Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1848-07-14
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The keen demands OF appetite.'

The Marshals were at their osts-dnd nOtrhere else
and soon conducted the assemblage to the hospita-
bic and generously supplied tables Of Messrs. Brown
and Bostwick, where a company of some SIX or seven
hundred sat down, and fared-at dinner and dessert
as the guests OF their establishment always fare ere'y
day-" sumptuously."
The cloth removed, toasts and sentiments Were an
nounced, and we regret to say, that we are enabled to
communicate but few even OF those prepared for the
occasion. Among those preserved are the following
TIE day IRE Ceiebraie.
Let it always be honored according to the prophecy
of John Adams.
The state If Vermont.
IT'S a noble nursery of free hearts and manly indie
pendence. Her history is the record OF unremitted eff
fort to restore humanity its rights.
" Ay, there's a glorious remnant yet,
Whose lips are wet at Freedoms fountains,
The coming of whose welcome feet
Is beautiful upon our mountains"
The memory of Geo. Washington.
The SURFING heroes Of the Rero1ution.
A remnant of a band of patriots who perilcd all for
Liberty in its most comprehensive and unqualified
sense. May time deal gently with them and then
country gratefully remember them and may their
children yet inherit the substance, for which they
fought, bled and conquered.
1he days n orr ReroiuiiOn.
The seed-time of Political Regeneration ; its crate
full harvest is now ripening throughout the world.
orr Sister RePubi,c q beHa France.
legions OF Kins-craiRt.. 'She needs liz "n"s DEFY the
her martial proves for all the world khS 10 prove
Frenchman can fight. Let the world now understdiH.
that under the banner OF Liberty, Equality and Fra
terni,y, she can achieve greater triumpiis, than she
ever did under her tri-color.
The memory Of La FayeHe!
The Flag Of orr Union.
"Flar of the free hearts only home,
Rv angel hands to valOr given,
Thy stars have LIT the welkln dome,
And all thy hues were born III heaven
Forever float that standard sheet
Where hrcuihes the foe but falls before US,
With Freedoms sail beneath our feet,
And Freedoms banner streaming Ger us
The President Of he uHitca States.
Our .irmy anil Nary.
I,lqnd and IiShmen.
Alas, for their Country-her fame has gone by,
And that spiri, is broken that never would bend,
Ger her RUM IN secret her children must siEl,
For lis treason to love her, and death 10 ueichu'
"Ihe good time coming."
Who will prophecy for twenty years hence! !
needs no prophet to ioresee that in that time Nionoi
chies and Kings, Emperors and Mobiles, Princes an
Po,entates will be an obsolete idea and III forty u
far,hest. they will only be remembered to be despise
as a relic OF barbarism.
Pririlegei Orders.
The very name implies weakness. Let them n
longer be sustained on the shoulders OF s,1uter mel
The back of a true born Yankee never yet carrie
such a load.
A homestead mhich The lar mdl not alternate.
One of the best guarantees for the iulflment of ever
legal and moral obligation.
THE fee-simple tenure to The hills Of Vermont.
We acknowledge but one better
Gee simple and simple fee,
And all the fees in tail,
Are nothing when compared 10 thee,
Thou best OF iees-tc-Inule!
The regular toasts having Peen disposed OF am
,he Hon. David Read who made a short ana eioque
speech, and guve as a sentiment
THE Constitution ofhe Lnited States
T., all times TO come. let it stand as a sacred Mon
men, around whose altar, all parties and ages a
scots of our Union, shall meel lOseliici ""u "o''''P
By r. e.. Johnson
Tbe Orator of The day, and his Orat'on'
This sentiment, was responded to BY, three UNI
cheers for each. Mr.. Barber acknowledged Tue col
piment in a handsome manner, ana ga'''
Right and Liberty.
o,.. ,h.r o,s,i,u,ions-mor sacred than laws a
more enduring than parties; oohsutu.lon' ~" ~
md narties should yield to their supremacy
cd. Kasson Esq, being called upon ILL.,, 'rIi
comnany in "a neat and humorous sprecl' cotninn,
mo he officers of the day, the committee ~ ai'au5
men,s and the ample table which our hosts h"u s"'
for the festive occasion.
By Col. +. Fletcher, Marshal OF the day
THE Chiuenden County All Of Juiy CcteOrai"
May true patriots hereafter never be wanting
sound the trumpet Of Freedom on the walls OF J'
cho.
BY Hon. J. II. Tower.
John Mitchell-The martyr son OF Erin. FOR a
ing TO assert the Freedom we this day celebrate, IA
doomed to felon- toll and chains in a convict colony
Great Britain. -,
Whereupon three groans were given for the u
eminent that thus doomed nm
Nv Gen. o. Shaw, Marshal OF the day,
Free soil, free speech and tree lneh-all hecess
10 The institutions Of Freedom.
By Mr.. Isaac Castle.
The Free born sous cf America.
Nav they plant a free flag on a Tree SOIL wii'hei
yer he dominion OF their Country EXTENDS, =.
'Wanv other toasts were volunteered. whlch p"
M, handed in, all receiving the cheers OIL Inc coNhp'
and appropriate music from the band. Ln.h
The audience separated al an early houf, uelsn
n, having ENJOYED once more the ~iestiNl''es oi anu