The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-13
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Again when great aristocricy arose in
Their might and enslaved 1000 900, of their
fellows and sought the empire Of 2 vast
continent and numerous people, on the ha
sis OF a slaveocracy, there arose Lincoln,
Stanton, Grant, and their co adiutators.
ofhceTs and soldiers that swarmed as the
locusts OF Egypt, and poured ont from the
north upon pfcsumpluous confederacv
that would destroy Our nation, and forced
an unconditional surrender.
Let us retrospect little. II is one hun.
dred years since our nations birth: one
hundred years oiIce her baptism Of blood
began, and her infant vail went forth for
life, for sustenance and for liberty.
Already many centennals Of her early dis
sessions and her early struggles have been
celebrated, as at Mecklinhurg at Concord.
at Lexington, at Ticonderoca, at Bunker
Hill and other places of historic farne; ard
this year whole nation will gather with
glad rejolcings at Philadelphia where our
Grand old Declaration of equal rights TO
all was first thrown cut to the gaze Of lopc-
ing, freedom loving thousands, 10 be follow
ed by other celebrations down through all
the thrilling events and scenes that estab.
lished the right of the American people to
Little thought ard J create refuge Tor
revolution that one hundred years, @s65fih
| produce result SO grand-that the oxpen-
| sve power of the 10 colonies, under free
| government of the people, would in so
| short time result in the establishment of
one of the first nations Of the earth upon
this western Hemi.phere-a nation that
has waded through seas of blood, survived
the shocks of battle--the Jealousy of lead.
ers, the pinchng pangs of poverty--the
corruptions OF party politics-the treachery
of pretended friends, and the inhuman fra
| tricidal attempt of her own citizens to die
rupt her bonds OF union. and cas- her adrift
to founder, as ship without a rudder, or
to fall, as house divided against itself.
But these she has Stunned, thanks to the
| patriotism Of her people and the affection
for free institutions, that took root, away
down IN the lower depths OF the hearts Of
her native and adopted sons-these evils
she has overcome thanks to the integrity,
the industry, and unfnching intrepidly of
her moral masses and to day America
stands forth the admiration of teemng
millions who would go and do likewise if
they had the opportunity, and perpetual
thorn in the flesh to those to tue sceptre
born or who fatten on the smiles of kings.
Great and glorious as has been her career,
successful above all prophecy and beyond
all hope-dangers still menace her-her
very success has been her bane as she has
grown rich and powerful, her Golfers and
her offices have the object Of the longing
ambition of men who after long years of
reaching, have become INSCRIPTIONS of
means TO attain their ends, and corruption
and high handed trespass on the one hand
and patient suffering, but calm determine
ton on the other presage long continued
struggle to secure her emancipation at last.
Years before the late civil war there
were those that prophesed just such a trial
"a we had, but with far different ending.
The wish father TO the thought perhaps,
for their sympathy was with kings. For"
said they, "your government of the people
is man of straw, and your bond OF union
a rope of sand, only secure at the will of
the people, ever tickle and therefore ele-
ments of dissolution at last !" England so
thought SO thought France, and SO
thought South Carolina all 10 be most in
gloriously undeceived; for no sooner did
the news 60 forth that aggression had COM
menced, that Fort Sumter, our fortress,
had been attacked in April 1861, than the
tocsin of war was sounded throughout the
north, and her herdes poured forth In con.
tinuous stream and with undated ardor
Father, husband, brother, sons with uDeX-
ampled self abnegation and self sacrifice,
encouraged by the "God speed and bless
YOU" and the unceasing prayer for success
of those noble women of the north that en-
tered heart and soul into the cause,) threw
down the implements of their vacations
and girding on the panoply of war, went
forth to sustain the perpetuity of the union,
to establish the principles of that dc clara
tou of equal rights TO all that had existed
only in name, and to sustain the honor Of
the old flag.
NAT
Ger the land of the free and the home OF the
brave"
Ave they went forth, and they battlod
for the right, most no5ly and with success,
they sustained the government, declared the
union perpetual, established the principles
of our great charter, and added men lustre
to our galaxy Of stars and they gave such
potency to our stripes as made England
grown in spirit and humbly pay her S15,-
600, 900 of Alabama elaine; France to with
draw her MAMMALIAN dynasty with con-
tumely and shame, and South Carolina and
her sister eonfederaies threw down their
arm in utter exhaustion and dependency.
But oh At what cost my counirymen
Two and three .fourths billions of money
expended il arms, munitions, and details
of army service, by the general govern
ment.
l
the sturdy yeomanry OF Vernon. alone, and
| from the productiveness of her Industry
for period of over four years over four
thousand manned and crippled for litei
| five and a quarter thousand who laid down
/ their lives on the battle field, amidst the
sickening scenes of the hospital and the
; fostering cankerous atmosphere OF the
t prison pens of the south. Five and a
| Quarter thousand heroes More than one
| seventh of the entire quota from Yer
. mont, left fathers, mothers, sisters, wives.
| Aye and children, homes, and all its KIM
; bred scenes. All that makes life desirable,
Counting them but as nought when their
/ countrys honor was at stake) 70 more e
, meet on earth, and brayely, heroically died,
| fighting mantully for the truth and for the
: right.
Among whom were your own cs-
pecal contributions, in honor, in
respect, in affection fer whom,
=. we are gathered here to-day, and
) have strewn our flowers and performed oui
. annual memorial service. Lieut.. Henry b.
+ Needham talented, faithful and patriotic
. the true friend, the sfTecIonale sou, the
: noble citizen. wounded at the explosion be
S fore Petersburgh, died few Gays there
0 after in hospital the soldiers Death, re-
GREETED and mourned by all. Bertrand Bill
liugs, instantly killed at the battle of Bator
. Rouge, far from home and friends, who
mourn and mourn. Jarvis j. Adams, served
t his first enlistment, was furloughed as 4
g veteran and come home to meet his loved
! ones and fight his battles DER,
Henry Powell and Henry Cobb, the faith
G full, genial, and ever true soldiers, woir
3 out by the severity Of army service, "cam'
/ nome to die" cut down by that fell de
A | siroyer of over taxed nature consumption
B, While more entitled to ursympathy, were
/ those 'enduring hospital horrors and dy
ing, with none to assuage but Hospital
: care" the growing, advancing young sub
8 ordinate Serg't Asahel Lee the energetic
: brave soldier Henry Chapman, and the eff
i ficent adopted supporters Of our institu
: tons, Peter Ryan and Jacob Leuo; unless
D il be Emory Bidweil, chung till dead eur
4 | rounded nv the hideous. lterlnr. upturuel