Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1856-10-01


were on the mountain in the after
noon and al the Island House in the even
ing, and were under the direction of the
CT ISIS Of fiity-seven OF Amherst college, who
had previously given an invitation 10 the Sc
NOR class class of Middlebury cole 70 to be
present and participate in the exercises Of
the day The uniayorabe appearance of
the weather in the morning made the attend
been but there was goodly number present
and everything passed off with entire salts
faction. We were unable to be present on
the mountain and therefore procured o re-
porter, who, judging from the appearance
of his report, has been faithful TO his trust
We give the Grafton of Mr.. BoALT from
our reporter which of course is in condens-
ed form and may not 10 all cases do justice
to the orator. The speech Of Mr. CoBB we
give entire. A procession was first formed
at the Island House headed by the Bellows
Falls Cornet Band, whose music added
greatly TO the interest of the exercises in the
afternoon, and proceeded TO the summit of
the Mountain. Below we give the proceed
iagS as furnished by our reporter.
The exercises on the mountain commenced
by Music by the Band, after which pleas
ing farce was enacted, of which we give
brief sketch. Mr.. Boalt was presented to the
audience who was to announce the name Sc
lected for the mountain, button ascending the
granite platform was accosted by one pur-
porting TO be New Hampshire man with
perhaps you are assuming more than you
have a certificate for. | am New Hamp-
shire man, and would say that this mountain
belongs to us. What right have you from
Massachusetts, TO take the liberty TO name
our mountains. Il belongs TO us. If we
wish them named we can find suitable
name, and can apply that appelation as we
choose. We take pride in our mountains
in their wild rock-crowned submits, and
PERCEPTIONS sides. We love their wild scene
ry and the free mountain air and we can
name them.o
] Next comes gentleman from Vermont,
saying that Vermont was not without its
claims, that they, too, loved its rocky heights
that gazed down into their own green valleys
That their breezes famed its brow, and
placed as it was between them and the gran
lie State, they too, should have voice in
It's NAME
Next comes son of Erin with his claims.
Sc Sure an what are We dom with the hill,
an'-an' what are We doin with the hill
Sure an be jabbers, the hill is mine live
on the hill-an' the hill is mine ] come
over from Ireland--swate old Ireland-and
come to the hill. An did We go TO the
praist. an --an did you go to the praist, aad
did he tell We that We might take the hill
Away with ye All go way wild ye-say
an did the praist tell ye TO take the hill Wild
We.
VOICES Yes" yes he did"
IRIsaMAs--" Sure and did he--take the
old hill wild ye-ye blackguards an'-an' I'd
not want il at all, at all--take the rocky old
hill wild ye."
Next appears man purporiing to be from
Texas, who speaks of his own fiower-strewn
! prairies, and the balmy evening breezes. But
oh how destitute Of the varieties of natures
scenery-of the heaven-piercing mountains,
and the free air that fans their brows. He
loved his prairie home, but still the wild
scenery of New England was never without
its interest. There was in name some
thing that told nation character and ma
ton history and could one be better applied
on the present occasion than that which tells
of the red man, the child of nature-he who
once called these broad fields his own, but
now has mingled his dust with theirs
Then appears from the thicket the rep
resentation of the red man, who rears him
self among them like the stately pine, and
: glancing with eagle eye around, says
White man, thy red brother would speak.
He claims the hill for his own Not many
: times has the sun set in the western sky,
since, on yonder plains, the red man chased
the feet-footed deer Where SO peacefully
L sleeps yonder village, once curled upward
J the smoke from his wigwams There where
the white man drives his iron horse, once
u roamed the red man free. Where now glides
: along that crystal stream he once padded
his light canoe.
That tree but few DAYS since was fresh
7, and preen with life. but now il has wi,bered