Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-08-02
the Wharf by the &" Ethan Allen Lancers, -
Capt. Flanagan.

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Perhaps the Governor will call upon som
other State to make Colonel for tho Third Repi
nent What pity II is, that our manufacture 7
can make cur own war carriages and our citj
zens can't furnish single officer of SO hicb
grade as Colonel. Poor Vermont, The de seen
dants OF the Aliens, the Strongs, the Bradleys
and the Sargents, have to march into battl
clothed with foreign shoddy. oficered by foreigl
colonels, armed with foreign equipments, the
oaSsaSe borne on foreign horses. and the
sick and wounded carried In foreign ambul ,nces
htted with foreign mattresses. Alas fer Vcrm on
When her rulers think she can furnish nothing bu-
naked privates and subordinate officers"
The Cdledonian takes the Journal across
the knee in capital style:
In regard to the wagons mentioned in the
above article we will state, that the very last
OF June, and after the Second Regiment had
lett the State, information Was received by
the Governor from the War Department,
that wagons would be required, and ruth The
tcdS possible delay. The Governor gave the
matter his immediate attention: sixteen
wagons for the second regiment were con-
tracted for at Concord. n. Ii. made entire.
Ia The most thorough manner, painted and
Varnlshed, In e!yf working days, and not Il
moment too soon, as they were Indispensable
TO the proper equipment of the secoad re.i-
ments, which only awaited movement into
Virginia until the wagons should arrive. -
An order was also given for sixteen more
wagons tor the third regiment, and in sCren
| days they We're completed, making thirty
two wagons completed in tifte-n days, and
en- route Tor the seat of war before any Yer.
mont or Massachusetts, shop, we venture to
| say, could have collected and nrepared the
material Tor their manufacture. Massachu-
setts has procured many Of her army wagons
at Concord, although there are many wagon
manufactures in Massachusetts,, and her
| people are sensible enough to approve the
act OF her Governor in procuring the wagons
where they could be made in the least pos
sible time. 1t may be that some two or
three 'ono horse wagon makers in Mass..-
chusetts have thought that the movement Of
the army should be delayed two OF ;aloe
months to give them chance to line their
pockets but fortunately for tn good name
of the old Bay State there is 40 WaltJn's
Journal there to give publicity t. such pue-
rlc and selfish complaints.
The Governor OF Vermont, in common
with all the official men OF the nation from
Gen. Scott down, who have been charged
with any duty connected with the war, has
been complained OF as being too slow-fr
whettng the war knife when 1t ought II BE-
plunged into the vitals of the enemy. But
here Is an instance where the Governor has
used the most commendable dispatch. Does
the Journal give nim credit for 1t No. at
all. That course would not clmport with
the evident vindictivo purpose Of that paper.
But not content with finding fault with
acs which deserve only approval, the Jon
nat, grown "lat and pursy' upon the State
printing. lays about right and left. with
sort OF reckless Independence which does
not comport with discretion, if, indeed. it
does with manly dcoency. What docs the
Journal mean by inSinudting that the resi-
ments are furnished with foreign horses '''
Does that paper tel ialschood with malice
aiorethcught, or has it again been imposed
upon by idle rumors? The Journal might
have known that not single morse has been
purchased out of the State Of Vermont.
And when the JournGi says our troops are
clothed with ''foreign shodIy," it utters
what it must have known 10 be utterly
false. The Goth for the uniforms was man
iactured IN Vermont, as the J0urRat well
knew; and that there is no particle Of
"shoddy'' in the cloth. is fact also well
known throughout the State. Why should
downright plump fllsehood be rcsJried to-
We can assure the Journal that it may ac-
co:npish its purposes of detraction and cal
umny with much less expense to its reputa-
ton. Its shrewdnes is not at all equal
its apparent inalignity. In these timos
when such vast responsible ities and duties
are pressing upon the Governor requiring in
SAINT and unhesitating performance, it would
not be singular if as immaculate person as
even the editor Of the Journal should occa-
sionally do IN act in the heat Of the mo-
ment which might not have been done had
there been opportunity for mature deliber-
ation-acts which a partizan press and
people prc-eminently and shamelully given
to grumbling might Cayil and find fault
about with some plausibility. Hence there
is no absolute need of lying unless one takes
to it naturally, and really can't help 1t,
development of dcpravity which we are slow
to believe the Journal has yet reached.
The only indication of good sense we can
discover in the above article, is the com
plaint that our soldiers must be compelled
to carry arms of foreign" manufacture
instead of the good old Vermont flint lock
fowling pieces, such as Ethan Allen and the
Green Mountain Boys of '16 were armed
with, and many Of which, perhaps enough
to supply an entire regiment, are now no
doubt idly adorning tho walls OF numerous
Vermont kitchens Why not purchase
these venerable guns. instead of Enfield
rifles, when ait would benefit their owners
and the community 50 much - Alas. that
the Vermont "blundcrbusses" must continue
IN unproductve incumbrancc of the kitchen
while the boys arc sent forth to fight
with nothing but rtled muskots OF ''foreign'
manufacture ..But what else can be ex-
pected of a Governor who - The re
nainder OF this sentence forms the usual
conclusion OF articles of this style, and may
be found IN almost any number Of the Bur-
lington Times or the Montpelier Watchman
q State JoWnaiI
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