Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-01
Correspondent Essex County Herald.
Letter From Ohio.

sad hours, L feel like expressing 10
you my wish that some of those !
left behind were here to-Jlay, both for
company's sake and to see a land not
many years since counted the FAR
West, but now in the minds of its in
habitants belonging to the East. The
people in this northerl portion of the
State are chiefly of New England or
igin. One portion of neighhoring
rounty was long called Burke Hollow,
and families there are still known as
Burke Hollow Vermonters. coming rs
they did from that place, so near our
own county.
Essex seems to have sent fewer
people here than other counties of
our State; perhaps because it vas SO
nearly new, much of it at least, when
this land was settled. There is, how
ever, IL Geneva near Lake Erie, orc
native of cur cointy, Mr.. Thomas
Johnson, once of Lunenburg, with
whom | enjoyed a long chat. telling
of old men whom he called to mind
Us boys, aud of the sons and grand
sons Of those he knew as men. 9th
ers of our former friends-for far
from ones native place be counts as
Il friend every one who ever called 1t
home-I may have passed unknown.
| found him out By chance.
Occasionally, and with something
of pride, some one will tell how in
times before the war Southern parti-
zans hated men from the "Reservc" Il
little more than the real New Eng
land Yankees. Perhaps they put it a
little strongly. We all like to claim
honors for our portion OF the land :;
but, truly, whatever reasons were urg-
ed by our southern Brethren" for
their hatred of the Eastern States alp
piled with no less force to section
once owned by one Of those States,
and settled by enterprioing, sturdy
men from all men whose sons to.
day cling to the Puritan virtues quite
as strongly as our people still at
home, who with as cordial hatred of
oppression and crime had found, in II
somewhat wall climate. AID a land
less filled with hills and rocks, with II
soil by no means less productive, but
far more easily cultivated, more time
to watch the progress Of events and
to work in the cause of freedom. This
section, too, where the border ani
between Southern sl&yey and Canadi-
an freedom was narrowest, but q
single State between, was naturally .
main route of the Underground Rail
road, while for corresponding reasons,
our lar northeastern States were COM
partively out Of its course.
The stories those who were IN the
army tell are al. the more pleasant to
me because feel it is New England
on another soil. One of the mrr
who was at Fredericksburg, after tell.
ing Of the fight, of his division march
ing nineteen times on one batter
all day long they fought-weakel
every time they charged, AMI vel
f,rming line, only to he cut down
till evening came, and fifteen hundred
of the their six thousand men wen
back to their camp again, said, "Thos,
western men didn't fight like that.
He told, too, Of their commander
words, as the General-in. Chief me
them returning to the old camp mex
day. OF the commander of the mel
ahead, who had had an easier time
he inquired, us this your division ?
YES" Then to their General-Gar
field, thlnk-"General, is this YOU
. dlvision?" "No." with terribl
p, oathD IL LEFT my division on The bat
tie field. But these stories of th
war, perhaps, seem less interestin
to us than IL little time ago, or tha
, they will in years To come. They ar
old bat not ancient tales neither q
today nor Of ON fathers times.
= This section, the Western Reserve
q was the property of an Eastern STATE
! Connecticut, granted her in the SETTLE
ment Of her claims against the gent
ri government. 1t extends froi
Pennsylvania line along Lake Fri,
westward, more than fifty miles he
!. You'd Cleveland and at its eastern e,
# trenity is about sixty miles fror
=. north to sodtl, its southern boundar
eng the parallel Of latitude lhl
) passes north Of Youngstown and Al
W eron. 1t is III Places very 10 Ing,
y TACT, broken Ino low hills ,
Al knOllS, but is Chiefly la nv ,vrs lev