Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-08-27

with curses and with tears, and cry
of execration and lament swept through
the country. "Such a retreat" wrote
one of the garrison, sswas never heard of
since the creation of the world The
men talked of treachery. "We never
shall hold post" said stout John
Adams, ''till we shoot general" Bur
goyne wrote home 1.-THE rebels have no
men Of military science" King George
rushed into the queens apartments.
shouting, 81 have beaten them, have
beaten all the Americans" and he talk
ed of a red ribbon for his general.
But they were all mistaken. The
rebels had men Of science. Sir John
Trumbull had proved on the spot year
before that this very thing could happen.
Schuyler and st. Clair were no traitors.
They only blundered. 1t was a grave
error in Schuyler to accumulate such
precious stores and priceless arms for
capture and destruction in ill-provision-
ed and half-defended fortresses. 1t was
most lame and impotent conclusion
for st. Clair to boast that ''if the enemy
come hither, he will 60 back faster than
he came" and within one week he stole
away by night. The news of the loss
of Ticonderoga fell on this whole region
like the bursting of a water spout. For
miles along the lake and up the Otter
creek the settlers claimed British pro-
lection or fed from their homes. The
inhabitants of Albany ran about their
streets in terror. Williamsport and
Stockbridge were crowded with fugitives.
The New Hampshire towns along the
Connecticut from Walpole to Haverhill
were sending off messages of alarm.
Beza Woodward wrote from Hanover at
midnight, "For Gods sake come with
out delay" But George had not beaten
all the Americans. and Burgoyne did
not earn the red ribbons. There were
on these New Hampshire Grants, in the
words of congress, ''people called Green
Mountain boys" and they were not
ready to resign their homesteads after
the struggle of dozen years, and that
song, though unwritten then. was sung
through their hears:
Here we halt our march and pitch our tent,
| On the ragged forest ground.
And light our fires with the branches rent
By winds from the borders round.
Wild storms have torn the ancient wood,
But wilder is at hand,
With hail of iron and rain of blood
| To sweep and desolate the land.
Down in Berkshire there was a COM
pany that had been disappointed of ga
fight" Over in New Hampshire there
was a gallant body of men. who had
held their own at Bunker Hill till the
very last, had led the van at Trenton,
fought at Princeton, was bound for
Saltwater and Saratoga and Monmouth
and Yorktown. There was man whose
name was Seth Warner, clearheaded,
resolute, unfinching, every inch a sol.
dier, and acquainted with every foot Of
ground. There was also man whose
name was John Stark, born and bred
warrior, genuine military instinct and
genius, who could find his place anG
hold it, too, ready, when he knew hi
was right, to take risks, whether it was
the anger of Schuyler, the censure o
, Congress, or the wldowhood of "Molli,
/ Stark" There was noted tavern il
/ town, "and when there were gathered
: there Ira Allen, Thomas Chittenden
} Jonas Fay and their staunch comrades
: there was one catamount on the sign
/ post and IL catamounts within" Their
: was another committee of safety at Exc
] ter, and while it contained such men a
Q Mesheck Weare, Nicholas Gilman, Jc
j siah Bartlett, the republic was not LOST
r 1--WE can repulse them," wrote lr
: Miller, "if we have assistance"
e In three days New Hampshire vote
e the assistance of 25 companies of Stark
IS brigade. 1t was then, when there wa
IS no money in the treasury and no hgt
n ahead, that uprose John Langdon in h
a place rendering him money, his me-
% chandise and his plate" "If we gal
g our independence I shall be repaid;
s, not what matters my property?" II
lie Legislature adjourned on Saturday nigh
s. All that night and the next day a
re American was riding from Exeter
ct Concord. Sunday afternoon he di
in mounted at q church door and walked l
ID the aisle. The minister stopped ar
W said "Capt. Hutchins. are you the bea
n er of message ?'' s.Yes, Burgoyne is {
lg his march to Albany Stark will cor
b. mand the New Hampshire men, and
u we all turn out we can cut him off
be "My hearers" said old Timothy Walk
be 'You who are ready to 60 better lea
al at once" All the men left the hou
to but Phineas virgir, who had no shoe
Ro 'You shall have pair" said Samu
en- Thompson the shoemaker, "before
en- morrow morning.
If While Warner was sending his mt
ne senges on frerh horses to call the mi
tia and alarm the inhabitants of "