Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-07-20

of hostilites with England, the PEG pie of Yer =
mont then called The .Ne,c Hampshire Grants,
captured the fortresses of Ticonderopa and
Crown FONT and therein took one hundred and
thirteen pieces of cannon. six mortars, and three
hovitzers, good for service. These all passed
into the service of the United States, and the
people OF Vermont have received therefor no
compensation. This constituted the basis of
the artillery with which the war of the Revou.
ton was achieved. In 1776 little hut disaster
attended the American arms. In l777 General
Burgoyne entered the country, from Canada,
with his imposing army of INVASION the best
appointed and best furnished army, though not
the largest, ever landed in America. He cap
tured Tconderoga, opened the whole Northern
frontiers, pushed forward to the Hudson, and
spread CONSERVATION through the country. 1t
should, however, be remarked that he had some
proper appreciation of Vermont. In the pub
lished journal of his expedition as it advanced
viii be found this entry Of General Burgoyne:
"The Hampshire Grams, in particular, coun.
try unpeoped and almost unknown in the last
war, that is the oil French wdr, now abounds
IN the most active and most rebelious race on
the continent, and hangs like gathering storm
on my left" There was a depot Of provisions
at Bennington, in Vermont, and detachment
Of Burgoyne's army under Col. Baum was sent
to capture it, and upon this detachment this gath.
ering storm burst like tornado. Sir, | wish it
remembered that no United States troops were
present 1t was the people of Vermont, assisted
by their neighbors of New Hampshire under the
gallant Starke, AMI a few bold neighbors from
Berkshire, Massachusetts, who overthrow this
army under Baum behind their log breastwork,
and captured over seven hundred men, besides
the Killed and dispersed; and then it was that
they took these two field pieces. Did they not
belong to that people! But sir, they we're wan
ted by the country They were taken down to
the Hudson, and constituted part of the artll-
lery in the battles of Beamis's Heights and Sar-
utoga, which resulted i'll the capture of the whole
British army. They have been retained by the
United States ever since. Sir, the expenses OF
Vernon! in the Revolution have never been set
tied, a dollar of them repaid. Their efforts
at Tconderoga, at IIubbarton, at Bennington,
and even those of the last war, when Vermont
rose en- mass and went to the rescue at Patts-
burg, have never been adjusted or dollar paid
therefor by this nation. All now ask IS, that
you return to Vermont these two field pieces,
which you have kept seventy years, and now,
having worn out their carriages you have thrown
them aside as valueless, outside your arsenal I;
and there, sir, you may now see them, neglected
and corroding, but there is chselled on them
the precious memcnto that they we're captured
at Bennington, l777, This Government regards
them of no value. May we have them: Will
you remount and return them? To us Of YER
mont they are invaluable. We will put them in
the vestbue of our granite capitol, and they
shall be kept bright, in patriotic, filal, and CRATE
full remembrance of our fathers valor Again
ask, mag zee haze Mem2
The resolution was then read third time and
passed unanimously.