Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-08-30


public tunctionary," Ostend manifesto,
southern sympathizer, and all in Yer
mont no word was heard Of secession, not
one. But if Vermont is proud of her
votes for her favorite candidates for the
last twenty years, and believes if they
had been elected the country would have
prospered all through those years, and
would to-day be free from her troubles;
if she is proud Of her votes for all her
candidates up to the last election, what
shall say of her feeling regarding her
vote at that time-her vote for the hon
est, the noble, and the good man, for the
one, who can "put the foot down firmly"
for our present Chief Magistrate-ABRA-
HAM LINCOLN. (AppIause) Vermont
had set her heart on his election. But
supposing either of the other candidates,
Douglas or Breckenridge, had been elect
ed, although no hearty cheers would have
swelled up those valleys, and echoed amid
those old mountains, although heads would
have hung in silence, shame, and sorrow,
still, even then, the bastard who would
have whispered secession" or proposed
to lower the old flag one inch, would have
been driven from the State and forever
branded a rebel and a traitor. Gap
| plause)
And when this war commenced, when
Fort Sumter was taken and the old flag
trailed in the dust when all true patri.
OTIS were called upon to raise it again
Vermont was ready with her men and
her money. This is a war in which for
some reasons it might be supposed Yer
mont would have as little interest as any
state in the Union. Cotton is not King
in Vermont. If the whole of Cottondon
were sunk forever, Vermont would live
on. Her sugar is reckoned by thousand.
of tons, her hocks whiten ten thousan,
hills, her children have been, and can b,
again beautifully fed, and warmly clotheC
by the products Of her own free soil
/ (Applause.)
The President has asked for four hun
dred thousand men to fight for their coun
try; Vermonts share Of them is ready +,
be enrolled tomorrow.
There is one popularity about Yer
monter, | believe he thinks lead one 0
the most precious of metals, and when 1t
brings his eye down along the barrel hi
whole care seems to be that the yer.
precious ball inside Is not wasted, and
wish to predict that the number struck il
+ proportion to the number Of bullets fire.
by Vermont will be as great as by an,
men in the service. | have sometime
thought that their great love and vener
alton for General Scott arose in part from
the fact that he is said to carry about hi
flesh some Of this precious metal. Gap
pause.) Another peculiarly about Yer
monter's is, that they never wish to sto
when engaged in a good cause until it
finished. Although it is a long journe.
and may be rough one, they wish t
carry the old Stahs and Stripes, and clos
along side OF them the old State banner
from the snow capped mountains on tn
Canadian frontier, clear through to tn
banks of the Rio Grande. applause.
Some fear that Old England will mi;
up in this affair, and that France MAJ
interfere. | cannot believe it, but if the.
E should do so, aye and all the whole worl
should combine to crush US, should GU
beloved land be oyerrun by untold mil
/ lions, when every other flag shall hav
been humbled, the last star spangled ban
! ner will be found floating from the to
/ of the tallest pine on the summit of som
lofty Green Mountain, and the last Vel
monter with his trusty rife in his han
, will be found dead beneath it, his last wa
? cry as the first, for God, Liberty, an
Union, for 'the Great Jehovah and tn
Continental Congress" (Applause.)