Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-07
Antiquities Of Lake Champaign.
To the Edjtor5 Of the Boston Jo1rnd:

OllltfS IN lSli ana later Sllll Ill - 1t, tllc~l
the faith of the American Congress i'll the
view of Colonel Allen. At present the
massive walls Of Fort Montgomcry, now
twenty-siX years in process of construction
and the third in magnitude of the thirteen
military fortitica,ions in the Empire State,
stands sentinel on the line, and frownin@ly
guards this importlnt key" and IN en-
envy from the north would br compelled
in passing it to come under the fire OF l64
guns, some of them sixteen feet in length
and weighing twenty-five tons apiece
But annexation" Is only 4 question of
time, and doubtless the time will be LONG
ere the cannon of this foImiIahlc fort
| shall be pointed toward 4 hostile fleet from
Canada Hence the immcncr fortress is
II useless thing, and 50 far IL being nccr>-
sary for war purposes s concerned, Heaven
grant 1t may remain 80.
ApropoS of the site an ~uhject, there is
no section Of the United States more rich
IN revolutionary fact and memories or 20
pregnant with old time lryem /, and rem
ini>ecncr> aS this flmol- key and tn"
land, Immediately adi tcrnt. 1t h'S been
the thoruUyhtlrc of conIendnT nations tor
more than two centuries. y history OF
this terminus of the lake. AMI of is oppo-
site shores. together with the grand old
town Of ChtmpItn, noW lis in manu-
script and may one day see the light Tn"
record stretches back in il field of re
search t" the m"m"r'hIe morning "i tIr
lth of July. IL -, when Captain 'm'irI
de Chnmplain, th,-n \iccrov of New
France (l- Canada W.tS term"dD. shooting
up and out of the River lGchtll.'u III the
midst of Indian allie, in Il birch bark
canoe, WAS the first white man who cvrf
looked on these splendid water, AMI III h.lr
then fDrc>t-bounl shores What changes
have, come in these two hundred and ~iNtv-
one wears. The red man and his trajl
h,rk Ina, r;vcn place to the ma~uilitcnl
steamer and the feet of a cultivated and
m,ryeIor-ly advancing people, On. it is
wnnI,rfnI 10 think WHIT one, w.,> AMI
vhat NOW !. ON His hroal. Green Amari-
can continent.
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N'H "ll'' Il IL - ,I,.I ti,., ,,''..I
ny |'flhohl' anu ['l''l'''',' ''' '.II ~,
| irhrE OF II. TI'H -"l''. i'i.'' Wy, III
' l~'h1 Is >Gi' 'il' III TI I; '.,', i
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,I' ,-ar,,,.,,, -;ln ANA ,hn town of Cb,l,
~ W.. WIZ. ~, tI,. ly,..t. tb. m,in chan
. ! ,.,,,,,,i,,, ,,-..-- ,t I,l.,. ON th west
"l,ar,'.,L-. ,'''..''L ;.,,nd AMI mot far from tn.
C'p,.,,n,,,.r. 1;,h .hn',.r are ,till +, b.
srnn tL. rrn.in, Of an olI fort built bv
Ia r,..,,.L IN th. ...v,n,r,uth rrutuly
Ir Sr1, -: '1;.,;,,., fr,,n rh.. ,.n., !
,,.I'. ,lr',,, Iu 1,,. nnr miIitlrv a1th,ri-
w. H'- ~ 1sro l.r,,... of Which ar. vet
.; ;,ia 49,, n,;.l,u. nftLr Island
,ri rr,. NOV ~ hr Ly auriluari,n, con
f,,,,,1,,I ,,.;,h ,L.,, From 16uytu1 1-Gi
the Canadian French claimed po-~r>~ion
Of Lake Cbaml,llin anl all the land~ on
either side. The conquest Of C,na.la by
the English pat an end to the cloiln. On
the west shore Of lie Ii Motto. then
French soil. WAS built Fort s. Anne in
1G6j The task of j., construction WAS
committed t, one NJ. de- Ii Mothc. Il bolI
Cantain of one of the Carirnan companies
AMI til. builder rave his name to the. i'll
AMI for even afterwards. 1t was thu hrs
permanent occupation and settlement bl
In, French of any part uf the soil south O