Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-10-13
Che freeman.
MONTPELIER VT,
WEDNESDAY, OCT. ID. 1875
yermOnt's Centennials.

the Green Mountain State onght to be
we'll represented at the Centennial Expo
.ition in Philadelphia, next year it is true
Int we have no fear that any disgrace Is
to fill upon her because the Legislature
concluded not to make Il State appr"pria-
,ion for cxpen-es There is Il certain
fitness in ii that whatever Vermont "o'9
# The Na;iontl Centennial shall be by IN
dividu,l, and not by the State lhat IS
tb,. way things had to be done during tit
revolution. and it will BE- Just rs we'll to do
- VT. used t. have to do. Is To 90 down
T. Philadelphia IL Il sttte.-a thing the
Philadelphia Congress of old refused us
Vcrmonter>. hy the W ". owe not a lIttl'-
to the 90 @ i,ker city. Thomas lonng'
who rtve IL our nam" OF Vermont an"
uroeI our ancestors to constitute a State
lived there. And not only was that city
the home of our 90 lf,th-~ Young, bit in
Later times thousands of Verm mt soldiers
remember the ire ,tm.nt they Their" re-
crivrI rs Il bright spot in their soldhrln@
BIT W.. cannot mourn because the Stac
h Is not m td'. IN appropriation. Vermont :
wealth Of f,cks AMI herbs would have n"
proper place in the grctt show Her
m1nuftcture> arr few and such excellence
has ban attained in th"m in nearly al
cases that they have brought rewar an
placed their owners in =, position. where
If they choose to cxh bit they will not
need to ask the aid of the p .hlic pnr~e
The manufacturers of Fairbanks Scalr~,
of Hnwc's Scales. of the E>ev organ. o.
the Lane mills can 90 o Phi,drl hi, III
the sun" WAY thl Vermont II I'd to act for
wears after the Dccl1rtIipn of Inlepe,l-
,lrnc,-on their own hook; and if they do
there is no more danger of disgrace t. the
Safe thtn there was thtt the ;,ctors at
Tirondcrog., and Bennington would make
poor history
There is Il duty, however, which Yer
montcr> owe To their Safe md thems I've,
AMI thtt is, not only to 90 on ding ;hei
daily work. but to celebrate iulv the c>-
Establishment Of the little republic, which
from III to 1871 was Il nation Of itself
though Il, loyal to the American Union a
that Uni, would permit it to be.
This should be done in ut lrtst two
ways The events that marked the pro-
greSs Of oar State towards becoming IN in
dependent governmr should be com
mem rated in the localities where they o.
Cured. aud we know of no better way
the Vermont Historical Society make ar
engagements for such gatherings.
The Battle of Bennington will, no doubt
be the central figure of Eerm mt celebra
tions. This should be provided for bv tn
State itself.in connection with the soldiers
reunion, which is to be held there yea,
from next August. Before that celebra
ton, however, should come others, les
general but leading up to it. Especially
should the Historical Society see to it that
the anniversaries of the meetings of the
various conventions are observed. If there
is to be a winter meeting of the Society
how could it be better managed than t,
take the hundrelth anniversary of the time
when the first Dorset Convention, Janu
airy II, 1176, said that they w 'uld do all
they could in the war, bat asked to b,
calleI out rs " inhabittnts of the New
Hampshire Grants, and not as New York
crs.
The various meetings of tn convention
which first me- in Dorset, July u, i776
and Which the following winter DECLARED
the Grants indrpen lent. are events who
hundrrdth anniversaries would afford ex
ccllrnt opportunity for exercises tina
would excite in the people an interest in on
early history, AMI a care for its presrrva
ton The Il loption of the con >litution tn,
first days Of July III should he commem
GRATED nj Wnd>or. by Il worthy centcnnia
gathering. This the Historical Society
sh'ull have the Management OF, and i
woul be AN excellent stepping->tone t.
the bennington celebration, which will fol
low six weeks after. and which rs h.
been said. the State should make provis
ion for.
But besides the dury of honor;ng tn,
fathers 10y these gatherings there i III,
further one of having some c,re AMI som,
intelligence arout relics of the p ,st tIia
IN " throw light on the early his ory o
the State. Mlny an old Vermont book
pamphlet or bIndle of newspapers la.
gone into the waste pIprr bundles that
would now be of great value. There m,
still many old things of this hinI tn I,
would he just in place in the collection, o
TIL Historical Society. if their owner:
would take the thought to send them.
The rooms of thu. Slcictr have. been
fit ed up in such :, way As - enable the
librarian to put all r,rr ani curio Is dora-
mrnts wier'. the public can see them, anJ
we hop that during the next year thoS,
who have things worthy Of Il place in the
collections of the Soriety will put them
there where they will do the most good.