The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-10-04

to prove conclusiyely that the men of
81 were chips of the old Green Mountain
Boys and ready, although preparations
in the state were meagre enough, to re-
spond firmly and for the whole war to
every demand. Vermont voted promptly
that she would do all in her power to
maintain the Union, into which it might
be said she had forced her own way in
the early days. The frst-born state was
true. The Legislature required only
forty eight hours to vote one million
dollars for war expenses, without dis
tinction of party, and to add 81 per
month to the Governments Si3 for that
period, aflirms that Governor Fairbanks
proclamation for this assembly bore even
date with that of President Lincoln and
antedated by a day, at least, that of
any other governor IT is impossible to
rehearse here the story of that war,
which has since been told SO often, but
one Of the great events, great and endur.
ing for all time to come in the history
of the last century, was the preservation
of the American Union. Vermont may
justly have credit and take pride in the
fact that its battle flags at the State
House symbolic the doings and the
valor, the sacrifices and the deaths OF
seventeen regiments, three light batter
les and three companies Of sharp-shoot-
Hers, in all, $4,000 men. But, alas, all
this made most significant difference
and it was a hard aud cruel task to re-
adjust the work, the loss Of income, the
added burdens Of taxation, the contrac-
ton in farm values, and, above all, the
I,>cs - III
all this was added the call and the re-
sponse for an emigration from Vermont
into other states, both in New England
and throughout the West You educated
the best men you had in your own state
universities and academies and they took
themselves to other markets for the ex-
ereise of their capacities and a CORES
ponding opportunity You reared the
finest women in the world and either
your sons took them off with them OF
they were wooed elsewhere, until for
half a century the population Of the
state stood still and even now it is only
beginning to enjoy d favorable growth
under the influence Of new industries
and arts and the immigration due to
the development Of special industries at
certain points. Yet it is Just and true
verdict that the period which followed
Vermont in the Civil War was as good
repetition Of reconstruction as that
which followed its admission as d state,
different IN the character of the forces
at work through the world at large, but
alike in les demands upon the people for
thrift, for economy, for courage, for loy-
atty, for indiyidualisn, for persistency
and for rugged character. 1t was
great and noble period, out Of which BY
the attributions OF time and death VIE
are now passing and To which we viii
soon be yielding our memory only, for
its actors will have passed away. But
when all else has been said and told III
song and verse, in story and address up
on which Yermont's claim to q star III
the flag will be pied, the doings Of the
soldiers in the Civil War and OF the men,
women and children behind those sol
diers will pass in review once again and
all voices of all men born here or born
again here viii join in saying, God bless
the star that never SETS"
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