Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-10-25

are the honors that belong to states. with
out regard to size of territory or accumn-
lations of wealth, as still equals in the
great sisterhood that makes our nation.
and that, constituted as our state is IF a |
homogeneous people, of an intelligent |
people, of an upright and Christian peo- |
pie, are to be, so long as there is any !
hope for free government in the world. a |
guide and beacon for the future accent.
too, with more than an ordinary sense of |
solicitude, the responsibility for the fn-
ture. As you know. | must from expe-
rience have seen how heavy the work is,
how great the responsibilities are. how
difficult and sometimes sudden the emer-
gencies are that call upon your represent
atives and the representatives of other
states to take action in respect to affairs
that affect the welfare of all, and have
seen too how rapidly, even in a body
where the term of Office is for six wears,
the representatives of states appear and
disappear In the time during which
our state has honored me and nv col
league, whom l am sorry not to see here
at this moment, every senator except our
selves has been more than once changed,
and the faces tnat were new at first have
disappeared from the scene of political
action as the representatives of their
states, and new men continually come
and continually go, while Mr. Morrill, and
myself seem, through your kind favor, to
stand there something like Cancels Hump
and Mansfield and see the world 90 by.
We must all agree that there is something
of sadness to the Vermonter who leaves
his home and his hills, and one begins to
feel lonesome far away from home as the
years go by, and feel more and more de-
| sirous that the place of his birth should
| be for all the year round the place where
| he should live, among his friends and
| neighbors. The responsibilities and la
| bors to come within the next six years,
| in common with all other duties, continue
| to grow heavy and more difficult. The
more extensive the population of our ma
| ton becomes, the more diversiye it's in
| fuences, the more disturbing the causes
that seem to be just now, like an epidemic
in our social system, sweeping over our
| own land, and others come to the front
for legislative action, the more difficult
are the problems your representatives
are called upon to deal with, and so more
heavy is the responsibility.
But there is always to US at Washing
ton, both my colleagues in the House and
my colleagues in the Senate, a great and
constant consolation and inspiration, if |
may say it, that we know that the people
of Vermont have fixed political opinions.
We know that they, almost without re-
spect to party, even upon some subjects,
are almost absolutely unanimous in the
judgment they have in respect to the
methods by which a government should
be carried on, in respect to the protec-
ton and development of the labor of the
American citizens, in respect to the uni
versal dissemination, so far as the gener-
al government can do it, of the system OF
common schools for the education of
young men and women and children ey.
erywhere; and | might mention many
other subjects in respect to which the
representatives of this state in the Con-
gress of the nation know in advance pre-
cisely what is the intelligent, sturdy and
persistent public opinion that is to co-or-
dinate the forces that we may exert with
those of our associates from other states
This you may believe, gentlemen, is
profound source of strength and comfort
to those who represent you.
) But this is not the occasion, Mr.. Presi
dent, for me to go into topics like this
1t is only for me to repeat to you and tt
you, gentlemen of this Joint Assembly
and your constituents, the expression O
my sincerest gratitude for what you hav
t done to and for me so long, and of M,
= hope that you and yours willlive to Sc
a this state continue, she has been, some
thing of a guide and beacon in the civil
izatiou and liberty of our country; am
that our sister states may grow up NOR
e and more in those tolerant and just meth
: DDS of law for all and among all, 70
4 which our state is, | think, a conspicuou
y example.