The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-08-17

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Vermont came from Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut and Rhode Island. The troops Of
these commonwealth fought IN a noble
rivalry, and with equal courage, for the
safety of these homes and for the common
veal. Their dead sleep side by side. And
as look over the roster Of those regiments
l read the Welsh name Of Evans, this Nor
wegan. Peterson, the Scotch Webster
and Behannon. The names of McGrouger,
McClary, Gregg, Stark and their compan.
ions show that the Scotch-Irish furnished
some of the best fighting stock of America,
while the great bulk OF those troops were
of pure Auglo-Saxon blood. So was it on
broader scale throughout the war. The
name of Gen. Sullivan's ancestors was
O'Sullivan, Lafayette was already with
Washington Kosciuske the Pole, was
about to plaa the intrenchments at Sarato-
ga, and his countryman, Pulaski, was now
q volunteer and prospective martyr for
American liberty. And though those
German troops that we fought on yonder
nights had been sold like sheep in the
shambles, and fell here like sheep in the
slaughter, VIC may not forget that II was
Germans and Dutchmen who ten days be-
fore had defeated st. Ledger at Oriskany,
and that Herkimer was dying of his
wounds even while Stark was winning this
victory; nor may we forget the faithful
DeKalb, alrea iy in our ranks, and Steuben
who made our fighters into soldiers and our
soldiers into an army, then died in poverty,
and slept in a long forgotten grave. And
why need mention the name OF Duportait,
Gouvion, Radiere, Launoy, Fleurry, and
the chevalier Armand?
The event is also lesson of fraternity,
for among those who battled so nobly for
the cause of liberty were citizens of neigh
boring states and Scotchmen, Irishmen and
WelshmeD, while France aud other foreign
nations gave us Lafayette, Kosciusko,
DE kalb, and others, who fought
side by side in common rivalry. "Out of
80 major generals in our revolutionary war
IL were Europeans" The toll and blood
of many races purchased our land of rest
and privilege. To many races let 1t be
home OF privilege and blessing; yea, they
have come-Scandilavia and Welsh, and
llish and Scotch, and Hebrews and Ital-
lans. 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 in due time came. A
hundred and fifty thousand Chinese are but
avant couriers OF millions to follow. Let
| them, too come on with their industry and
economy, The free friction of free inatitu-
lions shall wear off from them at length the
rust of ages and stamp them with the super
scriptlon of this free reDublic.
Does it not stand written IN the declara-
ton made by this new state seven months
before the battle, that the inhabitants that
may hereafter become residents either by
procreation or emigration within said ter
| ritOrU nhall no npfiflo1 IN tho Nrtwi
| leges 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 10
that God TO whom Nichols and Allen and
McClary prayed before they fought; and
| then shall these vast bodies of diverse ele-
| mente, enough to have changed the char
acter If half the empires of Chrstendom be
| assimilated by the same woodworking
power as heretofore, and that con.
stitution which has been foolishly
called "Rope of sand" shall continue
TO be wall of adsmant aronnd us all.
But Bennington teaches, too, that the
foreigner must come hither to enjoy and
not to destroy our institutions, as law
abiding citizen, never as a lawless invader.
BE may not mistake the home of freedom
for land of license, nor think that when
he has escaped the terror OF the gems d.
| armes abroad he may inaugurate a reign of
terror here. The communists who burned
down the Tuleries and the hotel de Vile
cannot, under the name of brotherhoods
and unions, be suffered to make bonfires of
our railway stations and our warehouses.
Hostile bands will no more be permitted to
plumber our trains of merchandise than
formerly to seize the stores Of Bennington,
and if Breymann with the best troops of
Europe might not obstruct this great high
way with his cannon, still less may the
Films and Loshers and Zspps with rufflan
hands arrest the movements of our great
steam thoroughfares and paralyzc the
whole business of this country. The
strong arm of the nation must teach them
that, if they will not work, neither shall
they forcibly arrest the honest work of
other men. No mob, though il be 10000
strong, shall trample on the laws and rights
of forty millions. And one grand lesson
that should signalize the opening of the
new century is that all hostile and
violent demonstrations upon peace
full citizens shall be as thor
oughly and as summarily Queled
as they were on this spot one century ago
When bands OF men patrol our streets with
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firebrands in their hands, il is war, and
they arc enemies. 1t is no time for blank
cartridges, but for point-blank shot. Next
after the riot act and a warning to dis
perse, comes the bayonet aud the bullet,
grapeshot and canister. At Pittsburg three
weeks ago last Saturday and Sunday Oh,
Tor one hour OF Warmers regiment and
Stark's brigade. 1t would have cleared the
way from New York to San Francisco, and
here on the borders of that old battlefield
and in the freshness of these glorious men,
cries, let these noble bands of Green noun
tain boys lift up their hands to heaven aud
swear that the descendants of those whom
the best soldiers of Britain and Germany
could not expel from their farms and their
homee, shall never be driven from their
lawful laSors for an hour by the floating
scum of Europe and America.
But we are reminded that the same old
enmties are dead or dying. Six weeks
ago | searched In vain on that Hestian hill
for trace of these intrenchments which
once blazed with hostile fires.
"Long silent, too, has been the drum,
suspended by its tattoOed marge,
Thatrolled and ratified 10 Hessians charge"
Even four years ago, stood in the old
home of my ancestors in England, whose
occupants century ago were probably in
full sympathy with its government against
whom my American progenitors were con-
tending with sword and mu,ket, 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 re-
ceived to her home circle our great captain
president, while the whole nation strove
to do him honor. Thank God that British
hands no longer strike at Anglo-Saxon lives,
that English blood no longer drips from