Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-22
VERMONT PATRIOTS IN WAR
tnin State at the Meeting of YER
moptcrs in southern California.

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been my fortune to travel in many lands,
but never elsewhere have ] seen n land
soape more enchanting, n people more
honorable, nor women more beautiful.
Dear Old Vermont, love her.
I have been asked to respond to toast
to this homo-lke banquet Of Vermonters.
! am neither orator, nor essayist, simply
Vermonter who loves and respects his
native State and proud of the fact that
he is Vermont Yankee.
have thought best to coninc my few
remarks to the "Vermontcr in War" !
am veteran of both army and navy,
having served in the Twelfth Vermont
Infantry and after my term OF service
in the army expired, enlisted in the
United States navy, and was attached
to the monitor "Monadnock." leaving the
service In January, 1866.
The civil War began ffty-two Years
ago tomorrow chat is April #. 500,
In those days 1t was called the war
of the Rebellion"
The only reason why I did not enlis,
when Abraham Lincoln issued his frs
proclamation was because | was not
church bell rang long and loud IN the
belfrN OF the old white church In my ma
tive village of Shelburn, calling the men
from their shops and their rlows I was
among the young men who signed the
muster roll. So 7 trust that yor will NOT
censure me for taking the war and the
soldier FOR my subject I am neithe,
blood thirsty nor unforgiving. | really
! love my enemies, ut least those who
| fought for the lost cause in the Sixties y
Briefly reviewing the Normontcr in wa
| from the beginning of our history as a
nation. I am proud of the fact that wher
our country called for soldiers, the sons
of Vermont never failed, nor have they
ever disEraCcd their name from lack o,
| courage or disloyalty.
In the struggle for a continent, Yer.
mont, along the shores Of Lake Cham
plain, was the scene of many a san
culinary conflict between the French, tn,
British and the Indian The only mean.
of transportation, save on foot. was b,
boat through Lake Champaign.
In the spring of i175 and just prior t.
the capture of FL Ticondcroga by Gen
! Ethan Allen, messengers were sent ou
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