Tarry at home travels . of land on earth. From that day to this day Vermont has earnedthe name, among people who know anythingabout it, of a model democracy. I wish thatone of the intelligent Swiss writers on govern-ment would come over here to see how they dothings in Vermont. You see, there are no verylarge cities. Burlington, the largest of them all,is a model city for the world to take note of andkeep in memory. I like to put in here a description of Burlingtonwhich I made in a speech before Alpha Delta Phi atits annual convention in New York in 1888. I hadhad, not long before, a friendly
Tarry at home travels . of land on earth. From that day to this day Vermont has earnedthe name, among people who know anythingabout it, of a model democracy. I wish thatone of the intelligent Swiss writers on govern-ment would come over here to see how they dothings in Vermont. You see, there are no verylarge cities. Burlington, the largest of them all,is a model city for the world to take note of andkeep in memory. I like to put in here a description of Burlingtonwhich I made in a speech before Alpha Delta Phi atits annual convention in New York in 1888. I hadhad, not long before, a friendly passage with Mat-thew Arnold, who had said rather carelessly thatthere was nothing ^ distinguished in America. 106 TARRY AT HOME TRAVELS ^When I heard in conversation this criticism,wliich I had never seen in print, about the absenceof anything ^distinguished in our cities, I askedmyself what was the last American city I hadvisited in my winter travels. As it happened, itwas one of the smallest of American cities —•. ^II•:\v UK Bltulixoton, an old copperplate engraving. the city of Burlington, in the state of may be told that there was nothing distinguishedthere. Perhaps not; but I know that, as weentered the town, as I looked back on the GreenMountains, which had been white with snowall day, but were now rosy red in the glory of VERMONT 107 the setting sun, I thought it was one of thenoblest visions I had ever looked upon. Iturned to look upon the clouds of sunset — tosee, far away, the sun as he went down betweenthe broken range of the Adirondack was tlie white ice of Lake far as Nature has anything to offer to theeye, I had certainly never seen in the travelsof forty years any position chosen for a city moreHkely to impress a traveller as remarkable, andto live always in his memory. I had beensummoned to Burlington on an errand con-nected with the public administration of was supposed that, as I came f
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