The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-08-20

all who wish to attend divine service in houses made by
mems hands Those who do not, can find outside
"The perfect world by Adam trod,
The first great temple built by God"
REFoRMAroRY INSTITUTIONS
like the State prison. JAIL workhouse reform school, in
asylum etc., etc., fully equal to the needs of the
best police regulations, while courts famous for
the ustnes prompttude 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
care of million people.
vERMoNTERs.
1t is often truly said There more in the MAN than
there is in the LAND; in considering the desrabity
of Vermont place live in it supremely necessary
to consider THE PEOPLE VERMONT
Who were they in the first settlement? Almost wholly
of the Puritan Pilgrim stock almost all of English
ancestry They up to these hills and valleys from
Connecticut and Massachusetts and other of the older
colonies to found State broader and freer prn-
cpes they sought separate the Church and Stateo
establish that then doctrine, "That all have
natural and inaenabe 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 queness of the Wilderness
fit place to raise and develop free The early
troubles with New York and other colonies about urs-
dicon, rights of SOIL etc. developed statesmen, the
rugged and brave Ethan Allen the patriotic and solderly
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 Chittenden to the days of
Edmunds, Morrill,, and Phelps Of the AZ men who have
been governors Of the State who failed to her
wisely and well7
And besides keeping the best always at home, what
grand has Vermont given to other States. To New
York President Arthur and Vice President Norton the
great journalist 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 Vlas to Iowa, Karson,
and many other wise and notable have gone out from
Vermont Yes not only the noble, brave and wise have
gone, but the young, and strong and beautiful That
the great trouble with Vermont to-day too many have
gone OUT that uneasy spirit that led Saxon
DaneN orman progenors eight centuries ago to go on
the crusades, that led later ancestors the Pilgrims
out across the Atlantic to coonze New England has led
Vermonters to be always in the front of every
to extend the of freedom enlarge the borders of
Christianity. Theirs has ever been
"The tread Of pioneers,
OF nations yet to be-
The first low wash of where
Shall roll human sea-"
Foremost in in peace they have fought for their
country all the way from the Court House at Westmin
ster March 49, 1775, to Appomattox Court House, April
g. 1865.
"Ther bones the northern HILL
And the southern plain,
BY brook and river, lake and ri,
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 of for
tune or fame than they would to have stad but the great
would doubtless have found comfort and hap
pness and quite likely much wealth, have stayed in
Vermont However that may be to the past is most
certainly true of the present. that State country
offers many attractions and advantages at SO little
cost as be found here. Nowhere in the wide world
you find so
CHEAP PRODUCTIVE LAND.
Besides the many unoccuped farms with comfortable