The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-04-08

been beyond calculation for good. From
her hills and valleys, her wooden and rocky |
recesses, her clear atmosphere, her cool
lakes and beautiful rivers has flowed con-
tinually a stream OF fresh young blood into
the muddy currents OF the toiling, weary |
and worn world. Everywhere you find the |
vermonters eager, ardent, pushing, ambi-
the frontier, among the pioneers, all over
the far West, and in Chicago the proper
ton OF Vermont-born people to the popula- |
ton is astonishingly large. Now, as to the
men she has furnished with her little area
OF 9,565 square miles, and population not |
larger than that of Cincinnati and Hamilton
county, and the great names she has written
high up in the history Of America. Let us
study this bit, and let us have justice done
the gallant little Green Mountain State in
this respect. To begin with, take the pres
ent hour. The president, Chester A. Arthur,
who has just gone out Of Office amid the
plaudits OF his countrymen, is a Vermonter.
The gentlemanly Mr.. Villas, who has just
taken charge Of what is by many thought to
be the most important cabinet portfolio, the
postoffice, is VermoDter. The new min
lister to England, given the most important
foreign mission, Mr.. e. j. Phelps, is a Yer
monter. The distinguished senator from
liam M. Evarts, who has just taken his
seat, Is Vermenter The famous leader
Of the senate, George f. Edmunds, is a
Vermonter. The present minister to Rus
STA and ex-secretary of war, and ex-
Encouragement Alphonso Taft, is Yer
monter. That is not a bad showing for
Vermont. Where is there a state that can
make better one? Now, about the men
of the past. Where in our history shines
there more heroic figure than Ethan
Allen, and what more fascinating page in
American annals than that which deals
with the glorious names and deeds of
Allen and Seth Warner, and Remember
Baker and the bands of Green Noun
| tain boys in the brave old days when
they Numbered at the gates Of Ticonderoga,
and demanded its surrender : in the name
Of the Great Jehovah and the continental
congress- Where shines a fairer name
than that Of Stark, or was fought Drawer
battle than that at Bennington? Wipe out
the names of Allen and Stark and Benning-
ton, and the tender memory of Molly
Stark that lives through the heroic dec
laration of her gallant husband, and some
Of the grandest teaching and best in
| SEPARATION of our history would be lost. To
the last war Vermont contributed the names
Of such men as General Stannard and Com
modore Foote One OF the most noted
organizations in the Army OF the Potomac
was the famous Vermont Brigade that out
marched and out-fought any similar organi-
cation for five years, and at Gettysburg,
under Stannard, accomplished the daring
movement that turned the tide Of BATTLE
saved the day to the North, and captured
three times as many prisoners as the brigade
thor, writing on the American war in the
Westminster Reuieu, sought for typical
American soldier, he took the men of the
Vermont Brigade. The late Benjamin AL
word, paymaster-general and distinguished
in military life, was a 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. Douglass and Thad-
deus Stephens were Vermonters. Douglass
| 1aarnaH nf pah N t- mo Il inn in
Middlebury, and Wright's monument stands
in the adjoining town of Weybridge in 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 Web
sters, the Clays, the Randolphs, the
Calhouns Here was born the present min
lister to England Close by the monument
to Wright In Weybridge was born Wilbur
F. Storey, the famous editor of the Chicago
Times. There stands Middlebury College,
from which for eighty-fve years has been
graduated men known all over the world in
every professional walk in life. John G..
SAKE, the great humorous poet, and Salem
Town, the well-known educator, were Yer
mOnters. Further north, in Burlington,
celebrated as one of the most beautiful cities
in the world, is the Vermont University,
the alumni of which stand in the high places
all over the world From here came Henry
j. Raymond, the editor and maker of the
New York Times. From Poultney, not far
from the battlefield of Hubbardton, came
Horace Greeley, Vermont-reared, though
born in New Hampshire. To the world of
art Vermont has given the names Of Larkin
G.. Mead and Hiram Powers. Other names
in craftsmanship, she can well take pride in,
are those of Judge Jacob Collamer, Solomon
Foot, Justin S. Morrill,, etc, not forgetting
Judge l.. p. Poland. The list of Vermont's
wDult hp incOmnlptp /
fail to include Brigham Young, Joseph
Smith and jim Fiske, all of whom were
Vermonters, as was also John II. Noyes,
the father of the Oneida Community.
Neither would it be fair to forget Stephen
l.. Dorsey and omit him from the list The
Leland family of famous hotel-keepers came
from Vermont, as did originally Yankee
Robinson and Sleeping Lucy the first of
the trance mediums in spiritualism. Ver-
mont's great industrial interests are her
sheep, her horses, her marble, her scales.
The finest blooded sheep and horses in
the country originated on the sheep and
stock farms of Vermont; the Spanish Me-
rino and InfantadO sheep, and the Black
in the old days Of Pocahontas and Lady Suf-
folk and Flora Temple and Ethan Allen and
the first famous names in the trotting an
nails Of the turf. In the beautiful town Of
Rutland which is built largely of white
marble, and paved with white marble, used
as common as bricks in other less favored
places, are the most extensive marble quar-
ries in the world, and from them are shipped
great blocks for statuary purposes, to Italy
itself, and under the shadow OF the noun
tain from which the famous marble of the
Carrara is taken. In st. Johnsbury thou
sands of people are employed in making the
Fairbanks scales, that are used in every
country on the globe. And yet Vermont s
most precious possession is in the character
Of her people, and her greatest pride in the
thousands of her sons and daughters that
go forth annually into the Nation carrying
fresh blood, new vigor, strong arms and
healthful bodies and hopeful hearts into all
the avenues of activity to advance and up
build the Nation and supply new material TO
make good the waste and degeneration at
the front. So it is made to appear that a
, great deal can be said about Vermont, after
all, and the new minister would do well to
tie up a copy of these presents along with
, his credentials, when he departs for his
mission near the court of st. James, and
) thus be enabled to shut off the agonizing OF
, such papers as the London Standard and
Pal NAL Gazette, who are greatly distressed
about the obscurity of the new minister
and 1.-THE 'insgnifcance of his state 1t
will not take them long to learn that the OBJ.
, scure new minister is the peer in law and
J letters and social graces OF their best, and
6 that he comes from state which is as large
as Greece (Which was large enough) and is
not ashamed of its history or its position in
, the family Of states, or its place in the great