Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-01-28

which is ca-cAtensive with American law
remember him when his principal claim to
distinction was that all the Girls maintained
he was the hands1mest student in Middle
bury College, great laughter, and that, too,
wien there was many handsome student in
Middlebury College renewed laughter
more than there are nov, | am sorry to say,
and if there is any doubt about it | believe
there are living voices enough still remaining
Of the more truthful sex by which can
prove that the Middlebury girls were right,
as they generally are. Laughter While
the men ut that time found all the prom
isc, and attraction, and romance. and
hope of life in the West, yet in those days
that Young man was thought very little of
that turned his back on the great battle Of
the great march and stayed at home and
that is the reason ! suppose why it has
come to pass, as | am most fnrciily remind
ed when look upon this assembly. that Yer
mon. has become more prominent and more
celebrated from those men that have conc
from it than any that
HAVE REMAINED Al HOME,
And am clad to see that in the ordering Of
this festival Won remember as well rs do
that Vermont had children that were yet
dearcr than her sons,-hcr daughters. These
men that have referred to that came ont,
came not alone, or if they did they went back
ard took better start the next time. | I'M
dertakc to say that the hest wOmcn in the
world are the American women applause
and the hest American women are the
New England women, and the best of all
New England women are the Vermont
women, AMI the best of all the Vermont wo-
men | leave every man to DESIGNATE for
himself. Laughter and applausr.
But that some Of them are to h. found in
the homes of the Sons of Vermont in Chica-
20 is fact can swear TO. | shall rrmem-
Der all the days of my life those Young girls
that one after another have turned away
from a thousand affairs and Il thousand
homes that were better than affairs 10 come
out 10 the West. each one like n shining
star in the midnight sky attracting attention
by the mOmcntary brilliancc of her depart
urc, then gone into the West, ON to
lives not Of noise, but of power; hcralded
by no triumphs or BANNERS emblaz0ncd in
no history. hut lives of hcnetccncc and self
sacrifice AMI devotion. They arc not all
here, those far young faces that have
seen turned towards Chicago. Some Of them
have passed through the morning gates into
sainihcr life, AMI those that remain, -
some whS came H. it in the spring are here
somehow, these Vermont girls, thank Cod.
Age cannot withCr nor custom state their
infinite variety it is only the succession of
beauties like the succession OF the seasons,
when the spring ripcns into the summer and
the summer into the glory of autumn, 4
beauty that looks back again and prcsasrs q
better life beyond"
Vermont has been robbed of her children.
hut she mourns for them nj as one that is
not "a he Comfortcd, because she knows
| where they are and what they are doing.
| Vermont may well see that in heart they
| have been true to the common nationality.
She knows no South, no East, but she does
know the West, because the rays of every
/ evening sun that rcturng 20 us with such I'M
/ dcscribal.lc .picndor across mountain and
| lake fall all the way from the far Pacific in
/ an unhrolen pathway on the homes OF her
/ children. and we can well imagine when We
! look at the clorics of these sunsets. when
/ color surpasses color. and glory rises above
| glory, that we see as it were reflected in the
sky, the towers, and the uattlemcnts, and the
temples, and the homes, and the golden fields
and the great, gorgeous, glowing, h1Gad.esS,
magnificent West. Applause.
But | fear ! am already exceeding that
brevity which is not only the soul of wit,
but which alone renders wit toierahie. One
word more, if you will pardon little gar
rulity OF an old man when he begins ia
talk to the BOYS. Hospitality could not SC
cOnseCrate nor friendship so dignity such al
occasion as this that it would be anything
but BarmcCide feast if it had not some
significance, something worthy To he Celc
brated and worthy to hc remembered. lot
are celebrating on this occasion, as | thinh
You will celebrate on many occasions tc
come, your part in the great march OF ON
race from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the
great march 10 thc sea. History is a success
sion Of great marches to the sea, and I'll,
greatest Of the marches that has thus fal
been disclosed groatcr than that first marcel
across the sea that brought our ancestor;
here's the stately, triumphant and ir
resistib,c march across this continent OF Tho
great race and it is triumph of grca
principles rather than men,-a triumph
of the great principles that orr faith
ers brought from England, the iundica
principles of England as Burke lad then
down, the grand old Christian faith tina
grew up with them on the same soil thcs,
have been and are determined to be the pill
lar of cloud bv day and the pillar Of fire by
night, tIat has gone on before with this ract
in the great march of civilization and pro
gress. AS the questions that constitute YOU
birthright the inheritance that you brough
from home in the place of silver and golt
that the home had not to give you, just il
proportion Il, those qualities aIr preserved
and maintained will the
GREAT MARCH OF PROSPERITY AND IVIilzA
TON
90 successfully on and rs We have now
England and New England and as we havt
now the Sons Of Vermont in Chicago, W,
shall have by and by we may not live Il
see 1.-THE sons of Chicago celebrating thcl
march on the shores of the great Pacific sea
And this march will 90 on, and - on, ant
20 on for summers that we know 10. 81.
wish Vermont had better reprcscntaliv,
here | wish she were here to speak for her
self wish all her people could look in for
moment on this scene. | have tried To- i'm
agine what greetings the State would send i
the State could speak-lf voice could CONT
as the wind comes th4t should cmbndy TIN
spirit and the heart of the home that look
out towards the West So often and 50 anN
iously Perhaps the voice after all woul,
falter and hesitate as human voices do undc
the pressure of emotion too much for speech
What is left unsaid is sometimes better thai
what is said. II speech is silver, silence i
sometimes Golden. Perhaps. after all. tn
voice could only say. God bless you all
my children. everyone, all the days of you
life" Long continued applause.
! The chair next introduced rs another dis
tir%uishcd son of Vermont
TIE REV. Dr.. ROSY,
pastor of the First Congregational church q
st. LOUIS. who said that he had stood on thi
very soil when it was occupied by 1000 In
dians lie had seen thu city built had r.