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LUKE P. POLAND was born in Westford, Vermont, November 1, 1815. Having received an academical education he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1836. In 1839 and 1840 he was Register of Probate for Lamoille County. In 1843 he was a member of the State Constitutional Convention, and in the following year was elected Prosecuting Attorney for his County.
Adrien had received a letter that morning, as she knew, one having been brought up to her by mistake. "Very likely," she said imperturbably. "I daresay he had to attend to some business too." "Adrien is very changeable," Vermont said reflectively, "one can never count on his movements; following him is like wild duck shooting, down the river on Monday, and up the Fens on Tuesday.
Perhaps to the hills of Vermont and his youth, when no forecasting angel could have told him what could come to him and his country. Perhaps he knows now that free souls are better than free soil, since he never had much use for the kind of free soil that was shouted at him. This morning's paper has long dispatches about the progress of our troops in the Philippines.
"Has there been a luncheon party?" queried Mr. Vermont. "Yes, sir," answered Norgate aggrievedly; "Mr. Shelton, Lord Standon and Mr. Paxhorn." "And bridge?" murmured Mr. Vermont inquiringly. "Yes, sir; and from what I heard, I believe Mr. Leroy lost." "Ah," commented the other softly, "I fear Mr. Leroy always does lose, doesn't he?"
Pennington was still with the Third division, as was the First Vermont cavalry also. The four Michigan regiments were commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Stagg, Colonel Russell A. Alger, Major James H. Kidd and Major Henry W. Granger, respectively. The movement began at an early hour. The start was made long before daylight.
Jasper Vermont taken his departure, than poor Lucy Ashford sank on the floor of the shop, and burst into a flood of tears.
So strong was public feeling that Vermont in 1850 passed a "Personal Liberty Law," for the protection of negroes claimed as slaves. I., pp. 104-189; Schurz's Life of Clay, Vol. II., Chap. 26. Do not fail to read the speeches of Calhoun, Clay, Webster, Seward; also Lodge's Life of Webster, pp. 264-332. The North was now becoming strongly antislavery.
Horace Turner, a farmer from Wisconsin, who had migrated to that state when it was in its infancy, preferring its fertile plains to the rocky hillside homestead in Vermont, is the next to speak. He is sixty years of age, well preserved, temperate and fairly well educated. "I can quote no higher authority than the Holy Bible," are his opening words.
Crittenden who ran a wood-working factory up in Vermont, where I used to visit an old cousin of mine, and that was why Miss Oldham introduced us, that silly way, as cousins." He said, pouncingly, "You're running on, inconsequently, just to divert my mind from asking you again who or what Touclé is." "You can ask and ask all you like," she defied him, laughing. "I'm not going to tell you.
To this grand theater of hostilities, as interesting as they are terrible, we must now call the reader's attention. Joseph Reed, formerly secretary to Washington. Ethan Allen, then residing in the latter State, received large offers from the British to use his influence to detach Vermont from the Union and annex it to Canada. Of course these offers were indignantly rejected.
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