The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-29
Highest
Awards at
Worlds Fair.

WOTIu > TdlT.
} no cash is stirring, with which debt
can be paid, they purposely multipl,
suits, seize property, which they vel
know can never be redeemed, and TAX,
it into their hands, that they MAJ
make the people dependent on them
and subservient to their party pur
poses. And just SO far as they fine
themselves strengthened by these anc
other disguised movements, so far they
betray their intention to curtail al
freedom OF opinion, and to overawe us
by open acts of oppression. Here, one
man has been thrown into prison on
the charge OF high treason; when all
they proved against him was the re-
mark. that if the king had signed the
Quebec bill, he had broken his corona
tion oath. (3) There, another, poor
harmless recluse, as l have ever sup
posed him, is dragged from his hut in
the mountains and imprisoned to await
| his trial for an alleged murder, COM
mitted long ago, and in another juris-
diction; when his only crime, with his
prosecutors, probably, is his bold de-
! nunciations of their tyranny, unless,
as some suspect, even baser motive
actuates them. They even proclaim,
| that all who dare question the kings
right to tax us without our consent,
are guilty of high treason and worthy
Of death For myself, seek not the
suspension of this court at this time.
on account of the questionable juris.
n nf Nnu Xnrk r,orolx h,,< 10
cause the court, itself bitterly tory in
all its branches, IS sustained by a
colony which refuses to adopt the re-
solves of the Continental Congress,
and thereby continues to force upon
us the royal authority, which our
brethren of the other colonies have
almost everywhere put down, and
which in our case, Heaven knows, is
not the least deserving the fate it has
met elsewhere. And the question,
then, now comes home to us, Shall we
tolerate it any longer? The hearts of
the people, though their tongues may
often be awed into silence-the hearts
OF the people are ready to respond
their indignant MOI And /, for one.
am ready to join in the cry. and
stepping into the first rank of the OPP
posers of arbitrary power, breast the
storm in discharging my duty to my
country
"Amen!' was the deep and general
response OF the company.
'Mr. Dunning will now be heard"
said the chairman, motioning to the |
former to come forward.
"Ditter well, Captain-der-ditte
Mr.. Moderator, mean. l, being on |
the watch against ditter interlopers.
you know, have just picked up an odd
coon, here, who ditter seems to have
ears in one place and tongue in an
other; and his story is Otter loud
one. But let him tell it in his own
way. So now, Barty Burt he con
tinued, going up to the other, who
stood by the fire, kicking the fore
stick with his usual air of in
difference leone forward, and tell
the meeting all you have der seen and
heard, in the ditter camp of the Phil
stines. y Bart, then, mostly in the
way of answers to series of rapid
questions, put by the chairman, who
seemed to know him and the best way
If drawing him out, Bart then related
lis discoveries to his astonished and |
Indignant auditors giving such imita-
ions of the manner of each of the
ompany whose words he was repeat
ng, as not only showed their meaning s
n its full force, but at once convinced
IL present of the truth of his story. ,,
No sooner had Bart closed, than l
alf dozen of the company sprang to 9
heir feet, in their eagerness to ex- :
ress their indignation and adherence
{ the bloody plot, which their oppo-
ents under the garb, of peace and fair n
had, it was now evident. ;;
cen Matching against them. !
''Order, gentlemen !" cried the chair !,
ian ~ don't wonder you all want to c
enounce the detestable and cowardly G
onduct of the tyrants. But one only y
an be heard at time, and Mr.
rench, l rather think, was fairly up s.
rst, and he will therefore proceed. f" /" /"
While all others, on hearing this re- (,
lark, of the chairman, resumed their h
eats. the person thus named, as priv a
ged to speak first, remained stand a
lg. He was a young man, of about Il
of ready, animated APP =
earance, while every look and motion
his ardent countenance and restless m
uscles proclaimed him to be of the 81
ost sanguine temperament and en- b
lusiastic feelings. And almost un.
atural excitement was sparkling in hi
is kindling eyes, and sort of wild, n
tful, sad, and prophetic air charac- b
rized his whole appearance as ne ec
sgan. a,
at has come at last, then! l knew an an
was coming. have felt it for h,
onths; waking and sleeping, 1 have tie
1t it. In my dreams l have seen {.
God in the sky, and heard sounds of
title in the air and earth. Dreams
themselves, l know, are generally
ithout sign or significance but when
e spirit of dream remains on the
ind through the waking hours, as it
is on mine, l know it has meaning.
,mething has been hurrying me to be
ady for the great event. could not