Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-12-23
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protected; the unrestrained liberty of the in
dividual Is seen to be less dangerous to the
state than was once thought, since civiliza.
ton In Its advance OF enlightenment has ere
ated moral restraints to wrong doing and in.
centives TO. right living stronger than any
sanctions of positive law.
This rule OF the multitude" as political
critic has styled it, or government OF the
people, by the people and tor the people, as
the martyred Lincoln so happily .aracter-
lied Il, the ripening harvest of the sowing of
the Pilgrim Fathers, has not proved a failure,
the training of the individual TO the opportu.
mites and duties OF life shall characterize our
advancing civilization. SO may 1t be, and
our hopes strengthen INTO an abiding trust
and expectation; and when in the far future
the Middebury Historical society-esto per.
to a like Pilgrim festival, and they shall then
look back over the field of American history
stretching back to the landing on Plymouth
present, may they find state and people
softenend and improved by culture, yet true
to the spirit OF the primeval state and OF those
who founded II, a people free, intelligent, in
dustrious, sober, honest, conservative of the
good, aggressive towards the wrong, virtu-
GUS religious, happy people whose God is
| the Lord.
The singing of the doxology by the
choir and congregation and the benedic-
tlon. pronounced by Rev. Mr.. Lyons,
brought the public exercises to a close.
THE LADIES' SOCIAL PARTY.
This was held in the lecture room at
the conclusion of the address. As is US
ual. the greater part of the town was
there, and, as is always equally true,
they enjoyed themselves. The room
was deliberately decorated with draper
les and pictures and made brilliant with
lights. The pictures this year were all
oil portraits of prominent early men of
the place and of the presidents of the
college from the foundation down to and
including the venerable DR.. Hamlin.
Grace was said by Rev. DR.. Archibald,
after which began an important feature
of the occasion. the consumption of the
varied and abundant good things which
the ladies had provided.
The after-dnner proceedings began
with the singing of a selection, "When
the moon is brightly shining" by quar-
tet composed of DR.. Sheldon and Messrs.
F. b. Seeley. Parker Williamson and
E. l.. Cushman.
Mr.. Stewart spoke briefly. He con-
trasted the accomplishments of the Span
iards on this continent with what the
Saxons had done here from the founding
of the Plymouth colony on; and ended
by calling up Prof. Seely. The profess
sor talked entertaningly of the foun-
dation OF the observance of Forefa-
| 'hNiS III MIuuleDuTN, HAL
century ago. Prof. Stoddard, he of |
Latin grammar fame, made the first ad- |
dress, at the solicitation of citi- |
zens, and there had been no break IN
the observance of the anniversary from
that time on. He closed by paying a
tribute to the patron saint of the Occas-
ion, but regard for the mOdesty of that
worthy gentleman is a sufficient warrant
for not repeating here what lie said.
Rev. DR.. Archibald, the next to be
summoned to his feet, spoke eloguently
of America as the embodiment of the Wis
ion Of the Hebrew prophet who fOresaw
a nation that should be gathering Of
all the nations of the earth.
Miss Hortense Drake sang a solo, II
love ard the world is NINE" was recalled
and again favored the audience with
selection.
Robert Roberts, Esq, of Burlington,
son of the orator of the evening, was
Mr.. Stewards next victim. He said
he supposed he must have been select
ed to, Illustrate, personally, the &C.
generacy into which the race of the Pill
grims had fallen. These worthless had
been credited with producing moral
ity and catarrh, orthodoxy and nervous
prOstration, but he thought these were
| sCtTCclN tTut II Ildu dlSUI
been said of them that on landing they
fell first upon their knees and presently
upon the aborignes, thus illustrating
their tendency not to let their religion
interfere with theil proper business
This he also regarded as prejudcedl
view of the fathers.
Prof. Wright talked about the West
He quoted from the poets to show how
in their opinion most good things came
out of the West, but before he finished
conceded that the West is only slightly
modified and a trhe lvelier East.
DR.. w. III. Sheldon sang solo, "My
Happiness" and was called out again
and gave another.
Mr.. Joseph Battell, who was asked I'd
say something on The subject of univer
sal improvement. followed the rule of ig
noring the text assigned and spoke of thu
greatness of Columbus courage aid per-
sistency, though, as matter of fact, hd
did not discover America. He also talk
ed of the significance of the term, "th}
| West" In his travels he had found Blu
one limit to the use of the phrase, and
that was on the Pacific coast. There tn
situation called to his mind the remarl
of a former Middlebury man during tn
western fever, who said that the cry OF tn
piISTims WITH tuCy udu pCCh oct thciC
little while would be, not "HO for thu
West" but "Dig for the East"
C. NJ. Wids, Esq, was called up, bu
excused himself on the ground that thu
divorce cases which he had been en-
gagged all day in trying were not conduc
i've to effort suited to the hour.
Hon. Daniel Roberts, the last speaker
alluded to the Middlebury he knew mos
intimately-he graduated from the col
lege in the class of lS29-spoke of tn
changes time had wrought and of tn
pleasure the evening had afforded him.
Miss Carrie Bond sang selection. an
the evenings programme was conclude
by the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" b
the company.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM RUTLAND.
The Congregational club of Wester
Vermont, celebrating Forefathers' DAY