The New England magazine . ocial group that lives along thehighway of war, where hospitality is a plainnecessity and courtesy frequently preventshostilities, is pretty sure to develop justthose admirable qualities that endear Ver-monters to the visitor. Vermont, moreover,lies between New York and New Hamp-shire,— social groups of different originsand characteristics,— and she has takenfrom both something of their best, whilesurrendering little or none of her own espe-cial quality of sturdy self-reliance. Ver-mont, in a word, is the Iowa of the West, in my boyhood, they used to saythat
The New England magazine . ocial group that lives along thehighway of war, where hospitality is a plainnecessity and courtesy frequently preventshostilities, is pretty sure to develop justthose admirable qualities that endear Ver-monters to the visitor. Vermont, moreover,lies between New York and New Hamp-shire,— social groups of different originsand characteristics,— and she has takenfrom both something of their best, whilesurrendering little or none of her own espe-cial quality of sturdy self-reliance. Ver-mont, in a word, is the Iowa of the West, in my boyhood, they used to saythat Iowa was the Vermont of the can play that equation either way, andit will work out. Vermont, like Texas, set up in business asa free and independent republic. The differ-ence was that Texas was recognized formallyby the United States, and elected chief ad-ministrators who were officially known aspresidents. Vermont for a dozen years hadthe substance of independence, treated as a &taAl NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. Lieutenant-Governor Prouty and his clerks free State with both the United States andthe mother government of Great Britain atthe same time, on equal terms, and finally(1791), as she had all the time intended todo, she won her way into the American fed-eration of sovereign States as an equal,despite the jealous opposition of NewHampshire and New York. Few schoolboysin the West and South know it, but EthanAllens brother Ira was as clever with hispen, and with his statesmans brain behindthe pen, as Ethan was with gun and were a great team, and it would behard to say which of the two men is themore honored in Vermont to-day. Ethanhas the monuments, but students of theStates history pay highest tribute to hisquieter brothers diplomacy and unflaggingpatriotism. How Vermont Suggests Kentucky I think that Vermont reminds me moreof Kentucky — historically — than of any-other State. Her founders were coonskin-cap men, handy with the rifle and the axe,keen i
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