The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-13
OUR FALLEN SOLDIERS.
An Address Delivered on Decoration Day,
May Goth, at East Middlebury, by Col. E.
s. Stowell of Cornwall,

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May Goth, at East Middlebury, by Col. E.
s. stowell of Cornwall.
Comrades, Ladies and Gentlemen ALI
grea. events for good, all great Blooms to
the human race, have been presaged, and
oft times accompanied by great woes and
great afil ctions. These very sfil ictons
being the motive powers that bound great
and good men together for the extrication
of their fellows and themselves from the
tolls of the task-master; the snares and
burdens of Journalists; the licentiOusness
and greed of a corrupt priest hood; or the
oppression and taxation without represen-
tation, of rugged people by an imbecle
king and disolute parliament.
Thus the children of Israel were under
the most grieyous yoke Of bondage, aud
subject to all manner of oppression and
abuse, until their lusis and blood cried un-
to Heaven from the ground, for their Moses
to rise up and lead them from the land OF
Egypt towards the land Of Canaan; from
Egypt the type OF darkness and ignorance
slavery of the worst possible form, Chat
of the mind and hearth to condition of
freedom and knowledge of God, and them
selves; taught by 40 years CT sojourn and
wandering in the wilderness and by the d.
rect word of God TO mis- servant Moses for
them in the land Of Canaan that land
| flowing with milk and honey-that land of
| light and promise.
Again when the descendants of these
| same fugitive slaves from the hosts of
Pharaoh, had grown great in the land and
| the forms and ceremonies, the pomp and
panoply of the law had become the great
| essental-when the chosen people Of God
| had forgotten HIM, and only that of the
show and parade of their religious formu-
las, when Augustus and the high priest
had both become oppressors of the people
| the carpenters son called to himself a
| few poor fishermen about the sea of Gal
| lilec and began teaching the christian re-
| ligion-that spreads its protecting, educat-
| ing and inspiring arms around the sick,
| the afflicted, the down trodden, the igno'
rant and the detected of humanity and bids
them rise up to the dignity of heirs Of God.
| and Joint heirs with Jesus Christ the son of
| God; who drove the publicans from the
| Temple and overturned the tables of the
money changers and those who sold doves
| again When the adherents of this same
christianity, the sect of the despised MAJ
creme grown mighty, rich and corrupt be-
came arbiters to kings, sold lndulgences
to the people for filthy lucre. that per
mtted the propensilies of man to run riot
in sin, oppression and vice, of every name
and nature, Luther, Melanchton, and
Calvin arose and gave impetus to ref
ormation that extended throughout the
length and breadth of the land and to the
uttermost parts of the sea,-that reached
in its various ramifications the peasant in
his hamlet and the noble in his palace,
alike with the doctrine of peace, good will
to men, Of the Protestant faith.
Again, when George III and his minis
tiers sought to Cypress a nation of pioneers
upon this western continent, that had bat
tied with the clements on cold and hos
tile shore-with the cunning OF the impla-
cable and treacherous savage, the stubborn
and inhospitablc wi derness and subducd
them all;-and sought to make them pay
tribute without just representation, Wash
ington an Adams, Hancock and host OF
congenial spirits arose in their might, threw
of the yoke drove the invader from ouI
soil and brought out from the depressing
influence of monarchy the glorious re
suits of a constitution and laws, made by