Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-04-03
JUSTICE.
Deriders of the Green Mountain state An
svered-yermont's Contribution of
Great Men to the Country, in Poll
tics, War, Literature, Science
and Art
[Cincinnati Gazette, March 20. !

appointed practical politicians of the
Democratic school. These people, who
are angry at the selection of Mr. Phelps
for the leading foreign mission, are volu-
bic about Vermont "greenhorns" and we
hear revived the old sueers about Yer
monters planting corn by shooting into
the crack, in the rocks with a rifle, pulling
beans with longs sharpening sleeps
noses So they can Craze among the CODDle
stones, &c, and the .courtly and scholar
~ Phelps is lneUt Toned in whitening gar
casm a. a "NarmOumt Yankee
This is all very well as II joke, but it is,
nevertheless, unjust and unfair. Yer
mont Is small. and IL large proportion of
her surface Is mountainous, but the fact
is that the State has much to distinguish
it, and it has produced more famous men,
and contributed as much to the greatness
OF the country and the success of the I'm
ion us any other state of like area and
population. \ little looking into the af-
fairs of Vermont and Vermont history
will show that Eer people have more to be
proud of, and more to boast of, than
many states twice and thrice her area
and population. The influence of the
State in building up the country west
ward has been beyond calculation for
good. From her nils and valleys, her
wooden and rocky recesses, her clear at
mosphere. her cool lakes and beautiful
rivers has flowed continually II stream of
fresh young blood nto the muddy cur
rents of the tOiling, weary and worn
world. Everywhere you find the Yer
lnohteTS GaSer' ,HrueIl' pushing, aiilpI-
nous, Ieailess. IneS are every where VIZ On
the ironi.er, allolig lI ne Plolleeis, an over
ton of NermOnt-bOrn people to the pOpu-
latloi Is astonishihSly large; .,-,
NoW, as TO the men she mas lurnlsneu
win her illtie urea ol o,ooo 50 laie nilies,
1ii' poP,'!".loii lioU t"i Sel VIiili tii'o VI
Cincinnati and hamilton county, ana the
great n"nles SKe mas NllIIeH hiSh up III
the history oi AlHherlc1.,
I-eV US SO'''2 tilS Il w anu icU u2 nave
Justice done me gallant llttle Ureeh Noun
TAN TAN Stt'e III tils respect; ......... ,....
~, 40 DeGih WIN; take Iite present hoItr,
Inc ne rresluen., ohtSIer a. Aii4 ,I' Mno
1as Just gone otlI Oh once HiIilu tne pau
ans rs Oh ms Go.'.trfileSH, Is eriiiohteri
Inc EehtleihahIy Hr. Las, VINO mas
Ii'st u4hth cIuI-e oi .dO - ny many
tnVtSllv ~ 'c IHe nus ~ P"l t'''C C1ol-
heu potIloIIo' TIE poSu-oii'ce' - YER
hlonler'
ne ne" munster ~ hi ?laiIl' SineIi UUe
nus iiiiPoi t'iII Ioltl!h 'A'ie'ioH' MI "a d.
fMGlps, Is Ntriloillef c
Inc uistlhStllsiieu senator IRON , NeW
~ aork, anu eAIoeGIe.arS VI Gta.G, -nl ~.
VI; ENaIl9, WIN HAS just t''i'eh HIS Sea'' Is
triiiohtel' 81, - ,
ne famous lGaler Oh the senate ueo r.
hu ltl Is d NetHionteri
- Inc present minister TO ltuHSla ana eN-
secretary Oh war, ana eX- Attorney Gen
ertt AlPLollso iali Is u ert el I.
MAJ - ioU " o',. Sn"WihH .oI Ne''it"i''
W mere Is lhere state lhaJ can make Il
Detter one w,
Now, ABOUT lne men oI Ihe .llst' " mere
IN our nlStoT! slIieT 'lere u more hcfoic
Hgure man EJh"n Ai4eIl, ana WEat nlOre
fascinating PAGE III American ahhalS lhi'h
mat Which uIdiH win une E'0rloUs names
anu deeHS oI AI'rh ana i''tH warner, aild
Hemelhner Baktr ana the bands OF hretn
Mountain boys III ihe brave nid day when
they lInnueied III the gates OF Ilcon'er1-
ga, ana ueihalIrt us surrender IL lAe
name 81 me ufea' JthoNdA ana ihc Con
u4Gntai Congress -
~ W mere SHINES la!ref name thah that OF
S'atN, or was Iou@hi Il drawer oaiIle IMAM
taat at behnIhI'oh ipe out the names
OF Alien, ANA stark, ana bennington, ana
the Gender memory OF Molly stark that
LNGs through me heroic declaration OF her
Eaiidht huSpani' ma some or the grand
est tachlhG ana best inspiration OF our
history would be lost: