The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-11-13
vERMONTERs M OoIoR.

A Vermonter writes as follows to tn,
Denver, Colo, Times:
Hon. Justin S. Morrill,, who has ms
been elected to the United States Senat,
for the fifth time from the State of Yer
mont, while not recognized as one of I'll,
brilliant leaders in the Senate, has prob
ably been more useful to the Nation. II
was he who evolved the idea and drew
the bill at the commencement of the wal
Tor tariff Tor revenue, when President
Lincoln was so worried and perplexed a,
to where the money was to come from tc
defray expenses of the army. He is Sc
well informed on tariff statistics thai
when Senator or Congressman Is hi 4
hurry to get some fact in statistics re.
garding tariff, or most ANYTHING else H.
inquiries of Morrill, instead of going N
the libraries. Ambitious young men,
whose circumstances are such as to pre.
clude a college education, NAV gain some
encouragement from knowledge of tbe
fact that Morrill, had the advantage only
of the district school in the little red
schoolhouse in the winter term amono
the Green Mountains.
For years he worked at very small
wages in grocery store. At middle age
he was the proprietor of a small store for
general merchandise at Thetford. VT.
where, with his own hands, in exchange
for old rags, eggs, apples and maple SUI
gar, he dealt out nails, salt, molasses.
hats, caps, dry goods, boots and shoes. in
a little apartment called a store. not
much larger than modern sleeping room,
II believe that his home is still in the
same village, dozen miles from any
railroad. "A few years ago he had a
brother there, and l presume he is still
living, who was the village, blacksmith.
shoeing all the horses and oxen in that
vicinity. As young man the black
smith was regarded as much the smarter
of the two, and there are those in Tibet.
ford now who will tell you that nature
did more for the blacksmith than for the
Senator. But the former was a iolly.
bright fellow, anxious for fun and less
willing to work and prod. At last ac-
counts he was having a good time,
though wearing poor clothes and not at
all envious Of his distinguished brother,
whom he used to speak of in a sympa-
thetic way, saying: PoOrfJustinI / am
sorry for him, for he works hard-yet he
don't seem to lave much fltn.' it'FsE
at is not true, therefore, that the
abundance of a man consistent not in the
eAihSo DOhoOhotllls EA-mdVOrS
b. b. Styles and William Scott Lee were
born near to Thetford, and both have
highly respected relatives there now.
The Rev. Myron w. Reed was born In
the Nazareth of that region, out of
which no good thing could come The
town of Barnard, upon the hills of Bar
nard, was synonymous with desolation
and encouragement. Barnard has no
churches. When there was no haying or
other important work on hand, on the
Sabbath day the people would assemble
in a schoolhouse for religious worship
on the Universalists plan. A large pro-
portion of the good people of Barnard
still believe in universal salvation. Pos
sibly our genial Myron Reed may have
had his liberal theology, which has made
him so popular in the West, inculcated
in his childhood days. Hon. James Rice.
Senator Tabor, Gen. Alvin Marsh, Nat
Hurd, DR.. Denison, and many other Of
our distinguished citizens were born
near by. They have all helped Colorado,
and all Of them are proud of Vermont
Senators-Edmunds and Morrill,