Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-07-19

White and Blue" wreaths, ctowns. and
large, elegant banner bearing the flag and the
motto " Liberty and Union, non and forever,
one and iHseperobie." Following these was
company Of forty-four veterans Of 1912, all
full Of the spirit Of the times, and ready to Of
fer the remainder Of theirstrength, il need be.
for their country. They received beautiful
and touching tribute from the orator, and ma
ny tokens Of affection from the people The
officers Of the day and a long line of citizens
made up a magnificent procession, Il spectacle
we shall long remember. It was emphatical-
ly glorious day with us and those who have
done most in conducting the arrangements for
the occasion feel amply rewarded in the con-
scousness that they have done something to-
ward inspiring the hearts of the people, in
these times of peril, with the great ideas and
principles Of our government
PLUoK.-The Washington correspondent
Of the Boston journal gives the following
instance Of Yankee pluck among the Southern
chivalry:
"a young lady, nineteen years or age has just arrived
m this city her home from Alabama where She has been
employed as teacher and has kindly favored with
an account " her journey Finding that she could not
longer stay az the South because She came from the
late of Washington, she started and reached Manass-
June M g
from home. She went TO General Beauregards headur-
ters IN obtain pass and received fat denial She
begged bug in vain She promised to take am oath not
20 speak 81 what she had heard she received
this reply; "G0u know too much you can 40 through
This reused The spirit Of the girl and she reped "Weu
sir, shall go home f have 20 BY the way " New
Zealand 20 get there" Size had provided herself with
revolver and now found occasion TO use IT, Her trunks
bad been broken open, while she absent the
brave General BcauroRard and fellow undertook
"ln them Wherenpon with great ooolness she drew her
revolver and told him that her trunks would 90 where
she went he graoeless coward offered no further op
p"sn she had nothing TO do but 70 teracc her steps,
take journey Of two thousand miles back 10 Alabama.
thence via Chattanooga Louisville Cincinnati Wheel.
ing, Harrsburgh, Baltimore 10 Washington.
She saw great many old acquaintance rom Wash
tngtoh 40 Manassas. She travelled through the camp,
made close observations and smoke of things freely
ley have bacon and huur in abundance bat 10 sWretch
eddy cooked--thc -four being wet up with water Some
o. neg acquaintance, who were the pink Of society in
asmnRion, are rusty enough in the secession camp
ne rebels have made great preparations for defensc-by
hrtastwotks batteries filling trees digging nit falls and
N,Fe'"k mem with brush. Inc intelligence which she
give conhms reports received nom other sources. IL
may reasonably be inferred that lady who has received
these ndgu'ues from the hands OF the chyaly quite
A. anAiou as the troops 20 hear The word forward"
gwen by ihe Commander-n-Chcf"
THE UNroN.-Ilon. Jefferson Davis, le-
ing among the passengers on board the shin
Joseph Whitney, from Baltimore, bound to
Boston, on the 4th of July. 1913, he was
called upon to make an address, and com
Piled We give from the report Of the har-
anguo the following extract
" lhis great country will continued united Tnning /
politicians la the South 10 the North or in the West
may continue TO tak otherwise but it will be- Of no avail
They are like the musqitocs around the ox-they an
nov but they cannot wound and never kin There was
common interest which runs through all the diversified
occupations aud Sagious pi.lu q. Of these sovereign
states htte was common sentiment OF nationality
which beat H efey bns0u there were common memo
res sweet 70 ms ALL and though clouds had occasionally
dakcncd political sky the good sense and the good
ceiling Of the people and thus farRrerted any catastrophe
Destructive Of our Constitution and Union. II was IN
fraternity, and an elevation OF principle which supe
nor 90 sectional or individual aggrandizement that The
foundations Of Union we're laid and il we the prcs-
ent generation, worthy Of ancestry we shall
not only protect those foundations from destruction but
'ud higher and wider this temple Of liberty, and in
cribc perpeiuity upon is tablet"