One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913 . and whose intercourse both private andofficial I have long known to be distinguished. The former byevery trait of the warmest personal friendship, the latter on theone part by an admirable obedience, the best testimony of thesoldiers fortitude. On the other a disinterested zeal of whichyour actual discipline and high military appointment affords suchan ample proof. Colonel Page, an attempt
One hundred years with the State Fencibles : a history of the First Company State Fencibles, Infantry Corps State Fencibles, Infantry Battalion State Fencibles, and the Old Guard State Fencibles, 1813-1913 . and whose intercourse both private andofficial I have long known to be distinguished. The former byevery trait of the warmest personal friendship, the latter on theone part by an admirable obedience, the best testimony of thesoldiers fortitude. On the other a disinterested zeal of whichyour actual discipline and high military appointment affords suchan ample proof. Colonel Page, an attempt to portray the great, full characterof our present object would be in vain, it is sufficiently depictedupon the animated countenances of the brave men who surroundus, it is breathed warm from the hearts and while it expressesthem in individual merit, as industrious citizens of a free andpeaceful and prosperous republic, it plainly indicates the ardentpropensity of virtuous minds, seeking to display itself by allchaste and honorable means. In the name then of these, yourfellow citizens, and by a title still more dear to you, of these yourfellow soldiers, I beg you accept Sir, from the State Fencibles. A STATE FEXCIBLE OF lS2fi. 1830 SPEECHES OF COLONELS PAGE AND WATMOUGH 31 this sincere expression of their feelings toward you, and of thesense they entertain of your military character, and of all thosequalities in you, which best adorns the walks of private life. Inaccepting this gift you have good cause to indulge an honestpride; it is intended to perpetuate the most fascinating of allassociations, that of military brotherhood; it abounds with therichest impressions of sentiment and social feeling, it is tenderedas their most appropriate pledge, and in years to come when theinane and noiseless foot of time shall find us all far down thevale of life, and perhaps have mingled the bones of many of uswith our mother earth, then will it serve to recall the pleasingrecollections of y
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