. Essex county, , illustrated . according to the dic-tates of ones own conscience. Newark and its town-meeting methods of government con-linueil to march on hand in hand like lovers in the country ongoing to church, till the same, becoming a sort of by-word andreproach, the Legislature, on petition, granted the city theright to a division into wards, four in number. North, South, and West Wards. The only one of the number, which hadenough of prerogative matter in its make-up to inspire thatreverence for a name which makes it tenacious and long cling-ing, was the Old North, and

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. Essex county, , illustrated . according to the dic-tates of ones own conscience. Newark and its town-meeting methods of government con-linueil to march on hand in hand like lovers in the country ongoing to church, till the same, becoming a sort of by-word andreproach, the Legislature, on petition, granted the city theright to a division into wards, four in number. North, South, and West Wards. The only one of the number, which hadenough of prerogative matter in its make-up to inspire thatreverence for a name which makes it tenacious and long cling-ing, was the Old North, and the Old North containedenough to make it hallowed to the memory of the oldest in-habitant, and you have now only to tickle his recollection with the straw ofa rye tom a k c thememory jin-gle again, al-though for-ge t f u 1 n c s swas not dis-tant so veryfar. The namestill clings tot h e sectionwhich h a sI he beautifulWashingtonIark for itsI inlre a n dthe I).. I,. &W. K. , andother , for itsb 1 a I o n r d.

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