Putnam patriot., 1918-07-05

at it's close was breyetted brigadier
 general for merit3riCus services IL might be sci 5nuezs f5r US to
 close these exercises without some
 recognition cf the part which the
 county at large acse1 in the Revolu-
 tion. Win3ham County responded promptly and abur dartly t9 every re-
 ouisition for suniies, fuEas or men
 She has the special merit of having
 furnished t5 the pltrict cause io1s oi
 it's most famous men, and in that re-
 spect no other county in the Union
 equals her. Those four were General
 Israel t4tnam, Governor Jonathan 1 T-ua l-'7 Colonel Thomas k79wlto1 and Cartsin Nathan Hale, all citizens of Win County as then c5Hstled5- i ed-Futae.n If Pomfret, TruTbuil ot : Ieban1u. button of Ashforl ! Hale cf 0Eentry. Putnam vas the general he of Bunket Hili, as Pres ! colt u-s the hero Of the redo1bt With steady courage Putnam cove et : the retreat and saved 1t from becom- ] ing q rout He served efficiently c1
 through the war until he was st1Ic.,-
 en down with paralysis, from Which i he never recovered.
 Trumbuji was the greatest and best ] of the Revolutionary War t9veino ! the one upon whom Washington most : leaned and whom he most re5Qecte l.
 Indeed Washington recaristesed hla5 i .Brethee Jonathan and as sueh remains still, the national rePsese1-2= i tive at home and abroad
 ] KnowitCn, bg his cogsunnate aslI- 1 itv and valor at Harlem Heights on i Sept l6, I776, gained d victory fer :! the Continental Arms. the fist aftef
 a long series of disasters. h the very
 moment of success he fell mortally
 wounded His son, soldier under | him. left the fighting to care for his dying father only to be sternly com manded by him to return to the bat
 tie He died upon the field with these | final words: .I die content if we do
 but win the day"
 Hale's last words have been known | for hundred years to every school
 child in the land, and in these times
 are a national inspiration. Contrast
 them, if you please, with the last words of the British spy, to whose body England has given final resting place in Westminster Abbey. As An
 dre stood beneath the gallows tree at Tappan. he turned to Colonel Alex ander Hamilton and some other young | American officers who attended him | and addressed to them these his final
 words: ''I ask you gentlemen to bear
 witness that 1 die as brave man U | Hale's last words were: My only re gret is that I have only enc life to
 give for my country" Andres last
 thoughts were of himself and of his
 own fame. Hale's were of his eoun-
 try and her salvation. A few years
 ago the New York Society of the Sons
 of the Revolution, to which 1 have the | honor to belong, reared a statue to
 Hale at or near the spot where he suffered, hard by Broadway, at the
 foot of the City Hall Park, just where the great city's tides of com I ,aerce and travel most do ebb and flow. Since then m;llions have looked
 upon that heroic face and read be-
 meath the legend of his manly death. Never do l behold that bronze tisure but I feel at my heart thrill of pride
 that my native county gave to Hale | birth and rearing.
 | In my researches for this address 1
 have been especially impressed with | the similarity between the Gonnecti-
 cut legislation during the early years
 of the Revolutionary War and the
 Federal War legislation thus far in i this war, as applied by the regulations | of Hoover and Garfi Thus the | Connecticut Legislature, TIGHTS, enacted (a) an embargo against the
 eXportation from the state of certain
 articles, namely, oats, wool, flax, bar 1 iron, fat cattle, sheep, swine, butter,
 cheese, sugar, molasses, New England rum, tanned leather or shoes; (bl,
 prohibiting the distilling of spirituous l liquor from wheat, rye or Indian
 corn, for the reason, however, as stated in the preamble, that such dis tillation will occasion a scarcity of
 bread in this state" (c) fixing prices | of certain commodities, namely farm labor three to four shillings per day l Ca new England shilling being 16 2-3 cents), good wheat six shillings per | bushel, pork 3 l-2 pence per pound, grass fed beef 24 shillings a hundred pounds. New England rum four shil- hngs, six pence a gallon. muscovado sugar eight pence a pound molasses four shillings gallon. butter ten pence pound. potatoes two ShillingS
 bushel. mems shoes eff the best common sort eight shillings a pair; (d) confscating the goods and lands
 of ''inimical persons; (el for arrest ing inimicai persons; and (f) for com
 pulsory military service of all males
 between sixteen and sixty, with cer- tai9 stated exceptions. without the right or privilege of substitution.
 During the midst of the winter of
 TIT and TITS, one of the most se- were ever known, more so even than . our last, Governor Trumbull stumped 1 the entire state, doubtless speaking in : the old church at Thompson Hill. | stimulating the people to every pos slble action in support of the war and especially urging the women to make : yarn and knit stockings for the sol diers. Knitting, therefore, became as universal hereabouts as it of late has been, it being only of stockings of honest home raised and spun wool, not of sweaters.
 Verify. there is nothing new under the sun. :" Indeed, about the only thing our forefathers did not do. which we have attempted to do, was to set the clock ahead and try to gain an hour upon the sun.
 In closing the thought comes to me What would these veterans [ sr,l- Al