Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-07-09
RUTLAND VT THURSDAY MORNING JULY 8 1868

"N '"t""StV uuilhS tue thllfe peflou OF llS
service until last January. 1t would be
impossible in the brief space we have to
pare, to do justice to his earnest eulogium
OF hls former comrades in arms. In the
battle OF fredericksburg, when the Second
Vermont was moving into action, said
COL Joyce, q cannon ball knocked six
men at once out of Co. A., but the line
did not halt for an instant, nor egsa bend.
He would not have been ashamed had the
whole world been witness of the heroic
conduct Of the Vermont troops in all the
battles IN which they have been engaged.
Col. joyee's eulogum upon the Vermont
volunteers called forth loud applause.
Z. OUR VoLvsrKERs.-They fight in defence of
OF nations liberties, may they be honored by a
nations gratitude
Capt. c. r.. Crane, who was called up
on for response to this toast, not being
present, the next toast was read
6. THE UxIos.-It must and shall be preserved
Hon. d. Il. Nicholson of Wallmgford,
beng called upon to respond, remarked
that the selection was fortunate one. as
no speaker could spoil the sentiment of the
toast. The Union must be preserved be-
cause it was valuable, and sacred valua-
BILE for the security and peace it affords to
all who hive under it, and sacred as being
the gift of the Almighty to highly favor
ed people. The Union could not be pre-
served by promoting divisions and dissen-
sionsfn theiNorth; by arraylng national
lty against nationality the foreign against
the native born; sect against sect, and
clan against clan. Party must beignored,
and will be ignored by the truly patriotic.
No matter said he, where a man has
come from; the enquiry should be where
has he come to. In 1910 there were only
$40 aboitionists in the State, and he was
one OF them, and had never changed his
views, but much as he loathed slavery. he
was for saving the Union, whether slavery
went down or went up for slavery is sec
nonaI ana opnemeral, and must inevitably
pass away sometime in the future, but the
Union was made for all time, and must
stand. He was particularly severe upon
the copperheads, and said they were the
llneal descendants of Benedict Arnold, and
until the natural laws of propagation We're
miraculously reversed Or changed, the race
will not become wholly extinct Let them
have their run, and receive their reward in
the detestation of mankind. He said the
Republicans could not have sustained the
administration alone, and he thanked the
loyal democrats, like the distinguished ora
tor of the day, for the aid they had rem
dered the government in this time of peril.
" IhE SpffERHEADb OF 00.-'' SuCn FeptllGS
are they, such miscreant slaves, that the worms
will cen damn them when laid in their graves"
Hon. M. G. Everts responded, saying
he supposed he had been designated by
the committee for that purpose for the
reason that the sentiment needed no elu-
cidation. In strain of humorous remark
he SAID the first knowledge we have of the
copperhead he slipped into the garden of
Eden. He was not certain that the gar
den was fenced, but if it was the snake
would have crawled in under the pickets.
He offered Eve the bait of some nice look
ing apples, and she, much to the regret of
all her posterlty, took it. A short time
after that, the copperheads got such control
of the world that it became necessary to
have a deluge. Why in the name of hui
manity Noah picked his snakeship up,
and put him in the ark, Mr. Everts did
not know. He felt that he could never
forgive Noah for that IF make mis-
takes in chronology, said Mr. Everts,
trust it will be forgiven "A voice-''all
right so far, 60 on" Much merriment.)
Well, then, the next instance of noted
copperhead was that of the son of one of
the patriarchs either Abraham, Isaac or
Jacob, and he guessed twas Jacob. He
meant Esau, who sold his birth-right for
a mess of pottage, just as the modern cop
perheads are doing. But there was this
difference between Esau and the modern
copperheads: he got his pottage, but, God
helping US, the latter never will get theirs.
Copperheads put Joseph into the pit, and
sold him to the Ishmaehtes. He next ap-
peared in the person of Judas, who sold |
his Lord and Master for thirty pieces of |
silver Judas probably went out and |
hung himself because he was not paid in |
copper instead Of silver.-He also made