St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-10-11

often has been the case with others, been as
.ob1ioed to retrace her steps or to say Ok
that the thrift of to-day was PAID LOT ny -
anv diminution in any one of the safe- ~
Guards bv which the liberties and lives Ii
of a free people are maintained. ~
HISTORIC LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS. ii
There have been 80 regular and eight II
snecial meetings of the Legislature at :,
MONTPELIER but of these none are ihore .
interesting historically, perhaps IMAM THAI c
which convened in 1896 to consloer lhe
equipment, subsistence and transportation
of Vermont troops to the Spanish-Amer-
lean War, and the greatest session OIL all
in our history, that of April %, lSol' III re-
1ation to public affairs as affected by inc
War of the Rebellion. The session OF 1853
lasted two days only, in ratltylng the
constitutional amendment prompting
slavery, That of 1861 lasted five days our
long enough to prove conclusively that the
men of 81 were chips of the old Green
Mountain Bows and ready, although prep
arations in the State were meagre enough
to respond firmly and for the whole war
to every demand. Vermont voted prompt
1v that she would do all in her power to |
: maintain the Union into which it might be
said she had forced her own way IN tne
early days. The first-born State was true.
The LEGISLATURE required only 4S hours TO
. vote one million dollars for war expenses,
without distinction of party, and TO aod
> 81 per month to the governments $l3 LOT
: each private's pay. Benedict, the hlsto-
: rian of that period, affirms that Governor
II Fairbankss proclamation for this as
: semblv bore even date with that of Presl-
u dent Lincoln and antedated by day. ao
% least that of any other governor. IL IS
10 ;mnossib]e to rehearse here the story OF
70 that war. which has since been told so
y often. but one Of the great events, great
u and enduring for all time to come in the
- history Of the last century, was the pres
es ervation of the American Union. Vermont
'n NAV Justly have credit and take pride
d. in the fact that it's battle flags at the
le State House symbolic the doings and the
re- va1or the sacrifices and the deaths of II
regiments. three light batteries and three
he companies of sharpshooters in all 3i'Vo'
el7 But. alas, all this made a most slgnlll-
w. cant difference and it was hard and cruel
Ell task to readjust the work, the loss Of
lily the contraction in farm values, and, abov'
Io0 all, the loss of men, killed or Wounoeo
las But to all this was added the call and tn
'ile response for an emigration from Vernon
into other States both in New Englan
and throughout the West. You educate
as the best men you had in your own stat
gly universities and academies and they TOO
the themselves to other markets for the e.
ec- ercise Of their capacities and a CORES
all, bonding opportunity. You reared u
'ial, finest women in the world and either yot
lich own sons took them off with them or the
ople were wooed elsewhere until for half
elf century the population of the State stoc
day still and even now it is only beginning
own en- low a favorable growth under the inf
,ele- anca of new industries and arts and II
i of immigration due to the development
, of snecial industries at certain points. Y
this n is a inst and true verdict that the peri
nave which followed Vermont in the Civil w
mes, was as good repetition of reconstruct
oing as that which followed its admission as
This State, different in the character or
last forces at work through the world at lar
lcoln hut alike in it's demands upon the PEG
has for thrift. for economy, for courage,
lican LOYALTY for individualism, for persiste'
being and for rugged character. 1t was 81
re in and noble period, out of which by the
ense, trtions of time and death we are
{ it's passing and to which we will soon
nix of Welding our memory only. for its ac
there. will have passed away. But when all
ly as has been said and told in song and We
sis or in story and address upon WHICH
vents monts claim to star in the nag VIII
eeded pied, the doings of the soldiers IN inc
nd to War and of the men, women and chile
c and behind those soldiers will pass in reN
lonest once again and all voices Oh all men
d true here or born again here Will JOIN III
t hope ing God bless the star that never sep
'olitics MoNTPELIER's CENSUS.
- There was recently taken a censu
Nfontnelier by order of it's common
CO. - oil It's population is to-day 1913, OF
pa" tir,es greater than it was in 1906. 1t
SIT +airs 11S houses and 1913 families.
- frrtber roported that of this popul
81 I on wore horn in foreign countries
'Ps vi OF were born in other States, tot
md yet 2,AI' OF 81 pei eeAS ~, +bis q
culture nationallties repiosens .S'.,. os A,oo,
If legs+ are 10 in NUMBER +
:. r,as those who were born subsequent
If coun- second seilei a'io,A - a.,.,,r+ "a Z
ering to which the Ailiei ioai9 4a 100 or
essional 50 per cent Inc iiA0,A ne5 or
regard cent. and the flenon Thoso I
on and cent, IN largest iui, .s4 i, +ho cha
so by a disclose the sle'' 81 ,oi,,o on in
practice of city popuiatloii ~" - go ewes to
need, as ent parts OIL Seiiiioi,' ., ava in c.
ian prin- us that IN spi'e ~ dronao+er If
as made these changes Ill 'iio 80 co 10
not, as ton, TINS mas OH