The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-21
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far and wide. Men whose shoulders bore
the responsibilities of war now carry the
burdens of business or the cares of state.
Poverty bears down some, misfortune and
grief afllict Others and all begin to feel In
bone and muscle the wear and tear of war.
But it was great experience, and back TO
that experience the thoughts of age, the
boasts of friends and the eloquence Of liter.
ature will turn. A father said to his son
65, ''you have been through so much you
would hardly name price for your expe-
rience.' mo, said the hero, 81 wouldn't
take million dollars for it, and wouldn't
go through it again for five millions"
Vermont was fortunate in her officers.
witt but very few exceptions. Not one
fragrant instance of disgrace did they ever
bring upon the state. 1t is doubtful If our
elective system-a peculiarly of this state
was so good for securing so good COM
manders in the first instance, as could have
been selected by more discriminating ap-
pointing power, above the influence of To-
cal prejudices and petty brides. But it did
not take long for tho realities of war to
clear out every titled schemer who was
there to serve himself and not his country,
and the officers who attained real position,
who were loved by the men they led and
who have name to-day, were mostly men
who arose from subordinate positions by
dlnt of their own merits. Among them
are names which will live so long as Ver-
mont shall have place or valor wear
crown. The characteristics of Vermont
officers were the characteristics of their
state. They were plain, practical, brave.
energetic There were few fancy soldiers
among them all. The story which Gen.
Wells related last evening of our neghbor
Capt. Geo. p. Conger, would apply well to
the average officer from Vermont. In
sort of military class, the first winter they
were out, the officers of the cavalry were
being catechised by Col. Kellogg He
asked Capt. Conger to define "front."
Front" said the captain, inquiringly, and
then cogitating moment and looking up
with his inimitable leer, "wby DIP it ali,
its front ain'tit /" Sure enough what DOS
sble multiplication of words can give
better definition than the plain, short word
itself Vermonters knew what 1t meant
for there, in every moment of danger or
glory, they were found.
st. Adams has the honor to-day, for the
first time, to entertain these men who lived
sin deeds, not words and led others wor-
thy as themselves. Not only, here and now
though, but everywhere, and in the daily
walks of life, should we remember that they
are heroes. What we have of peace, pro-
lection and prosperity we owe to them. Ii
we have become accustomed TO pageants
and Indifferent to glory, let us remember
those who are the representatives of our
great ere. They link us with the past and
hand US down TO the future. In them,
character has been put to its severest test.
OF them shall our children learn, and in the
future, while celebrating the magnifcence
of the country which they have done 30
much to save, may the noble words of Per-
icles, spoken at the funeral of the Atheni-
ans who died in the Peloponnesian war,
be also spoken of them by those who shall
inherit our gratitude and our instruction
Sand when this power of the city shall
seem great to you, consider then that the
same was purchased by valiant men, and
by men that know their duty. For, having
every one given his body to the common
wealth, they receive in plaoo thereof an
undecaying commentator, and most re-
markable sepulcher, not wherein they are
buried so much, as wherein their glory is
laid up, upon all occasions both of speech
and action to be remembered forever
For TO- famous men all the earth is sepul.
cher and their virtues shall be testified not
only by the inscription in stone at home,
but by an Unwritten Record of the Mind,
which, more than of any Monument. will
remain with every one forever. In imita-
ton, therefore, of these men, and placing
Happiness in Liberty, and Liberty in Valor,
be forward to encounter the dangers of
war;" .t