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Title: Bennington: the battles, 1777. Centennial celebration, 1877. A paper read before the Worcester society of antiquity, at its regular monthly meeting, December 4, 1877
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Tyler, Albert
Subjects: Bennington, Battle of, N.Y., 1777
Publisher: Worcester, Tyler & Seagrave, printers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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E are living in the Centennial aoe ofour national exiftence. One hundredyears ago our anceftors were in themidft of that lonsj and fearful conteflin which life and liberty battled withtyranny and flavery; from which conteft, waftefuland bloody as it proved to be, emerged the fair andcomely proportions of a New Republic. It was atime thattried mens fouls indeed, as the com-mon language of the years has cxpreffed the fenti-ment—for it was not only a time of breaking awayfrom political ties and affociations that had longexifted, but alfo the breaking up of focial affinities,and the fevering of fraternal and kindred relation-fhips, never more to be harmonioufly re-united.Thefe were the natural confequences of honeft dif-ferences of opinion, no doubt,—but ftill confequen-ces which reached to the profoundeft depths of i
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4 feeling, and ftirred the foul with a torture morepoignant, even, than if refulting from other andbafer causes. So. whether the fentiment of honoror the contrary emotion, placed friends and neigh-bors and kindred on the one fide or the other ofthe line that divided the loyal from the difloyal, thetrial of foul on the one or the contrary part mufthave been equally fevere. The fympathies of to-day, however, go out onlytowards the heroic fighters, the unfelfifh patriotsand heroes, the patient fufferers, in field and hofpi-tal and prifon-ship, who reprefented then the fenti-ments that have become univerfal in the prefent.We glory in their fucceifes and mourn over theirdifafters, for while in fpirit we have fhared their vic-tories and defeats, we have in reality entered intotheir labors and enjoyed the refults to which thefehave attained in a century of development. TheNew Republic which they founded, with barely co-hefion to hold its feparate States in unity, its powerhardly recognized a

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