Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-04-21
The Centennial of American Liberty.

battle and fight over again yesterday, to
their great and just satisfaction. And the &C
counts of their ccntcnnials in the city pa
pers are not SO fearfully proliN but thai
the average reader. by diligence, may &C
compli>h their reading before the seconG
hundred wears Of the life of American lib
crtv i, very far gone. The speaking nj
each place was worthy of the day, and
verdict is that Curtis, Emerson and IIoar
1t Concord. and Dana and Hudson ut Lex
/ in9t"n-wlh their several oratoric;tl a>>is-
tants-'' said whtt they ought to "A said.
! Besides the Massachusetts muses. have lad
all the wontrd contrarine~s of their tribe
taken out Of them. and now. ut one wave
of the goose quill from Lowell, Whittier
and Julia Ward Howe they answer. Lex
ington has had Il wOrry of mind rs to her
statues of Samuel Adams and John Ham
cock, that have been some time on Their
way from Europe; but rs she called them
from the Vastly deep the marble came. The
spirits of those rcvercd gentlemen of the
old school there WAS no need of calling
for If ever the discmbodicd get ex-
cused from the engagements of their pccu-
liar world, it may be marked as certain
that Samuel and John were lowering about
on the centennial of the " glorious morn
inc, and wondering what insane man was
ever moved to ask why should the spirit
of mort;,ls be proud
A visit to Concord. Sunday, found the
place gaily deckrd and ready for the nor
row. President Grant attended church in
the forenoon. In the afternoon, the Ran
som guard, escorted Gov Peck and por-
ton of his staff to church, and the Green
Mountain boys certainly made Il most cred
liable appearance in their tasty uniforms.
Concord was re;dy and waiting. The
newspaper men were busy at work and
have to thank Mr.. Tolman and hi fellow
members of the Concord press committee
for continued cUurtesics.
The morning trains on Monday carried
thous tnds of fortunate men and women to
Concord. The jam ut the Boston dcpo;s
began soon after these trains departed. and
thousands were turned away for want of
ears to carry them. This was more c>-
pecialy true of the Lowell road, IT'S it has
but a single track and the greater part of
the multitude made Lexington the obiec-
tive point.
The sun shone and the cold wind blew,
As the Eermontcrs marched to Sudbury
street in Concord, to form for the moving
of the procession. Among the Eermontcrs
who formed in line on Sudbury Street
behind the guards. We're Colonies Ncazcv
and Proctor, w. c. Dunton, Henry Clark
f the Glojc, and Mr.. Pitkin of the Hcy1tld.
John Cramton. and others. of Rutlanl
Senator Colburn of Manchester. NJ. d.
Gilman of Montpelier, Gen. J. l.. Bar~tow
and many others. The carriages contained
Gov. Peck, Hon. l.. p. Poland. Secretary
Dillingham;, (Whom the Bo~ton papers
transform into one Dolan), Gems Kingsley
IN. LIcit. and the rest of the Governors
PItkin, Ex-Governor Smith Hon. W. c.
Smith, and several o,hcr St Alb ms zen
tlrmen
The procession moved Soon after ten
o'clock, and was :; remarkably fine one
Its centre OF interest WIS. of course. Pres
Ident Grant who was cheer II along tie
Route. There We're five divisions anu
wi,hll. the utmost order X preserved IT,
they mlrrhei through the town an out
,nd over North Bridge t. the great ten :
erected where the Aneric >too when |
hey began the Concord t-hj, and with it
first fired, at command ami in an or.;,r-
zrd body. upon the rrd-colt> l!crc III
the North iiyc the British tir-t feel b. :
tore Aneric ms, AMI where the latter
stood when their vollrv was delivered |
were the orttions AMI other great exercises |
If the day, lasting through The afternoon
md evening.
The eleven O'Clock train for LrNinrton
moved across til. lin e of the procession.
which could be seen stretching Vet far
Town INTO the streets Of Concord, while
much of it had already filed across North
fridge to its de stmatioh. Though the
hots fired on That his oric spot were IN
heard round the world. tie
tory of the old school books that lhc
american revolution began nj Lexington
will never craS to be learned for il i
rue. Celebrating the hundrrdih ami
ersary OF the revolutions birth with
lexington left ont, struck your corrr>pon-
e.; t is being in the line of seeing Hamlet {
nth Hamlet missing. The thousands
mt left by the Lexington train had 10
fleet on the apparent numbers of the
oncori celcbr;ltor,-;ls one said, there /
re just as many left.
In Lexington, ut noon. the crowd WIS !
&c Sing together and the line of the bro ,
'ss!on forming. Entering Lexington y
18th the idc:, that town couldn't be Eavin~
big II celebration us Concord, that no :
y
lpcrlence> in the surgin. human mass. :
ne procession marched soon after one.
nj was drawn up in line stretching alone
e Is '>tOn road to the Green AMI thence.
ong Bedford street, facing the tent anu [;
Onument. "
The military at Lexington outnum bcrcd il
o>e at Concord in about the same pro- Il
rtion that the civilians did, that is n, 81
l>t in the proportion of two to one. Tho GO
ads for miles were full of carriare> 81
lie procession in line awaited the prc>j- Il
MT coming. Some of the enterpri,iuo /"
pers of Boston. by their reliable system y
reporting. have it that the pre si,!ent ="
me rs advertised by rail from Con CT
ri, but 4 carriage was the actual mode II
conveyance, and flank movement by liz
'roSS-r"'d was necessary in order to oct II
II Ill place at the Elst LcXin"ton end OF III
: procession This done, and while /