St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-08-31
VOLUME 4l---NUMBER 2O92.

soldiers into an army, then died in
poverty and slept in a long forgotten
grave. And why need [ mention the
names of DupOitail, Gouvier, Radiere,
Launoy, Fleury, and the Chevalier Ar
mand.
"Out of twenty-nine major generals
in our Revolutionary war, eleven were
Europeans" The toll and blood of
many races purchased our land of rest
and privilege. TO many races let it be
a home of privilege and blessing. Yes,
they have come, the Scandinavians and
Welsh and Irish and Scotch and He
brews and Italians. Six millions of
Germans are gathered voluntarily on
the soil of our country. Here let them
flourish. Five millions of Africans,
here not by their own will. toiled and
suffered, but not on the battle field, and
their deliverance too, in due time came.
A hundred and fifty thousand Chinese
are but the "avaunt-cJuriers" of mill
ions to follow. Let them, too, come on
with their industry and economy. The
free friction of our free institutions
shall wear off from them at length the
rust of ages, and stamp them with the
superscriptiOn of this free republic.
Does it not stand written in the Decara-
tiOn made by this new state, seven
months before the battle, that the in
habitants that may hereafter become
resident, either by prOcreatiOn or by
emigration within said territory, shall
be entitled to the same privileges "and
on the same conditions" as ''the present
| inhabitants" and as "of any of the free
states of America We have but to
be true to these civil principles for
which the Green Mountain Boys fought,
and to that God to whom Nichols and
Allen and McCiary prayed before they
fought, and then shall these vast bodies
of diverse elements, enough to have
changed the character of half the en-
pires of ChristendOm, be assimilated by
the same wonder working power as
| heretofore and that Constitution which
has been foOlishly called "a rope of
sand," shall continue to be wall of
adamant around us all.
But Bennington teaches too, that the
foreigner must come hither to enjoy,
and not to destroy, our institutions as
a law W-abiding citizen, never as law
less invader. He may not mistake the
home of freedom for land of license;
nor think that when he has escaped the
terror of the '|gens d'armes" abroad, he
HldN al Vi ltlIOE mere.
The Communists who burned down the
Tulleries and the Hotel de Vile, can
not, under the name of brOtherhOods
and unions, be suffered to make bon
fires of our railway stations and our
warehouses. Hostile bands will no more
be permitted to plunder our trains of
merchandise, than formerly to seize the
stores of Bennington. And if BIey man,
yVith tha host nf Enrntna N.i,rbt
not Obstruct this great highway with
his common, still less may the Films and
Loshers and Zepps, with ruf1ian hands,
arrest the movements of our great steam
thoroughfares, and paralvze the whole
business of this country. The strong
arm of the nation must teach them that
r if they will not work, neither shall they
I forcibly arrest the honest work of 9TH
= er men.
No mob, though it he forty thousand
strong, shall trample on the rights of
2 forty millions. And one grand lesson
! that should signalize the opening of
: this new century, is, that all hostile
and violent demonstrations upon peace
I tul citizens shall be as thoroughly and
{ as summarily quelled us they were on
this spot one century ago. When bands
, of men patrol our streets with threats
in their mouths and weapons and fire.
brands in their hands, it is war, and
, they are enemies. 1t is no time for
p blank cartridges but for point blank
= shot. Next after the riot act and the
warning to disperse, come the bayOnet
and the bullet, the grape shot and can
e. lister.
/ At Pittsburgh, three weeks ago last
P Saturday and Sunday, Oh, for one hour
| of Warmers regiment and Stark's brig
B AIDE! 1t would have cleared the way
= from New York to San Francisco. And
! here, on the borders of that old battle
i field, and in the freshness of these glO-
rious memories, let these noble bands
j of Green Mountain Boys lift up their
i right hands to Heaven and swear that
J. the descendants of those whom the best
: soldiers of Britain and Germany could
L not eXpel from their farms and their
: homes shall never be driven from their
q lawful labors for an hour by the floating
- scum of Europe and America.
{ But we are reminded here that some
T. old enmities are dead or dying. Six
\ weeks ago ! searched in vain on that
I HesSian hill for a trace of those en-
{ trenchments which once blazed with
+ hostile fires. Long silent too has been
= ''The drum suspended by its tattered marge That
: rolled and ratified to the Hessan's charge"
! Even SO four years ago | stood in the
j. old house of my ancestors in England,
/ whose occupants il century ago were
p probably in full sympathy with the
Government against whom my Ameri-
:. can progenitors were contending with
+ sword and musket, but | was there q
welcome guest, and but just now in the
palace where the demented George was
hardening his good natured heart
against our country, the British queer
received to her home circles our great
Captain President, while the whole ma
ton strOve to do him honor. Thant
: God that British hands no longer strike
l. at Anglo Saxon lives; that Englisl
q blood drips not, from fratricidal wounds
c but on both sides of the wide Atlantic
} flows fresh and strong in sympatheti,
ID hearts. We celebrate to-day the valo
d that relieved our liberties without &
L thought of bitterness towards thOs,
; from whom we inherited and from whom
& we wrested them-very BritOns from
D very Britons.
j And let us also rejoice to-day tina
L. these Centennial cOmmemorations have
e come in to throw the vail over later ant
Z blOodier wounds-that Concord ant
:. Bunker Hill and Bennington are super
i imposed upon ADtietim and Getfys
D. burgh and the Wilderness 1t is Wei
L that by-gones should at length be by
IL cones. l am one of those who though
o. that for their slaughter ola million live
D. and their assaults upon the nation