Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-10-19
STATE MILITIA AND MALTA LAW.


sion to direct your attention briefly to
the subject of adopting an efficient and
active militia system. The events of the
past year and the present threatening as
pect of affairs. render it especially prop
per that L. should again, and more ear
nestly, invite you to serious considera-
tion of the subject.
Vermont stands to-day utterly destitute
of any arm of defense or any efficient
power to resist or to prevent invasion.
The dangers to our northern frontier are
by no means inconsiderable, nor can |
with just regard for the welfare of the
State overlook them nor. in the light of
the evidence now in my possession, can |
justify myself in Withholding an urgent
appeal to the legislature to frame such
law as will place the State in that posi-
ton of security and afford those means
of protection to her people, without which
they are left exposed to the most wanton
and high handed predatory incurslons.
A prudent regard for the public interest
does not admit of my communicating, in
this form, all the facts in my possession
tending to show the actual dangers to
which. during the past year, the State
has been exposed. 1t is sufficient for me
to say that such evidence, coming from
authoritative sources, was placed in my
possession, and satisfied me that the peace
and safety of our border were seriously
threatened, and to lead to the adoption of
proper measures to prevent disasters
which would have been most serious in
their consequences to the entire communl-
ty. Nor are the dangers by any means
altogether averted. The more recent
movements upon the western lakes and
along the northern frontier are but evil
dences of thoroughly organized plans,
limited by no means to those special To-
calities, but extending throughout the
whole line of our frontier, mapifesting
themselves now upon the more easternly
portion and now at other and more remote
points along the western border, but all
partaking of the same general purpose
and bearing unmistakable evidence of be-
ing controlled and actuated by one mas
ter mind.
If there were ever a time when our
safety depended upon our vigilance, when
we'll organized aud efficient militia
would prove bulwark to preserve our
peace and 90 basis of defense against
threatened Invasion. and perhaps the only
means of averting it, that time has, in
my deliberate judgment, fully arrived.
would therefore respectfully recon-
mend the passage of an act providing for
an immediate and proper enrolment of
all the arms bearing population of the
State, with proper provisions for exam
nations and exemptions; from the num-
her thus enrolled, such number of regi-
ments, brigadcs, and divisions to be Or
ganized, armed and equipped as in your
better judgment may be thought expcdi-
cnt.
GETTYSBURG CEMETERY.
Soon after the battle of Gettysburg in
July 1862, the plan for locating a place
for the interment of the remains of the
heroes who fell there in defense of the
Union, was originated. In pursuance of
this design, arrangements were made by
the Governor of Penn. for the purchase of
the land necessary for. the purpose, and
with view to make it national in its char
acter, correspondence was opened with the
Governors of the loyal states having SOL
dicrs lying on the battle field, and their
cooperation invited.
To secure for Vermont a suitable lot
and the more carefully to superintend the
disinterment and re.interment of the fall
len soldiers from this state, on the 23d
of Oct. last, | appointed Col. W. G. Yea.
zey agent in behalf Of the state, with in
structions to proceed Immediately to Get
tysburg to discharge the duties assigned
him. The report of Col. Veazey is here
with transmitted for your information.
The total number buried in the cemete.
ry form all the states, is 3,5l2, and from
this state 81.
BoUHTIEs FOR RE.ENLIsTED SOLDIERS,