The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-08-20
DR.. Cuyler in Vermont.

new 1HeOuOre Il. CuyIef mas been IN
Vermont recently, and from West Ran
dolph writes a characteristic letter TO
the Neto York EVANGELIST. The follow
ing extracts will be read with interest.
and may help to give Vermonters
keener appreciation of the natural
glories and political blessings that in
variably stir the soul of the stranger
within our gates:
can hour of winding among verdant
hills and by the water-courses brought
us to the bright and busy village of
West Randolph, which stands in the
spending few days delightfully."-, as the
guests of our friend and parishioner,
Mr.. Albert B. Chandler, the president
of the Postal Telegraph Gable Com
pany. Like DR.. Field and so many
other sons of New England, he has
reared his summer home in his native
place and beside the 'Macpelah of
his ancestors. The tether that reaches
back to the cradle, the school-house
and the Fairgrounds of childhood has
never been cut. On Saturday evening,
towards sunset, Mr.. Chandler drove us
to lofty hill in the center of the town
ship of Randolph. When we reached
that coign of vantage, he introduced us
to the princes and the elders of the an
cient royal family of the Green Noun
tains. There they stood in their ver-
dant majesty: Killington Peak and
Shrewsbury Peak to the southwest of
us, and away in the northwest doomed
up the magnificent crown of old Mans
field. Scores of others almost as lofty
were catching the goodnight kiss of
the setting sun. Senator Edmunds
once said to me, want TO die in sight
of old Cancels Hump."' There
spake genuine Green Mountaineer
/ do not wonder at the loyalty of every
son of Vermont to his native state; it
is a commonwealth to be proud Of
Although Vermont was not admitted
into the Union until 1871, her sons did
brave service at Ticonderoga and Ben
nington and Saratoga during the revo-
lutionary struggle. A hardy and clean
minded race of people settled this beau
tiful state; they even put it into their
constitution that only those should be
eligible to a seat in the legislature who
were men of wisdom and virtue The
vast majority of Vermonters are still
farmers and wool-growers and stock
raisers. There is not city in the state
that contains twenty thousand people.
The white marble that underlies her
hills is fitting emblem of the solidity
and purity of the ancient common
wealth. Much of the old Puritan spirit
fingers in her happy homes. For over
itttr hnl
tory law on her statute-books. In
Rutland and Burlington and some of
the larger towns, especially in some of
the manufacturing places, the law is
often set at naught when the temper
ance men are caught mapping and
allow men of loose principles to be
elected as magistrates. Here in West
Randolph, thrifty village of LOO
people, Mr.. Chandler tells me that
there is not an open saloon or bar-room
of any kind! In Bradford the Rev.
Mr.. Lees made the same gratifying
statement. On the last Fourth of July
Morrisville celebrated its centennial,
and while ten thousand people were
assembled there, not an intoxicated
person, or any place for vending intoX-
icants, could be discovered! A whole
some public sentiment in Vermont is
fatal to both the decanter and the dram
shop. On Monday we made pleasant
excursion to Bradford, beautiful viii
lage on the banks of the Connecticut
From rocky bluff we caught most
enchanting view of the emerald wales
that skirt the Connecticut, and of grand
old Moosilauke and the other White
Mountains that surround it. A goodly
land is this-a land of herds and
flocks and bee-hives 1--WE saw nearly
an hundred in one group)-a land dow
ing with milk and honey. Perhaps
some son of Vermont may read this
letter in the far West, and the sweet
memories of his childhood may again
fan his cheek; and with moistened eyes
he may yearn for another look at AS
Quincy or Mansfield,' and he will
thank God that he was born among the
Green Mountains"