Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-04-20
Green MOUNTAIN ElOQUeNcE.


4 friend asks the Free Press to reprint
the following alleged report of Il republic
can county convention in Aiddlcbury in
1880 first published in the New York Sun:
Middlebury, VT, June 1.-THE Addison
county republican convention was held re-
Gently in this village, and in passing
through, We decided to go to 1t. We had
the pleasure of listening to d unique and
telling speech by u fiood-wOod orator, with
q military title, from one of the rural
mountain towns, which is worth of pre-
scrvation among the county relics. The
court house whore the convention was
held is Il large, white, frame building,
somcv hat in need of repairs The hall
was packed with "a good looking body of
men, whose appearance denoted more
than average degree of intelligence. soon
after the ogan2ation of the convention, n
gentleman was put in nomination for
state senator and the nomination was
promptly seconded. At this point rural
delegate with shining face long hair,
and standing six feet in his stockings,
arose and said, Mr. Chairman"
The Chair brought his nalet down upon
the desk, and said, Listen to Gen. At
wood Of Monkton." The orator spoke as
follows:
Mr.. Presidcnt-Si: 1T IS with a dep h
Of emotional pride and pleasure, altogeth-
or beyond the wealth and power of words
to express, that now rise in this ConN en-
/
say that heartily second tho nomination
of that most distinguished individual the
Hon. Edward S. Dana, late of Lemon
Fair, but now of the more favored spot
known az the Deacon Squire's place. in
the town Of New Haven, near Monkton,
Vermont. Nothing, sir, in this world or N
Denver or DcadWood could give me no
greater pride or delight Of | know my
heart than to discharge this agreeable
and willing duty to a friend and mertori-
Gus fellow citizen of mine and Of the good
old county Of Addison-nay, more, Mr.
President, n citizen of old Vermont her
self; and l may add, sir, without fear Of
gainsaying or contradiction, here or else
where a fellow citizen of the whole word,
and of all mankind. His name, his fame
and his renOWn, as brilliant star Of Yer
mont, and more particularly in the galaxy
of her political armament which bends
over us from Cancels Hump to Mount
Marcy on the west, and to Mount Wash
ington on the east, are known and read Of
all men, women and children, and will be
shouted in prose and sung in poetry in
praises everlasting. His fame and praises
will breathe forth in song III the dark
forests and mining regions and deep
tangled wildwood" of the Black Hills of
Montana-the hills and wales of Nevada
and Colorado--thc cities and saloons and
hotels of Sacramento. San Francisco,
Shanghai and Chicago, long after those
hills and wales and cities and saloons,
Shanghais and Chicagoes shall have
tumbled into dust and the midnight of
barbarsm has kivered UP their ruins. In
my travels for the past few months
have proved this, Mr.. President. | have
traVersed this continent from Monkton
Pond Westwardly across the great lakes
the Mississippi the Missouri and the
Rocky Mountains, till l paused for d brief
moment. as the Golden Gate of san Fran
cisco swung wide open to give me view
of the great Pacific Ocean, OF which
had hearn tell much that was marvellous
and miraculous. I paused for a night 1t
the Great Babylon of the northwest. Chi
cago, and in the hotels, saloons and depots
of that great city met old acqua ntances
from our good old state ana several OF
them showed by the remarks they made
that they had not forgotten either Yer
mont, or old Addison or Lemon Fair, ioI
they inquired tenderly and dmectionately
about my friend, Edward 5. Dana. In the
camps and cabins about tho Black His
in the mines and on our mules liz sun
shine ana in mOunshiue ! mot doZ rs Of
our recently cioped NermonteIs, and sew
oral OF thin. if not more made bold to IN
Qure Of me if I knew one Edward $
Dana. At Denver, Cheyenne, Sacramento
san Francisco and among the miners OF
Nevada and all the way home, till | dis
embarked for Monkton at the depot N
North Fcrrisburgh, my delighted ear
were saluted Ivy an earnest inquiry about
the distinguished individual who bears the
honored and euphonous name of Edwarc
:. Dana. Mr.. President, we can crown our
solves, our country and our State with
glory unapproachable by nominating ano
electng him.