It produced another effect. It called the attention of Washington and the Congress to the imperative necessity of dealing a death blow, to the Six Nation Confederacy of Indian barbarians. A year passed by. The avengers of Wyoming darkened the waters that wash the shores of your beautiful peninsula-they swarmed over the lands where we are assembled to-night, they went forward, they did the work assigned them; Wyoming was avenged.
WYOMING MONUMENT.
Permit me a word of review.
The Connecticut controversy! with all its bitterness and contention, it is sunk in oblivion.
The town of Westmoreland! it is sponged from the map.
The Twenty-fourth regiment! it served three years—one for the colony, two for the state. It builded forts, it fought battles, it went down to defeat and death, amidst a wild saturnalia of blood, rapine, and murder. It is forgotten.
"Time rolls its ceaseless course; the race of yore.
Who danced our infancy upon their knee.
And told our marvelling boyhood legends store
Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea,
How are they blotted from the things that be!"