Speeches of the Hon. Gideon Haynes, Hon. W.S. Brakenridge, and Hon. Hugh W. Greene, on the Question as to Incorporating the Town of Belmont

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Pagina 9 - And be these juggling fiends no more believed, ;>< That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Pagina 16 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Pagina 3 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Pagina 16 - Permit me to state in the outset why I appear here. It is not because Mr. Tilden was my choice for President; nor is my judgment in thi.s case at all affected by friendship for him as a man, for I have not the honor of a personal acquaintance with him. I voted against him on the 7th of November last, and if this tribunal could order a new election I should vote against him again ; believing as I do that the accession of the democratic party to power at this time would be the greatest calamity that...
Pagina 4 - And the committee recommend that the petitioners have leave to withdraw their petition.
Pagina 6 - ... had gradually attained. How could successive repeated advancements of price be owing to a resolution adopted before the organization of the bank, permanent in its nature, and operating uniformly from the first adoption 1 There is some confusion in the treatment of this part of the subject. One would be led, by the language of the report, to suppose that there were successive measures brought forward from time to time, and calculated continually to stimulate the market, which was stimulated accordingly....
Pagina 8 - ... were inadequate at the same time that he was trying to sell his Belmont land and in his advertisement was stressing the point that "good schools" were located "quite near" to his property. 11 "They have, as I have already stated, one small store, a shoe repairer who tends, and works in the depot at Waverly station, a blacksmith, who comes just within the lines, on the West Cambridge side, and who depends on the old town entirely for his support, and these constitute all the elements (excepting...

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