St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-21


these communications to Gov. Chitten-
den, and Allen was prepared to handle
that delicate matter so adroitly that
his report to the Legislature was salts
factory to all parties that is, so far as
he individually was concerned, Allen
hoped that those British letters in his
possession might lead Congress to fear,
or even to believe, that Vermont would
unite with Canada, if again refused ad-
mission into the Union, and, therefore,
he laid all those communications before
that body, accompanied by his impas-
stoned appeals for the admission of his
state into the Union. That request, as
usual, was strongly opposed by New
York, which claimed that New York,
including each and every parcel of its
territory and everything appertaining
thereto, was already member of the
contederated Union. Congress had no
power to make New York into two
states, take away any of its territory,
or set up another state within its
limits. Allen informed Congress, in
his usual frank and emphatic language,
that he was determined to defend the
independence of his state, and, rather
than to fail, that he, with his Green
mountain boys, would retire to the
desolate caverns of the mountains and
wage war with human nature. Soon
after these occurrences the war came to
close. The battle of Hubbardton,
July I, M, and that at Bennington,
August Ii of the same year, We're the
only times that hostile army invaded
Vermont during that war, during
which time Vermont raised and equip
ped its proportion of men, led by Off
GERS of their own choosing, to make war
upon the common enemy. Inasmuch
us Vermont had paid its own men and
all its expenses of that war promptly
| from day to day, at the end of the war
it was entirely free from a state debt.
1t was not until seven years after the
war Q79O) that the controversy be-
tween New York and Vermont was
adjusted, the latter giving 100000
and receiving quit-claim deed. The
claims of New Hampshire having been
adjusted, Vermont was admitted into
the Union in I79I. The present con-
stitutiOn was adopted in 1893, and
amended for senate in 1896.
The CdledOnian of July 20 contained
a communication purpOrting to be
| from Peacham. which rehearsed the
former prosperity and glory of that
town, and mentioned the public officers
and distinguished men it had furnish
ed. We admit that their Judge
Chandler made very respectable re-
cord. Their congressman and governor
were united in the person of Gen
John MattOcks, whose brother William
of Danville was as well fitted for those
offices, because of his higher literary
attainments, having received col
legiate education, together with his
other good qualifications. Their Thad-
deus Stevens was simply indebted to
them for his academic instruction
and for Il resting place for the remains
of his mother. Their WILDER Fiske
was the son of Judge Isaiah Fiske, who
was living in Lyndon in the fore part
of this century, and for a long tim,
thereafter. The judge was a prOmi-
nent member of the Methodist church
and upon his occasional visits at Dan
) vile he put up at our house. In 1911
) or 1912, Wilber Fiske started from
l home, and arriving at Danville, h,
staid at our house until the next day
He was then bright, promising DO!
of about eighteen, and we congratulate
+ ed him upon his tlattering prospects
: because he was then on his way t,
enter Middlebury college. | did no
+ know that he ever attended schOo
at Peacham. ! am sorry to learn of tn
B., decline of that good old town, becaus
e | still retain many pleasing recollec
: tions of Peacham. | went from Dan
- Vile to that town, where | attended
l. district school during the summer {
o 1901, and then returned to DanvillC
/. My frequent visits to that place fO
e many years afterwards made me quit
g familiar with matters and things genel
If ally throughout that town. 1t seen
= to me that | can now see and hes
c Rev. Leonard Worcester standing
st the pulpit of that white meeting-hous
d then the only one within great di
sc tance having a steeple.
n HENRY LITTLE.
l. kalamazoo, August 30, 1883.
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that egg without the assistance of