Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-11-10

At half past seven the officers assembled
at the Pavilion. whence, under the marshall
ship of Gen. Pitkin and headed by the
Montpelier Cornct Band, they marched to
the State House. The address was delivered
in the hall of the House of Representatives
which was filed 10 Overlooking by most
intelligent and attentive audience of officers,
legislators public officials and ladies and
gentlemen OF Montpelier aud other towns.
President Batsiow took the chair, and III
troducad the orator Of the OCCASION as fol-
lows:
Ia calling this meeting 20 orter might well con-
ten myself by simple introduction of the
speIl 81 bu' cannot refrain from AN expression
u qualification. IN behalf of the Reunion Society,
IN view Of the brilliant audience that has gathered
10 the sound Of our lung-lOll. The society was
organized nineteen years since, Tor social ana
patriotic purposes. II has never had aught 10 do
Win politics or cgislhilun II has never tailed To
recognize WIN gralliuie and appreciation the
Vermont people 1t has never let reflection or
reproach upon those. who for various and sufficient
reasons, dld net muster with them upon the
tented HELD. We are sometimes told that the only
way 10 save and perpetual" our institutions - 10
Sc arch ouj those men mos learned and those
whom nature has endowed the most shining quall-
Ties OF mind and brain, and cntrust 10 them the
sole administration of affairs. Without denying
this | NAV safely say that there sometimes comes
iDa nation crisis where men Of mere abstract
knowledge and native capacity fail where strong
arms aud Loyal, willing hearts are needed -
wren neli ar No'g'l ~, ~ ." inuun ~. ',oal
ieaht rs, III sie,um, A. l"i ne ncanness ~ az,
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leeialdu.ta dui tu'Htus' lo t'c h,n'I9 Ih.ci.a'
which thelr presence in,''raes, iic eAecu' ~
commute, nav sel''in ~ ,"c o'1,ol VI WV
evening" non heo' t. b'h'lltl, VI bulllilg'u ,
Who hhs l1t spulc l'Ht lt'l u'tn rngaEtu ~ wv
MlIllaty historian al lhr Nlh''' ne served ~ "
lieutenant On SIAN d'lY anu lenucrrl ia''I',
iul service 20 ms 'oUnlrE nv lur naVls ~, vi
'ellysbuIGu. Among ne uthlillc lhrl''th!s VI nlf
service en- me aS' udE oi MAJ great bhllle wa
ina' ol TeotNlib W MS arms IVY htIlohch
slawatl FORM OF va' htr"r oHlcer' zen, iilHcoch
a. ne ieil from ms morse severely Anunueu,
nave lhe l"h"l =" present !" you i'eu'chah
htheu''
Lieut.. Iscnedici'. Address.
Nj. Pr'sid'ih and Er"'hrr' ~ H' Reunion Society
The story OF the gre riytl war in which our 30
ciety mad It's o gin wan In lime be told and tina
more fully than the story Of any great wa
IN human history But II viii not soon be fun,
tod Covering more land and water than any ON
er modern war cnlistlnr he services OF over thre
millions of soltliers who face each other in ncarl,
a hundred important battles and in lesser engage
ments without count seen hy more eye-wirnesse
capable Of describing ~ events ihan any other wa
since the world was male a war about whicl
more was written aud printed IN the time of il thai
any other war,-the very abundance Of material