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Excerpt from Argument on the Question of the Annexation of Roxbury to Boston: Before the Legislative Committee, Thursday, February 23, 1865
Blue Book, that, subject to the vote of the two towns of Amesbury and Salisbury, in the County of Essex, the ancient town of Salisbury, bordering upon the coast, and having a precious history of its own, as we all know, should be merged in the town of Amesbury, lose its independent municipal organization entirely, and that a new town should be thereupon formed, out of the two towns of Amesbury and Salisbury, under the name of Merrimack. Why, Mr. Chairman, Massachu setts legislation has gone further than this, in carrying out what I shall have the honor to submit to you is the true Massachusetts idea, as opposed to this idea that we must be forever held in the strait-jacket of our childhood, and endeavor to make the garments of the boy subserve the wants of manhood. Massachusetts, sir, in adjusting the boundary question with its neighbor State, Rhode Island. Went so far as to concede to that State, and separate entirely from her own jurisdiction, the thriving manufacturing town of Pawtucket. And why? Because, as it was submitted here, her people, living just as near, precisely, to the thriving and growing city of Providence as Roxbury is to the city of Boston, felt that their interests were identified with the growth of Providence; that their business relations were so intimate, their identity of interests (a phrase which my friend does not seem to favor as meaning much) so complete, that Massachusetts should be willing to make an excision from her borders of a thriving, industrious, prosperous manufacturing town, and cede it to another jurisdiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
