Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-07-06
PHGNIX, FARMER, FRIDAY Jul

osly and efficiency ia official position, for q
free and fair ballot aud an honest count woro
all evidence Of It, llo believed the time was
not far distant when provision would be made
for the settlement Of all great international
questions by peaceful arbitration. No sec.
tioual questions now exist to divide our
people A happy aud peaceful solution would
in the end be found for the great questions Of
race, capital and labor, and railroads tho lat
ter Of which, from their great sweep travers-
ing states and territories, were becoming ma
tional and subject to national control and reg
ulation. He strongly urged that the right Of
suffrage not only conferred privileges but en-
tailed duties upon all citizens that the cit-
z9n should not only vote himself but that his
duty was not done until he saw to il that his
neighbor also voted and that he voted in
such way rs should best protect tho inter.
ests of all, without regard to race sex or pre-.
vious condition of servitude that the states
men Of the future had got to be men of hon.
esty and courage-men who had opinions of
their own and dared to express them. The
growing intelligence of the people of this
country would demand to know where the
men for whom they voted stood upon all the
great questions of the day, before they voted.
Cowards, dissomblers and men of double.
dealing would in tho end be cast aside. The
people will require in the man for whom they
vote mind broad enough to take in the whole
world, and that his central thought shall be
the good of humanity. With men like this ut
the helm and with these great questions set.
tied or in process of settlement, this nation
would continue to be in the future, as in the
past living verhcation Of the exclamation
of the eloquent Irish orator, Happy, proud
America, the lightnings Of heaven yielded to
your philosophy the temptations of earth
could not seduce your patriotism !'
The address occupied an hour and fifteen
minutes in its delivery, and following it, at
the request Of the citizens present Col Has
kins gave some Of tho incidents in tho early
history Of the town, taken from the history
which he has been writing for Miss Hemen-
ways Gazetteer, occupying considerable
time in this way to the great entertainment
of those present
Shortly before 3 o'clock, while Col Has.
kins was speaking, there began to be serious
threatenings of rain, and an adjournment was
had to the church, where the Grafton was flu
ished. With the exception of this interrup.
ton, there was nothing to mar the success of
the days programme. The celebration was
ono in which the people of the whole town
Centre, East and West-cordaly joined and
they have reason to felicitate themselves on
the very creditable and successful manner in
which everything was planned and carried
out The arrangements were made by COM
mittoe Of 30-ton from each part Of the town.
The general committee were Geo. Il. Boyd, l.
W. Lazee and ID. =. Leonard. Tho fnan.
cial committee were O. L. Hail. b. w. Harris
and j. H. Metcalf The president of the day,
as already stated, was Laban Jones, jr. The
marshals were A. B. Collins, John g. Snow
and ID. w. Neaw.
The music by the Wilmington band Of II
pieccs-H. +. Barber leader and Mills Brown
marshal-was highly creditable to an organ.
cation Of only six months experience.
The attendance numbered not less than 200
persons. From all over the county came sons
of Dover, evidently delighted to get back to
the scenes of their youth, and in this way
Wilmington, Marlboro, Whitingham, Wards
boro Newfane, Readsboro. Searsburg, Gull.
ford and Brattleboro all found representatives
in the assemblage The spirit of the occasion
was excellent, having the real Independence.
Day flavor; there was not even a trace of
rowdyism or disorder, and the celebration as
whole was one to which not the Dover poo
pie alone, but all of their guests, will always
look back with pleasure.