University of Vermont - Ariel Yearbook (Burlington, VT)

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l 18 THE,ARIEL, 1907 'f Horrors in Architecture and so-called XIVOFBS of Art in Bronze in the City of New York, 1886. W'hy Burnside did not Renew the Attack at Fredericksburg, 1892. Early Coast Operations in North Carolina, 1893. . Better than Men. QReviewed in U. V. M. Cyriic, June 6, 18Q8D. Assassination of Loyal North Carolinians for having servedin the Union army, 1897. Our Political Degradationf, 1904. Corlears Hook. The VVagnerian Cult. Our Manners, Cone volumej , 1904. f The six papers following appeared in the North American Review: Destruction of- Art in America, Brutality and Avarice Triumphant. The American Hotel of Todayf, The late President Carnotf' Russia's Attitude during the Civil War. The Why of Rural Free Deliveryf' The Bibhfographer and The Library Collector also show contributions from his pen on Early Printing, The Daye Press U Cnow at the Vermont State Housej, etc. His articles in the periodical press discuss a great variety of topics :- art, archmology, early printing, early Wood engraving, the Roman Catholic church, politics, political reform, the rebellion, etc., etc. -V In 1874 he received from Brown University the honorary degree of Master of Artsg in 1889 he was made an officer of the Legion of Honor of France, and in IQOO the University of Vermont recognized his eminent ability and numerous public services by conferring the degree of Doctor of Laws. G, N w 1,1335 QW gfjgiy Qf gf' 3 'ef

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THE ARIEL, 1907 17 brigadier general, U. S. Volunteers, and received a like commission in the National Guard of New York. And fifty of his fellow citizens expressed their estimate of the value of his services by presenting him with a sword of honor. Since the close of the Civil War, General Hawkins has been actively engaged in political reform, local, state and national. In May, 1864, he called the attention of the Union League Club to the necessity for a system of civil service, and was appointed on a committee with Dr. Francis Lieber and General Hayes, to attempt to arouse a general interest in the subject. This was the beginning of the salutary movement so familiar now Linder the name of Civil Service Reform. In 1872 he was a member of the Reform Legislature N of New York, but tiring of the jobbery and venality of the majority of his fellow members, he resigned his seat a week before adjournment, and issued to his constituents a frank Statement of his reasons for resigning. The most complete account of the Tweed Ring Fraud ever written may be found in his Report to the Union League Club, printed in 1876. In 1889 General Hawkins was appointed United States Commis- sioner in special charge of the Department of Fine Arts at the Inter- national Exposition at Paris. Through his efforts American Art, and especially American Wood Engraving, gained the recognition they de- served. I-Iis report, with illustrations, may be seen in volume II of the Government Report of the Exposition. Since 1866 General Hawkins has spent more than half his time in Europe, studying the principal art collections and visiting the libraries, public and private, of all parts of Europe, Spain and Russia alone excepted. His extensive knowledge of art, bibliography, and wood engraving has given him wide recognition as an authority on 'these subjects. We add a partial list of the General's writings, omitting those already alluded to: The United States in Account with the Rebellion, 1876? A Few Facts in Later American History, 188o.

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THE ARIEL, 1907 19 Che flbaster of the flbist It 'Gale of jfort 'Giconberoga By JAMES BUCKI-IAM N ALL that I have read of American colonial history and tradition I can recall but one reference, and that an obscure one, to the strange Hermit of Mount Defiance. And yet in some respects no more patriotic figure adorns the annals of our great VVar for Independence. A weird, thoroughly romantic figure, certainly, is that of the I-Iermit, yet heroic in its large outlines, in its devotion and its sublime faith in the cause of American freedom. XV hat I have to tell about this romantic character is the story of my grandfather's grandfather, that came to me by word of mouth in my boy- hood, and has never yet appeared in any Written or printed document. I repeat it as my grandfather repeated it to meg he having received it from his grandfather one winter night as they sat in the glow of the great kitchen fireplace, with the northwest wind shrieking over the chimney of the Vermont farmhouse. ' My grandfather's grandfather was one of Ethan Allen's Green Mountain Boys, and lived next-door neighbor to that inflexible patriot in the then New I-Iampshire Grants, whither both had removed from Connecticut. On the day when the news of the Battle of Lexington reached the Grants, Allen, on a foaming horse, drew rein at my ancestor's door, and exclaimed: By the God of heaven, Lewis, the British have fired on our patriots and the war has begun! I-Ienceforth every American heart is red with that martyr' blood, and by great Jehovah! we will wash out the stain in the blood of the slayer! I Then the fiery patriot instructed his subordinate to carry word to the Green Mountain Boys, as far to the southwest as Skeensboro, that