Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-09-03
things. The men who achieved our de-
liverance here feared God, and they
feared nothing else.


"They came as brave men ever come,
To stand-to fght-to die
No thought of fear was in their heart,
No quailing in their eye.
II the lip faltered, it was with prayer.
Amid those gathered bands.
For the sure rife kept its poise
In strong untrembling hands,"
This eonsecrated spot speaks to us al
SO reason of fraternity. This region
was once the New Hampshire grants,
and Bennington's character transmits
the name of Benning Wentworth, New
Hampshire governor. Nine-tenths of
the early settlers of Vermont came from
Massachusetts,. Connecticut and Rhode
Island. The troops of these common
wealths 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
[ read the Welsh name of Evans, the
Norwegian Peterson, the Scotch Web
ster and Behannon. The names of Nc
Grouger, McClary, Gregg, Stark and
their companions 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-Sax-
on blood. So was 1t on broader scale
throughout the war. The name of Gen.
Sullivan's ancestors was O'Sullivan.
Lafayette was already with Washing
ton; Kosciuske the Pole, was about to
plan the intrenchments at Saratoga,
and his countryman, Pulaski, was not
a 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, we may not forget that
it was Germans and Dutchmen who ten
days before had defeated st. Ledger at
Oriskany, and that Herkimer was dying
of his wounds even while Stark was
winning this victory; nor may we for
get the faithful DeKalb. already in our
ranks, and Steuben who made our fight
ers into soldiers and our soldiers into
an army, then died in poverty, and slept
in 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 frater-
ternity, for among those who battled so
molly for The cause of liberty were cit
liens of neighboring states and Scotch
men, Irishmen and Welshmen, while
France and other foreign nation gave US
Lafayette, Kosciusko, De Kalb, and 9TH
ers, who fought side by side in common
rivalry. "Out of SO major generals in
our revolutionary war IL were Europ-
cans" 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-Scandinayians and Welsh,
and Irish and Scotch, and Hebrews 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
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 econo-
omy. The free friction of free institu-
tions 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 dec
laration made by this state seven months
before the battle, that the inhabitants
that may hereafter become residents
either by procreation or emigration with
in said territory, shall be entitled to the
same privileges and on the same condi-
tions as "the present inhabitants" and
as ''any of the free states in 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 McClary prayed
before they fought; and then shall
these vast bodies of diverse elements,
enough to have changed the character Of
half the empires of Christendom be as
simulated by the same woodworking
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 law
abiding citizen, never as lawless In
vadcr. He may not mistake the home
of freedom for a land of license, nor
think that when he has escaped the ter.
ror of the gems d'armes abroad he may
inaugurate a reign of terror here. The
communists who burned down the
Tuileries and the hotel de Vile cannot
under the name of brotherhoods and
unions, be suffered to make bonfres o.
our railway stations and our warehouses
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