Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-12-14
THE WISDOM or GEN. HARRIsoM


consul at Cincinnati
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THE WISDOM or GEN. HARRISON.
Extracts that Throw some Light on His
Opinions, Mental Habits and Charac-
ter.
The New York Sun has been reading Gen.
Harrison's speeches very carefully and
with much profit, as will be seen -
From his speech in the Senate Of Feb. ~, 1881
do not like the idea of compelling a
pensioner, when he comes to the govern
ment for his pension, to be put to the ne
cessity of exposing his poverty, and bas-
ing his claim upon his necessltous condi-
ton.
From his speech Of Feb ~, 1852
| am not prepared to pronounce any of
fence objectionable or to say that the of
fence of drunkenness may not have extern
uating circumstances.
oN THE RAILROAD PROBLEM.
From his speech Of April Is, lss2
Competing lines do not always compete
The price of grain to the man whose toll
produces it, and to the consumers in the
East, has been and often still is arbitrarily
fixed by "A convention Of "A half dozen men
representing trunk lines of railroad.
on THE SOUTH.
From his speech Of April Is, lss2
The free South has at last turned her
face toward the sun, and will ere long
eclipse all of her ante-bellum achievements
in production This result will sooner and
more surely be achieved by self reliant in
dustry than by congressional bounties. l
cannot accept the suggestion that we should
by law, out of public revenues, do some
thing other or more for any state or per
son that went into the rebellion because of
that fact or because of the poverty that
came not of legal penalties, but of natural
laws. | have no faith in the permanent
influence of appropriations to bind men
to flag or a constitution.
From his speech Of April 81, lss2l
When for once under the impulse of
good fellowship and good feeling, under the
stir of those sympathies which every kind
hearted man feels, something is done in
the way Of benefaction, it will come back
TO trouble us.
on POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS.
From his speech Of December %, 1852
insist that it is common principle, ap
plicable as well to the service of the United
States and its employees as to the service of
corporations and individuals and their EN-
ployes, that when a man has once earned
the salary stipulated by law or fixed by
contract, has earned it 10y the stipulated
hours of work, it is his, absolutely his /; and
the principle sought to be introduced here
is that the government may follow that
money into his control aud dictate the use
of it to him. The government of the
United States cannot prohibit any man
from using money that is his for any legiti-
mate purpose.
on HIS OWN HABITS OF THOUGHT.
From his speech Of February IL, ISL
am not one of those who usually at
tempt to cross bridge before | reach it.
On VIRTUE.
From his speech Of February II, 1854
agree that men grow in virtue as they
grow in years.
on EDUCATIONAL AID.
From his speech of March -. ISL
One dollar voted By the people of any
school district for the support of common
schools is worth $40 given out of the treas
ury of the United States.
PATHETIC "REMINISCENCES.
From his speech of March y, 1854
Some of the most pathetic sights have
ever witnessed in my life | saw when the
advancing armies of the Union were
brought in contact with the slave popula-
ton of the South. Aged colored men,
slaves from their mothers womb, came in
to our camp as into cities of refuge. l
have seen old men past the meridian of life,
yes, well on toward its end, after hard
days work in the company kitchen, lying
prone upon the ground before the camp
fire, with spelling books in Cheir hands,
painfully trying to fasten in their memories
the names and outlines of the letters of the
alphabet
ON LEGISLATION.
From his speech of February ,, lss5.l
Intelligent legislation of curative or
remedial character will always he directed
to the evils to be cured and the intelligent
legislator will always desire to have a clear
understanding of the evils which are to be
remedied before he drafts his bill.
on THE UNION.
From his speech of Dec. Is, lSS5
hold, as have always held, to the doc
trine that a state can neither break into
nor break out of the Union.
A REASON FOR ADMITTING DAKOTA.
From his speech of Feb. 1, lSsj,l
As there were l3 original states and
Dakota will be 80, it will he so appropriate
in the centennial year of the constitution TO
multiply the ID by three and show that each
grandmother has child by her knee.
on THE NEGRO RACE.
From his speech of March B, 1856
am one Of those who feel that the color
ed race in the South since the war has been
subjected TO indignities cruelties, outrages
and repression of rights such as find no
parallel in the history of civilization. |
have read with horror the authenticated
stories of the crueltes which have been
visited upon this docile, kindly and molten
sive race.
ON CLEVELAND AND THE MUGWUMPs.
From his speech of March ~ 1851
The President of the United States re-
peatedly put himself under the pledge, not
simply in his public utterances but in pri
vate letters, voluntarily written, in favor
of such policy. 1t went through all the
land to those Republicans in Office who had
fragment, small or large, of legal term
to serve, that if they discharged their duties
faithfully and honestly they would not be
disturbed in serving out the remainder of
term. 1t has turned out that it was a de-
ceptive feast 10 those invited. 1t was almost
as full of deception and as fatal in its results
as some of those feasts of old story to
which men were invited for purpose of as
sassination.
A New England Etching.
A hamlet in a valley sleeping;
Moonlight DER the tree-tops creeping;
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