The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-04
M0NTPEI Ter CELEBRATES
ITS HUNDRED YEARS
AS STATE CAPITAL
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with copious mugs Of flip" and pointed
Their conclusions with an active leader
ship that aroused an irresistible follow
ing throughout the coming state Out
OF the vortex and whirl of all that
colonial, heroic, romantic, military and
pioneer history Of wars and immigration
and final settlement there gradually
arose and was maintained here a seyer-
eign power among the hills, confessed
upon the principles of the Revolution
and implied by the solemn transactions
OF Congress itself. The Treaty OF
Paris in 1888 included this territory in
the belongings Of the United States, but
for eight years substantially, or until
admission in 1871, she was the substance
OF her copper coin motto, 'Vermonten-
SUM Res Publica," the Republic of the
Green Mountains, as independent in the
exercise of full sovereignty as any ma
ton, however great, which has exercised
government in the history of the
race.
May it please your exceIleny, Cover
nor Bell, and you, MIR. Mayor, who d.
rect the business management Of our
city, to accept the cordial eongratula-
lions OF our people upon your official
presence here at this tooth anniversary
of Montpelier as Capital of this State.
Our recognition of this event was the
order of our town meeting last March,
the old fashioned town meeting, char
acteristic OF New England, but nowhere
better preserved than here without dis
tinction of either party or class. The
assumption of this celebation has pro-
ceeded with due modesty, out Of duty
and obligation to the state, and in full
knowledge of the fact that the time
for its recall will be long. Those who
made and are making the future Of our
affairs are rapidly passing away, while
the cemeteries OF our dead everywhere
through Vermont begin too much to
record the story of the past, and our
marts and towns do not as yet, per-
haps, SO fully as they might, reflect
the opportunities of the future. The
people Of this city, as what village, town
and city does not, love their state con-
stantly and Loyalty and they have striy-
en- to merit the honor and opportunity
Of serving as the seat Of its govern
ment for hundred years. We want
to celebrate, not here only in this brief
AQdts but AttOtEh Ntff NAf AtlN III QtxA
memory hereafter, the deeds and the do
ings Of our forbears and to thank pub
liely once more those good men and
women whose work in field, forest, home
and shop made and preserved the state
an object OF love and yeneEation to their
children and successors forevcrmore.
We celebrate the occasion, not yainglor-
iously, but as sincere, affectionate
tribute to old Vermont and as an evil
dence to the thousands sof its sons and
daughters in other states that the old
iireplaces keep burning here and that
the old standards are maintained intact:
and, above all, with thanks TO the Sod
OF nations for his great mercy 20 us
and to our state. 1t is pleasant to
think that Montpelier received its char
ter not from Hampshire or York, but
direct from Thomas Chittenden, tho
Governor Of Vermont. Neighborliness
and a common experience ii politics
and war have taught Us since TO have
great regard and respect for those great
adjoining states, but that cannot wholly
ohliterate certain kind Of pride which
our city has III the fact that its char
ter halls from Vermont and its famous
birch rod tree. This charter was sub
stantial enough in its list Of sixty pro-
prietors, but, as legislative bills have
been often since, somewhat faulty in
other respects. The spelling was I'M
doubtedly bad. There were no boun-
diaries set, for example, to the 23,0A0
acres so generously bestowed, and then,
too, there was peculiar and impracti-
able condition, TO wit, that each pro-
prietor was TO plant five acres and build
a home, eighteen feet square, inside of
three years from date OF grant. Some
have thought that the reservation TO
the freemen of the state of the pine
trees, suitable for a navy, was tritie
quaint, but that criticism has been modi-
fed since a couple OF Green Noun
tain Boys entered and cleared out Ma
Mia Bay and rounded Cape Horn for
a final strike at Santiago. The fact
was, however, that the first charter was
about as defective as a permanent clay
road, but all this was improved in the
charter of 1904, signed BY Governor
Tichenor, in which Il Eastwood tree on
the banks of the Onion, marked Middle
sex Corner, July 10, 1855, rescued the
starting point. But this new charter
suggests some high thinking in those
early days. It reserved land rights for
q seminary or college, for county
grammar school, for a minister Of the
gospel, for English schools and for So
cial worship, and it declared these rights
to be nationally appropriated and I'M
der the charge, direction and disposal
OF the inhabitants of said township for
ever That was the style in which old
Vermont expressed its acts, motions and
resolves, strong, sonorous, born of the
soil and having in it the swing Of a
scythe and the perpetuity Of the eter.
nal hills, a chip of the old Allen vocabu-
larry, destined to live. And then, too,
this charter was resonant with such
names at Timothy Bigelow, Matthew
Lyon, Joseph Fay, Ira Allen, Jacob
Davis and Thomas Chittendcn, and, be-
sides, the names of women, not often
found in our modern charters for cleo
trie light companies and trolley roads,
Mary Galusha and Sybil Goodrich, pro-
phetic Of the thrift and domesticity
which have marked the capital and ey-
cry community in our state. 1t COM
tanned also, for legal and prudential
reasons, the name Of one who belongs
to the millions who come and 90 with
The years, like grass, but whose COM
bined work grinds out the story of the
nations and fixes their place. / refer
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