Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-11-13
Bar Of Vermont and the Anderson Orphans.

we give below an article from tne NaS1
vile (Tenn.) Daily American Of the Sth in
slant. 1t explains itself ]:
Some time since at a meeting Of the ba
of Nashville committee was appointed b
appeal to the bar associations of the cite
and towns of the country and their char
table people for donations to fund to b.
devoted to the support and education of TIN
orphan children of the hero of Grenada, Col
Butler p. Anderson, who was at the time O
his death prominent member of the bar o
Memphis. The committee so appointed
made the appeal. Many, though not very
large, subscriptions were received in response
thereto. Several of the leading schools Of
the South made favorable propositions fol
the education of the orphans, four in mum
Der, two boys and two girls. The commit
tee accepted the proposition of the Webt
Brothers at Culleoka in this state, for the
education of the boys, and they are now al
this justly celebrated training school, The
proposal of the Female Seminary at Athens
Ala, for the education of the elder daughter
was accepted by the committee, coupled with
most excellent proposition of one of the
leading citizens of Athens, who does not de
sire the publication of his name, for the
boarding and clothing of this daughter Of
Colonel Anderson. There were several most
excellent propositions for the adoption of the
youngest child-a little girl of five years Of
age. But it was the dying request of Mrs
Anderson, who caught the yellow fever while
waiting on her husband, and who followed
in few days to the grave, that an aged
sister of Colonel Anderson should have the
care of that child. In accordance with this
dying request, and because of the tender
years of this little girl, she has been placed
by the committee, for the present, in the
charge of Mrs. Murray, of Memphis, an elder
sister of Colonel Anderson.
A copy of the appeal from the committee
of the Nashville bar has been forwarded TO
the bar association of Vermont among others.
The first response which has come from any
organization of this character comes from
that association, which has had published
in full the appeal of the Nashville committee
and had a copy of it forwarded to each MEM
Der of the association, with the following
communication
MONTPELIER, W., October 90 1878
Ny Dear Sir At a meeting of the Vermont
Bar Association, held at the Courthouse in Mont
pelier on the Both instant, communication, Of
which the foregoing is a copy, was presented to
the meeting by the President of the association
whereupon the following resolution, offered by
Mr.. Veazey, was unanimously passed by the asso-
citation:
Resolved That Henry X. Field, the secretary
pro tenn of this association, be instructed to solicit
contributions from the bar of Vermont for the
purpose named in the communication from John
c. Burch and others in respect to the decease of
Butler Y. Anderson, and transmit the same to the
treasurer of the Anderson Orphan Fund"
Agreeably to the resolution, | take the liberty
of soliciting from you contribution for the pur-
pose named in said communication and such
sum as you may send me for that purpose will be
by me transmitted to the treasurer of the Ander-
son Orphan Fund. | should be pleased to hear
from you prior to November sth, that may report
your contribution to a meeting of the Vermont
Bar Association to be held at the Courthouse in
Montpelier on the evening of that day.
Very respectfully yours,
HENRY X. FIELD
Secretary pro TEN. Vermont Bar association.
The following communication, from the
President Of the Bar Association of YER
mont, has been received by the chairman of
the Nashville committee:
BURLINGTON. VI, November q 1878.
Dear SRA copy of the appeal sent out by
yourself and others in behalf of the orphan chill
dren of Butler p. Anderson, was handed me by
the Governor of Vermont.
! at once land it before the Bar Association of
the state, by whom it was most favorably re-
ceved, and a resolution adopted, of which en-
close a copy.
Our association was only formed during the
present term of the Supreme Court at Montpelier,
and is, of course, as yet limited in its numbers
having only about sixty-five members, and your
paper did not reach me early enough to be pre-
scented to full meeting | trust, however, we
shall be able to send a fair contribution to your
excellent charity, though less than it would have
been if could have moved in the matter before
so many of the bar had dispersed
BE assured, my dear sir, of the warm and sin
cere sympathy Of us all, not merely in the special
sorrow that is so eloquenty presented in your APP
peal but in all the distress and bereavements that
have overspread your country. In the magni-
tude of that terrible affection, / am happy to be-
lieve that sectional feeling has been swallowed
up, never, trust, to reappear either side; and
that over the numberless graves of the pestence,
we are at once more reunited as brethren and
friends. With much respect, | am very sincerely
yours, EDw. S. PHELPS,
President Vermont Bar Association.
Such action on the part of our distant
brothers is worthy of the highest commenda-
ton, and the patriotic sentiments with
which the president of the association con-
cludes his letter will be cordially welcomed
and sincerely reciprocated throughout the
South. In the language of our immediate
representative in Congress, Colonel House,
in accepting few days since the renomina-
tion of his party; 40 grander than the
victory of the Appomatox is the victory
won by the people of the North in their
noble and generous contributions TO the
stricken and suffering South. Upon that
fated field the South surrendered her sword
within the shadow of the dark wing of
the pestilence, beside the new-made graves
of her heroic sons and daughters, with
bowed head and fearful eyes, she extends
her hand and surrenders her heart to the
generous and magnanimous people of the
North. Gods own hand has bridged the
bloody chasm let not the ambition of man
seek to reopen the wounds or to re-kindle
the embers of sectional strife"
Congress VS.. Resumption.