The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-01-28
ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT
OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE
REPUBLIC OF VERMONT.
Report of Department Commander
ThOmas-E Election of OFFICERS
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pelier, on Tuesday morning at eleven
o'clock. Twelve out of the sixteen posts
in the state were represented by twenty
one delegates. The encampment was open
ed in form by the Department Commander,
Gen. Stephen Thomas. The reports of
the department commander, adjutant gen.
eral, and assistant quartermaster general
were read and referred to a special com
mittee. consisting of comrades II. L. Tay-
lor of Brattleboro, w. Holden, 81 of Ar
lington and Warren Gibbs of Burlington.
The roll of delegates present was as fol-
lows, viz /:
Post No. Q of Burlington; Warren Gibbs,
j. l.. Barstow.
Post No. of Ludlow l.. +. Sherman.
Post No. 8 of Brattleboro Barney Can
non. jr.. Geo, Il. Selleck, II. E. Taylor.
Post No, 0 of Bethel L. j. McWain,
G. B. Chadwick.
Post No. IL of Jamaica Albert Stur-
CESS.
Post No. 10 of Montpelier n. N. Gla-
zier, Fred Il. Smith.
Post IA of Rutland j. III. Goulding.
1OSI NO. ~ VI NlluulcDulN ~. NluIllu.
Post No. 90 of st. Adams J. n. Cul-
YER
Post No. % of Mortified C. A. Cur
It's, l.. N. Howe.
Post No. 90 of Arlington H. $. Hard,
Willard Holden, Cd.
Post No. 80 of Waitsfied ID. 5. Stod-
dard.
The following committee were appoint
ed on credentials and nomination: Com
rades ]. L. Barstow, G. B. Chadwick, d.
Martin, c. A. Curtis, L. L. Sherman, A.
Sturgess, j. N. Culver, N. N. Glazier, b.
Cannon, Jr, J. Ii. Goulding and II. S.
Hard.
The adjutant- generals report showed Il
slight increase in the order during the year
past The report of the quartermaster-
general showed balance in the treasury of
800.
The annual address of the department
commander we give in full, as it treats of
important matters, worthy of considcra-
ton by all, and is a sound and eloquent ar
gunent in favor of several wise ideas.
ANIMAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT COM
MANDER, GEN. STEPHEN THOMAS.
Comrades: We are again assembled in de-
partment encampment to review the work
ing of our beloved order at the close of
another year in its history; to give an ac-
count of our stewardship; to seek out all
the errors and defects of the past. and to
organize for the campaign for the coming
year, as to avoid and remedy, if possible,
all mistakes and shortcomings of the past,
and give to the G. A. r. IN this department
of the future that life and vigor which F..
C.. and L. are worthy Of. When that is
done we shall not find any loyal men to say
aught against it; neither shall we find any
of our comrades standing aloof from the
order who stood shoulder to shoulder with
us upon the hundred battlc-fields, de-
Tending the flag and our govern
ment from the foes who would
gladly have trampled the stars and stripes
in the dust and destroyed the best govern
ment God ever vouchsafed to man, and
which we had sworn to protect against all
the enemies whomsover which, by the
blessing of Him who governs the destnies
of nations, we were able, after four long
years amid danger and hardship, to accom-
plish-during which struggle all who served
in the Union army, who endured the dan
ger, hardships and pleasures together be-
came friends and brethren, united by ties
stronger than those which are formed by
any other association except, perhaps, thai
of kindred the G. A. r. was organized tc
keep alive that friendship, to perpetuatt
the principles for which we contended the
field, and for tue greater purpose to aid oul
needy comrades and the widows and orphans
of those who died that the country might
live. Can any loyal man say aught against
this ? think not Then let us labor tC
increase, rather than to decrease, tina
friendship which was formed in the fielt
when contending for the preservation o.
republican institutions, the amelioratioI
and the elevation of the great brotherhood
of man let us meet at our camp-fres il
fraternity and rehearse to the public thu
history of that four years struggle agains
treason and its cost, thereby firing thu
hearts of the rising generation with sucl
| love of country that if occasion shall agail
occur when our country shall need defend
ers IN the field, that they will leap to arm
in its defense as heroically as did the loya
North in the struggle against rebellion.
would that could give more favor
able report as to the increase in numbers il
this department for the past year. hut unit
there shall be greater vigilance of the mem
bers we can hardly hope to include in GU
order, as we aught, all our comrades VIII
are entitled to become and should be mem
bers there probably is not comrade il
our department who could not bring to hi
Pest one new application of a conrad
who would make good and worthy, mem
Der. Now let us endeayor by one unitet
and determined effort to fill up our rank
and not cease our exertions until the orde
shall include within its fold all who stoo
with us fighting against treason and VIII
have received an honorable discharge. TIL
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order prosper if they make the effort wit
will. 1t should be rendered that it wa
the courage and energy of the rank and fill
of the army who gave the glory and rt
nown to our Grant, Sherman, Sherida
and the host of other generals that will
out the private soldiers and sailors our fla
would have been trailed in the dust an
our liberties have been destroyed. Withou
the common sailor we could not have ha
the hero chained at masthead command
ing his fleet when passing the forts whe
the air was full of iron belched forth fror
the hundreds OF guns of the enemy an
achieving a victory, which wove wreat
of garlands around the brow and whic
immortalized the name of Farragut.
Let no comrade longer hesitate Il
every commander and delegate in his el
campment return to his Post. resolved I
instll new life and energy in the G.. A. r
especially in his Post, urge each conrad
to endeavor to bring in a new applicatio
of a recruit and see to 1t that every con
rade within the limits of your respectiy
| poata are invited IN hpcOma mpuhera