The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-19

incarnation pizen, a Yorker? That
another, who was twice Governor,
once a judge of the Supreme Court,
and twice a Senator of the United
States, was from the land of big mos
quitoes and dispenser, for large mon
ey, of corporate charters? But the list
tells its own story 1t is highly illu-
minating. 1t is also utterly fatal to the
abominable and proscriptive doctrine
the little Vermonters are preaching.
AS corollary to this demonstration
of the narrowness of the main propo-
stion of a dynasty of native born
Vermonters might be cited few of
the instances of the observation-disclosures
of foreigners when perchance prince
of the royal line has strayed away and
transferred his allegiance to other
| States:
John Young, born in Chelsea, adopt
ed by New York, several years in the
Legislature, then Representative in
Congress, Governor, and United States
assistant treasurer in the city of New
York.
Chester A. Arthur, born in Fair
field, adopted by New York, eminent
in law and politics, selected by Gov
ernor Morgan to raise, equip and place
in the field his States imperial legions
in the war for the Union, mighty
service performed with unexampled
dispatch and efficiency collector of
the port of New York, President of
the United States of lasting fame.
Levi P. Morton, born in Shoreham
citizen of Vermont, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts and New York. Re-
cipient of many distinguished honors,
among them the governorship of the
Empire State and vice presidency of
the United States. Damned by the
circumstance that, by his own native
abilities, in traffic, banking and sun
dry enterprises he acquired great
wealth-became king of finance, a
horrid "multi millionaire, and like
his Roman prototype, like Washington
and many another "magnate, sought
in the cultivation of the soil surcease
from the burdens of official and bust
ness life. very reprehensible course
of life, in some important particulars
resembling the career of that other
Yorker magnate, Mccullough of Ben.
nington. But to proceed with the
corollary:
Matt Carpenter, born in Moretown,
twice Senator of the United States
from Wisconsin.
Stephen A. Douglass, born at Bran.
don, a citizen of four States, Vermont.
New York, Ohio and Illinois, Judge
of the Supreme Court of the latter its
Representative in the House and SEN
ate of the United States and candi
date for the Presidency.
Roswell Martin Field, born in New
fame, so wronged by his native State
that he moved to st. Louis, institut-
ed the proceedings in the famous bred
Scott case, the dread prelude to the
civil war. One Of the brightest stars
ever stricken from the Vermont firma-
meut.
! Thaddeus Stevens, born at Barnet,
turned up in the Keystone State and
the Congress of the United States
The ''Great Commoner" of his times.
tile prop of the Union cause in the
House of Representatives during the
period of the civil war.
To continue this cataloguing would
be to occupy the entire space in this
paper and on the long roll would be
the names of John M. Thurston, ma
tive of Montpelier, Senator of the
United States from Nebraska; Ros.
well G. Horn, born in Waitsfeld, q
famous Representative in Congress
from Michigan; W. A. Field, born in
Springfield, chief justice of the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts Leslie
M. Shaw, born in Morristown, Gov
ernor of Iowa and Secretary of the
Treasury of the United States, ct al.
amounting almost to infinity. These
citations in some small degree show
that other States of the Union have
never been too nice-and never pro-
scriptive-in the matter of the place
OF mans birth, and no prescriptions
on account of other conditions of for
tunes. The irony-and the clannish-
ness-of the existing situation appears
in the circumstance that New York
has twice taken Governor from the
nomadic scions of Vermonts royal
line.