The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-01
MORE WORK FOR THE DAUGH-
TIERS.


rative work by the Sons and Daugh-
ters of the Revolution, by the Colon
! ial Danes and all their allied forces.
! There is work the State should take
up 1t was grateful thing to rear
monument on the spot of President
! Arthur's birth. But the State dis
eliminates, and against it's own chill
dren, those who fought and died that
Vermont might live, those who con.
! tributed to the early glory of the
little mountain republic.
Seth Warner was the ablest soldier
of Vermont's early years. With Re-
member Baker he is generally classed
among the wild, rollicking and roman
/ tic Boys of the Green Mountains
in their breeches of deer skin AMI
Jackets of brown"-who caught I'M
lucky Workers spying out their lands,
chastised them with rods of beech
and bundled their smarting frames
back over the border, or who in q
hundred ways made the life Of the
tory among them altogether wretched.
Warner did a yeoman's service in
maintaining the integrity of Vermont
against the assaults of her nelghbors,
I but his claim to grateful commemora-
ton does not depend, in any consider
able degree, upon has deeds in the
defence of Vermont against the ag-
gressions of New York and others.
He was an active, dominating force in
the war for independence His
counsel was sought by the men in
chief command and when military
( service of particularly arduous kind
was to be rendered Warner was the
man chosen to command. He was
part of the expedition for the capture
of Ticonderoga, in the planning and
! the execution, though the rising sun
of May 10, 1775, with its admonition
| to the sleeping garrison, through de-
, lay in the coming of boats found him
and his men still on the Vermont
shore OF the lake. He was the man
/ appointed to seize Grown Point with
/ its formidable fortress. AS colonel of
n regiment of Vermonters he was a
! part of the ill-fated expedition to cap
ture Quebec, and when Gen Wooster
! sent back to the country his distress
full cry for help, in few days Warner
was again marching northward with
regiment he had hastily raised.
The Boys of the Green Mountains had
unbounded confidence in Warner, his
vigilance, prudence and courage.
They loved him, and they were accus-
toned to turn out at his call.
81 should be glad if few hills of
corn unhoed should not be IA motive
sufficient to detain men at home, -
this was part of stirring appeal he
made TO Vermonters, issued when Bur-
goyne was descending from the north
ON Ticonderoga. With a regiment of
Vermont militia he went to the de-
Tense of the fortress, and had he been
chief III command, measuring prob
abilities by the ability and character
of the man, the British army under
BuIgoyne may have encountered the
fate of another British army, under
Abercrombie, before the walls of Ii.
conderoga.
In command of the rear guard, de-
Tending the retreat of the Americans
after the evacuation of the fort, War
ner fought the battle of Hubbardton.
Though one-third of his force aban-
doned the field, and the colonel of the
second of the three regiments that
constituted his command was killed, he
had won victory, against superio'
numbers, in an admirably framed
plan of defense, when strong body
of the pursuing British came up
Bursting through their environint
bands Warner made good his escape,
In some actions, the skill of com
mander is better shown in defeat ant
escape than in victory. So it wal
with Warner at Hubbardton.
Warner was Stark's trusted lieuten
ant at Bennington. Stark had woI
the first onset; when the too conf
dent viotors were dispersed over thu
field, and British reinforcements hat
arrived, Warner, coming up will
fresh troops, instead of retreating tt
form new line OF battle, charged thu
British with irresistible courage anc
dash and in complete rout swept TIN
British reinforcements from the field
For the victory at Bennington, &C
counted one of the decisive battles o
history. honors between Stark ant
Warner are, at least, even.
Warner commended to Genera
Schuyler, in command of the northern
department, the plan of harrassing tn
march of Burgoyno by telling the for
ests in front of his line of march an
retarding his progress to gain tn
time much needed to prepare for dc