Deficiencies in Our History: An Address Delivered Before the Vermont Historical and Antiquarian Society, at Montpelier, October 16, 1846 |
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Page 7 - The Hampshire grants in particular, a country unpeopled and almost unknown in the last war, now abounds in the most active and most rebellious race of the continent, and hangs like a gathering storm upon
Page 36 - VERMONT ! for the land which we till Must have sons to defend her from valley and hill . Leave the harvest to rot on the field where it grows. And the reaping of wheat for the reaping of foes. Far from Michiscoui's wild valley, to where Poosoomsuck steals down from his wood-circled lair, From
Page 35 - ve cows on the plain ; And gay-tasseled corn-fields, and rank-growing grain ; There are deer on the mountains ; and wood-pigeons fly From the crack of our muskets, like clouds on the sky. And there 's fish in our streamlets and rivers, which take Their course from the hills to our broad-bosomed lake ; Through rock-arched Winooski the
Page 34 - the borders ! Vermonters, come down, With your breeches of deer-skin, and jackets of brown ; With your red woolen caps, and your moccasins, come To the gathering summons of trumpet and drum. Come down with your rifles !— let gray wolf and fox Howl on in the shade of their primitive rocks ; Let the bear feed securely from pig-pen and stall ; Here 's a
Page 35 - leaps free, And the portly shad follows all fresh from the sea. Like a sun-beam the pickerel glides through his pool ; And the spotted trout sleeps where the water is cool, Or darts from his shelter of rock and of root At the heaver's quick plunge, or the angler's
Page 5 - hostilities be committed by the king's troops. The people of the New Hampshire Grants have engaged to do this business ; and in my opinion, they are the most proper persons for this job. " This will effectually curb this province, and all the troops that may be sent here.
Page 35 - quick plunge, or the angler's pursuit. . And ours are the mountains, which awfully rise • Till they rest their green heads on the blue of the skies ; And ours are the forests unwasted, unshorn, Save where the wild path of the tempest is torn. § The
Page 34 - game for your powder and ball. On our South come the Dutchmen, enveloped in grease ; And, arming for battle, while canting of peace ; On our East, crafty Meshechf has gathered his band, To hang up our leaders, and eat out our land. Ho
Page 33 - us. The free Convention of the State of New York, at Harlem, in the year 1776, unanimously voted, "that all quit-rents formerly due to the King of Great Britain, are now due and owing to this Convention, or such future government as shall be established in this State.
Page 31 - STATE OF VERMONT, ) Whereas, this Convention, did at their session in Westminster, the 15th day of January last, among other things, declare the district of land commonly called and known by the name of the New Hampshire Grants, to "be a free and independent State, capable of regulating their own internal police in all and every respect whatsoever, and that it should