Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1858-08-13

PARsoN WOOSTER AND THE BATTLE OF
PLATTsBrRcH.-The Burlington 7inaes con-
taincd, the other day, highly commendatory
notice of painting by Mr.. jerome Thomp-
son. Ia NewYork Artist, who has been spend
ing while at the Bostwick House, and max
ing sketches Of our Mountain scenery, } which
it describes as follows
The scene is laid on the Camp Ground, at Bur.
| llngton giving, with remlrklble fidelity, the su-
perb prospect tlat opens from that locality. The
| mastering Volunteers, Of all conditions hastily
equipped, each in his own fashion, are in the act
oil emoarklng. Some are already their way
across the lake. Conspicuous among them ALL is
the venerable "Parson WoosrER" of Fairfield
who it is remembered, on that eventful Sunday
morning, announced from the pulpit to his startled
auditory, the Of the approach of an invading
enemy, and briefly commanding them and the
Country to the God of BATTLES, dismissed his con
gregation, called for volvriecrs and nusket in hand
led them to the encounter. Every man in this adj
mirable picture is " bred and born" Vcrmonter
as was happily remarked by Judge Pierpoint of
Vergonnes, and no work of Art could have juster
claim upon the t5B2 Gn5 9f f Of kGfRR
(enarged to a suitable size,) would be in the NEW
CAPITOL, at Montpelier. The event, assuredly, is
one that ought in some such manner to be COM
| memorated, especially as the last who participated
in it fast passing away We cannot doubt that
the growing taste and patriotic feeling Of our peo
Pe, Jus' pleasantly Illustrated IN the erection of
ao.vm. Ior;S,a, ~ I.nah Ai4eni u'u sustain inc
y5nsv belongs VIA tbo II 50 'o
The St. Adams Messenger responds to this
appeal by the following exposition of some of
the historical inoccur,cIos oftho nictnr, and
| of the descriutiOn
The readers of the Times in Franklin
county will be a little surprised at the posi-
tion occupied by "Parson Wooster of Fair
field in this picture, and Nill call in question
the correctness of the incidents connected
with his raising company of volunteers
who were at the Battle of Pldttsburgh. The
"eventful Sunday morning found Parson
Wooster" and his noble company of volun-
teers ready mustered on the battlefield and
in actual service, which could not have been
true if the statement in the Times was cor
rect. And then the volunteers from Frank
lin county, of which there was large num-
Der, did not go to Burlington to cross the
lake, but took the nearest route possible for
them to arrive at Plattsbury in season to
have hand in driving back the invading
army. They crossed the lake some twenty
miles north of Burlington. The true history
of tie Rev. BENJAMIN Wooster's connection
with that important transaction, will place
him in as conspicuous a position, as he occu-
pies in the picture as described by the Times.
The first intelligence which led to the ar
ming volunteers in this county, and hasten-
ed them to the field of conflict, was received
ON on fres%en The meeting qay' tuesday sept
Mr.. Wooster mns,iv left Fairfield on the 7tb
reaching Plattsburgh on the Sth or 9th as
sney lound means 70 get over the Lake. 9th
and verv few ahlcd.bodi:d men cans carobis of
bearing arms, were found at nome in these
parts, ABOUT those days lhe danger was
enemy sncccaJad in atm ossa.sinn t' nf tbo
Lake, the territory bordering its waters,
would be speedily overrun and laid waste
parnIrti atSUi "oStgt, Ii in Tnoio veins noweu
conspicuous part in those eyentful times which
tried mems souls, was not a man to look idly
on when danger threatened his beloved coun-
nosition in tho gre,t bistoric33l naintinr ~
which the Times refers; but there is no need
OF fiction to add to the strength of the facts,
Vi which 1;n mere are any numeer oi hVihs w't-
time rceognized Mr. Wooster,s claim 10 he
remembered, by sending to him splendid
copy OF the Bible by special messenger, ac-
Craph iettag anunndr nr3 rVn O is'PiS' ~ um tuoo
vices at the Battle of Plattsburgh.
the painting besides that mentioned bv the