The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
Ind GREAT VERMONT STORY
|qHE GERS
ON,
THE TORY'S DAUGHTER.
lA LEDGE u. +. THOMPSON.
VOLUME ii.
CHAPTER l. Continued. J

4 ~ rose. SAID Carpenter, "but tt
10, m, hearty response to the senti
sn ot If thc chair. 1t is time, high
. a' for some definite and decided
'n ,iar Less talking and more action
XIII bprlrforth be my motto. | have
s.', w, nnv it is true, any digested prop
.;.ion 10 present to the council: but
,nnn Will have one unless others are
4 rrrd for, in this emergency, it is
itte short of a crime to daily any
' I'Ay action! action'' responded
"ictiau let it be, them" said Row
Ii, thp nnXt rising to speak. ''If il
T.. ,rue, as has been urged, Mr.. Presi
Inf that we cannot raise money by
nnera assessment without exceeding
-m movers and disatfecting the people,
ana that we must depend on volun-
tar, contribution. which receivers,
unlimited for the purpose, may more
o.mrrorria.ely gather ia than ourselves,
, lF are we needed here? | will, there
rra make proposition, which,
rbile if viii be obnoxious to none of
II. objections brought against other
Hans Of defence, will give gentlemen
a. much action as they want. | pro
nose. Mr. President, that each of us
Here, before any more of us run away
10 fine enemy. seize a standard, repair
singK TO the different hamlets among
our mountains. cause the summoning
lrum to beat for volunteers, and lead
them. when obtained. to do battle in
person with this Jupiter Olympus of IA
british general who has so nearly an
initiated the country by proclama-
tion,
oTom Rowlcy ~ all over! but a gal
Iaptpush nevertheless. "vivaciously ex-
claimed Samuel Robinson. % in an I'M
der tone. And yet, Mr.. President, ''he
continued dropping the iocose. and
new rising to speak in form-"a and
vet if our colleagues spirited proposal
rould he carried in effect. and men be
found to volunteer under such military
leaders as most of us would make, Or
If the different towns, as has been sug-
g9sted hy OF hers, would order out the
militia on our requisition. even then
il appears to me we should raise a per
manent and regularly enlisted force
10 serve Il rallying point or nucleus for
the militia, or to our patriotic friends
army Of volunteers. | therefore move
rs was about to do when others
,Iamed the HOor-I move the raising
i regular force. however small our
means may compel us to make it: and
Is the smallest to be thought of | will
zane one company of one hundred
men. to he raised and supported by one
i the methods suggested by the presi-
lent
And /, said Clark, 3Jpromptly ris-
NJ and believing we may venture
o 20 a little higher than that, | pro-
nse We raise two companies of sixty
men each. "
No, no." cried several voices: one
empany Of veterans can be formed
rom no more than one. y
Yes. YES the larger number first,
lr President go for two compan
es, " cried others.
And | 90 for neither. Mr.. Presi
ent' said Ira Allen stopping short
n his walk and turning to the chair.
For | believe the council. on little
election, will conclude to do something
lore worthy OF the character of the
lreen Mountain Boys, than the raising
+ the paltry force which even the
est Of these propositions involves.
md doubt not the means of so do
lg may be soon and abundantly sup
he'd without Infringing the consti-