Salt Lake Times | 1890-06-30 | Page 3 | Vermont was about to Desert

1 ' Vermont Was About to Desert. Somebody grubbing umong the Canadian Cana-dian state papers in the buildings of the Dominion parliament has come upon letters let-ters which amount to an important historical his-torical discovery. It seems that at that eventful period in our colonial history when Cornwallis was beleaguredat York-town York-town by French and American armies and a French fleet, just before the capitulation capitu-lation which struck the death blow of the English cause in the United States, Vermont, tho Union state which bordered bor-dered the Canadian frontier, was on the ! very point of joining Canada. Chicago (Herald.