Word: states
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Board of Overseers. Adjourned Meeting at No. 50 State street, Boston...
Professor Shaler said briefly: We come to the graves of those who gave their lives to save the state from ruin, not with sorrow but with hope. The dead no longer are ours; they belong to history. We now think only of their value to the state. They did not give their lives to win our sorrow or to gain the fame of posterity; all that they gave they gave for their country. They were indeed men of arms. The Union soldiers did not take up arms for war's sake, but for the sole reason that there...
...fist lesson of their lives is that the young citizen should take no counsel of his feas in attacking an evil to the state; another is that the remedy of war, though heroic, is sometimes costly almost beyond utility, and is justified only by the certainty of failure of all other means...
...critical and rather pessimistic. Let him who says that criticism of government is unpatriotic go learn the primer of citizenly rights. The right of free speech is one of our choicest acquisitions as the result of war, and war must not interfere with it. This realm knows no state of siege which closes the mouths...
FALL RIVER LINE.- Pullman vestibuled express trains, leave Boston from Park Square. Steamers leave New York from Pier 18, foot of Murray street. L. H. Palmer, Agent, No. 3 Old State House, Boston...