Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-01-30
Brooklyn society Of Vermonters.

written by Mr.. Fred N. Whitney Of tn,
Northfield News.
Brooklyn Society OF Vermonters.
| The Brooklyn Society OF Vermonter!
gave its sixth annual dinner at the Mon
tauk club recently.
| The tables were ornamented with flow
ors and adorned by the presence Of fan
women, in almost greater number than
the men. With the coffee cups came the
evenings speechmaking, Colonel A. B
Chandler, the president of the Brooklyn
Society, opening the postprandial exer.
cises as follows:
ladies and gentlemen, sons and daugh-
tiers of Vermont-Once more we are as
sembled to celebrate our attachment to the
fatherland-to do honor to Vermont; tc
glory in her patriotic, unique and always
meritorious history; to rejoice together in
the fact that the homes of our nativity are
on her soil; to express anew our gratitude
for sweet recollections Of happy child
hood there, in the midst Of peaceful sur
roundings; the picturesque hills and love-
ly valleys, the grand mountains covered
to their very SUBMITS with verdant forests,
the lakes and rivers Of surprising beauty,
where in our boyhood we caught the
speckled trolt and where we learned to
swim.
We gratefully recall, too, most sacred
recollections of the blessed parentage that
reared us thereto whom Vermont was no
less dear than she is to ourselves. Inci-
dentally, we are here also to renew our ac-
quaintance with each other; to forget for
a few hours the cares and burdens OF our
busy daily life, and to have good time
together in this goodly city of our adop-
ton.
W. l~x,o !, r;.ht ~ uuoh rooae ..,,a !, !,
this to feel clannish. 1t is our privilege
here to love Vermont and each other TO
the exclusion, in a large measure, of other
places and other folks. Here we delight
to remember Vermont's glorious past; to
think of her as she is at present and to an
ticipate for her great and useful and
happy future.
ticulars OF any OF the mighty deeds Of
valor OF Vermont's early settlers, nor of
the surprising wisdom and sound sense
and sterling integrity exhibited by them
in the protection, organization and devel-
opment of their separate principality, and
in finally bringing it into right relations
with the United States, and through those
relations with the rest of the world. In
the former happy and memorable meetings
of this society all these things have been
reviewed, somewhat in detail, and we on
ly need to refer to them now as among the
causes of our loyalty and devotion 10 the
land of our nativity and our undying az
lection for it. They comprise the chief
reasons for the organization and perpetua-
tion of our society, and it is altogether
for us to bear in mind and to
make mention OF the facts upon every
suitable occasion that it is nothing less
than wonderful that those plain and hardy
,fa +x.cY, M
or diplomacy, could have had the fore
sight, the sagacity and the skill to frame
a constitution and establish government
Of the people, by the people and for the
people, that has placed Vermont during
all the past century in the foremost rank
among the peoples of the world; that has
made her renowned everywhere for free
dom in its broadcast sense, including free
dom Of speech, freedom of the press and
freedom of the ballot, and that has also
made her illustrious for the high order OF
intelligence prevailing among her citizens
in all avocations OF life, AID for the mini
mum of ignorance and OF poverty, as COM
pared with the people of any and all other
lands.
Among other good purposes to be now
served by our Brooklyn Society of Yer
monters and by other similar organiza-
lions elsewhere, it seems to me, should be
TO awaken new interest in Vermont as it is
to-day, and in the conditions that are to
prevail there hereafter, and to lead us to
new thoughts and new plans for her bene-
1T and Improvement in the various ways
in which it may be possible for us to exer-
Use helpful influence in her behalf
This is not the time or place to point out
5he ways in which this may be done. |
only submit for your consideration that
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