Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1860-12-07
AN EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS


AN EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS
Delivered By Joshua .Sdacyer, Esq.,, on tile
4M Of July, 1912, at ce'y large
County assemblage, at the viUage Of
Hyde Park.
THE CONTRAST.
Yorktown, in Virginia, proved the
grave of the British army in America.
On the 10Th day of October, 1871, the
enemy capitulated to General Washington,
in which the Marquis de Lafayette shared,
in condition 80 deplorable, as to resist
ance and efficacy, that they were objects
of compassion, rather than resentment,
and could not be called more than nominal
parties to the terms of the surrender.
They were wholly under the duress of acor,
and evidently not effective as to resistance.
Lord CORVALLIS, brave and experienced
Britton now stood before the american
CtncipatuS, the humble suppliant; and
much to the praise of our ooNQUERING
HERO, he sought the honor of his country
more than personal subserviency from his
opponents. Inferior minds might have
required more humiliating terms and de-
grading ceremonies; but his god-like
mind never felt, though it often was, he
never felt relief, from the dependency or
degradation of his enemies, when no adj
vantage to his country could be reaped
therefrom. The requirements he made
from Lord CORVALLIS, in his surrender,
were advantageous to his country, exalting
to his own character, and generous to a
fallen foe, and such as, being the last act
of the mother country, and the first of
her offspring in independence, gave assur-
ance to an admiring world that bravery
and generosity were to be anticipated in
the composition of our national character,
with which great things could not fail to
be accomplished, and without which little
could be expected.
Upon this event, that is, laying down
the British arms at Yorktown, America
stood without rival, or without foe in
freedom, except her crest-fallen progeni-
tor. Ours was union, confidence, and joy !;
theirs was dtSaaion dSstruSt and Sorrosc.
Ours was to model human institutions for
the benefit of mankind theirs to renew
the clinch of their rusty and distorted
manacles. Hosannas and praises resounded
throughout America; while sackcloth and
ashes, and rccrimination, infested the land
of our then recent foe. Our country then
appeared like pleasant young giant,
full of bone and MUSCLE" theirs like
feeble old man, shorn of leg and arm
In this country the condition of man was
to be regeneratcd and alleviated in theirs,
to be additionally oppressed and burthen-
ed. Here our maiden fields held their
rich fruits for the owner and cultivator
there the gleanings alone remained as the
reward for him that toiled. Here exuber-
ant nature was to be pruned and subdued
there a sickly plant fostered. Here an
asylum was opened to the oppressed emf
grafton of the world there the native
born subject to be held and restrained
within the kingdoms range, by severe pen
alties, imprisonment and mandates. Here
there was way left open to improve upon
all human institutions; there they were
doomed to live and die under the worst of
their own.
NoTE.--MR. HOWARD / hope that no person |
will imagine that share of the misfortunes fixed
by the above article upon the mother country at |
the time Of the severance, has actually fallen upon
any part of our own Although they, NAV sur |
mise tendencies, let them wait a spell, with our
sanguine aspirations that the Sun of Righteous |
ness will yet arise with the healing BALM OF UNION
ana FREEDOM In his wings. j. s.