Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-04-17

The Vermont congressman.

The Vermont congressman.
A writer in Walton's Daily Journal,
speaking of the election Of Congressman
from this State next September, and highly
commenting our delegation in the last Con-
gress, tells the following interesting incl
dent OF one Of them:
No one knows the amount of disnterest-
ed labor they performed for the needy Yer-
monters, save those who enjoyed their gen.
erous service. A soldier was lying sick in
one of the hospitals Of Alexa, dria. He
was beyond cure-the surgeons told him it
was no use TO get discharge, for death
would discharge him before he could get
home" He got comrade to write to one
of our members of Congress. Why"
says the surgeon, "do you imagine Con-
gressmen can look after every soldier who
gets sick 2" You cannot expect men,
ber of Ccngi ess 10 look after your case es-
pecially, certainly" said another. A day
passed. The second day came, and with it
a pelting storm. The poor boy tossed
YEARLY on his couch, and looked at the win
dows with gloom in his leaden eyes and with
"A voice as dreary in its monotone as the
dull patter of the rain on the roof, kept
murmuring: No, he won't come to-day,
and perhaps not at all /" Visions of home
came up before him-that acild longing for
one more look into the dear face of ''mother,"
that hankering" for one more drink
from "the home WELL" and the awful dread
of dying in a hospital, alone-these were
what filed his mind.
A carriage drives up covered with mud
"a man jumps out, firm tread sounds
along the hospital floor, and the dying boy
hears his name spoken by the surgeon, and
his cot pointed out. In moment, the Com
gres man is by his side. A few questions
aud careful look at the sick boy convinces
him what is to be done.
You can do no more service that is GER
tain. You must be discharged"
But the Doctor says l cannot live TO
reach home; want my mother to come
here, but did not know but you might get
me moved 70 Philadelphia-perhaps could
go so far-and then try again."
Well, | will tell you. Tomorrow you
shall start for home. Vermonters don't die
so easily. You are worth dozen dead
men yeti
The next day, true to his word the Con.
gresham had procured his discharge and
procured him transportation home. That
boy still lives, but had it not been for the
humanity and zeal Of this Congressman he
would, in all human probability, have died
in gloomy hospital. This is but one Of
the hundreds of like acts done by our Con-
gressmen, And while all this personal
kindness pressed on them, and while they
were doing so much for ,ndividaals, they
were performing their duties to the Gov
ernment in manner to benefit their coun.
try and gain for themselves lasting honor.
Among the members of the last Congress,
none stood higher for true worth, integrity
and u7efulness, than did the Vermont dele
CATION. One of them will have no health
to serve again, but Baxter and Morrill, caa
and should and ,ciN be returned. The in
telligent people of Vermont will not fail to
remember the services they have performed,
and they will be slow to trust TO inexperi-
enced hands duties that have SO well been
performed by these experienced servants Of
the State and Country.