Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-01-20
Fer the Neysdealer
Fer the NeWsdeaIer.
.LANsINeBuReH, N. Y, Jan. 8. 1864


when, or under what circumstances Gear
you tell US p it received the peculiar and
appropriate name of "Spunky." Webster
says spunk is another form for punk
touchwood-wood that readily takes fire. y
We all remember how essential an arti
Gle punk used to be considered before
matches were made, Gn house keeping) tc
start fires, and in the hunters kit; and
how we used to show the superior quality
of our Yankee jack knives by taking oul
flint and making the "sparks fly"
Lamoille may be called the punkyplact
in VT; and the whole state is much like
1.-THE only state that has clear record
to show in the present struggle, having
ta0o "banner towns" and right in her pc.
sition on all national questions, for the
last ten years. Still i recollect slightly,
picking flint few times, some years
since in punky Lamoille, and it took H.
tie in few places, between Fairfax and
Stowe; but in no place did it burn off the
river, | believe. Some people thought il
improper to set fires in those parts; fol
"Wampum" Douglas and other chiefs,
were holding pow'wow at the great coun.
Gil fire, and thought solehnly Of making
Lamoille, "hunting ground for msnhS. y
And the council so ordered, to the aston
ishment of even Indians, Hottentots and
heather generally; but the trap is down,
and the minks are all out and free Red
Jacket has sent his kife and flint to the
Lamoillians, and they are all on fire moao.
1t was truly refreshing to see the re-
ports in your paper, of the spirit in which
Thanksgiving was kept in Lamoille. 1t
shows that the offerings of the people on
the altar of religion, are not made in the
name of the god of slavery, if such an
abomination there be, in tho Internal
world
First pure, then peaceable," was the
theme of Bro Bartletts discourse. Yea,
verify; first extinguish, destroy and abol-
ish the corruption that has shackled the
limbs of black men and muffied the mouths
of achite men, and hung the National
Flag at half-mast; and then, and not till
then, can there ever be peace. That is
the fast the Lord hath appointed to let
the oppressed 60 Free and that ye break
every yoke: :. and thou shalt be cal.
led, the repairer of the breach, the restor-
er of paths to dwell in" .
10 the Presidents call for more men to
carry out the doctrine of first pure then
Vermont is not lacking. Her
quota is more than fill. But Lamoille
has the honor of passing the most unre-
served and patriotic resolution since the
war begun. 1t has no tinge of the "my
friends "-Horatio- Seymour Valandigham-
in it. Hear it, all ye peo-
pie: 1--WE will respond to the last call of
the President for 100000 more troops,
and will do the same. should he call for
100000 more, and will continue to do so
let him call for any number, however
large" Whoever penned that resolution
was no milk and (warm) water patriot !;
and the meetings that passed it, were mo
secession conclaves; nor are the brave
troops who go to the field herd of rebel
skedaddlers.
1t is pleasant to live in an age of pro-
gress. About a year ago, preached in
this place, as candidate, and picked my
flint again, and came very near closing
the door here, against myself, as have
since been informed, for believing in the
internally of the "sum of all villanies. :"
but one year has wrought a change; since
the New York riots, gotten up by northern
traitors and southern rebels, we hear of
the "logic Of events" &c. Even Hard
SHELF Democrats now say, "no end to the
war until slavery is destroyed" Spunky
Lamoille, 60 on your way rejoicing; it is
he break of day, of glorious time COM
ng. God speed the right.
FLINT & STEEL.