The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-05-13
Presentation Of Mrs. Hayes Portrait.
MISS. wILLARp's ADDRESS,

MISS. wILLARD's ADDRESS.
MIR. President.-We are here to pre-
sent to the nation through Its honored
chief a temperance testimonial from
the men and women, high and low,
rich and poor, fortunate and unfortu-
nate, who have loved her whose pic
tured presence is now before us, be-
cause they have felt that she was the
defender of our homes, because amid
the fogs of o time worn social conser-
ystism she held steadily aloft theItorch of
an example safe, gentle and benignant.
We stand in the presence OF one whose
utterances and character are known ito
all the nation. do not forget how, In
the tumult and strife of great poiiti.
cal commotion, James A. Garfield of
Ohio, said: Remember, 1t is In the
house where the sovereign citizen has
his wife and children gathered around
him that God prepares the verdict Of
the American people, / do not forget
that he reminded the women of Cleve-
land, when they came to Mentor with
their congratulations, that In every
army there are three ses,-the
scouts, who go ahead the soldiers who
do the fighting; and within all, the
home guards; and that he said, God
bless the womenl they are Americas
home guards do not forget that in
his inaugural he reminded us by the
sacred words, "a little child shall lead
them,' that the tenderness and sweet
ness of childhood had place In that
supreme hour; and 30 standing here,
feel very much at home, so do we all
in this kind and brotherly presence.
President, whom do we Representa-
We are q part Of your constituency,
and we represent a great deal of ear.
nest hard work done in the name Of
God, and home, and native land. We
represent q volume of prayer rising
like incense to God, from the very
first hour that we knew the burden
which had been laid upon you; and
always have we sought blessing also
from on high upon her who is the
mother of your sons and Of your sweet
young daughter, and upon her who
bore and cherished you. We represent
that numberless throng who have q
right to be heard in this presence be-
cause of all that they have suffered
We cannot speak to you of the graves
of the living and the graves of the dead
that have strewn our pathway because
OF the cup that tempts only to destoy
Our principles and our endeayor are the
inevitable out comeof the philosophy o.
our century. Well 1t is understood b,
the scholar PRESIDENT For one domi
nant purpose runs through all oul
modern civilization. Science spells il
out slowly from the writing in thu
rocks, from scattered monuments ant
fossil languages, and pronounces it thu
unity of man. Statesmanship discov
ors that the woes of one nation are the
misfortune of all, and 30 frames treat
les and forms alliances of mutual de
fence and service In the name of tn,
solidarity of man; but Christianity
perceiving the higher significance of al
these studies and their practical re
suits, prays, pleads and labors for tn,
universal brotherhood of man. A
mong the applications of this great un
deriving principle none is gaining
ground more rapidly than the practice
of free and voluntary total absti
hence, for our own and others sake
from those alcoholic drinks which hav
alienated more hearts, dissolved NOR,
homes, poisoned the air with more crue
words, and moved kind hands to NOR
hateful deeds than any other agenc,
outside of pandemonium. Where ]
thy brotherT is to-day the central ques
ton in that larger home which we cal
social life, answered by a thousan,
kindly charities, but most Significantly
answered, as we believe, by the. grea
army of total abstainers, which in th
present military exigency is calling al
up and down the land for, volunteers
We are here to leave in your care tn
picture which symbolizes so much {
hope and glad expectation for the fl
ture. We are here because it is We
mon who have given the choicest hol
that hold them long the boys go fort
and come not back again, and tn
mother-heart prays that society ma
hedge them round about With lovin
safeguards and restraints, and ferver
is our hope that steady signal ligl
may shine forth from the conspicuor
windows of the presidential mansion
As members of the church of Chris
we appeal to you to help hasten Il
time when all mems veal shall be eac
mans care, and we pray Gods BILE
sing upon lyou, upon Your wife, an
upon those that cluster around you
your home. Well has the Laurea
said concerning the good time whic
the triumph of the temperance CAM
shall help TO usher in:
"'Ring out old shapes Of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust OF gold;
Ring cut the thousand wars of old,i
Ring In the thousand years of peace.
"'Ring out slowly-dying cause.
And ancient forms OF party strife,
Ring in the nobler modes OF life,
With sweeter manners. purcr laws.
airing In the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Bling out the darkness OF the land,
Ring In the Christ that Is to be-"