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Excerpt from Remarks on the Narraganset Patent: Read Before the Massachusetts Historical Society, June, 1862
Mr. President, - At our last February meeting, our hon ored colleague, Mr. Deane, gave a commentary, marked with his accustomed ability and Spirit of' research, on a copy of the Narraganset Patent, which had been furnished him from your own collection of historical and family papers. Towards the close of his observations, he courteously animadverted upon some remarks against the validity of that patent, which I had made here, two years ago, after having inspected the original document at the State House. The revival of the subject was wholly unexpected by me and although I could hardly, on a sudden, recollect precisely the remarks I had made so long before, or so clearly discern the force and tendency of the objections brought against them as to give a complete answer to each objection, yet I felt de sirons to satisfy the Society that I had not lightly obtruded upon it a crude Opinion respecting a subject of historical in terest, and likewise that I had sound reason for adopting, and for continuing to maintain, that Opinion but having given way to a senior member, who rose at the same moment to speak on the subject, it so happened that I had not the good fortune afterwards to obtain a hearing, - a circumstance which I the more regret, because it deprived me of the opportunity (i will not say advantage) of having my defence appear in the latest volume of our Proceedings, side by side with the criticism which it was intended to answer. 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.
