The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1891-08-19

all who wish attend divine service in houses made by
mems hands Those who do not, find outside
"The perfect world by Adam trod,
The first great temple built by God"
REFoR01AToRY INSTITUTIONS
like the State prison. jail workhouse reform school, in
asylum etc, etc., fully equal the needs of the
best police regulations, while courts famous for
the ustnes prompttue and accuracy of their decisions
On the whole, the State is well provided for with educa
tiona moral social and judicial machinery for the good
of million people
vERMoNTERs
1t is often truly said, There is in the than
there is in the " in considering the desrabiity
of Vermont place to live in it is supremely necessary
to consider PEOPLE VERMONT.
Who they in the first settlement? Almost wholly
of the Puritan Pilgrim stock; almost all of English
ancestry. They up these hills and valleys from
Connecticut and Massachusetts and other of the older
colonies to found State broader and reer prin
cples they sought to separate the Church and Sateto
establish that then new doctrine THAT all men have
natural and inalienable right to worship Almighty God
according to the dictates Of their conscences An
mated by desire of personal liberty and social equality
they found among the grandeur of the hills the beauty of
the Valleys and the solemn quietness OF the wilderness,
fit place to raise and develop free men, The early
troubles with New York and other colonies about juris
diction rights of soil, etc.. developed statesmen the
Seth Warner the wise, thoughtful governor, Thomas
Chittenden, and host of like And the breed of
brave patriotic, and wise has stayed with from the
days of Allen, Warner, and Chttenden to the days of
Edmunds, Morrill, and Phelps. Of the ~ men who have
been governors Of the State who failed to her
wisely and well?
And besides keeping the best always at home, what
grand men has Vermont given to other States. To New
York. President Arthur and Vice President Norton the
great enthusiastically, the grand statesman-Silas
Wright to Pennsylvania the Cromwel-ike commoner
the man of the peope-Thaddeus Stevens to Illinois,
'the little giant"Stephen A. Douglass to Wisconsin,
Senators Carpenter and Villas to Iowa, a Karson
and many other wise and notable have gone from
Vermont Yes not only the noble, brave and wise have
gone, but the young and strong and beautiful. That
is the great trouble with Vermont to-day too many have
gone out that uneasy spirit that led our Saxon
Dane-N orman progenors eight centuries ago to go on
the crusades that led our later ancestors the Pilgrims
out across the Atlantic to coonze New England has led
Vemonters to be always in the front of every movement
extend the of freedom enlarge the borders of
Christianity. Theirs has ever been
"The tread of pioneers,
OF nations be-
The first low wash of waves where soon
Shall roll human sea.
Foremost in in peace they have fought for their
country all the way from the Court House Westmin-
ser, March 49, 1875, to AppomattoX Court House, April
6, 1860.
"Ther bones the northern HILL
And on the southern plain,
BY brook and river lake and rill
And by the roaring main"
And the result of all this going out of many and COM
ing back of few is that the State instead of three million
inhabitants that she has right to call her children, had
at the last counting, $780, but three hundred and thirty
two thousand four hundred and twenty two
few of those who went may have gained more of for
tune fame than they would to have sd but the great
would doubtless have found comfort and hap
pness and quite likely much wealth. to have stayed in
Vermont However that may be as to the past it is most
certainly true of the present. that State country
offers many attractions and advantages at little
cost can be found here Nowhere in the wide world
you find
CHEAP PRODUCTIVE LAND
Besides the many unoccupied farms with comfortable
adve,tis 81 in this shaet MANY