The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1921-02-03

! lare the embIems II his CouateBaue,
The most mean spirited. cowurlly 81
/, coitful animals IN Gods creation BE-
! low. and legions ot Internal devil,
! with all their tremendous horrors az,
) mpaticnHy ready 70 receive Howe ans
] him with an their detestable aceomp.
J lices into the most exquisite agouies
of holy fire. An historian professor
/ lof Williamstown has somewhere pro
cur what H. judges evidence that
Ale never asked for Tconderoga in
the name Of Jehovah, for whom he Gid
not give a shilling, or the Continental
lCoag-css, Of which hardly anybody
had heard on May 10, l775. The VIII
liamstcwn professor claims that in
ste q Of this sonorous statement,
+ Allen said TO General Delaplaee, Now
get cut Of here, you damned old rat y
But we do not believe it The man
who IN written proclamation anuounc-
ed to the people Of Guilford that If
they aGhered to the Workers he would
Hay their t.wn "as dcsoiate as the
cities f Sodom ard Gomorrah, by
Godr and who spoke Of the whippings
his Boys administered to those who
differed with them "as castigation
with the twigs Of the wilderness" was
MT ne to let slip the dramatic oppor-
= Ig...5..,
And what an opportunity II was!
Unfortunately Allen was not alone in
recognizing it, Benedict Arnold got
himself empowered to raise men for
service against the Canadians whom
the news Of Lexington had stirred, end
tore after Allen, and opera bouffe must
have gained by their life together for
the next two months. ETHAN Allen,
Commander at Ticonderoga," is the
signature which the men who had out
lawed Allen read at the bottom Of the
bubbling document beginning, Il have
the inexpressible satisfaction to ac-
quaint you that at daybreak Of the
10th instant, pursuant TO my direc-
tions from suniry leading gentlemen
of Massachusetts, Bay and Connecti-
cut, ! took the fortress Of Ticonder
oga." At the foot Of the next missive,
Benedict Arnold, Commander at III
conderoga." q make you present Of
a major, q captain and two lieuten
ants In the regular establishment for
George the Third, writes Allen to the
Committee for Massachusetts, but
these gentlemen have already had Q
letter from Arnold saying that "Col-
onel Allen is a proper man 10 head his
own wild pepole, but entirely I'M
acqaainted ith military service" On
May % Arnold writes, Colonel |
Aliens are in general gone home
On June 4 Allen in signing himself
"At present principal commander Of
the Armyw BY the middle Of June
Arnold has drawn up a memorandum
Of the army to be used against the
northern forces; 1000 Connecticut
ment under Hinman; 500 New York
men; 500 Arnold's Massachusetts men,
and then in parenthesis, mo Green
Mountain Boys" Small wonder that
Sam Stringer writes the Continental
Congress wistfully remarking that
we should also desire that the COM
nand at the forts might be settled"
His spirit tried the mercies Of his ,
God
In whom alone he believed and
trusted,
S the epitaph on the stone which to-
lay lies on the slope above the rush.
ng waters Of the Winooski. II may
,e true; more certain il is that he !,
ried the mercies of the Continental
Congress. With a restraint almost
the leaders Of America,
through many tense months, had /,
lvoided the responsibility for hostili- /,
les; on the very day they met to +,
their Congress, an adyentur-
II overturned the apple cart and took /,
And there was no dislodging him. /,
Every day brought fresh letter from ,
lin, outlining his campaign, and de- ,
handing that Congress send him i'm /,
Mediate stores; eighty-five took Ii
a score added would invest
Montreal and Quebec; and then the
ireen Mountain Boys would sail over
he ocean and take London-Congress =
vas in q panic, and gave out publicly y
hat the seizing Of Ticonderoga was a
offensive act, but privately i told !
iensrl Schuyler hastily TO disavow Z
.llen 20 the Canadians and Indians y
no had been set in an uproar b. thisl
erson who went riding madly among
hem. uttering grand and inhamma-
ny remarks and plundering every {
hing in sight IN the name of Jehovah, J,
.c. 4
The Congress had rare luck Allen r