On the opposite side of that ancient Hall. whose marvelous echoes are the wonder of the guided and misguided people who enter there. Vermont has chisled in everlasting marble the stalXXV16 wart hero of her Green Mountain�. whose gorgeous eloquence and emphatic sword compelled the surrender of Ticonderoga. Facing each other these sturdy veterans stand. fine specimens both of the citizen soldiery of two war epochs. the one native and the other foreign born. but both preeminently and altogether American. steadfast and reliable when put to the test. selfreliant. resourceful. and full of enterprise. not absolutely great. but always useful. positive rather than eloquent. magnanimous. but determined. at home only when abroad hewing the paths for the more refined civilization which follows after them. and in its dilettanteism neither knows nor suspects that the work of such men alone renders its progress possible. typical both of a pioneer race to whose vigorous manhood and restless activity the nation owes much of its strangth and most of its development. James Shields and Ethan Allen! It is with such rugged bowlders as these that the foundations of empires are laid.
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Generalization about immigrants being steadfast, reliable, self-reliant, resourceful, and full of enterprise.