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...es the country is wild, trackless, unbridged, uninhab- ited, and desolate. Massachusetts Avenue runs the whole length of the city, and is inserted on ... ...when Congress meets. I do not think that Congress makes much difference to Massachusetts Avenue. I believe that the city never contains as many as eig... ... the whole length of Washington: Virginia Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Massachusetts Avenue. But Pennsylvania Avenue is the only one known to ordi... .... New York returns 33 members; Penn- sylvania, 25; Ohio, 21; Virginia, 13; Massachusetts and Indiana, 11; Tennessee and Kentucky, 10; South Carolina, ... ...ed. Then came Mr. Sumner’s field day. Mr. Charles Sumner is a Senator from Massachusetts, known as a very hot aboli- tionist, and as having been the v... ...Vir- ginia, Kentucky, and Missouri. As Radicals in England be- come simple Whigs when they are admitted into public offices, so did Mr. Lincoln with h...

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...Letter opens on the road to Paradise. The greater part of my officers were Whigs. It was well for their venerable brotherhood that the new Surveyor wa... ... veyor of His Majesty’s Customs for the Port of Salem, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. I remembered to have read (probably in Felt’s “Annals”) ... ... ancestors. She had flourished during the period between the early days of Massachusetts and the close of the seventeenth century. Aged persons, alive... ...istinguished the many tri umphs of my own party as it now did that of the Whigs. The Democrats take the offices, as a general rule, because they 35 ... ... the late Surveyor was not altogether ill pleased to be recognised by the Whigs as an enemy; since his 36 The Scarlet Letter inactivity in political... ...time till an hour past meridian. A blessing on the righteous colony of the Massachusetts, where iniquity is dragged out into the sunshine! Come along,... ... time agone he was minded to cross over and cast in his lot with us of the Massachusetts. T o this pur pose he sent his wife before him, remaining hi... ... well if he be still in life,” responded the townsman. “Now, good Sir, our Massachusetts magistracy, bethinking themselves that this woman is youthful...

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...stitutional provision in regard to naturalized citizens, lately adopted by Massachusetts, and whether I am for or against a fusion of the Republicans ... ...licans and other opposition elements for the canvass of 1860, is received. Massachusetts is a sovereign and independent State; and it is no privilege ... ... may without impropriety speak out. I say, then, that, as I understand the Massachusetts provision, I am against its adoption in Illinois, or in any o... ...can join in and establish it on a more firm and durable basis. We, the Old Whigs, have been entirely beaten out on the tariff question, and we shall n... ...table a body. 204 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five REPLY TO THE MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATION, W ASHINGTON, MARCH 5, 1861 I am thankful for this... ...ce I could bring to bear. If it met the approbation of our good friends in Massachusetts, I shall be exceedingly gratified, while I hope it will meet ...

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...endure their country, and sailed away across the seas to found a colony in Massachusetts Bay in America. It is said that Hampden himself and his relat... ... commander in chief, with instruc tions to attack the Scottish rebels, or Whigs as they were called, whenever he came up with them. Marching with ten...

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...ull particulars of the patriotic locofoco movement yesterday, in which the whigs was so chawed up; and the last Ala- bama gouging case; and the intere... ...ng the bearer of a letter of introduc- tion to you, sir. From Mr Bevan, of Massachusetts,’ he added, giv- ing it to him. The General took it and read ...

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...Baker were successively nominated and elected to Congress; and because the Whigs of the district are well acquainted with the system, and, so far as I... ...ing them only because I choose to leave the decision in each county to the Whigs of the county, to be made as their own judg- ment and convenience may... ... to attempt to bring about, at the next election in Putnam, a Union of the Whigs proper and such of the Liberty men as are Whigs in prin- ciple on all... ... to do no wrong, etc., I mean no special application of what I said to the Whigs of Morgan, or of Morgan & Scott. I only had in my mind the fact that ... ... Last night we held a Whig caucus for the House, and nominated Winthrop of Massachusetts for speaker, Sargent of Pennsylvania for sergeant-at-arms, Ho... ...tes, saying that the people of Illinois agreed entirely with the people of Massachusetts on this subject, except perhaps that they did not keep so con... ..., Kentucky and Tennessee, was, I believe, within the limits of or owned by Massachusetts, Virginia, and North Carolina. As to the Northwestern Territo... ... for it, beginning in the House of Representa- tives with Charles Allen of Massachusetts, and ending with Richard Y ates of Illinois; and that he coul... ...ition of slavery were presented to the very first Congress by Virginia and Massachusetts alike. To show the harmony which pre- vailed, I will state th...

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...ogs has already outlasted the constitution of Sieyes and the policy of the Whigs; and Burns is better known among En- glish-speaking races than either... ...ithdraw their support, both in person and property, from the government of Massachusetts.” That is what he did: in 1843 he ceased to pay the poll-tax.... ...ood neighbour as to be a bad subject; but no more poll-tax to the State of Massachusetts. Thoreau had now seceded, and was a polity unto himself; or, ... ...ed, if ten men whom I could name – ay, if one honest man, in this State of Massachusetts, ceasing to hold slaves, were actually to withdraw from this ...

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...cement, The delegation from Essex! The Democrats from New Hamp- shire! The Whigs of Maine! the young patriot feels him- self stronger than before by a... ...there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River and Boston Bay you think paltry places, an... ...on, of Fourier, and of Owen, three communities have already been formed in Massachusetts on kindred plans, and many more in the country at large. They...