. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. e-making went on, taking a north-ward direction, until at length it penetrated nearly allsections of the state. Meantime the older settlementsbecame more thrifty in appearance, established newindustries, and prospered. Men grown well-to-do inthe older communities repeated their successes in thenewer, enteringthem now as smallcapitalists, buildingthe mills and assist-ing in the work ofmore rapid settle-ment than that ofearlier days. Thear
. A history of Vermont, with the state constitution, geological and geographical notes, bibliography, chronology, statistical tables, maps, and illustrations. e-making went on, taking a north-ward direction, until at length it penetrated nearly allsections of the state. Meantime the older settlementsbecame more thrifty in appearance, established newindustries, and prospered. Men grown well-to-do inthe older communities repeated their successes in thenewer, enteringthem now as smallcapitalists, buildingthe mills and assist-ing in the work ofmore rapid settle-ment than that ofearlier days. Thearms of commercebegan to reach upinto the little repub-lic of the this went on,there is that other story, the story of a long and .persistent attempt to gainfor the state admission to the Union. This attempt waslong frustrated by New York, who still insisted on herclaim to the grants. It is a point worth remembering that, in spite of thedangers and uncertainties of setthng in the state duringthe Revolution, Vermont was by comparison not theworst place in which to live. There were greater dan-gers and uncertainties elsewhere. She was free from. Vermont Flag 122 HISTORY OF VERMONT many of the burdens which the colonies had taken uponthemselves in this great war. Her support to the warwas purely voluntary; her taxes were light ; she neverhad hung about her neck the financial millstone ofirredeemable paper money; her lands were cheap andinducements were strong to incoming settlers. It was a point of self-interest for Vermont to promoteas rapid a settlement as possible in this period. Themore settlers she obtained, the stronger she would beto maintain a position that while unique among thecommonwealths of America was at the same time some-what precarious. As the armies of Washington meltedaway by desertion, not a few of the self-retired veteransfound their search for quiet homes leading them intothe woods of Vermont. The families established herethrove prodigiously, and th
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