Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1876-07-19
,nly surviving brother was unable to d.

she gave her last requests to her friends
and then departed, let us trust. to where
the wicked cease from troubling and the
weary are at rest
We are sometimes accused of Hunting
the bloody shirt for political effect; of re-
viving memories which ought to sleep in
forSetfulne>s; of dragging before the start
led and unwilling eyes of,his age the ghast.
II skeletons of horror which, but for our
persistence, would have been forgotten
before now. But this to-day is no mere
memory This is no buried horror Just
now newly exposed for tragic effect. This
woman, whose weary body We to day car
~ to Il new-mtdc grave. is almost a>
much "A victim of Southern cruelty rs
though some ass;,ssin's bullet had pierced
her heart They have killed her. They
have loaded her with horrors until her
frail body could endure it no longer. In
,lianapolis is called to-day 10 the task of
burying one of the victims of Southern
hate, and the victim is 4 woman And
what Of her only surviving male relative:
l. this some ancient tcrrero some forgotten
wrong but Just now re-tateu for Ell 'ci
His wounds are not vet fie lied; they are
almost fresh enough to be glltstly. Scarce
" three months ago he wa> as well ~
any of rs, and now he is 50 helpless tha,
he cannot wipe away his own tears.
And his is America. the land of the
free and the home of The brave; the land
whose historic boast has been in lis South
ern chivalrv; the land where men can
think what they please and speak what
they think the land where more has been
said about freedom and the rights OF man
than has been sid in all other nations
since time began Oh, how the eloqucnce
Of these mute lips rebukes and -catn"s Us
in our boasliny. Oar talk OF freedom l.
:. sarcasm. These white lips 40 mock al
us. Freedom for the South Nct waits IL
natal day.
am sure say only what these lip
would say could they speak. and only wh'
this brother will approve when ask, not
Is 4 pnrtiStn, but rs Il man: HtS tie ttttt
rome tOr rs to t'crttt tbs pr0Scfp{t"n tIlfo
pouI? Shall we dare, with these f'c!s
before us to enthrone the political princi
pie. with which these as>t->ins are idrnti
lied? Shall We give to such gigantic ;,nh
bloody wrong, a>t these the sanction of Pc
llic,l victory? 1t becomes Us t" cons'de'
the question. not As partisanS, but rs mel
who love freedom, ana a> Christians who
love God.
MH EpIroK:-Vhe funeral :,ldrc>, de
livcrrl ut indianapolis, Ind, does not give
til" fall details Of the bloody ;tl III a
CoU>Il.t,a. L., in Aug. ls1l. The follow
report to the Secretary Of War, January
10 49,. AMI illustrates the ease more III
detail
a; r., i~1nr
n ,.,i ana wtr nerAt"y mlr,lrrr q. tn ~.
i A..- ~ IA liz whltt l. ,-, ma -'n;eu
IA ',s t nr'cI on IA t 3n a ii
!u-' net"rc tn, arrival OF IN uitrl >,at.s trr~
'nI~ rTiIn ~ ~, n,'' ,rt fr ., ny WIN t ~
ri re-, man ,'rri t draw i tlrz -h3t mn IA II
III tTl- iI-tr-t ana thu ,tl-srl't ud-r driven Wi.
Marshall il. Twitchell. who they wished
to kill more than any other one, WIS absent
at New Oteans at that time, and escaped.
He had Lcen elected \ State Senator OF
Ia, ana the following paragraph appear
ed IN :. It,. paper, Nov. lotA, l>1t:
f..-.t.-l tie prol ,~!;lo1l: Il ',ttr-"I. smith
aar.l,l n ~" y Le,y.or lNlsrlri. T. 'l'-;'
.+- aux ,,llGirr. as tine SIS orleans i.tri'4
THINKS: nr httII- L,NI-ce. ANA IUAn~ NAN A.t
4r mt. III ..t,r NauEhl II ran. aud Land. IN
1t ! l- "a. Nier, hrAtllg. l"Nl~'' and Al.eoI u
AIv! ANA 80 Tx .NttN otilc,r. from = l-r,-sl4A.
+ Ma ;,''''il-;. !. Ia e''> d~tr AMI J"rl~A ~ Il
WtnNt tn r. jrtIl-- t. ard MAY C,Unt III We caNn
al nd t. "' d"i''At N = r,u1 II i4il a '!n't.'
have IrlUlll he'd IL I}utu HE NAY
nHr The .lNeS f all thes CARPET hA-E"r,
IA heal ll;ic.als L ul7iAnA ar val ~ :. miAi
Il WI tic worth 'i ell-!e Pluclfieui ]u-tlce Az
/ IIurrtN
All Of these * white men we've Yer
mon err, anl from Windham County
Willis w..~ t private i'll Go |, Ii Ee@t. VI
Volt. III Hand served in the >th Vt: ana
Marshall II. served through the war. Tin
latter has now seen another Iruthcr-n
Iav. X jny. SHOT down. and himself wound
ed 81 severely A> To he Obliged to hay,
boIh arms aruput,tcl Taus seven son,
# Vermont have been murdered, Tia.
eighth escaped Wi "A his iiir. but with til,
loss Of hi~ anus. an ;hc preceding address
tel Of the t:.te Of his sister whom he VA
irving 10 accompany To irr native State.
h., her rrmtin> come AMI b. hiri"i H.
her mountain home where Law and order
rciyu. r