Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-07-03
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LEICESTER, VT, June %.
My DEAR SIR:
A visit to New England-celebrated in
the early history of your country-has long
been my ardent desire and at length | have
been enabled to quit the busy hum and bus
tie of town to participate in the tranquility
of rural scenes and enjoyments. And l
doubt, Sir, whether another locality could
be found in the Green Mountain State to
surpass in loneliness and grandeur the spot
from which | write these hurried para.
graphs.
The beautiful and grand in Nature are
here combined. To the East, lovely land
scape, shut out by two mountains rising
green and grand to heaven; to the West,
the eye looks over the alluvial meadows
through which winds the lovely Otter Greek.
But Why need | describe what is evidently
characteristic throughout this charming
State. At the present season of the year,
when We are once more permitted by an
All Wise Creator of the Universe to r. vel in
the glorious sunshine of returning summer
to listen to the charming song-bir2s caroline
their sweet notes, which are borne on the
pure, balmy air,-and
80 see, on every painted knoll
Refreshed by many gentle rain,
Inc gra 8 1t waves of gree n unroll,
Or snowy bloom OF Autumn grain,
cannot, methnks, fail to gladden. the heart
OF the most depraved of our race
The house at which am at present dom
iciled is the house of my respected friend
(and relative by marriage) Mr. A. A. Swim
ington, an old but energetic farmer, who
bears the impress of belonging to the hardy
and patriotic race from which he sprung.
About twenty or thirty yards to the rear Of
this comfortable and well-appointed dwell
ing is the site of the birth place of one Of,
il not the most celebrated men of Vermont
| refer to that eminent divine and traveller
STEPHEN OLIN, ID. D., LII. D., late Presi.
dent OF the Wesleyan University. This la
! mented man of God and my hospitable rela-
tive grew up boys together, their fathers
occupying farms adjacent to each other.
Many an interesting story have / listened 70
from the latter respecting the early days, as
well as OF the travels, of DR.. DIN, which
says my host, are not 10 be found in the pub.
lrshed memoirs of this truly great and good
man. | may add here, that your excellent
paper, the HERALD, is welcome visitor a,
this house, whose inmates are anxious to OBJ.
tain aglimpse of the stirring news and cor.
respondence which fill its columns. "Stir.
rlng, did say, Sir?-aye, bloody news, o.
the deadly strife now being waged on this
fair continent Robbing the peaceful homes
OF New England OF her bravest sons, spread.
ing gloom and sorrow over the whole land
and estranging the people of the two creates,
| aud freest countries the world ever saw. As
a British Canadian, you have my deepesl
sympathy. Believe me, Sir, the people Of
Old England and Canada are not the haters
of your noble Union (whose shores they are
constantly seeking) that many of your iour.
mails would have the world believe. And il
ever war is waged between the two countries
which God forbid lit will be the result Of
the infammatory articles published in the
New York Herald, and papers of that ilk
whose an,mus towards England is as undis-
guised as it is villainous and undeseryed