. The history of Boscawen and Webster [] from 1733 to 1878 . he Indiantroubles of the colonial period, when other frontier towns,—Hop-kinton, Warner, and Salisbury,—were abandoned; to be cut offfrom a town that could number among its citizens men who hadwritten their names large on the roll of honor. Whether the action of the petitioners was wise or unwise,whether the material interests of the community as a wholewould be advanced or retarded, men did not stop to consider;passion crowded out reason; the time had come for a division. Incommunities as well as in families, from the time of Ab
. The history of Boscawen and Webster [] from 1733 to 1878 . he Indiantroubles of the colonial period, when other frontier towns,—Hop-kinton, Warner, and Salisbury,—were abandoned; to be cut offfrom a town that could number among its citizens men who hadwritten their names large on the roll of honor. Whether the action of the petitioners was wise or unwise,whether the material interests of the community as a wholewould be advanced or retarded, men did not stop to consider;passion crowded out reason; the time had come for a division. Incommunities as well as in families, from the time of Abraham andLot to the present day, separation is sometimes better than the citizens of the West end thought that their fellow-citizens of the East end did not emulate the example of thepatriarch of the Hebrew race in bringing about the division ; andnow, that time has thrown its mellowing influences over the trans-action, citizens of the East end may possibly see that a divisionmight have been brought about with less irritation and ..?> -
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