The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-08-25
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WEfBRiDGE, VT. Aug. ), 1000.
DEAR MiNNEsoTIAN From the position
occupy amid the branches of an ancient will
low, having attained it by flight Of stairs at
the terminus of which floor and seats have
been nicely arranged, have view of Silas
Wright's monument, erected 10y the citizens OF
this town, near the spot where his childhood
and youth were passed. His was happy il
lustration of the triumphs of genius over OBJ
stacles rising as he did, from country plow
boy to become one of our nations mighticst
genius and talent? There is much food for
thought in the reply of the Green Mountain
eer to the Englishman's intcrrogatory as 10
" what could be raised on such poor soil?"
Why, sir" said he, eve have schools and
raise MEN!'' and better class of men, Yer
monters being judges, the world has never
produced.
The spirit inhaled with the morning dew in
this free mountain air by young Silas had a
direct and important Learing upon the brilliant
career of the illustrious statesman. History
records of Gov. Chittendcn, first Governor OF
Vermont, that it was his custom to sit at table
with his workmen, and serve them with his
own hands, his wife presiding. The Gus
tom of course became popular. Hon. Silas
Wright, in later years, when free from Con-
gressional duties, was accustomed to work
,cih his men, to wash from the same trough" !"
and with his wife to sit at the same board
And so it is still. l have watched it in every
department of life, men of most dignity of cha
racter, the true aristocrats of the country have
no greater pride than to assemble guests and
workmcn around The we'll filled board. The
parents Of the great statesman died not long
since, in the dwelling now owned by Mr.. Leon
ard Wright, but short distance from where
l write.
A few years since there was q remarkable
Gland slide" near here, on the bahk of Otter
Creek the bed of the river was removed, a
dwelling, with its contents, sunk twenty or
thirty feet, and yet all the inmates escaped un-
hurt a willow Tree is growing where it halted
in its course, the only relic Of the part remain
ing upon the spot
A little distance from the above is marked
a theatre of Revolutionary scenes. IL ITS a
marauling rarty of British Indians and Tories
invaded the quiet homes of the four families in
this vicinity, burnt their houses, killed theiI
animals, and took the four men and three lads
prisoners. The four wives and smaller chill
dren for eight or ten days occupied an out
door cellar in the vicinity, on the farm now
owned by Mr.. Samuel Wright, until our troops
came to their rescue. On this spot there is
proposed and soon to be built monument tt
the memory of those noble patriots whose deeds
have hitherto been unrecordcd, save in private
memorandums belonging to their defendants
One of these died in prison, at Quebec, three
escaped, and after long wandering reached
their homes the rest, after extreme suffering
were discharged in 1871. "Honor to the illus
trious dead ~
The snowy mansion in front of me, with it
spacious piazzas, has superseded the room!
old red farmhouse of my grandfather Wright
who, with the wife of his youth, the solace o
his life, sleeps in the small enclosure littl'