Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1880-03-17

Edmunds shares 10 some extent the con
tempt for college graduates which Horace
Greeley and other selfmade men have
expressed. never was spoiled bv going
to college said he 10 colleague when in
the state Senate; yet few men have ac.
qulred Il broader culture from contact
with men and the study of books. He is a
discriminating reader. When iu the leg
islature. works of science and general
literature were his constant companions :;
he bones law for recreation in Wash
ington. and the librarian of congress has
no more devoted patron than the senator
from Vermont. Mr.. Edmunds went to
Burlington about 1850 into what is ac-
knowledged TO have been the strongest
bar the state ever had. 1t was composed
OF such men as cX-Gov. Underwood, ID.
A. Smalley, f. j. Phelps, son of Senator
Phelps, l.. E. Chittenden, made register of
the treasury during Lncoln's first term,
and Daniel Roberts, yet the Richmond boy
took rank with the best of them. More,
he became their acknowledged leader.
He was engaged in most important cases,
and in 1866, when sent to the United
States Senate, had built up the largest and
most lucrative practice of any lawyer in
that section of Vermont. To some extent,
MIR. Edmunds' early legal training clung
shorn tanhniroi;st ,ronn norhnns =, ',,n ,,'ht
tin Eis casns ton tinn spo;n'r &c Sonntn,
Collsmnr e,;J tho nv on tLo horn hut
missing the door. His Washington cxpe-
rience has undoubtedly enlarged his legal
symEathies. and few men in public life
,,,nn.,nt r" TI';, ,r,, ~ IuiS ,,ho oi iS'' "a
uisoJ,ho oantoroI oo'n,sio "o. "uH hi ,o ,S uo
hent nf tho nresiJentiai controversy " S So
if wo, = few I,vs ago in his .ttitn,,e ON
,ba r,di.tribntion of tbe rest If thn Al", M
hamahoonev NC +, tho orostioo ,ybo,har
,bo irsnrnnce communities shonlJ sharo or
not MoSt al ,,nrsons Of lon,l tra;n;na.
anJ ,ron;s;onist hohi,s inoi;ro 70 Gov, Grst
thot ihe AIoh,n,a money haIongs entiroly
tn ct,i,nnnts nf snn,o End secnrd tbat
an,onm tLa cloim,nts should hn reckonnd
the inSuroncn comnanins IN the f,miliar
locyai ,,,,;na;,,.1 ,hdt tl,n rndcrwritors ora
anfitlad to the e,lvoro mi. wac tho
,,iau, IF Sorator D.,,;s Tho ov-;,dro Nir
Ednrnds howaver tool, oronn5. fret
thot the oword Ind boen won Lv the Irnitod
Statol nprnrO,onnt md bnlp1 Crnl tn tbo
conntrv os =, whnIn af,ar tho ntisf,ctinn ion
NJ thn nh7;ors cIass of cioimortS. ceoond
,hot tho ;os,,raroo nan,amion ,,,oro n.o0o' ~,
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.no nii'''i,,i,' Ii;' j.; r"rranI ~ oasrroS
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in,ol' ~ I"Cs''o1 ''t,o, nf ' 1rnIt ia oonId
nuEei oeo. " ,n,'.,r 'tau1 VI roLm U' Androw,s A.
Sruly use anu cN'''.,' ,pI po,ii. r., N.o" .
iatiious u'.el"lS.' 'H h pUn' 49, ,,n' .'o, on
Hopao' noop,s"" hn ,'Ay 9uas an Hal, ~ F''
Tbo nLoroa 1f soIf sool;no rovo,. ,,os
hror[rbt a~a;nst Coorao.F T3n,nrds on1
he hos hoon iitoraIIt7 ralIoJ into nrbIio
lifa When tho ,,nn,,lo ,,ooJod hi,, ri, % Grst
anpearonca in ,,oIit;cs was nc r,odorotor of
the Burlindton March moeting in 1874
:. The bovsn hrr,mn criticol of oII foTr
ism in town affairs. ana nronosed " re-
form" Their first mnnsurn vas to o,act
EdmunJs then 9f vpors ola to nro,iJa
over the solemn town deliberations and
The vonrc man disrb,rged his dutioo ,u;,t
snch INTELLIGENT Jjsnatc6 nnJ eeIfnos.os. n
sion that he was soon oftrr e]ertof town
lie madn bis n,o,.i. ~
Mnntnelier. was rotnrnoJ tho foIIoMinn
yeor. and orain in 1S5z-9 bnino snoatass
for thrce ve,rs {" 10 wos nrohofI,, tbo
ro,diest sHp,Inr vorr,ort o,,,ir b,,'t y ,. WV
a vntn,,,n noIi,in;,r Nfnro ,hon '"' t, ,o,':5,S
in the lrcisla,nrr ,yas tben nm runrana' lrala'9
donted con,rIin,on, Aho,t ,h;, w. ~ ~
Mr., EdmnnJs .ttr,cieJ ,bn % ottnnt;on ,' 'r''oi oc
the state Inv hi. Mo ,rrrr,ont TO-. ,a,',o,,
;nr the co,,ital rrn,,, N7on,,,nl;a. 49,, ~
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uo' ~" nuM J'ft 'io "tSs ulosei l'rc9iucnt
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in Iaei onI his elate will continuo hin, ~
inn, IL io' "ns.;hio in tbe hndy yyhero bo b"s
ihn hnno,m, W. ,bn octnowlodged rennhIinnn
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