Manchester Historic Association collections . F BENNINGTON words: Our good disposition to defend ourselves andmake a frontier for your State with our own cannot be car-ried into execution without your assistance. Should yousend immediate assistance we can help you, and should youneglect till we are put to the necessity of taking protec-tion (from the Kings government) you readily know it isin a moment out of our power to assist you. The diewould have been cast. Vermont would have been obligedto have sworn allegiance to the English king or have beengiven over as the spoils of war to plunder. Se
Manchester Historic Association collections . F BENNINGTON words: Our good disposition to defend ourselves andmake a frontier for your State with our own cannot be car-ried into execution without your assistance. Should yousend immediate assistance we can help you, and should youneglect till we are put to the necessity of taking protec-tion (from the Kings government) you readily know it isin a moment out of our power to assist you. The diewould have been cast. Vermont would have been obligedto have sworn allegiance to the English king or have beengiven over as the spoils of war to plunder. Sections hadalready accepted such protection. Such was the condition of things when the battle onthe Walloomsac was fought. Truly great events turn onsmall hinges. Shall we, the inheritors of the benefactionsof these auspicious happenings, refuse to erect a monu-ment in gratitude and patriotism to mark the spot wheredespotism in this favored land received a fatal blow andliberty became for our valiant sires something more than ahopeless CATAMOUNT TAVERN ^tarks; Jnbepenbent Commanb atS^ennington By Herbert D. Foster, with the Collaboration of Thomas •g^N THE 18th of July, twelve days after the Amer-\^ py icans abandoned Fort Ticonderoga, there was^ laid before the General Court of New Hamp-shire a vigorous appeal to aid the defenceless inhabitantson the frontier of Vermont, who are heartily disposed toDefend their Liberties . . and make a frontier for yourState with their own. You will naturally understandthat when we cease to be a frontier your state must takeit, was the shrewd hint with which Ira Allen closed hisletter. Seldom has there been made a speech with clearervision and more immediate and lasting effect than wasmade on that day by Speaker John Langdon. In fourringing sentences, he put At the service of the Statehis worldly goods of those days—hard money, plate,and Tobago Rum. Then he added this prophecy: We can raise a brigade; and our friend Stark
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