Proceedings of the Reunion Society of Vermont Officers, ... with Addresses Delivered at Its Meetings, Volumen1Free Press Association, 1885 |
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1st Cav 1st Lieut 2nd Lieut Albans Aldace F annual applause arms army batteries battle Bigelow boys Brattleboro brave Brevet Burlington called Capt Captain Cavalry Chaplain citizens Colonel Veazey command committee comrades death deeds duty eloquent enemy Farnham field fight fire flag fought Fredericksburg front G. G. Benedict gallant George George W Gettysburg Governor Green Mountain Green Mountain Boys guns hearts honor Hooker J. C. Stearns John John Sedgwick Johnsbury Josiah Grout liberty Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Major meeting memory ment Montpelier nation never Old Brigade orator organization patriotism peace Pingree Pitkin Potomac President Proctor ranks rebel rebellion record Redfield Proctor regiment Regt Republic responded Reunion Society Ripley Rutland Sedgwick sentiment Sixth Corps Stannard Surgeon tion toast Union Vermont Brigade Vermont Officers Vermont regiments Vermont soldiers Vermont troops victory W. G. Veazey W. W. Grout W. W. Henry wounded
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Página 207 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Página 362 - Could I embody and unbosom now, That which is most within me, — could I wreak My thoughts upon expression, and thus throw Soul, heart, mind, passions, feelings, strong or weak, All that I would have sought, and all I seek, Bear, know, feel, and yet breathe — into one word, And that one word were lightning, I would speak ; But as it is, I live and die unheard, [sword.
Página 452 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Página 429 - O'er such sweet brows as never other wore, And letting thy set lips, Freed from wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or of poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations bright beyond compare? What were our lives without thee ? What all our lives to save thee ? We reck not what we gave thee; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare...
Página 444 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave : Nail to the mast her holy flag. Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Página 156 - Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like; all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike; nay, number itself in armies importeth not much where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, "It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.
Página 174 - The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow; The fiery Greek, his red pursuing spear; Mountains above, Earth's, Ocean's plain below; Death in the front, Destruction in the rear! Such was the scene — what now remaineth here?
Página 138 - That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The Man's the gowd for a
Página 119 - We are not deceived. There is no delusion here. No age will come, in which the American Revolution will appear less than it is, one of the greatest events in human history. No age will come, in which it...
Página 324 - The mother who conceals her grief While to her breast her son she presses, Then breathes a few brave words and brief, Kissing the patriot brow she blesses, With no one but her secret God To know the pain that weighs upon her, Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod Received on Freedom's field of honor ! THOMAS BUCHANAN READ.