHMAN Il JOURNAL for one year
hoping it may arrive before the Goth proximo
and that others las well as YOURSELF may profit
by the example.
1t is over twenty-six years since left the place
which have never ceased to love above all Others
for the far West, aud of course matters of special
interest in persons and things in the good old
Green Mountain state have been constantly d-
mnshing Occasionally there is something to
jog the memory notably the letter of my old
friend Judge Spdiding, OF Kansas, in late num-
Der of the WArcHMAN reyives many pleasant
recollections Of olden time. 1t was my fortune to
be a soldier in the ranks ut the Judges first cleo
ton to the legislature in 1881, and to participate
in the gorifcation at the old Union in the even
ing celebrating the first of series of victories, ON
a small Scale, won by the "Old Guard" which
finds few parallels anywhere His subsequent
career, am happy to think, was satisfactory to
himself as am sure it was TO his constituents
and the public Long may he wave. fhe odnts 10
II
some pleasant experiences in Montpelier and
when the Judge told us how he and eighteen or
twenty others stood sentry on the plains of Kan
sas, during the late unpleasantness, it carried me
back to the year ~, when attained to the high
honor of being elected Captain of the Bloody
Fifth" las Hugh Moore used TO call what some
low-bred people were wont to sneer at as the old
food-rood y having received one hundred votes
10 twenty or twenty-five for that dctire and
sprighhy octogenarian Whose youttfW exploits
You lately eulogized,) now connected with your
constabuary, then the Ordoriy of said company
aud rery ciecer .Jcilori u might mention here
as To his age, that have high authority for say
ing that he was old enough in the year 1900 when
his father removed from New Hampshire to Brad
ford, Vt, TO help, and did hep-but how much
cannot say--driye the cattle across the bridge
Having never trained in the company before, and
my qualifications for the place unknown or only
suspected, II not an honor, II was intended for
joke, II the latter some people thought they
caught tartar The organization was completed
by the choice of Jo Prentiss and Ralf lsham, first
and second lieutenants, respectively, How nicely
the boys behaved, even upon cold Udter (Which
had been u question under Captain 7dpii) seemed
a marvel. 1t showed no lack of respect or conf
| dence and had there been occasion can 1t be
doubted that they would have stood firmly by the
flag? 1t was my pride and boast during the late
rebellion that il the old Fifth had been intact, the
disturbance would not have lasted long As a
cherished memento and showing the confidence
reposed in me, have the commission Of Gouer-
nor Siids H. JenRison, signed by George b.
| Mdiisur as secretary, and countersigned by GEN
| erdl S. n Flint Somnch for my military career
| which wish TO put upon record, that II may not
| be forgotten at the final summing upl
| In your paper of the 10Th ult, there is notice
| Of the tin wedding Of MIR and Mrs. IPWidm IT,
Doioner, of North rhetford, at which about one
| hundred aud thirty persons were present and
among them aaron lYacor, aged nnety-three
Nearly half a century ago, 10 wit; the winter Of
1928 and 90 kept school in that district and
boarded round" 1t is one of the pleasantest
memories of the past The scholars were so clean
bright and well-bred that the task was u delight
full one The families are remembered well and
| fayorably-the losfords the lathams the Down
ers the Wcoxes, etc Aaron was over forty
then Tho subject Of your notice william H.
Downer) probably the sou of one Of my scholars,
aud his wife may be a daughter of another
| see by your paper that Joe Aiaia Is with you
still lie served with me several years over thirty
years ago. Health and happiness to him and his
wife, and to all old friends who art left.