Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-10-27
RUTL AND HERALD.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1864.
Remarks of Mr.. Dorr Of Huinnd-
I'm House Of Representatives Oct
Ia 1854.

resolutions from the Senate TO the fol-
lowing effect "That the people OF the
State of Vermont have seen with pride
and satisfaction the noble manner In !
which officers and men in the volunteer !
service of the United States from this
State, have discharged their duty to
their State and country, and they take
this early opportunity, through their
Representatives, to express to them their
high appreciation thereof and to con-
graduate them upon the glorious record
they have made, of suffering and perlls
patiently endured, battles fought and
victories won.
b That the patriotic and gallant conduct
of Brig. Gen. Stannard since the out
break of this wicked rebellion, and par
ticularly the brilliant manner in which
he handled the division under his COM
mand in the recent battles at Chapin's
Farm, near Richmond, have eminently
entitled him TO the kind consideration
of the General Assembly and of the peo-
pie, as one who has deserved well of the
Republic. ......r...
That the Governor of the State is here
by requested to urge upon the President
. of the United States the recognition of
those services by comforting upon Gen.
Stannard the additional rank he has so
fairly won" .... .......
Mr. Dorr addressed the House in the
following appropriate, eloquent and pat
riotic remarks: ...... FL.
Mr.. SPRAKER:-I cannot allow the
vote to be taken on the adoption of these
resolutions without expressing my
hearty approval of the sentiments con-
tanned In them as well as the purposes
contemplated by their adoption. am
glad that they have been introduced,
and presume 1t is as great pleasure
to every Representative in this hall as
1t is to me. | suppose, sir, that every
member of this body has some cores
pondent in some branch of the service
for the national defense, and apprehend
that the experiences of all, in reference
to what the patriotic soldier most earn
estly pleads for, is the same as my own,
and let me ask what is it, that in liv-
ing and pleading current pervades all
their communications, with those whom
they have left behind them? Sir, next
to the salvation of the Repubic-next
to the defense of the old and honored
flag, from the touch and contamination
of traitors hands, comes up to us the
prayer for ''nesos from home" In every
camp on every field, in the trenches, on
the parapet in the bays and CULTS and
on the sea, these messages come to us,
full of love and devotion and ask the
tidings which will be read and reread
midst tears of joy or sorrow as the case
may be, around the camp-f fires Of our
heroic braves.
ouf hui SIDES and our valleys as the rep.
resentatives of a truly devoted and loyal
people. Fresh from their hearthstones
and firesides we are imbued with the
sentiments and feelings of those who
i have commissioned US as their servants,
to act for the commonwealth. Know
Ing as do the warm and earnest patri-
Otism of the power which has honored
me with my seat in this body, am sure
that it will gladden. the hearts of my
constituents, as it thrills my own, to see
and know that the very first act of the
general assembly of our State, and on
the very first day of Its session, Is the
passage of resolution In recognition of
the brilliant and heroic services of the
sons of Vermont, who have gone from
among US, as the champions of a ma
lions freedom on the field of bloody
strife.
These resolutions express two senti-
ments feelings or emotions. The first
Is one of pride, and the second is one of
satisfaction. Pride at the noble manner
In which officers and men in the volun-
teer service of the United States from
the State of Vermont have discharged
their duty to their State and country
Sir, we are proud Of the record which
the private soldiers have made for them
selves and we are proud of the united
record which our brave men have made
and already transferred to the historic
page of an immortal future. We are
proud Of the record of our officers, CON-
missioned and non. commissioned, from
the lowest to the highest. We make no
distiction-but aH-ALL who have WELD
ed the sword under the loved banner of
freedom and unity" we embrace in
this our record of their glorious deeds.
And, sir, 1t Is In pride, not in the mar
row and selfish significance Of the term,
but in its highest, and purest, and no.
blest sense, we send back to our patri-
otto citizen soldiery, this news from
home, news that the commonwealth
hOnors her sons-news that their record
Is our record, their deeds of valor our
historic renown.
But sir, we are not only proud, but
we are satisfied. To the casual listener it
may not seem as expressive word as it
appears to me, but when we consider
what Vermont expected of her sons, with
what hopes and pride she has watched
their career, how amidst the storm of
81 battle her reaching vision has scanned
\ the marshaled hosts, and marked her
upheld banners, and amidst all this, re-
member that she has tried her soldiers
records by the undying achievements of
her early heroes, and now says that she
Is satisfied, we must be constrained to say
that we are sending them words which
mean the full and overrunnino measure