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Excerpt from Ethan Allen of Green Mountain Fame: A Hero of the Revolution
Perhaps no individual of equal advantages, and in the station he occupied, contributed more toward estab lishing the independence of our country than Ethan Allen, of Vermont, unless it be the single exception of John Paul Jones. The mass of people among whom Allen resided were rude and uncultured, yet bold in spirit and insanely zealous in action. It consequently follows that no one but a man of strong, natural endow ments - Of much decision, energy and bravery - could control their prejudices and inclinations. Habit had rendered them familiar with danger and impatient of restraint; hence it follovved that no policy, unless pro ceeding from a source in which they had confidence, ever gained their approbation.
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