. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. militia system must be organizedthroughout the Tnited States on uniform ])rinciples. Fourthly, thepeople must Ite willing to sacrifice, if need be, of their local interest tothe common weal; they must discard their local i)rejudices, and re-gard one another as fellow citizens of a common country, with in-terests in the deepest and truest sense identical. Washington, by his unparalled grandeur of character and hisheroic service, came to have a great h
. The town and people; a chronological compilation of contributed writings from present and past residents of the town of Woodbury, Connecticut;. militia system must be organizedthroughout the Tnited States on uniform ])rinciples. Fourthly, thepeople must Ite willing to sacrifice, if need be, of their local interest tothe common weal; they must discard their local i)rejudices, and re-gard one another as fellow citizens of a common country, with in-terests in the deepest and truest sense identical. Washington, by his unparalled grandeur of character and hisheroic service, came to have a great hold upon the people, and thebest people of the country treasured u]) his noble and sensiblewords. ( )nlv through the disci])line of i)eri)lexity and tribulation, cou!<;the i)eo])le be l)rought to realize the indispensible necessity of thatindissoluble Inion of which Washington bad spoke. A historiansavs: Tt is not too much to sav that the dangers from which we \\( )()l )l, I ? m , C() y NKCTIC LT 315 were saved in 1788, were even oreater than the dangers from whichwe were saved in 1865. CiAu, WooDiJLRv, Coxx. Sara M. IllK M!IXS Ol l)AXll-;i. CUKtlSS SONS. 3l6 TKK TOWX AND PEOPLE; November 15, 1900.—Years ago, a little irl, with the rest of herfamily, came to Woodbury to live. ( )ne frosty November nightshe walked up the village street to her new home, and, years after-ward, in recalling that walk, she could hear the dead leaves rustleunder her feet and feel again the sharpness of the air. The home towhich the child came was one of the large old-fashioned houses onthe main street, with a beautifully shaded yard, and here she spentsome of the happiest years of her life. The little girl has disappeared; in her stead is a woman, whosepath has led her far from the peaceful Iomperaug \alley, but thehappv experiences of the child and \-oung girl li\e in the memory ofthe woman, as vivid as though long years had not intervened, andwhatever her surroundings, she ca
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