The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-01
t.ldrcss Delivered before the Ver-
mont Officers scunIOn Society
at RratticborO on Wednesday,,
Oct. %, 1871.
ny MAJOR JOHN G. TYLER.

ny MAJOR JOHN g. TYLER.
Mr.. President dnd Vomonters We
have come up here as soldiers, TO night,
fraternally to commune. We have left
loved homes, leaving care to care for itself;
leaving ambition behind us putting aside
even our own pet thoughts and purposes,
in the fond desire each to warm his broth
ers heart, with coal from off our com
mon country's altar.
1t is not just before the battle, when,
after weary marching, we awaited the
contest with stern, yet impatient joy: ii is
not in the midst of the thickly wooded
fight. where we 'struck for God and our
native land :" it is not just after the battle,
when, cXultant, we grasped the hand of
Bill, and dropped Il manly tear over fallen
Joe no, the camp-lircs are all out 'all
is quiet on the Potomac" and here, where
water-bcds, and headlines no more pro-
woke to arms, it is here. long after these
scenes, and in our own beloved state, that
we have come up together, to commune.
1t is not any part of my plan to open up
to view the various causes which involved
us in war Those who threatened the re-
pose of their country have now nothing
left but "to erect fortress. and refuge
for disappointed ambition Suffice it to
say. there were potters within and sup
porters without some of the latter have
died. and others of them have recently
liquidatcd. rs far rs money goes, their debt.
These two classes were in sufficient number.
and of sufficient Importance, to bring about
that mighty contest, to which, tonight, il
is proposed to give II passing glance.
But first, II word rs to Vermont and tho
character of her men and women | re
ioice that you can unroll century's scroll
can touch upon the hallowed past. and re-
veal the peerless glory of old Vermont
So shall your memories be refreshed witt
duty done, and your nerves steaded iol
duty in coming days,
Geographically, Vermont is unique. Ilel
mountains so extensive, her plains and val
leys so limited, her twenty and six rivers
nearly all her own from source to outlet
her lakes so beautiful-these, in the word
| II.
ment of the scene" Here the works q
man seem like "A speck in the solitude o
the ocean. The loftlest editice i lost il
the blueness of space. and villages. humhl,
catching the shadows of the mountains;
lool, like the ..dwellings of pirmies pcrchc,
upon the bulwarks OF creation
Such is Vermont and here. in such
countrv nearly every nation ON the ,rlob
has rcaned n benefit. or incurred a loss.
ChampIain has h: d her waters plowcd h,
many n blood-stnincd fleet her boys hay,
sheltered many shattered craft he
sbores-thc hard fought BATTLE-GROUND o
French and Indian. English and American
have echoed with voices of 1.-THE last o
thc Nohicons." of a Carleton and n Schuv
Ter of n Gates and a Montgomery of
Warner and an Allen.
Nav more, here in such n cnnntrv Swis
in lis nature lived your sires From fin
canture nf Ticonderorn nil throurh I'm
Ravolntion all thron~h the New Yorl
State iroubles. ali through fine war O
1910 those Snirits far loo noble thos
wills far too firm those arms far to
stronp In brool, onnrcssion. constantly an
ncorrd
Uordv eo,f-roIi,nt mon st,r,pulinr yvi,
a strur,,in, soil INF rull of health co, eli
;rr ;,S ,,inw7 frnn, ,hr nir az mo Iuvurion
cline, but from pure mountain air, an
honest toll weak in numbers, vet stron
| In ,bo co,,,ct;n, that t,rio nritrrnes an
III w ,o,'' ~" ',''i' ''"v "'
social happiness coulu never ne "ntahe
and binotry sustained stronger vet /
So" "'7,y !:
deep moral persuat.on, so thal, even /
yanity ot the bonr 70 n hioh DEGREE, an
exnerienced with our grandmammas-an