Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-07-14

absolutely iniolorable. They now hasicned to
execute the plan which they had for some
years been mediiating, that Of Transporting
themselves to the New World; where, ns
they supposed, they could, without formal
separation from the Churcn Of England, adopt
those simpler forms of worship aud Church
Government, which their views Of divine truth
required.
Mr. EVERETT then proceeded to give at con
siderable length detailed outline Of lc various
carly settlements on Massachusetts lhy, and cs-
pecially Of the early settlement Of dorchester,
with notices Of the individuals and incidents
connected wiihi. This portion Of Tho Grafton,
as it is mainly of local interest, we omit AZ
ter this Mr. +. proceeded
On the 10Th Of April the all-imporunt blow
was s,ruck--,he blow which severed he fated
chain whose every link was boI,ed by an act Of
Parliament, whose every rivcl was closd up by
an order 10 Council, which bound to tie wake
Of Europe the brave bark of our youthful for
tune destined henceforih and forever to ride the
waves alonc--ihe blow which severed tlat ialod
chain was struck, which will be felt in its con-
sequences TO ourselves and the family Of nations
ill the seventh seal is broken upon the apoca-
lyplic volume Of the history OF empires. The
contamination Of four centuries was completed.
The lifelong hopes and heaTt-sick visions Of
Columbus, poorly fulfilled IN the subjugation Of
the plumed tribes Of few tropical islands, and
the distant glimpse Of a continent; cruelty
Knocked By the letters placed upon his noble
limbs by his own menial, and which he carried
with him into his grave, are at length more
than fulfilled, when the new world of his dis
coyery put on the sovereign robes Of her sepa-
rate national existence and joined the great Pa
na,henaic procession Of the nations. The
wrongs Of generations were redressed The
cup Of humiliation drained to the drees by the
old puritan confessors and nonconformis, victims
Of oppression-lo -loaihsome prisons-blasied for
iunes-lips forbidden 10 open in prayer-earth
and water denied in their pleasant native land
tho separations and snrrows Of le,--the
sounding perils Of the occan-ihe scented hedge
rows and vocal ihickeis Of the ''old countrie," !"
exchanged for a paihless wilderness ringing
with the war whoop and cleaning with the
scalping knife,--,he secular insolcnce Of colon
ial rule, checked by no periodical recurrence to
the public will,-govefnors appointed on the
other side Of the globe, that knew not Joseph,
the patronizing disdain Of undeleeaied power,
the legal contumely Of foreign law, wanting
the first element Of obligation, the consent Of
the governed expressed by his authorized rep
reseniatve,-and at length the last unutterable
and burning siIront and shame, mercenary sol
diery encamped upon the fair eminences OF out
bles, mOofed IN irUis Vt vr;r~uoer .ibsjs -
artillery planted, open-mouthed, In our princi-
pal streets, at the doors Of our Houses Of As
sembly their morning and evening salyos pro.
claiming TO the rising and the setting sun that
we are the subjects and they the lords, all
these hideous phanioms Of the long colonial
night swept Oh by the irsl sharp yoey on Lex
ingion Green.
Well might Samuel Adams exclaim as he
heard it, "Oh, what glorious morning is
this - glorious, but as is too often the case
with human glories, the germ and the fruit oil
sorrow, sanciifed with tears and sealed with
blood. Precious lives are 10 be sacrificed, great
trials public and private to be endured, eight
years of war are TO desolaie the land patriot
armies are 10 march with bloody feet over ice
clad fields, cloud OF anxiety must hang over
the prospects Of one generation Of the young,
while another Of the aged go down TO the grave
before the vision is ful6led-bui still glorious
at home and atroad-glcrious for America, and
strange an the word may sound glorious even
for England, Lord Chatham, rejoiced that
: America had resisted Surely Lord Chatham
never rejoiced in the shame Of England he re.
joiced that America had resisted, because she
resisted on the great principles Of constitution.
: al liberty. Burke, in the early stages of the
: conies, spoke these golden words 1--WE view
the establishment Of the British Colonies or
principles of liberty, that which Is TO render
this kingdom venerable to future ages. In com
: parison Of this we regard all the victories and
conquests Of our warlike ancestors or of oul
: own times as blrbarous and vulgar distinctions
in which many nations whom we look upor
with little respect or value, have equaled if no
exceeded us. THIS Is THL PECULIAR GLORY oI
g ESeLAsD" All the victories and conquests o
: our warlike ancestors or of our own times
I Plantagenets and Tudors-Crecy, Poitiers
b Agincourt; Dunkirk and Calais /; Jamaica ant
Gibraltar; the Cromwells and the Blakes, ihI
: Williams and the Georges; the triumphs o
: Marlborough at The gates Of France, the thun
: ders Of Give on the banks Of the Ganges-al
: in Burke's judgment, barbsrous distinctions
i vulgar fame, compared with ''the peculiar glo
: ry'' of founding Colonial Empire on the prin
7 cples Of liberty
y Of the great events which Influenced the re
), suit of the Revolution, few are more imporian
than that which took place within our limits
G At Lexington and Concord the great appeal Il
) arms was irreyocably made. As the alarm O
C that day spread through the country, the mel
d of Dorchester FASTENED to the field they stoo
!; side by side with their counlrymeu from ever
: part of New England, when the great question
|. Of The capacity of patriotic militia 10 conien
= with veteran troops was decided al Bunker Hill
IS But the occupation of our heights produced
c distinct strategic result not inferior in impor
y tance to any other in the whole war. ], wa
f. literally UieoIla sine Glade noble victor
IF achieved without the eiIusion Of blood.
ID But there is another circumstance whic
r must ever cloihe the occupation Of Dorchesie
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