The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-09-04

these intelligent men and women who
have gone out from the New England
States into the West and South; if we
could trace those strong yet slender and
hard to be discovered threads of in
tluence which they have started in the
communities to which they went; if we
could know how they have impressed
on the minds OF the people brought
under their care the great lessons of self
respect and love for free institutions and
social order, we should have higher
thought than we have yet had of the
power and dignity of these pioneers of
education. [Cheers. ]"
At Middlebury: "It has been greaS
pleasure to me to know your esteemed
fellow citizen, Ex-Governor Stewart.
Your State and District, and the Nation
at large, have had in him a most able
and faithful champion of all that was
true and clean and right Three cheers
were given for ex-Gov. Stewart. You
have been particularly fortunate, 1
think, in your representatives at Wash
ington, as l had occasion to say the
other day at Bennington. 1 am glad to
be here at the site of this institution of
learning-Middlebury College-which is
soon to complete it's hundredth year of
modest, yet efficient, service of training
the minds of our young men for useful
ness in life"
At Burlington, after speaking of Sena-
tor Edmunds and his retirement from
eminent public service: 'Let us never
forget that the fundamental thought of
our Government is the rule of the ma
jority lawfully expressed at the pure and
clean elections, and that when thus eX-
pressed, the laws enacted by those
chosen to make our laws, are not less of
the minority than of the majority. Ap-
plause.] Those who make the laws are
our servants to whom we yield the re-
spect of Office and that measure of per-
sonal regard to which their lives may
entitle them. [Applause.l"
At st. Adams the President spoke at
length and we shall print the same on
our inside pages next week.
At Montpelier, before the Legislature
and 10000 people: eff we shall ever or
anywhere allow doubt to settle into
the minds of our people whether the re-
suits of our elections are honestly at
tanned, whether the laws made are
framed by those who have been properly
chosen by the majority, then all sane
ton is withdrawn from law and all re-
spect from the rulers who by false
ballot, are placed in public office. [Ap-
plause.l am glad to congratulate you
upon constituencies intelligent, devoted
and patriotic. am glad to congratulate
you that the State of Vermont from its
earliest aspirations and efforts for
liberty and self-government which de-
veloped into your constitution in 1777
down through all the story of toll and
the struggles which have beset you as a
State and the vicissitudes which have
beset the country, of which you are an
honored part-that the State of Vermont
and her sons in the councils of the Ma
ton and on the blood-stained battle
fields of the great war have borne them
selves worthily. Applause. y
Before the Horse Breeders Associa-
ton: 81 understand that it was so ar
ranged that after 1 had seen the flower
of the manhood and womanhood of Yer
mont, / should be given an exhibition of
the next grade in intelligence and worth
in the State-your good horses. [Ap-
plause.l l have had recently, through
the intervention of my Secretary of War,
the privilege of coming into possession
of pair of Vermont horses. They are
all could wish for, and, as said the
other day at the little village from which
they came, they are of good Morgan
stock, of which some one haSsaid that
their great characteristics was that they
enter into consultation with the driver
whenever there is any difficulty.
Laughter and applause.
At Windsor: II have rejoiced to find
everywhere in the State of Vermont
what seemed to me to be deep-seated.