Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-11-07

Great Ethan, and the merry zeal OF STARK
fed their hearts, and ever ied them on.
Did not time forbid, should like to speak
of each individual one. i should like to
sneak of "Baldy," of "Chub' and of ELI
iah"--but these, and all the rest, living,
and dead, who left home with that patriot
sigh, which made them wish to live, and
dare TO de-" viii forever embellish the
historic page.
| have oiten thought that there was fully
rs little jealousy among the Vermont OFF,
GERS and men as among any IN tue service.
True, there was some, but l lhink most oil
them felt as did VIM. Pitt in his contest
with Fox, regarding England and French
arbitration, when he so beautifully con-
strued that passage in Horace, which re-
fers to fortune, viz:
"Iando manentem; 81 celeres quait
Pennas, resigno que dcdit, (et nea
Tfrtute me inUoiUo prUbamque
raupcrit m, sine date, quierO."
Tho widows, tho orphans, tho fathers,
the mothers, Of those men VINO fell VIII al
80 be cherished with an eVer-growing love.
This is the first natural result OF the war.
Another result is emancipation. AS Tom
Marshall, of kentucky, once said of the
Ohio State grants, so 1t can be said of the
South: "All that fair land was doomed TO
Freedom" The greatness of that act no
race can fully comprehend, Tor genera
| lions were needed to make "Afr!c's" sons
| equal to us under the law, and who can es-
| Innate It's effects on ReneFltlOuS YET uHDOrn.
| This act will ever SHOW to The world The
depth, and width, and might, Of Lincoln's
| Industrious patriotism. Let us remember
| his "mystic chords of memory"
OF finance, no one with safety can ven
| ture to speak. With our tremendous debt,
and money monopoies, ii is fearful look,
| but let us hope that this last shudder of a
| lanic in which SO many have tumbled, will
| vet teach us true values. No olfen castle
| can, with its drawbridge and feudal rights,
| always challenge nation. Hard pan
| must again lie hard PAM and this last tok.
en- of a self-developng greatness will for
ever Distinguish itself among the masses
in its simple, child-lke efforts TO maintain
| a pDliico-econo nic structure In any gov
| ernment.
Maysuch a government be ours. Against
designing men in Congress. too, we must
"mount guardp' They labor, mostly,
for their eager selves, but there Is some
thing wonderful in how much can be ac-
Compished when we wreslle with evil for
q great and certain good.
at is of infinite moment said Washing
ton, that you should properly estimate
the immense value of your National I'M
ion to your collective and individual hap
pness that you should cherish cordial
habitual, and immovabe attachment to II
accustOming yourselves to think aud speak
of ii rs the palladium of your political safe
ty and prosperity; watching for its preser-
| NullOU Win JttIOuS duAlttN. hciitlDtl'
ing these words, now that we have lait
down our arms and again become citizens
how can the children of to-day but from
ble when they see your gallant acts, anC
intrepid deeds, and many years of sacrifice
in danger from the influence of Nationa
sins among the people!
Then let us emulate high endeavor, eve
guarding our old and tattered flag with thu
"hlrmessness of the dove, and the wisdom
of the serpent" So shall our institutions
be preserved intact; 50 shall no Greciai
fate be ours 4; so shall no northern wind, OF
southern cloud disturb, but we shall hav,
a country of which it can be truly said
She stands first under the whole Heavens.
Comrades, my task is done, Vernon
will vet have her Macaulay-and when III
puts pen TO paper, how will each page glow
like u molten flame, with the strength o
the individual character of her sons, ant
in turn, Of their influence on the nation
Far away, in - distant mountain cavern
the water has trickled down for ages, an
formed crystal and yet ever increasing
spar. SO these patriot heait-beats hav
formed a manhood, " hich, in its outgrowth
shall, with Gods aid, help TO purify gov
ernmental wrong, aud vouchsafe peac
throughout the world.
''God Of Peace, whose Spirit fills
All the echo Of our hills,
All the murmur OF our rir,
Now the storm il DER:
oh let freemen be our sons,
, Aud let future Washingtons
Rise to lead tn cir valiart ones,
Till Wars no more"