Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-01-23


was of those who met and rolled back
the high tide of the confederacy on the
slopes of Cemetery ridge. The story has
often been told, / shall not now even at
tempt IT, but so long as the rcpulsc OF
Picketts charge stands I'm the annals of
history the jrirt taken by Stannard $
Briuadc will never be forgotten. 1t has
been at once the wonder and admiration
of military students for nearly fifty
years.
STOOD At CRUCIAL POlNT
At the END of the first days lighting
Lieutenant clarke stood at what was to
he the crucial point in this great contest
He faced the next morning an enemy
flushed with victory and ready to grasp
It's fun fruits when the captain of his
company fell MORALLY wounded, he him
self though wounded by the same shell
refused to leave the line, but took COM
mand of his company which was among
the foremost of those to execute that
famous order which preclpitated an at
tack upon both the right and the left
flank Of different divisions of picketts
onrushins force To have been witness
to those scenes and a participant in those
was the high privilege of him whose
memory We meet to honor tonight
On his return to Vermont, Lieutenant
Clarke resumed the practice of law here
and in Rochester. In October 1851 he
was captain of one of the companies
raised after the raid on ST. Adams, and
in the same year received appointment to
the staff Of Governor Paul Dillingham;,
1.
from lSij to 1861. first assistant clerk of
the Vermont House of Representatives
In 1865 ne tool, editorial charge of the st.
Adams Daily and Weekly Messenger,
which papoT ne subsequently purchased.
This is not the occasion to follow in de-
tail his busy and useful life in his native
State as editor, and member Of the state
Senate, upon commissions, and in many
other departments of activity during the
next ten years. They We're years in
which he accomplished much and wrote
his name high among your forceful and
dependable men, His speech in the Sem
ate on November Is. 1>74. on the consti-
tutioual power of the State to regulate
railroads. particularly in the matter of
/ forhiddinc the issuance of free passes
and the then universal practice of rate
determinations has been widely crcu-
lated and often quoted.
PROPHECY OF THINGS TO BE.
The bill in support Of which he spoke
was entitled an act to prohibit railroads
and steamboat companies from granting
free transportation to state officials and
others, except upon the business IF the
companies or in exchange with other
companies 1t is impossible now to read
/ his argument without giving it place as
| the last word on the subject, and hard
| to believe that it stands after all rs only
a remarkable prophecy of things that
were to be. | imagine, however, he was
! not surprised at the result, for at the
| outset he said he must in speaking nee
essarily consume an hour of the Senate's
valuable time. and with no expectation OF
| overcoming the predetermuatiou of any
| man" The vote stood, yeas, 3; nays. =.
| think in conversation, with me a.
least, he more often referred to this pc
! riod of his life than to any other, anC
I wish I might bring to YOU something
of that warmth OF enthusiasm with whicl
| he dwc't upon his experiences duriul
those Years. His descriptions. and esti
mates OF men long known to me, bu
whom | had never met. and his graph,
accounts of political contests on the Yves
side of the State, echoes of which ha,
come over the mountains in my boyhood
made an evening passed in his compan!
a thing long to be remembered
He first removed to Massachusetts il
1881, and with the exception Of thre
years in Rutland editor OF the Herald
, during the remainder Of his life main
tanned his residence in that common
wealth,
There he engaged in business and in edi
f torial work, notably on the Boston Dali.
Advertiser and later was assistant to tn
president of the Boston x Lowell rail
road
WITH HOME MARKET CLUB.
In 1889 he was elected secretary Of tn
Home Market club Of Boston, which pa C.
he held by annual election for - years
or up to the time Of his death. OF all hi
numerous positions his name vii
probably be longest associated will
this organization. He became a recog
nizcd and acknowledged national author
ity in all matters connected with the tar
if and the protective policy. m 1899 h
was appointed by President Mckinley
member Of the United States industrial
commission, of which body he later be
came chairman, and edited its valuabl
and exhaustive report.
He represented the ninth Norfolk dis
trict, while a resident Of Wellesley. in III
Massachusetts Legislatures Of 1896, lS9
and 1898; was chairman and member O
important committees and the author o