The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-09-12
From the Herald of Freedom.
Letter from the Editor.

PLYMOUTH, N H., August 12, 1914
must say word to the readers of the
Herald, this week from home. And
would say, that | was from home at the
issuing ofthe paper last week. as was the
publisher-to account for any mistake in
typography, that may have occurred when
we were neither of us there to see TO the
proof. A word now ofnarrative of occur
rences, which is always more interest.
ing and, useful, than any attempt at some.
thing wiser. Occurrences are The things
that make life,-the realities of human
life,-that "strange eveutfuI hislory.'-
Whoever tells any of them, simply and
truly, does an entertaining work. We
left home Thursday the 9th, at IL, A, M.
in stage,-I just emerged from sick bed
and from (but for what shouldn't have
emerged at all from the bed as know off
the WET SHEET. Iname it in capitals fol
its capital virtues. was in high fever,
and full of pain-and utterly restless
In the midst of it,lhey wrapped me, from
head to foot, in sheet wrung out in the
coolest well understanding me like a
mummy'--and over that a blanket, and
over the blanket comfortable, so called
falsely. In ten minutes | sunk into a
most graceful sleep-from which wax.
ed in Two hours and half, wholly free
from fever and pain,-threw OF my en-
veopes, -bathed bravely in cold well Wa.
ter, from head to foot,-dressed,a and aban,
doned the sick chamber. | mention this
for the benefit Of whom it may concern,-
and would say to any who may have fe.
yer and pain, -lhat ifthey wish TO get rid
of them let them wrap in the net Sheet
If they want to keep them-and die-let
them doctor"
As we were hating in the Concord
streets for passengers, a discharge of cam
non announced The arrival of company
of Butchers, faom Wobnrn, Mass. They
were not the butchers that kill the calves
and wear the long white trocks.-but
human butchers, with parlicolored dresses
on. They had come to visit the Concord
Homcides. They marched into the
streets as we sat in the stage. They had
some hateful looking things in their hands
hollow at the ends-with knife blades
fastened TO them, and the foremost OF
them carried long baked knives. They
were moving after savage kind of mu.
sic, made by blowing in trumpets, and
beating on hollow drums, A hard man
rode noble looking horse, side ways, be-
fore them as they went by. This was
military, | suppose, but it seemed to dis
tress the horse greatly. Close by the
Homicide leaders, 1 discovered a grea,
fat priest. lolIing along,-one of those, that
go by the name, in these days, of minis
ters Of the gospel of Peace. There he
was keeping a sort of half-time to the
savage music, and counting one among
the band of the Homicides. He had no
gun, or knife in his hands, nor trumpet,
Tor drum stick. | couldn't see any thing
for the great, solemn fellow 10 do-un-
less he prays for them. They say the
Homicides have one 10 every band, 10 do
their praying. They Highland he prays
for luck. 1t was horrible sight and made
me heart sick for my kind. l was re-
ieved when the stage drove out OF the
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evangelical racket.
Reached here at s, P. nj. The Penn
igiwassett Valley all of a deep green
the trees flush with leaves, and the mead.
ows dark with verdure, although it is but
just past hay time. The late rains have
made it look like Spring, There ism!
lovlier little valley, after all any side the
sea l have been, or in any land, than this
same Valley of the Pemigiwassett. No
clearer stream slrays from side to side of
any wide meadow-and no bluer hills
sentinel any low lands, that pile 10 the
skies, 10 the northward ofthis sequestered
hollow. Inever saw it show finer than
now. The sun was taking its last look,
as we came in sight ofit Aide of remem-
brances once more flowed over me, as Il
passed by scene after scene, of earliest
boyhood, Large trees that were sapIings
almost when used TO climb them. An
old fishing brook, that had only changed
by growing smaller, from the clearing Of
the woods up near lis sources. In other