St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-05-01
Gbe Californian.
sENA TOR MORRILL, AND HIS WORK

SENA TOR MORRILL, AND HIS WORK.
Janet Jennings thus charmingly
writes the Springfield Republican
about Senator Morrill, on the occa-
sion of his birthday which occurred
on April IA:
Senator Morrill's birthday party
Monday evening led off the social
gayeties of the week. 1t was the
Senator's SOth birthday, but as he
stood, erect and smiling, to receive
the company, it was not easy to be
Iieve ne had rounded the so years.
Senator and Mrs. Morrill, had grown
old gracefully. No two in the SEN
atorial circle have shown such long
harmony of years Their life is beau
tiful and serene, untouched by politi-
cal disappointments, undIsturbed by
social ambitions, and holding its
own against all upheavals of new
people and new riches. Their home
is not one of the great new houses,
but IS one of the beautiful, genuine
homes. In its atmosphere of culture
and repose, one is sure to get some
thing higher and more satisfying
than is to be found in the general of
fee ''swims" Senator Morrill's pub
lie and private life is d career of which
not only Vermont but the whole
country is proud. On the 4th of
March, his continuous congressional
service numbered 80 years-12 years
in the House of Representatives and
% years III the Senate. And from
first to laStit has been a record clean,
faithful and industrious, strong and
fine all through, Senator Morrill,
seems to have changed but little i'll
the past 10 years, and looks no old
er. For a long time there has been Il
resemblance to the late Charles Sum
ner, sufficient to recall the -Massa-
chusetts statesman. But as the
years go on the resemblance is more
and more apparent. 1t is in the
head and upper part of the face that
Senator Morrill, suggests Sumner.
But it is a refined type of Sumner, i'll
the more finely cut features and
serenity of expression. One feels like
saving 80 years young, rather than
so years old, when looking at Sen
ator Morrill, His health seems even
better with each added year, and
Mrs. Morrill's good health surprises
her friends, for she has not been q
woman of rugged strength.
CHA UNCEY VI. DEPEW ON THE
NEGRO.
The North hears the negro side OF
the subject The negro is not physi-
cally ill-treated at the South. If they
would let politics alone they would
be better off than they are here.
have had sad experiences with edu-
Gated negroes who come to my office
every day. They are debarred from
going into pursuits they would natu
rally choose, and are confined to
narrow line, as you well know.
They can be walters at hotels and
private houses, cOachmen and pOr-
tiers in sleeping cars, but not mer-
machiniStS. Ihave cOlOred StenOg-
rapher at my office who does as
good work as any white one. In the
South the negro can be almost any
thing he wishes. If there were no
negro machinists III the South, no
skilled negro mechanics, there would
be none of that kind of work done.
Every pursuit is open to him. He
can have his labor organiza tons and
fix his rate of pay, and do everything
that labor unions usually do. If
negro has $4,000 III the South, and
intelligence, he can go into the com
mon council or the Legislature, and
make the laws which govern the
land of which he is one of the land
owners. This solves a great part Of
the question. The negro land-own-
ers, and there are many of them,
have enough in common with the
white citizen to make their interests
identical