The Northern galaxy, and Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-29
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE SONG OF THE vERMONTERS.* -1779.
U,-all to the borders Vermo nters, come down,
With your brooches Of deer-skin, and jackets of
brown;
With YOUR red wooden caps, and your moccasins,
come
To the gathering summons of trumpet and drum.
Come down with your rifles let gray wolf and fox
Howl ON in the shade of their primitive rocks
Let the bear feed securely from pi open and stall
Here's twO-legsed game for your powder and ball.
On our South come the Dutchman, enyeloped in
crease
Aul, arIning for battle, while cantins Of peace
On our East, crafty Mesecht has gathered his hand,
To hang up our leaders, and eat our land.
Ho-all to the rescue (! For Satan shall work
No gain for his lcgions of Hampshire and York!
They claim cur possess ons, the piti(ul knavcs-
The tribute we pay, shall be prisons and graves
lie; Clinton and Ten Brock, + with brides in their
hands,
Still seek to divide US, and parcel our lands =
We've coats for traitors, whoever they are
The warp is of feathcrs-tle filling of IS
Does the e. old bay State - threaten Does Con-
grcss complain q?
,;warrns Hampshire in arms our borders again
Bark the Mar-dogs of Britain aloud on the lake I!
Item come what they can they are welcome to
tke.
What seek they among us The pride of our wealth
/ inf 1T, contentrnent, and labor and health,
And lands which, as Freemen, only have trod,
Independent Of ALL save the merces Of God.
Yet we owe no allegiance ; we bow to no throne
Cur ruler is law, and the law is our own
Our leaders themselves are our iellow-men,
Who can handle the sword, the scyhe, or the pen.
Our wives are all true, and daughters are fair,
With their blue ewes Of smiles, and their light flowing
hair,
Al brisk at their wheels till the dark eventual,
Thea bhe at the seigh-ride, the huskng, and ball
We've sheep on the hill sides we've COWS on the
plain;
And gay-tasseled corn6elds and rank growing grain;
There are deer on the mountains and wOod-pigeons
fly.
from the crack of our rnuske;s, like clouds the
sky.
And there's fish in our slrcamlets and rivers which
Their course from the hills to our broad-bosomed
lake;
Through rock-arched WnoOski the salmon leaps
free.
And the portly shad follows all fresh from the sea-
e sunbeam the pickerol gides through his pool;
;s spotted trout sleeps where the water is cool,
Or dart aom his shelter of rock and Of root
Al the beavers quick plunge, tie anglers pursuit.
And ou,s are the mountains which awfuy rise
Iill .ley rest their green heads oSthe blue skies
and ours are the forests unwasted, uushorn,
ave where the wild path Of the tempest is torn.
And though savage and wild be this climate Of ours,
And brief be our season of fruits and of flowers,
Far dealer the blast round our mountains which
raves,
Than the sweet summer zephyr, which breathes over
savcs.
Hu:-a for Vermont for the land which We till
Nus; have sons to defend her from valley and hill
Leave the harvest to rot the field where it grows,
And the reaping of wheat for the reaping of foes.
From far Michiscouis wild valley, to where
Pcosoomsuck steals down from his wood-circed liar,
From Shoctcook river to Lmterlock town.
Ho-a TO the rescue Vermonters come down
Come York or come Hampsbire,-come traitors and
knaves
i've rule Ger our land We shall rule DER graves
Our VOW is recorded-our banner unfurled;
In the name of Vermont we defy all the world ~
The political history of Vermont is full
Of interest. In 1852, New York, by reason
of an extraordinary grant of Charles Ill. TO
the Duke of York, claimed jurisdiction over
about sixty townships of which grants had
been gwen by the Governor of New IIamp-
Shire, declaring those grants illegal. An at
tempt was made to dispossess the settlers, but
II was promptly resisted. In IVA, New
1ork passed most despotic law against the
fermOnters, and the Governor offered large
reward Cor the apprehension of the celebrated
Ethan ALeH, and seven of his associates
The prescribed persons in turn threatened to
Eiu md destroy any person or persons
Whomsoever that should be accessory, aiding
or assisting in taking any of them See Al
ems Vlndicati n, p. 45. Blood was shed al
Westminster Court House, in Tvs. Vidc
H. Jones NdrrGtire. In 1777 Vermont de-
clared IFS independence. New York still urged
her claims and attempted to enforce then
with her militia. In l779, New Hampshire
also lad claims to the whole state of Vermont
massachusetts speedily followed by putting
IN her claim 70 about two thirds Of it. Con