Free Trade Principles in Early American Politics
The passage argues against tariffs and subsidies that shield domestic interests. It recalls the founders' preference for free trade, cites historical limits on colonial exploitation, and warns that modern policies favor protected monopolies. It urges a return to self-reliance and a republic unfettered by paternal government.
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New England
West
South
Congress
South America
Spain
Cuba
France
Great Britain
Atlantic
Pennsylvania
New York
Patrick Henry
Republic
Architecture in Boston a Hundred Years Ago Recalled
Robert S. Peabody surveys Boston’s 18th century streetscapes and houses, noting shifts from Tremont to State streets and the loss of many mansions. He describes gambrel roofs, interior staircases, and classical detailing, tracing influences from Palladio through English architects and the spread of architectural books and orders.
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Boston
Robert S. Peabody
King Street
State Street
Duke of Marlborough
Washington Street
Tremont Street
Howard
Park Street
Theodore Lyman
Gardiner Green
Peter Faneuil
Governor Phillips
John Vassall
Samuel Eliot
Parker House
Jacob Wendell
Dr. Warren
School Street
General Warren
Hanover Street
Beacon Street
Hancock
North Square
Fort and Copp’s
Batterymarch Street
Old State House
Old South Church
Old North Church
King’s Chapel
Portsmouth
Salem
Cambridge
Hingham
Plymouth
Holmes
Copley and Stuart
Paul Revere
Winslow
Winthrop
England
Italy
Palladio
Inigo Jones
Wren
Gibbs
Hawksmore
William Chambers
Adam
Athenæum
William Layburn
Lord Strozzi
Florence
New Hampshire
Chippendale
J. & J. Taylor
High Holborn
B. Franklin
Ll.d
Batty Langley
Town Meetings in Boston 1787 and the Adams era
In 1787 Boston's local government mirrored the state system with town meetings acting as sovereign yet limited bodies. Samuel Adams led these gatherings at Faneuil Hall as March and April business months. Bowdoin and Hancock vied for Governor. Bowdoin 724 votes Hancock 775. Cambridge and Roxbury also favored Hancock per the Massachusetts Gazette.
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Old
Boston
Salem
Newport
Nantucket
Province House
Old State House
Faneuil Hall
Winslow House
Plymouth
Samuel Adams
James Bowdoin
John Hancock
Bowdoin
Hancock
Massachusetts Gazette
Bostonians
Charlestown
Cambridge
Roxbury
Boston Town Officers and 1787 Ratification in 1787
The piece recalls Boston's 1787 town government, noting nine selectmen and 120 officers, including two deer informers and four hog reeves. It cites town debts, Old Continental money value, and annual expenses, plus a Lord’s Day observance walk. It ends with Boston’s December 1787 vote selecting leaders to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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John Hancock
Portland
Bowdoin
Gazette
Boston
Shires
Esther
George III
Green Dragon
Philadelphia
Southern Mail
Massachusetts Centinel
Amertigan
Dar
James Bowdoin
Samuel Adams
William Phillips
Caleb Davis
Charles Jarvis
John ©. Jones
John Winthrop
Thomas Dawes
Samuel Stillman
Thomas Russell
Christopher Gore
Honors row fuels outrage over Burma campaign awards
The London Truth reports a short honors list for Burma service drawn up by the Horse Guards. It accuses Lord Wolseley of jealousy and favouritism, praising Sir Frederick Roberts while attacking the adjutant general as a puffed up rival. Sir Edward Hamley is said to be retired for political reasons.
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London
Frederick Roberts
Horse Guards
Lord Wolseley
Egypt
Burmah
Warner
Sir Edward Hamley
Soudan
Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson Featured in New Biography
The long awaited Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson by James Elliot Cabot, to be published by Houghton Mifflin, spans two volumes. It covers Emerson's Boston origins, education at Boston Latin and Harvard, early ministry years, Europe travels, friendships with Carlyle and Wordsworth, his role in transcendental circles, and final decades in Concord with reflective wisdom.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
James Elliot Cabot
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Emerson
William Emerson
Old First
Boston
Summer Street
Windmill Point
South End
Scott and
Campbell
Atlantic
William
Ralph
Edward
Charles
Boston Latin School
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
Furness
Mx Webb
Webb
Enius
Waldo
Warsaw
Concord
Harvard College
Chaucer
Montaigne
Plutarch
Plato
Otway
Massinger
Mt. Auburn
Monroe
Ennut
Aristides
Daniel Webster
Sullivan
Prescott
America
Athens
Rome
Divinity School
Cambridge
Waltham
Northampton
New Bedford
Henry Ware, Jr
Charles Lowell
Chandler Robbins
Second Church
William Hague
First Baptist Church
Hanover Street
Old North
Emierson
Europe
Tie
London
Coleridge
Dr. Bowring
Bentham
John Stuart Mill
Carlyle
Edinburgh
Ireland
Unitarian
Highlands
Dumfries
Craigenputtock
England
Burke
Liverpool
Rydal Mount
Wordsworth
Holmes
de Candolle
Sprengel
Cuvier
Sir Everard
Boston Society of Natural History
Mechanics’ Institute
Natural History Society
Lydia Jackson
Plymouth
Mr. Cabot
Old Plymouth
Winslow House
Jackson
New England
Margaret Fuller
Miss Fuller
Providence
Young Men’s Association
Frederic A. Farley
Brown University
Farley
Fusley
Greenwood
Alleghany Ridge
Aubrey
Shelley
Lidian
Porphyry
Due_ de
Waterville
Berlin
Dresden
Literary Philistines and the Relaxation of Lazy Readers
A critic debates the literature of laziness and argues for reading that challenges the mind. He contrasts cheap sensational fiction with high quality works by Scott, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, Hawthorne, Howells, James, Stevenson, and Meredith. The piece notes Stevenson’s fragile health and mentions his visit to New York, with reflections on readers who avoid intellectual novels.
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New York
Sreeran
Thackeray
Scott
George Eliot
Dickens
Hawthorne
Mr. Howells
James
Mr. Stevenson
Meredith
Actu
Emerson
Rhodora
Professor Baird
Robert Louis Stevenson
London
Ludgate Hills
Atlantic
Ludgate Hill
Rome
Victoria Hotel
Richard Mansfield
Mr. T. Russell Sullivan
Mr. Hyde
Mr. Mansfeld
Madion Square Theatre
Leasing School Rooms for Parochial Use Opinion
Thomas Savage city solicitor of Malden states towns may lease unused public school rooms for non school purposes, including parochial use, for adequate compensation and a term not exceeding period needed for common schools, noting tax funding for sectarian facilities is illegal.
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Thomas Savage
Malden
Supreme Judicial Court
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Gard Novels
Swinburne
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