Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-08-24
NO. "a.

Loshers aud Zepps with ruf1ian hands ar
rest the movements of our great steam
thoroughlares and paralyze the whole bus
mess of this country. The strong arm OF
the nation must teach them that, IL they
will not work, neither shall they fOrclby
arrest the honest work Of other men. No
mob, though ii be 10000 strong, shall tram
pie on the laws and rights OF forty millions.
And one grand lesson that should signal
lie the opening of the new century Is that
all hostile and violent demonstrations up
on peaceful citizens shall be as thoroughly
and as summarlly quelled as they were on
this spot one century ago. When bands OF
men patrol our streets with threats In their
months and weapons and irebrands In
their hands, IL is war, and they are enc
mics. 1t Is no time for blank cartridges
but for point-blank shot. Next after the
riot act and n warning to disperse, comes
the bayonet aud the bullet, grapeshot and
canister. At Pittsburg three weeks ago
last Saturday and Sunday oh, for one
hour of Warmers regiment and Stafk's
brigade. IL would have cleared The way
from New York to SAP Francisco and
here on the borders of that old battlefield
aud in the freshness Of these glorious mem
ores, let these noble bands OF Green noun
tain boys lift up their hands 10 heaven and
swear that the descendants of those whom
the best soldiers Of Britain and Germany
could not expel from their farms and their
homes, shall never be driven from their
lawful labors for an hour by the floating
scum of Europe and America.
But we are reminded that the same old
enemies are dead or dying. Six weeks ago
l searched in vain on that Hessian hill for
a trace of these iutrenchmenis which once
blazed with hostile fires. Long silent, too,
has been
The drum suspended by its tattered margs,
That rolled and ratified to the Hessans charge
Even so, -four years ago, 1 stood in the
old home Of my ancestors in England,
whose occupants a century ago were prob
ably in full sympathy with its government
against whom my American progenitors
were contending with sword and musket,
but was there welcome guest, and but
Just now in the palace where the demented
George was hardening his good-natured
heart against our country, the British queen
received TO her home circle our great cap
tain president, while the whole nation
slroVe 10 do him honor Thank God that
British hands no longer strike at Anglo
Saxon lives, that English blood no longer
drips from fratricidal wounds, but on both
sides of the wide Atlantic flows fresh and
strong in sympathetic hearts. We celebrate
to-day the valor that achieved our liberties,
without thought of bitterness toward
those from whom we inherited and from
whom we wrested them-very Britons from
very Britons.
And let us rejoice also to-day that these
TO throw veil over the later and bloodier
wounds, that Concord and Bunker Hill and
Bennington are supermposed upon Autie-
tam and Gettysburg and the Wilderness.
1t is well that bygoues should at length be
bygones. l am one of those who thought
that, for their slaughter OF a million lives
and their assaults upon the nation's life a
dozen chief criminals should have been
hung between the heavens and the earth,
but it was not so done. Another policy
prevailed. This mighty nation of nations
of the earth could pardon and yet live.
The cup was full of bitterness, but we
drank ii down and now we may throw
away the dregs for southern soldiers have
strewn their flowers on the graves of their
northern conquerors, and the southern gov
ernor of South Carolina has pledged protec-
tion to the liberated slaves. AS in 1777 the
tide of battle turned, so in 1877 at length
has turned the tide of peace. This year, for
the first time in our national history, the
work of our earlier and later wars is ac-
complished. We dwell at last in real aud
homogeneous Union of free common
weallhs. 1t is one harmonious republic,
where no sovereign state is joined TO its
e66hhlqqHS Sb bVu ufsdeFal hayQpats.- and no fngi-
zens, free everywhere, free TO govern them
selves, we look hopefully down the broad
vista OF peace and prosperity. What tongue
dare foreshadow the tale Which, If God will.
shall he told here one hundred years hencer
All honor to the brave and honest chief
magistrate, who afler decade of fruitless
experiments and smodering strife, had the
90 II manhood TO break away from all mar
row and partisan restraints, cast himself
unpn the sound sense and christian senti-
ment of the American people, and lead off
the new order Of centuries, and let the east
aud the west and the north aud the south
say, amen aud amen.