Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-03-16
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committee Of three to repair to Arling-
ton and demand a solution of their pro-
ceedings, Capt Hyde being one of the.
committee, acted as chairman. Arriving
at a.hotel, they took quarters and address
ed very polite note to Col. Allen, re-
questing audience at specified time and
place. Col. Allen responded to the re-
quest and met the committee, and, for the
first time, introduced to Capt. Hyde. Af-
ter some preliminary conversation, Capt.
Hyde made known the action of the peo-
pie and the duty of the committee, and
demanded solution of their proceedings.
Col. Allen, in his rough manner, replied
that, it was id uniting for them to
know the secrets of the council that they
alone were responsible for their acts.
Capt Hyde, as in the former case, placed
his side arms upon the table, sliding one
to the Colonel and demanded to know, in
behalf of the people, whether the retort
was designed as an insult, if so it became
a point of honor, to be settled at the ta-
BILE. ... .......
Col. Allen arose. placing one hand
upon the weapon, turning upon his heel,
and exclaimed, "ShaH attempt to take
the life of man who once periled his
own life with another man for my sake ?
No, by -, l WON'T" Taking Capt.
Hyde by the hand, he disclosed the full
proceedings of the council, to the full salts
faction of the committe and the people,
and from that moment, became enduring
friends
JABEZ FITCH.
In the early part of the present centu-
ry, man in Peacham by the name of
Barnes Bucminister, wrote and published
series of Nos. headed "Cosique's Politi-
cal Sermons" Those Nos. coming to the
notice of an old gentleman, one of the
pioneers of the town of Hyde Park, and
thinking them worthy of being accompa-
MED with hymn, wrote and presented
him (as near as memory serves the fol-
lowing lines, with request that they be
set to music and sung at the delivery Of
his sermon, and signed j. F.:
Democracy that odious thing,
That scourge of usurpation--
Excluding knighthood, lords and kings,
| All banished from our nation. t...
| Who would have thought, three years ago,
| This 'hideous, monster creature
Would e'er at this have degncd to grow
In VermOnt's Legislature?
| The seed produced on Upas Trees,
Grown on the Isle of Java; ...
Transferred from thence to foreign lands,
BY Brttain's royal navy.
| Cast from a ship on Pl moth s Rock, N.
| In sixteen bundled twenty;
BY Eastern winds spread far and wide,
| Ere seventeen hundred eighty.
The seed which fell on virgin SOIL
| Warmed by congenial sun,
| Took root produced its bitter fruits
In eighteen hundred one.
Watered by streams of jetted gas,
From Cosiqus's federal fountain
Like Jonah s Gourd, soon spread its veil
Ger all Vermonts Green Mountains"
This production being conveyed to tn,
gentleman at Peacham, it created q desir,
for solution Of the initials, which wa
replied to, something like the following:
"As the gentleman has assumed tn
character of divine, it may be presump
tive evidence that he is well posted il
sacred history, and also in modern, h
will read in the first book of Chronicles
tIV: 8 - 'Jabez, the man of sorrow
though blest of God :; also, from report
the name of Fitch, who first suggested
steam as a motive power and drew out tn
lines Of locomotive, which was subse
quently purloined. and became the fam
of Foulton; claiming neither the godli
ness Of the one, or the genius of the 9th
er, but combination of both names"
THOMAS PAGE
In the early settlements of the northern
towns of Vermont young man by tn
name of Page, from Massachusetts,, wind
!
, ing his way to Cambridge, VI, where h
designed to locate. Travelling in the us
! ual manner Of the times with horse, sad
die, and saddle-bags, which, contained hi
travelling ware house. and ladder, arriV
0 ing at Waterbury, he fell in compan
with a young gentleman and his siste
: on their way to Stowe, and they passed o
Q in company; the roads being then Ii
Q orally Indian trails, through the forest
/. Mr.. Page being talkative man, and ratl