St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-26

of some of your good ladies and these
bright children reminds me of like eX-
perience on the California trip. These
gifts of flowers which you bring to me
here are the product of your fields, and
not of your gardens-the beautiful gold
EN- rod. 1t is pleasant to think that in
this plant, so widely distributed, slight
lY diversified in its character, but
spreading over nearly our whole coun--
try, we have type of the diversity and
yet the oneness of our people; and am
glad to think that its golden hue typl-
fies the gladness and joy and prosperity
that is over all our fields this happy
year, and trust, in all yOur homes. L
thank you for your pleasant greeting
this morning, and bid you goodbye.
AS the train left Brandon another
shower of golden rod, thrown by the
hands Of hundreds of women, fell about
the presidents car. EX-Gov. Stewart
and the collector of the Burlington dis
trict, G. q. Benedict. joined the party
at Brandon. At Middleton, ex-Gov.
Stewart introduced the president.
When the cheering had subsided. the
president made short speech on YER
mont's reputation abroad, which was
enthusiastically received.
The Pace Gets Hot.
The VergenneS committee, headed by
Mayor Hines, met the train at Middle
bury. The train passed through New
Haven without stopping, though there
was a large asSemblage at the station.
The train stopped for five minutes at
Vergennes, where the president spoke
briefly. He was introduced by Secre-
tary Proctor, and said: "My fellow
citizens, | have had, as you know, some
in n &c hUr in, N
in the end of railroad train, but it has
seemed to me this morning that these
Vermont towns are closer together than
on any other route | have travelled.
Perhaps it is because your state is not
very large, and you had to put your
towns close together in order to get
them all in. | have heard an inter-
eSting story Of the origin of the
city of Vergennes. l suppose 1t was
one of the earliest instances in the his
tory of our country, If not the very first,
of city being constructed upon paper
before it was built upon the ground.
That has come to be quite familiar
practice in the late days of speculation; !;
but it is singular that city charter and
that corporate limits of one mile square
should have been given TO ' NergenneS
before this century began. If the eX-
pectatiOns of the founders of this city
have not been realized fully, you have
more than realized all the thoughts OF
Ethan Allen and his contemporaries in
the greatness and prosperity of your
state and in the richer glory and higher
greatness of the nation of which you
are part. | am glad to look into the
cOntented faces of another audience of
New England people. You were greatly
diSparaged in the estimation of some of
our people before the civil war. There
had spread, unfortunately, over the
minds of some of our Southern brethren
the impression that you were so much
given to money, to thrift and to toll.
that your hands had forgotten how TO
fight. 1t was a most wholesome lesson
when the whole country learned again
in the gallant charges and stubborn re-
sistances Of the Vermont brigade that
the old New England spirit still
lived; that Paul Revere still rode
the highways of New England and
that the men of Concord and
Lexington and Bennington still
ploughed her fields. am glad to meet
you this bright, joyous morning.; and l
am sure, in view of the fatigues that
have preceded and that are to follow,
you will excuse me from further speech
duu dCCtpt my iHOSI H6dIIlGit IlldHhS lOl
your frfeudlness." At Charlotte the
train stopped long enough to let Gen.
Veazey get off. At Shellbourne Col.
Edward Webb jumped on the train as
the advance guard from Burlington.
The president bowed to crowd which
stood cheering on the platform. No
other stop was made until the train
reached Burlington. where the party ar
rived at 1855 p. IN.