The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-29

help coming here tonight / canpo
help being here tomorrow. The even
and the time are at hand | see il nov
resistance, and battle, and blood Lei
il come the victims are ready: anc
their blood, poured out on the woot
on the altar OF liberty, will bring dowr
fire from heaven to consume the OPP.
pressors ~
There was short silence among the
company who seemed to pause, in sur.
prise and awe at the strange words and
manner of the young man, which
evidently made an impression on his
hearers at the time, and which were
afterwards remembered. and often re-
peated, at the Preside, in recounting
his untimely fate. '"
"Mr. Fletcher, at length observed
the chairman, breaking the silence
"Mr. Fletcher, a. of Newfane, is next
entitled to speak, ! believe. ="
81 rose. Mr. Chairman, said the
latter, fine specimen Of the hardy,
resolute, and intelligent yoeman of the
times--''l rose but to ask whether the
news just received can be relied on /:
"can it be, that Judge Chandler,
after his pledge to us at Chester,
would be guilty of conduct rejecting
SO deeply on his character as a man?"
II am not wholly unprepared to
believe the story myself, replied the
chairman tour young friend here
may have his peculiarities but I
considerd him thousand times more
honest and honorable, than some of
those whose sly hints and treacherous
conduct he has SO well described. .
"Ditter, look here, Mr.. Moderator, "
interposed Dunning ~ was once,
ditter travelling, in the Bay State,
with friend, when we came across
meeting house with eight sides, and
my friend asked me what order OF
architecture called it. Otter well,
was fairly freed, and couldn't tell |
But ! should be able to tell now. III
should ditter call it the Chandler
order. y
A desultory but animated debate |
now arose. Various methods of ac
complishing what appeared to be the
settled determination of all-that Of
the sitting of the court
were suggested. Some proposed to
dismantle or tear down the Court
House; others were for arming the
people, seizing the building, and
open defiance to their oppo-
nents. A this stage Of the delibera-
tions, Colonel Carpenter. whose char
acters had secured him great infiu-
ence. rose, and requested to be heard.
From the gathering signs of the
times" said he, 1--WE have good reason
to believe that the smonldering fires of
liberty will soon burst forth into open
revolution throughout these oppressed
and insulted colonies. Our movements
here may lead to the opening scene of
the great drama: and we must give
our foes no advantages by our impru-
lence. If were the first to appear in
arms, it may weaken our cause. while
I strengthens theirs Let them be the
irst to do this let us place them in
he wrong, and then, if they have
'ecourse to violence and bloodshed,
We will act: and no fear but the poeple
will find means to arm themselves.
let us, therefore, go into the Court
House tomorrow, in body. but
without single offensive implement
md resist peacefully but firmly and
hen if they dare make a martyr, his
Hood will do more for our cause than
you'd now a regiment of rifles. -
Although this prudent and far i,
lighted proposal was for while OPP ,,
osed by the more ardent and unthink- !
ng part OF the company yet it was at !
ength adopted by the whole; and !;
aving made arrangements to carry it :
nto effect the meeting broke up ard !.
u retired to their respective lodgings. :