The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-29


| thats all there is left of treasOn,-a sort Vi
chiyalric death. throe-the hauteur OF agony 10
that diving groan the wicked artist could not
paint. 70 make his .me immortal. The FOOLISH
| piddy suicide vii. run and Seek the oblivion y!
the vial or the wave-poieon " the pool. But,
there is no such obivious refuge tor treason anu
its homage paying worshippers Hunted rom
the busy marts of commerce, driven from the
workshops and tiresdes of industry, ana thrust
naked and hungry from the waving harvest
fields of happy husbandry, it goes now with us
idols, like I" IA guilty thing unon fearful sum
MONS" to the moors, the caves and the noun
tains to glut itself with spite and vengeance,
and with Its scavenger remnants OF chlvairy
and furnishing dupes of arrogance, to " wage
war upon human nature at large" We leave
them there.
Had soldiers no more patience than lovers,
swecthearts, and the unhappy victims OF that
g:een-eyed monster, jealousy, am not sure as
it would be safe to cOnfne our calculations upon
the duration of the war to weeks and months.
But we are patient. equal to the representative
man of that Christian virtue in the Scriptures
and this alone, with Little Macs generalship
will suppress rebellion. This patience, our
hasten-slowly advances, are like mle-stohes
upon the neck of the enemy. They know we
are coming, bnt not when, and the dread and
tea" incident thereto overcomes them.
To day We moved about ten miles, and to-
morrow shall occupy the ground Of cur advance
guard, which is only ten miles from Richmond,
while the advance will go on. how far cannot
say. No re- els have been seen on this road
since Monday, and then only two, followed close
by our cavalry. But, the soldiers talk of moth
ing but Richmond, Richmond Squire the dis
al ~. J, ,,,l,t BIO
that " we are 80 much nearer home" Yes, az
ter Richmond they have very nue.. to say about
home, ana unless they gay deceiyers, there
is store OF Joys and greetings for wives and
sweethcarts upin Vermont. They are not al
ways very choice in their language, when al
luding to the good times coming with their idol
tradas. Doxey > and :. dozze = are some of
their most finished and expressive love terms,
but there is as much heart and soul in those
unpolshed s1iiiersns, as you can fad in The
most polite circles Of drawing-room charms and
tascinHtions May they all i've to rea ze these
fond anticipasons, and their sweethearte, too,
Shall learn IL secret now, that soldier love is
no trali support tor beauty, love and innocence.
We marched yesterday through IL number of
large plantations, and saw the standing grain
and corn OF the quasi Phiistnes. We saw also
! their homes, and now and then the mother ut
| the vii dow, and the children on their play
grounds. The" white folks - of course well
eomed us, and talked good doctrine, still q
know it is wlcked,) | could not help thinking
that, though the people exult and seem rejoiced
1t our coming, it might please them more to see
US on a double quick, Bull run skedadde back
to Yorktown. There WAS no installing, how
ever, the ecstasy # their colored " help. Their
| Joy was earnest and unconfned. noticed one
lot in particular. | should say there were fully
thirty OF them hanging on the fence, and swing
ing ON the gates They were laughing, sing
ing, dancing, patins hands, and their eyes and
ivory never showed to better advantage. Talk
Ing and gasslng with the passing soldiers.
could SEE at once that their very hearts were in
their mouths, Yet could NOT catch their osds.
But one buxom, jolly" yaller girl, - who seemed
| to have the most to say, put her whole story
into one remark just as we passed her: .Oh,
boys, go ahead you $ Il driving EN- home Row,
and when you comes back you can have all DIES
girls, dat $ what you can - And how she
swung dem arms, and swecd dem rosy lips, and
looked like hub almost divine. Butwha, hare
that would De for the boys,-only think OF 1t
But did not stop to think long, for just then
| fell in with my Quxotc character, Uncle
Ira, and he had another ex,ravagant and extra
ordinary 1" tale to tell about one of our new
recruits. The fellows name was Thurber by
profession d Phrenologist, and in his way y
character, presume, AS success in the business
always demands such. Ever on u - tour" he
occasionally visited and drilled the good people
OF Vermont in the science and mysteries of skull
ography, and other branches of the fnc arts.
The war having drained the State of all tic best
subjec,s,--I mean skulls,-Thurber, laborinc
under the hallucnation that his talents would
be more fully developed by the profession #
arms, quietly enlisted, and in course of time re-
ported himself to the wood-tick forces of the
peninsula. and his name was duly enrolled upon
the muster book Of this Company Enos
Thurber, private, Co. ID 9th Vermont Now
Enos was very modest youth, his first re.
quest, after salute and congratulation with
the Captain, being for an army wagon to 90 for
his baggage left behind on some seaport town
on the York river. The Captains urbanlty is
ne plus ultra on ordinary occasions, such as
oyster suppers. town meetings, lobby room, or
Oh = descriptive lists y o. sick and absent SOL
ders. But this time the chronology, army
wagon and baggage. was little too steep for
the Captain, and forget VIVA. reply he made,
but it was not exactly Sabbath School exor-
dunn. We heard no more about the baggage
but while the cannon and small arms of the en-
envy were roaring and whIstins melody into the
ears OF our picket ana The camp forces surround.
Ing, | saw Thurbcr down Oh Il log. writing
home his experience presume, for it has ac.
cunulated very fast, if Uncle Ira tells me true
lie says that supper time came round. and when
Enos run his head against section of hard