Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-04-25
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Letter from Kansas.
GENEVA, KANSAS, March 26th, lsGt

GENEVA, hANSAS, March 10th, 1866.
FRIEND WILLARD You have had q heavy I
frsshet in Vermont this Spring, and have
had light one here. Yours was, perta aps, the |
most defiant and destructive, but the material
llr yours had been accumulaling on the ground
10 every snow storm during the winter, while /
The material lor ours fell in single night
mostly in a single hour. In the morning all
.he streams we're unfordable, and travellers,
wherever they nappened to be, found themselves
varerbound The Neasho river continued to
rise f5r IS hours, from to inches per hour.
Now the ground is thoroughly soaked. 1t has
Eli il can hold and more too. In level places
and a vast deal of the land is level here-the
water covered the ground and stood quite deep
90 the surface, for the earth was surfeited with
water and could drink in more. The pros
pect Of drought this summer is, Just now, de-
cldedly dismal.
Campers had woful night of it that night.
They had to skedaddle from ;her camping
places in the timber, along the creeks and riv
ers in a hurry.
Ovel On Jhe Nerdisris some travellers we're
4vsrtakeu by the stream, which had oveItiowed
Its bsnks- and WAS spreading Itself out Ell
thei side IN defiance Of everything that came
I'D It's way. and they mad barely time 10 let loose
tneir horses and cIimo for safety ne
wagon, under the cover Of which they had
been quietly mapping wher- the shower came
up, tJaJed off down the river, minus horse
tesnlsteT-
There was much feeling entertained and ex
pressed in political circles Presidents
late remarkable speech, here as well as every
where else. TAe UGionsts are 10th TO believe
that the principles for which have been so
long contending and which mas cost much
treasure and blood should be surrendered to
to the enemy now that they are fairly won, and
by Z mag waom they have voted 10 put in pow
er.
ll4ay still hope that things not SO bad as
they seem, and many determined to
meet the issue boldly and fearlessly. In Bur-
Iington, a nsighoorng town, few evenings
since an informal meeting called for the
purpose of raising a company of mounted men.
ii the militia service, be composed entirely
of discharged volunteers. More than hall the
requisite number Of names were secured the
hrs5 evening.
A. showing the spirit which actuated these
men We need only TO refer to their series of
resouto, :. drafted at their first meeting, and
adopted without d dissenting voice | wish |
had room 70 copy them entire. They affirm
that having shown their devotion to their cOun-
try by something more than lip service, they
shall look back with sternest disapprobatiou
upon anv attempt OF the President to fost up
on the country galvanized traitors FIR Senators
and Representatives 10 our national halls OF
legislation, anu clothing them with sovereign
rights. to the exclusion of unconditional Union
men, and that they pledge TO Congress their
cordial and earnest support in the position they
nave ;sken.
They resolve further to support no one for
any kind of office who does not stand square
on the Union platform with bold front to re-
sist any kind Of shntfiing or compromising
with traitors. To be sure this little meeting
was no, q State Legislation Conve ntion, but
simply band OF sober, intelligent men who had
helped put down the rebellion and had learned
tlat treason crime that should be pun
ished. The President may have forgotten that
we have had a war; bu; the soldiers who fought
in it hav- not. The proceedings of this meet
ing were published, by request, in the Burirg g
ton Patriof, Emporia .Nelcs, and Usage Chron
9cte.
The season is very backward here this spring
Cold weather fingers yet and vegetation has
not Vet began to develop itself Apparently
winter IS very 10th to lose his grip. IL were
better, however, thet ne should his caree
nov and done with 1t then visit US a little late
when the blossom buds fruit trees hav
ooened. Meantime farmers plowing ant
sowing, for common-sense as veil as the Scrip
ture teaches that the susgard who will no
not pow by reason of the cold shall leg Il
harvest and and nothing WILBUR.