News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-28

| L OllOWlnS are LIS IeuaIhS
Mr.. President, Mr.. Speaker, Gentlemen Of tn
Senate and House Of Representatives am sur
YOU will give me credit for sincerity Wnen L Sd.
| that no words of mine can be adequate TO eA
press the gratitude feel towards you ana 70
wards the constituents whom you rePresSSHdt i hO
| the great honor you have just completed dolnt
| to me. :. :;
know from experience how impossible it l:
| for any man to live up to his own ideal OF Wna
he should be and do, either as citizen OF as :
| representative of citizens in any character ol
| trust And so feel more deeply the klnuness
| of the people of my native state ana yours az
| their representatives in overlooking the many
| faults that in the many years OF my service
must have committed, and AGAIN GmoosIg my
| NOUS But think it right TO say, as clGlZen VI
this old State of ours, that what the people nave
and what YOU have done is far more than any
nersOnaI honor to me or indication OF your conn,
dence in me. 1t is, think, ana as underStdng
| f. the old true Green Mountain courage ana
honesty and purity of the people VINO, IN sPlte
of combinations and calumnies, understood their
own business in their own way ana cnOSe 10 10
it, Appapse And So u tn Tbsv are the ho1t
ors that belong to selfrespectlng, Se1-uhder-
Standing and Intelligent people; they are the
hOnOrs that belong to states without regard 10
equals in the great SlSterhood tnaI makes our
nation and that, constituted as our State IS OF a
homogeneous people, OF an intelligent people OF
an upright and Christian people are to be, so
long as there is any hope for free government IN
the world guide and beacon Tor the future.
of solicftude and responsibility for the future.
AS YOU know L must from experience have seen
how heavy the work is, how great the resp9nsl-
hilities are how difficult and sometimes sudden
the emergencies are that call upon your repre-
SentatiyeS and the repre- sentativeS 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 years, the representatives OF
States appear and disappear. In the time during
which our State has hOnOred me and my col
league (whom am sorry not to see here at this
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been more than once changed, and the faces
that 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 CamePS Hump and Mansfield and
We must ali agree that there is something of
sadness to a VermOnter who leaves his nome
and his hills, and one begins to Zee! lonesome pine
| far away from home as the years go by, and feel
| more and more DESTROYS that the place OF his
birth should be for all the year round the place
where he should live, among his friends and
The responsibilities and labors to come within
the next six years, in common with all our duties,
continue to grow heavy and more dlfncult; the
more extensive the population of our nation be-
comes, the more diverslve Its influences, 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 dlicult
are the problems your representatives are called
| upOH W uCai 1l4h go AiAOAS ANo'J Al WV
| responsibility.
| But there is always to us at Washington, both
my colleagues in the House and my colleagues
in the Senate, great and constant consolation
| and inspiration, If 1 may say it, that we know
| that the people of Vermont have fixed political
| opinions. We know that they almost without
| respect of party even, upon some subjects, are
| almost absolutely unanimous in the judgment
| that they have in respect to the methods by
| which a government should be carried on; III
| respect to the protection and development OF
the labor of American citizens, in respect to the
| universal dissemination, so far as the general
government can do it of the system of common
| Schools for the education of young men and
| women and children everywhere. And might
mention many other subjects in respect to which
the representatives in this State in the congress
| of the nation know in advance precisely what
the intelligent. sturdy and persistent public
opinion is, that is to coordinate 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.. President, fol
me to go into topics like this. 1t is only for me
| to repeat to you, and to you, gentlemen of this
| joint assembly, and to your constituents, the
| expression of my SincereSt gratitude for what
you have done to and for me so long, and OF my
| hope that you and yours will live to see this
| State continue as she has been, something of a
guide and beacon in the civilization and the lib
erty of our country, and that our sister States
| may grow up more in those tolerant and just
methods of law for all and among all for which
our State is, l think, conspicuous example.