Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-11-10
THE SONG OF ruE vrnMoNrrns. :

Ho-uI to the borders Vermonters, come down,
With your breeches of deerskn, and jackets OF
Ai brown;
With your red wooden caps, and your moccosns,
To the gathering summons Of trumpet and drum
Come down with your rifles let grey wolf and
Howl on in the shade Of their primitive rocks;
Let the bear feed securely from pig-pen and stall
Here's a twolegged game for your powder and ball.
On our South come the Dulchmen, enveloped in
And, arming for battle, while cnntng of peace
On our East, crafty Meshech has gathered his
b band,
To hang up our lenders, and eat out our land.
Ho--all to The rescue For Satan shall work
No gain for his legoDs of Hampshire and York;
They claim our possessions,-the pitiful knaves--
The tribute WE pay, shall be prisons and graves
Let Clinton and Ten Brock, with brides in their
hands,
Sill seek TO divide us, and parcel our lands -
We've coats for our traitors, whoever they are;
The warp is of fcatherS-the filling of tar!
Does The cold Bay State threaten' Does Con.
"a gress complaint
Swafns Hampshire in arms on our borders again
Bark the war-dogs OF Britain aloud on the lake
Let EN- come; what they can, they are welcome
= to take.
What seek they among us' The pride of our
wealth
Is comfort, contentment, and labor and health,
And lands which, FreemeD, only have trod,
Independent of all, save the mercies of God.
Yetwe allegiance; we bow to no throne );
Ourruler is law, and the law is our own;
Our leaders themselves are our own lellow-m men,
WHO can handle the sword, or the scythe, or the
pen.
Our wives are all true, and our daughters fair
With their blue eyes of smiles and their light flow
ing hair;
All brisk at their wheels till the dark even fall,
Then blithe at the sleigh ride, the husking, and
IS ball! Nt1
We've sheep on the hill sides; we've the
a plain; t...
And gay tasselled corn-felds and rank growing
There are deer on the mountans and wood p-
geons fly
From the crack of our muskets, like clouds on the
. sy' ,li ff" HE
And there fish in streamlets and rivers, which
take
Their coursei from the hills to our broad bosomed
lake.
Through rock arched Winooski the salmon leaps
And the portly shad follows all fresh from the sea
Like a sun beam the pickere gides through his
pool,
And the spotted trout sleeps where the water is
cool,
Or darts from shelter of rock, and of root
AT the beaver quick plunge, or the anglers pur-
suit
And ours are the mountains which awfully rise
Till they rest their green heads the blue of the
- skies;
And ours are the forests unwastrd, unshorn,
~ Tho, Ill 4 a.. -,
And though savage and wild be this climate of
erf ours, .IN r-
And brief be our season of fruits aud of flowers,
Far dearer the blast round our mountains which
raves,
Than the sweet summer zephyr, which breathts
az. slaves.
Hunra for VERMONT for the land which we till
Must have to deend her from valley and hill
Leave the harvest 10 rot the field where it
grows,
And the reapng of wheat for the reaping of foes.
From far Mchiscous wild valley to where
Popsoomsuck steals down from his wood crcled
.,,fr fair
From Shoctcook river to Lutlerlock town.
Ho-all to the rescue Nermonlers, come down
Come York come Hampshre,--com traitors and
knaves
If you ule DER our land ye shall rule DER our
graueS
Our vow is recorded-our banner unfurled
In the name OF Vermont we defy all the 'cOrid
THE political history of Vermont is full of in
terest In 1862, New York. by reason OF an extra
ordinary graft of Charles II TO the Duke of ork,
claimed jurisdiction over about sixty townships
of which grants had beer given by the Governor of
New Hampshire, declaring those grants Illegal
An attempt made to dispossess the settlers, but
il was promptly resisted. In IVA New York pass
ed a most despotic law against the resisting Yer
moniers, and the Governor offered large reward
for the apprehension of the celebrate Ethan Allen
and seven of his assocaIes. The prescribed per-
sons in turn threatened to "kl and destroy any
person or persons whomsoever that should be &C
cessary, aiding or assisting in taking any of them"
See Aliens Vindcation, p. ID Blood was shed at
Westminster Court House, l775. Vide r. Jones
Narrative. In 777, Vermont declared its indepen-
dence New York still urged her claims and at
tempted to enforce them with her militia In 1898,
New Hampshire also laid claim 10 the whole State
of Vermont Massachusetts speedily followed by
putting in her claim to about two thirds of IT, Con-
gress, poweress under the old Confederation en-
deavored to keep on good terms with all the parties
bot ardently favored New York. Vermont remon-
strated warmly. Congress threatened. Vermont
published San appeal to the candid and impartial
world "-denounced Congress, aud asserted its own
absolute Independence. Notwithstanding the threats
offered all sides, the contest terminated without
much bloOdshed, and Vermont was admitted into
the Union in 1871, after existing independent
sovereignty for nearly fifteen years. Williams
History of Vermont, &c.
Hon. Meshech Weare, Governor of New lamp
shire. Inr
tGov. Clinton of New York and Hon. A. Ten
Brock, President of the New York Convention,
SThe New York sheriffs and those who submit |
ted to the authority of New York niten rough
ly handled by the Green Mountain Boys. The fol- |
lowing is from the Journal of the proceedings of
q the Vermont Council of public safety Council of
Safety, I'd Sept. I777 "----i is permitted
70 return home, and remain on his fathers farm,
land III found off exnect ihiru lnshes of tha