Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-01-27

c. Ghi,tnrda,, tLat IT, ,,y ,tifad ma sauna
Ub,t ,rhen ,yne co no1r that I conid not
! 90 70 oolla1,a tn th,nk of II NOV he new
70 come Of Won old To MANY Tho GOV.
ernor Md ttyo SIMS Trumnn and Martin
Trnn,a, yos n co., ,fter bic o,vn heart
He was bright active energetic. and he
was The GOVERNOR ri1ht hand man in his
l,roa -, onarntiong Mnrtin ,yoe of n
MfEe 1ntii n nat sit ne GOV
ernor 50 well lie w. nt TO college short
10 nfter his entrance tn colieoe The GOV
ernor and Trnnan were TRYING to teach a
calf to drink Won know in the old DAYS
II don;t know whether thew do il now Or
NOT I left farming y long time AGO laugh
teri-it was move ecnnomicnl to leach a
calt to drink and pive il the skim milk and
IL iittle maai dian fo let il snck the cow.
Bnt this calf was 81 stupiI one. They had
worried their n1tiencp over il. first the old
Governor and then Truman. and then they
IvnnId sl,ift hnnds but thp calf would nor
man. what sh6ll we do with This stuuid
raif y, ~ don,t Know " saii Trntnnn
"vittout we send him to college with
Martin IGreat laughter have not a
doubt that Martin. when he rot to college
Thought he knew something abont the
carly history of Vermont and 7 nresnne
he had some sncb ideas ms we have heard
eynressed about il ns beinp a sort of
Texas of the time~though he hadn't
heard of Texas, then the refuge of horse
thieves and adyenturers and SO on. But
at any rate Martin lived to he 90, ernor of
Vermont, but he was the federal governor,
tho one federalist that was ever governor
| of Nermont-the one time when the star
set. 1t was when the soldiers were off in
the war of 1872 and the federal voters
were the ones that STAYED at home.
Laughter
| know little of law. and still | have
sometimes had to decide questions in a iu-
dcal way | only had one decision to
fall back upon. one volume of reports, and
that was in my memory. ana that was of
old Judge Reyes. BY the way, he never
was lawyer, though he was one of the
best Judges Vermont ever had. When a
LAWYER in court objected to some decision
that he had made, and said, "Yuur Honor,
that is no law, " the Judge, who was very
polite man. said, squire, if that is not law
it ought to be law, and think you will
find it is law so far as the jurisdiction of
this conrt extends" Laughter and APP
plause.
| see, Mr.. President, by some of your
descriptions of the early days of Vermont,
that you have been there, that you know
how it is Yourself. but | used TO boil the
pork in the sap vixen | tended the sugar
lot
The President-You had n sweeter tooth
than |. Laughter
Mr. Beard-Geutlemen it is delightful
to see so many here tonight that come
from our old green Nils. The recruits &c
! Massachusetts and to Boston now from
Vermont are not what they used to be
The great West has greater tenn DtationS for
Vermont than we can present here in
Massachusetts. do not believe there il y
State of the size and Donulation Of Yer
mont In the Union that mas so influenced
that has so populated, the other States OF
the Union as Vermont. Go where Won
/ will, You find among the leading citizens
t among the most spirited, among the most
t enterprising, the men that have hailed
from Vermont. never 90 hack into thf
| State without breathing freer and feel
, ing better when | cross the line I he
leve should know it on a dark night
when | cross the line. TApDlause
| Hon, Nathaniel HolmesEs'not a native
Vermonter, but he got all his wit wisdom
and Indictment from Vernontn ras ~
next speaker and was given a hearty re
ception He spoke of the DAYS of his resi-
- dence in the Green Mountain State and
: referring to the chairman as having first
/ seen the light on the Green mountains he
said that he was born not on the Ton hul
near the foot of the grand Monadnocl,
: The speaker gave some illustrations n
I Vermont Justice in the olden time
= Rev. ;. l.. b. Speare of NIIddlebnrv wa
e sure that the sons of Vermont were ouit,
} ready to grant that the half of their suc
= cess, YES, the half of their whole lives
: consisted of the fact that they heuan If,
r in Vermont. IAppIauspl Tt was no small
fact in the lie of EVERYONE nreeant tha
. the cradle of his native Stata uaS roclIo,
in the midst of the fiercest civil storm
I Heroic fibre was Gathered there and al
n though they might not have inherite'
n MANY millions of treasure arrnrdinar 70 RI
/, worlds ordinary estimate and descrintion
: they did inherit that which was wnrti
>. more in the fact that they corne in tho lin
Il of such an ancestry. IAnnlause H. re
: ferred to many evidences Of The ap+arnris
4. and courage of sons of Vermont whic
q could be seen on A ionrnev from the ID.
a cific coast to the Atlantic, and to the on
h Great blot to he seen i'm Irtah hnt adda
q that that gigantic excpnfion nrnvad RI
d rule as 10 the blessings that X-arnont h.,
a given to the world Men warn nrn,d &c, q
It their enterprise in BOSTON no sid I,t h
r. submitted that there was NOT - man a.,
l. chat could sell one sheen for so5 M
l. Laughter and annlausel vet tbat 10 u,ho
+ they did in Vermont Gnce IT, q uhu'
g There were some rnen here ,raa, I no,