The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-25
The soldiers Reunion.

The gathering at Rutland week after
next is already an assured success. Eight
years of peace in which war has been
learned no more and the hand has been
busy with the plough-share or pruning
hook, literal or figurativc, are enough to
give Zest to the memories of the camp and
stricken field. For the first time there is
to be meeting of the rank and file as well
us of the officers, and on a larger scale and
with more regularity of management than
has been seen outside the state. This meet
ing will be the first of long line of SINH
lar ones, no doubt, not only in Vermont,
but throughout the Union.
1t is true that our neighbors in Little
Rhody have led off with meeting some
what similar in character, and were re-
viewed by that Draw Scot" aud brave
man, Ambrose Burnside, but they never
can have regular reunion down there for
there isn't room for them to be fairly sepa-
rated unless they 20 outside the state lines.
So we claim the lead in this matter;
Rhode Island may claim il she had the
deal.
Nor has any state better right to have a
rousing reunion than our own. OF course,
self-praisc, it is a shameful thing, but look
at what it has done for the old Bay State.
Not one of her citizens but goes around re-
peating to himself the words of the great
Daniel, " Massachusetts-look at her"
Why, young fellow went down there to
teach school and he said the only way he
could get through the winter was, when
ever the subject became too suffocating, to
invite his friends out doors, point to Mount
Monadnock, there fortunately in sight, and
say ''there is one thing that isn't in Massa-
chusettS.
| This suggestive remark was observed to
perpley the mind to the manor born, and to
cause confusion like that once made by
| the same person in the army. Bieng then,
| like Trim, 4 corporal it was thought best
to trim the company upon him, and to his
discomfort he was made to act as left guide.
Now the second sergeant received COM
pensation greater than the corporals,
which made it yet more aggravating to the
latter to do duty properly pertaining to the
former. But the captain insisted and the
duty was gone through with for day,
though the company spent most of its time
in changing step, the left guide stumbling
at times like the worst of sinners. When
night came on the corporal was told to
look up the duties of left guide, and this he
proceeded to do. At the drill next day
never was company SO guided. Hogarths
lines of beauty and grace and the lines OF
| care on the captain DroW Wcrc al e" pass
ed by the waving line of men. The captain
finding ''Guide Left I" brought no relief
thought he would go for the left guide.
The brief colloquy which ensued was the
occasion of the return of the second ser
geant to his regular place, and the corporal
was no longer an eXemplar to his fellow
men. Corporal, are you guiding this com
pany ?" "Yes, sir" How are you guild
ing II ?" ''By the rule" What Is the
rule 2" ''To guide by one point distant and
one intermediate" "Whatare yourpoints?'
some is that stub and the other that crow
flying beyond see him 7"
We were speaking in depreciation of self
praise but the fact Is it is not among the
possibilities to write discourse with heads
and points to it, the way the boys used tc
have to lie in the early days of "A" tents,
on the subject of the soldiers reunion a
Rutland, for one naturally begins to think
of the good time there will be, and who OF
the boys will be there, and lots OF things
not thought of for years come trooping
along and confuse things. The matter Of
rself- praise, however, wc propose to hays
our say about. There won't be any sncl
thing at Rutland not bit OF it. bu'
there win be the knowledge that there wa