The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1892-07-22
oHAPrER III.
A pEMocnAr o. rnE oLp scuoor.

A DEMOCRAT or THE OLD SCHOOL.
providence has filed our mountains and our
plains With minerals. and given us climate
and soil for tho growing Of hemp and wool.
These ought to have extended to thom adequate
and fair protection, that our manufacturers and
laborers may DO placed Ia fair competition
with those OF Europe II f. time we should be-
come little moro Americanized. and instead Of
feeding the paupers and laborers Of England,
iced our own."-ANDREw JACKSON.
After the gentlemen wore seated at tho table,
tho conversation turning upon certain past
events 10 our history, Miss Fletcher. fearing an
lother discussion on party issues, took the sub
lject In hand herself:
speaking Of past mistakes, Mr.. Peyton, I do
not SEQ how wo can blanc our ancestors for
them. No man Is ahead OF his time"
You are right. Mise Fletcher, for nature
makes no leaps II has taken centuries for
man TO stand whore no does to-day. We cannot
pass at bound from the savage 70 tho states-
man, for Thousands OF years Of intellectual de-
IVoiopment lie between. We mustlsarn to wait .
at is SO much easier to labor than 70 walt"
said Miss Fletcher. This talk about future
Egeneratiens seems 90 hopeless, 80 far away.
am human enough to want % gather the har-
vest plant"
81 have that feeling myself" answered Pey-
ten. II Ind working for mans advancement
Impossible unless buckle on the shield OF
Faith, as st. Paul directs. Human Development
Is 80 slow while the patience 70 work Tor II and
70 walt for Is is dlvlnel'
Ethel Flethsr studied Maurice Peyton's rather
plain face as he spoke. and wondered wherein
itoy me Chafm OF THIS man PERSONALITY.
Col. Ogilyie With his norid complexion, per-
feet features and well bred manner. tesnfying
70 his noble Saxon lineage, and her brother wore
handsomer men. as the world would Judge. yet
would she change the finely cut boardlass face
beside her. for either OF these2
Maurice Peyton, philanthropist and Christian
teacher, had sprung from good old Virginia
stock. Inheriting large number Of slaves he
had, upon gaining his majority. freed them. and
because Of this aud certain bold utterances
from his pulpit. had found himself socially
lostracised In the conVersative city no had made
his homo.
He had dared csll HIS slaves brothers, had
opened n school for their benoft and had eYon
Encouraged thoir entrance into tho fold OF the
fashionable church over which no presided.
All this had reused tho easto feeling OF the
times. Vague murmurs grow into muttered
threats and no Mas finally requested to rosicIl
| his charge and advised 60 seek a neld OF labor
The desire to study life In tho Industrial
Northern States caused him TO close up his az
tairs and prepare for an indehnito absence from
his Southern home.
i Col. Ogllvle glanced curlously from Peyton 70
Miss Fletcher as they talked apart, and half
lost the meaning OF what Thorpe Fletcher was
saying.
he now turned from Fletcher and addressed
miss Fletcher. you should plant some ef our
European ideas in these small towns OF yours.
! You Americans need more cosmopolitan train
ing; you are too narrow"
1 Miss Fletcher smiled.
81 cannot Rgree with you. Col. ogilvfo. The
trouble is that, as a nation. We ara not indepen
don't enough OF monnrchical traditional"
''rhe Idea being" laughed Peyton, that We
wish 70 cherish individuality In tbls country.
aud 70 copy no other people ON tho face OF the
earth. Who has said shat a marrow orbit Ia ia
vorable 70 powerful lndividuRiityr There f.
q world Of truth In a. for TOO much space IL fatal
70 centration OF thought or purpose As in-
ldlylduals W0 work better By not exha ueting our
vitality upon too many duties. II We live for
Others, Ia II NOS visor 70 have tho number lin
itedG only Chrlst could hope 10 save all"
al agVee With Mr.. Peytan." said Mas Fletcher.
II have purposaly curtalled my own work. for 4
have foundthat by doing little do It wclI."
"Khat do you say ~ those philosophers,