Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-05-25
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Vermont Jubilee.

The executive committee Of the Vermont
Centennial Commission have issued an APP
peal TO the people of the Green Mountain
State, calling for their cooperation in the
celebration which i. TO take place during
the third week in August, and in which
our own State Executive and Legislature
arc to participate. Ga the 10Th of August
will be cotnmenoraiel the battle of Ben
ninglon, with which the name Of General
John Stark Is forever 10 he associated. "a
glorious victory it was" said General Stalk
when he sent some trophies Of it TO Massa-
chuselts, aud he went on to describe IL as
one (which ought TO he Kept in memory
and handed down to lulurily as a lasting
and laudable example for the sons and
daughters Of the victors." His injunc.
ton was not forgotten, and in 1916 he was
reminded by letter that the grateful people
of Bennington, If no others, had, year by
year, celebrated the achievement of his
troops-an achievement worth thousand
times as much as the cold student of mill
tary science would value it at. And since
that day-every year, in fact, for century
John Stark has been remembered. Now
the Slate of Vermont proposes to honor
ing the one huudredth anniversary of
the battle which gave them fame
which we, in our careless way, call indy
ing. Perhaps il is. Why should it not be2
Aud in the same week Vermont will also
celebrate an event which, her commission
eis say, no sister commonwealth has yet
observed-the Tooth Anniversary Of her
birth as a Stale. The events were distinct,
although their dates were so nearly alike
that two days.will cover the celebration OF
both. To some men one Will seem more
important, to some the other more worthy
of being honored. But what Ncrmonter,
by birth or residence-what New England
er, who thinks upon the struggles and the
occasional triumphs of those dark days
what patriotic citizen, wherever he may
have been born, will hesitate to respond to
the call of the committee to which we have
referred? These events, one military and
the other civil, were two OF the most inn
portant OF the then young revolution. Their
effect was bounded by no geographical
lines. The commemoration OF them should
know none. New Hampshire and Massa-
chusetts were as much interested as the
State In which the battle OF Bennington
was fought in its results. Molly Stark was
not a Nermonter.
The committee ask for, and we hope and
doubt not they will receive, from SO, 600 to
$4,000 in addition to what the State has APP
propriated, 1t will not do 10 fail in an at.
tempt 10 commemorate inc DlTlu Oh STATE
aud a battle which, perhap', turned the
tide in favor OF our sorely-pressed auces-
tors. The people of Vermont certainly viii
be lacking in patriotism if they fail TO re-
spoud to the appeal: "As Concord and
Lexi ngton and Bunker Hill, the begin
ming of the struggle for liberty in l775,
have been worthily commemorated in 1875,
as the signing Of the immortal declaration
at Philadelphia in l776 has been fittingly
honored in 1876. so let the no less import
ant event of Stark memory in III, which
| has made his own name famous and that of
Bennington historic, he kept in memory
and handed down to futurty as lasting
and laudable example for the sons and
daughters Of the victors' by a commemora- e
ton in 1877 which shall be alike worthy OF
the memory of the men Of lT77 and their
! sons and daughters of 1877"