Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-10-04

to the breeze within our boundaries, ex.
cept that of Revolutionary fame, the plo.
rious old Stars and Stripes.
The President called for $4,000 men
and the response was so entb usiastic that
within l5 days $4,000 true patriots Of
fered themselves in defense of our nation
al flag.
Noac civil war is commenced its end
none could tell. We had no army, no
navy. no munitions of war, no officers.
All the energies of the people were devot-
ed to the arts of industry,-not to those
OF destruction We were people of peace,
and little did we dream that full one.third
OF the men and women who owed allegiance
to the best government in the world had
turned traitors, with nearly all the gov
eminent arms, and munitions of war. ir
their possession and control Such was
our condition at the commencement of
this struggle. but we had confidence in
our rulers and reliance in our cause and
that God who is always fighting the bat.
ties of those who are in the right. Men
adequate to the emergency were seen COM
ing from every hamlet and officers whose
star of fame will never set, were made
from raw material, with these officers
and men we entered the contest. What
acontlct. what suffering, and thank high
Heaven what victory. Never before
were the pages of history devoted to such
a war, or the historian called upon to re-
cord such deeds of bravery, such incidents
OF human suffering, such acts of barbar-
Gus cruelty as have characterized this
great and last struggle for liberty. Woun-
ded and helpless men cut and mangled to
death. The noble son of your own, or
: your neighbours household tortured by
starvation, and slow poison until the very
skin became part of the bone and then
no relief till God in mercy should bid
e him hence. No tongue can describe or
: mind Imagine the suffering that has
e been endured by these martyrs.
: or picture the agony of fond faith
/. ers and mothers and devoted wives at
L, home, as they have anxiously and silently
e watched for tidings of the fate of loved
: ones far away on the field of strife, or in
the prison, ,dens of barbarous and fend-
| ish enemy.
c relivW ci'lHen' sometimes "hen l nave SAT
uo"n oy n,{ oNn q quleD hesioe' % anu reau ehe nc
counts VI Ihe suneIlngs anu pii'ations OF patrl-
, OTIS, and have allowed my mind to picture to it.
self the cruelties and agonzng tortures that ha,
p..n natod Pot ;noSu o IN piisoh ai'. 'hen
nav. nav ieneoVuu 'Ias IN oul o"h niust tnere are
faan - tha,r oonnt., n nv tn fno; pIooe 81 al
"t;ao W. NH 90 y" da anu y ~.
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pleans . paLLuo isnv pIiishnient' eI anu easy
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uoa ta' .ne pomer M Is IN .he hans oI that stauhch
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,as;aI aytpndeS and moro normanenty
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es.apiSneu dne uisioya, siates ae upen w '.u'
apoa Ti M rees,ahliah ;ndnstrv u oeae bs re}a
tnns VI aboT anS eapta sre Employment sVs Ito to
+ tSe tiU1 multitude Of uneasy shirts who are now
q .,ie ln"ie.uIG % MN tb world Nv Tho dilon
tnfow PenneSs snrcos "oi's s,l9v onoru as
II tion OF .ne ,nas ns Nor ana cnTas t;t pa1
s,oh, neai ,uo nS ,"rrerfn nass The wild dream of
: the hian'ie v, no' NV "''O ''e'D' VI
u ooufheih rnipiIe. .,e,a,
eresouie ,"eI1 ai r0,a,; conntros pasora
the SYSTEM VI ,h a ba" Heen d;y;das o,,, ;nto
araa tracts and nlantatons. and these tracts
large .Iacss anu hoao n,naS "n Nv ,ho rroaf
ana naNu a. ot IA o,, arar
anu rion iann,aos Uf V i;m;ted i'm edncation and no