The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1885-04-09

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3 That 10 not bad showing for Vermont
: Where IL there Stsss thss can make I
y bst4sf oues
= Nes. about The msn Of the past. Where
ia our history shines there more heroic
: figure than Ethan Allen. and what more
Z fa~ciustsng page ia American annals than
. thai Which deals with the glorious nsmcs
! and deeds 81 Allen and Seth Warner. and
y Hemembsr Baker and the hand Of Green
. Mountain boys in the brave old days when
they Numbered Al the gates Of TisondsFo.
I "a. and demanded it, surrender lin the
I. name Of the great Jehovah and Con.inen--
TAI congress"
Where shines fsirer name than that OF
Stark. OF wAs fought drawer battle than
ihstof Bennington Wipe out the names
Of Allen and Stark. and Bennington. and
the tender memory Of Molly Stark" that
} lives through the heroic declaration Of her
gallant husband. and some Of the grand
} ssi teaching and best inspiration Of our
history would b. lost
To the Last var Vermont contributed
the names Of such men ~ General Stan
nard and Commodore Foots. One 81 the
most noted organisations 10 the Army Of
the Potomae vas The famous Vermont
Brigade thst outmarched and outiought
any similar organization for i've years,
and at Gettysburg, under Stannard, 40
complished the darisg movement that
turned the tide Of battle. saved the day TO |
the North. asd captured three times a.
many prisoners y the brigade had men.
When : distineuised English author.
writing on the American war in the West
minister Review. sought for . typical
American soldier. he took the men Of the
Vermont Brigade.
The late Benjamin Alvord. Paymaster-
General and distinguished in military life
was vermonter.
The late George P. Marsh. for many
years Minister to Italy. and author OF
many profound and scholarly works. was
. Vermonter.
Silas Wright. Stephen A. Douglas and
Thaddeus Stevens we're yermonters.
Douglas learned his trade Of cabinet max I
ing in Middlsbury, and Wrights monu- !
ment stands 10 the adjoining town Of
Weybridge 10 plain sight from the hill at
the front OF which Middlebury stands.
This little village was the home Of Senator
s. s. Phelps, who was fourteen years in
the United States Senate, and noted man
even among the giants OF that day. the
Websters. the Clays, the Randolphs, the
Calhouns. Here was born the present
minister to England. Close by the mon
nment to Wright in Weybridge was born
Wilbur +. Storey, the famous editor OF
he Chicago Times. There stands Middle
bury college, from which for eighty.fve
7ears has been graduated men known al
'ver the world in everv professional walk 7
q life.
John G. SAKE, the great humorous poet,
nd Salem Town, the well known educa-
or, were Vermonters.
Further north. in Burlington. celebrated
. one Of the most beautiful cities in the
rorld, Is the Vermont University, the
lumni Of which stand in the high places
II over the world; from here came Henry
Raymond, the editor and maker OF the
lev York Times. From PonItney, mot
" from the battlefield OF Hubba rdton
anne Horace Greeley, Vermont reared,
nough born in New Hampshire.
To the world OF art Vermont has given |
,e names Of Larkin J. Mead and Hiram |
overs. |
Other names in statesmanship she can |
ell take pride in, are those of Judge
acob Collaman. Solomon Foete, Justin s. /
Iorrill. etc, not forgetting Judge Luke /
GLAND. l.
The list Of vermont's great men would /
} incomplete were to fail to include
righam Young. Joseph Smith and jim
iske. all Of whom were vermonters. as l
Is alss John H. Noyes. the father Of the re
Media Community. Neither would il be =
II TO forget Stephen L. Dorsey, and omit and a
% from the list. The Leland family OF Apr
nous hotel keepers came from Vermont, .nd
did originally yankee" Robinson and IN
Sleeping Lucy" the first Of the trance w "
ediums in spirituAlism. attl
vermonts great industrial interests are W sas
T sheep; her horses. her marble, her men
ales. Adm jon
The finest blooded sheep and horses in % % /.
county originated on the sheep and Man
'ck farms Of Vermont; the Spanish me. s9a y
70 and Infantado sheep, and the Black -
'wk aud the Green Mountain Morgan 10
rises. 10 the old days Of Pocahontas snd !,
ly Suffolk and Flora Tenn pie and Ethan and
Zen and the first famous names in the = * r.
ting snnals Of the turf In the beau ton
Il town Of Rutland which is built large. mini
81 white marble, and paved with white w
rble, used as common as brick in other 70 be-
favored places, are the mort extensive yer
rble quarries 10 the world and from be I
m are shipped great blocks for stssusry P ~
poses, 10 Italy itself, and under the 81 "a
dow Of the mountains from which the ss !l.s
'ous marble Of the CarrarA is taken. -
o st. Jobnsbury thousands OF people Eo,
employed in making the Fairbanks Ia a.
les, that are used in every country on and
globe. RI,
nd yet vermonts most precious pos y Y.
ion ia IN the character Of her people. Bic 4
her greatest pride Ia the thousands WI