The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-06-11

WHY A SOLDIER STANDS By GRANT
A soldier who fought under Gen. Grant
in fifteen battles, gives in the n. Y.
Times the following as his reasons for
protesting to remain true to his old COM
mander, rather than take up the standard
OF the soreheads and their accepted
leader
"What does the Liberal Republican
party propose to do? OF what use is its
existence These are the questions
which agitate many minds, and many,
like myself, cannot see the use of any
such organization. Called in Convention
ostcnsibly to reform our politics, this
body has nominated man who believes
in being 'al things to all men, though 1t
is scarcely possible that he be able to
save some Called in the interests Of
honesty and patriotism, (mirabile dictu!D
it has been managed by fraud, its can
dldate nominated by corruption; and it
proposes to satisfy the nations patriotism
by splitting the party which saved the
Union, and casting its leader overheard.
-A'' p"N thiOu ulcu uHucIstduu 'hio. All
soldiers of our late war know the mean
ing OF such fanfarronade The soldiers
will stand by Grant fought under
him In fifteen battles from the blood
crowned heights of Donelson to the sur
render by the Appomatox, and, there
are many, thousands of us who will never
desert our leader. Keep up the flag.
When the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts
went charging over the rebel works at
Battery Wagner, the color bearer, though
nine bullets crashed through his body,
would not let the flag drop. Tearing it
from the staff and holding it in both hands
aloit, he crawled back to the reserve line.
Standing erect, with the loved flag over
his head, he CRIED "lIere it is, boys, and
| tell yer, (here his voice sank to a whis.
per- | tell yer that old flag never went
down. | kept it up all the time As
he uttered those last words the banner
dropped from his hands, and with gasp,
he was dead. This is our lesson. Let
us keep up the Aag-lct US rally round
our leader. The loyal men of the North
will have no other leader for the next
four years than U. s. Grant"
The forty-eighth anniversary Of the A..
merican Sunday-School Union, was held
in the Academy of Music, Philadelphia,
May %,
One of the largest and most intelligent
audiences ever assembled there, was pres.
ent to participate in the exercises.
Splendid music by a choir of 500
young ladies and children,
Interesting addresses by the Chairman
Hon. James Pollock, DR.. P. S. Henson,
DR.. John Leyburn, DR.. John Cotton
Smith.
DR.. Newton offered a resolution that it
is the high privilege and duty of the
American Sunday-School Union at the
present crisis to take larger and more eff
ficient action for founding and sustaining
Sunday Schools in the Southern States,
and that the board of managers enter at
once upon the work and solicit the aid of
all Christian people to effect this object.
Adopted.
SUMMARY OF TIE MISSIONARY Work
FOR LAST YEAR.-Schools organized, l..
093 Teachers in same, 6,307 Schol-
ars, 43,59S; Schools aided. 3,07l ,
Teachers in same, %, AL 4; Scholars, ,200,-
474: Families visited, 1S,707; and hum
dreds of souls hopefully converted.
Grand results in As years, over ST.
600 Schools organized, over 100000
children gathered in, 100000 Christian
men and women secured as teachers, and
multitudes of souls brought to Christ.
This work has reached many of the
destitute and neglected places in various
portions Of the country, and its influence
for good has been felt from the Atlantic
to the Pacific coast, and from the line of
the Northern Pacific Railroad to Mexico.
But there remains thousands of places yet
to be reached, and millions of children
still untaught in Gods truth.