Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-07-09

that the reader of American history fif-
teen hundred years hence, when he turns
over the leaves, will detect sulphurous
odor upon the pages whereon the historian
shall have written the truthful story of
copperheadism.
10, THE DEAp OF THIS 2D WAR FOR INDEpEND-
HScE.-Their memory shall ever be cherished while
liberty has her votaries, and their heroic deeds
shall crown them with glory enduring as our own
everlasting hills.
Rev. Leland Howard responded. The
theme was pathetic, and touches every
heart, We moumed the dead who had
fallen in battle, and sympathized deeply
with the sick and wounded soldiers. The
dead of the first revolution had been sa-
eredly remembered, and their memory
would be cherished in the remotest age
and so would it be with the heroes fallen
in this second war for liberty and mde-
pendence. The soldier deserves eternal
gratitude; for the true soldier, when he
goes into battle expects to die; he goes
as voluntary martyr. Let the glorious
deeds of our fallen Green Mountain boys
crown these hills, and let us ever look at
that crown. We at home can treat the
copperheads as Michael dared not treat
the devil, but these soldiers have done
more than that--they have given their
lives and their all for their country
Those who have given themselves to their
coun try shall wear crowns eternally green.
IL. THE STARS AND srRIprs.-They are planted
forever when planted on the rock of liberty.
Responded to by Hon. s. M. Dorr, who
said the idea embodied in the sentiment was
the immortality of the stars and stripes.
Not spiritual Immortality, which lives on
and lives ever; but the stars and stripes,
when planted on the rock of liberty, are
planted forever, in that sense of INNER
taity which is co-existent with everything
material the sun, and moon, and stars,
and the earth itself, and all that our eyes
behold. In this view the sentiment is
truthful. Mr.. Dorr had read of little
girl who sat with her father and mother
as the shades of evening were stealing
over them. The moon was coming up
over the beautiful hills, and shedding its
mellow light over the fields. The mother,
inculcating lessons of early piety, asked
the child who made her. She answered,
" God made me, and papa, and mamma,
and the moon, and the stars - and the
stripes ~ And so say |, said Mr. D.
No more truthful and beautiful sentiment
was ever expressed than this of the little
child. And what God has made is in
destructible. When our fathers made
this government they made it for free
people, for a land of slaves. He
closed with the sentiment The Stars and
Stripes, come veal or come woe, come
victory Or come defeat, are planted upon
the rock of liberty, and shall be immortal
II. THE UNION LEAGUES OF FAMERIcA.-Danger-
GUS only to traitors, frghtful only to copperheads
Fl. w. Lester, Esq, responded. He
said that in peace every man owes allie
glance to the government; how much more
so in times like these when treason threat
ems its very existence, and sympathizers
with traitors in arms are in our midst. 1t
is time when every man is called upon
to show his colors. The members of the
Union Leagues make only the same pledge
that our fathers did in the revolution--no
more and no less. The Leagues are not
partizan in any sense of the word. They
are composed of men of all parties who
love the Union, and mean to defend it
against the assaults of treason. If it be
objected that they are secret, the answer
is that some secrecy must be observed in |
times of war, and when the enemy is in
our very midst. If there was copper
head in the room, and Mr.. l.. presumed
there was, as there was once one In Heav-
en-he would say to him that when he
hears the slogan of the Union Leagues,
better say his prayers, as he will not
know how soon he may be in purgatory.
l3. VERAoFT.-She fought her way into the I'm /
ion, and will never no never be fought out of /
it.
In the absence of the person
who had been designated to respond
to this sentiment, the President called upon
the Orator of the Day, Gen. Cochrane, to
respond thereto, who complied with the
invitation in the most felicitous terms. No
mere abstract can give any adequate idea
of the speech. Vermont, said he, did lit
orally fight her way into the Union. |,