News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-07-04

Twelve men from MOrrlStOWn SerV-
ed in the war of 1912, Joseph Burke,
Adam Sumner, Clement StOddard and
Thomson StOddard enlisted for the
war. Jonathan Cook and seven 9th
ers enlisted for six months. The can
Onading of the naval battle on the
Lake, Sept. IL, 1914, was distinctly
heard here, and Joseph Sears, DENIM
son Cook and several Others, set out
on Sunday for Burlington, prepared
to volunteer their aid if occasion re-
quired.
After the war of 1912 the martial
spirit was again revived and some OF
the settlers thought that the old mi
litia was a little too primitive IN It's
outline, WhereupOn n second company
called the MorristOwn Light Infantry
was organized, with DennisOn Cook
as captain. This company went 10
the opposite extreme in It's equip
ment, the men wore Il long skirted
double breasted coat with apels faced
with crimson red, with large Orna-
ment upon the shoulder i'll red and
white, Il standing collar Ornamented
with brass buttons, pants with a red
stripe down the outside and the whole
hero, surmOunted with a half moon
chapeau, the points of the semi-circle,
holding a large brass ornament over
each shoulder, and the apex OF the
circle blazoning forth with a large
plume of red, white, and blue feath-
ers. No grander sight was ever wit
messed on this planet, than that OF
the pomp and circumstance OF the
Morristown Light Infantry, as it
threaded it's way through the lines OF
admiring spectators, on It's march
up and down the main street at the
Four Corners. Tradition says, that
the only time the command, halt,
was heard, was when the troops were
exactly in front of Capt. Sears bar
room.
This company was succeeded by a
company called the Green Mountain
| Rangers, later on called the Morris
town Artillery, of which our towns
man Warren Spalding, was at one
time in command. Fornearly twenty
years before the breaking out of the
civil war, no military company IN
town maintained any healthy exist
ence. The eXigences of the Mexican
war called for no special revival OF
the military spirit as no one OF our
townsmen served in that war, and
our people had in the long peace,
beaten their spears into pruning
hooks and lapsed into a lethargy, be-
gotten by the eXactions OF their I'M
disturbed industries. But the spark
of patriotism was not eXtinguished
1t was merely dormant. The striking
of a flint would at any time klndle
it into a fierce blaze. Accordingly III
1861, when the first gun was fired
upon Sumpter, our toWnsmen were
instantly alive to the dangers which
beset the Government and from
: thence to the close of the war were III
slant. in season and out of season
in their zeal to serve the Union, Nor
ristoWn did not send out a contingent
of Brigadier Generals Ourmen went
South to fight, and no town in New
England, was hOnOred more by the
patient, persistent and unseltish ar
dor of her citizen soldiery, than The
good old town of Morristown. One
hundred and tifty-four Of her sons
more than one-half of her usual vOt
ingstrength at that time, volunteered
to enter the service, ten paid commu
tation and six procured substitutes
making a total of 10 men credited
to the town. Company E., Sd Regt,
was the first company recruited III Tn
= town, though Morristown men hat
enlisted in the ID Regt., and one
: Gov. Woodbury. had done himself tn
, imperishable honor, and won for tn
town the proud distinction OF con
4; tributing the first right arm Whlcl
l was laid upon the altar OF our coun
e try's cause, by Vermont soldier
:. We boast of our nature beauties c
5 mountain and landscaFe, of our III
: rivaIled wealth of soil - climate, {
II our uneQualled school, {, achurche'
/ of our trade and manufacturers an
/ of our Iaw-abiding, cmtented an
/ thrifty citizenship, but there is n
5 one feature in our municipal histor
e that excites a more grateful throb
. the public heart, or gives son OF GU
} town a greater pride, than the patr
) otto ardor with which our Morristow
r quotas were filled and the meritor
l. Gus manner in which all her sons ca
re ried themselves throughout the stru9
y gle.
,; Horace tells US that ivy, with il
q evergreen ereepers, wasin his day til
/. reward of learned brQWs. But
D. ours, wecrown with the perpetual iv
d of remembrance, the sacrifices, I'll
; zeal, the faithfulness in all things, an
Z the heroic daring of every brave SO
T. of Morristown on the battle fielC
/ whether he be present to-day in bod,
II or present to-day in spirit, lOOkin
It down from the battlements of Hea'
~ Ell and we now and here, cOvenar
- with them all, that we will hand dow
- to the next century. for It's emul'
Il ton, and as our henedictiOn, ii
l. glorious record which these brave me
Is have inscribed upon the pages of OF
history,
n. CAPTAIN JOE,
No picture of the early settlemer
of our town would be complete whiC
20 omitted mention of the invaluab
10 services rendered by old Joe India
" to the pioneers of the town.
il He was a scout in the service of I'll
ID colonists in the revolutionary WI
m and cherished an intense hatred
the British. He was born in Nov
w Scotia. During the forty-nine da.
ID siege of Louisburgh, the French caI
II toll of Cape Breton by the English
IS 1745 old Joe's tribe of Indians, OF
as of the allies of the French, was pra
la tically annihilated, whereupon he VIZ
ne taken home with, and brought up |
ir the st. Francis Indians.