Life and times in Hopkinton, . 14, the agent of the town pauper farmwas requested hereafter to make an annual detailed reportof all produce raised, all articles bought and sold, and allreceipts and expenditures connected with his agency, saidreport to be made to the selectmen and published in theirannual report. The town auditors were by vote ordered tocause their report of the treasurers account to be pub-lished with the selectmens and superintending school-com-mittees report, this arrangement to obtain until otherwiseordered by the town. The selectmen were authorized to purchase a good f
Life and times in Hopkinton, . 14, the agent of the town pauper farmwas requested hereafter to make an annual detailed reportof all produce raised, all articles bought and sold, and allreceipts and expenditures connected with his agency, saidreport to be made to the selectmen and published in theirannual report. The town auditors were by vote ordered tocause their report of the treasurers account to be pub-lished with the selectmens and superintending school-com-mittees report, this arrangement to obtain until otherwiseordered by the town. The selectmen were authorized to purchase a good firesafe, for the better preservation of the records of the town. CHAPTER XLIII. A POLITICAL CRISIS. The year 1855 witnessed a peculiar crisis in politicalaffairs in Hopkinton. For the first time in the history ofthe town, two representatives who were not Democratswere elected to the General Court. The town had beforeexperienced ardent contests over the election of its repre-sentatives. It had sometimes failed of an election. Once. Mrs. Betsey T. Kimball. A POLITICAL CRISIS. 151 it sent a Whig to the General Court on a railroad issue. In1855, from a purely political motive, the town of Hopkin-ton elected two representatives who in no sense owed any-thing to the Democratic party. This was the first severeblow that party ever received in this town. The cause of the defeat of the Democratic party in thecontest for representatives to the state legislature was some-what remote. There had been murmurings of a storm inthe national Democratic party for years. The fugitive slavelaw, the Mexican war, and the admission of Texas had allcontributed more or less to disaffection in the northernstates of the Union. Then the proposition to repeal theMissouri compromise capped the climax, and the crisis hadbegun. But this was not all of the matter involved in thischapter. The Whig party, too, was in a state that wasmore than disaffection. The structure of the Whig partybegan to topple in the days
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