. Almon Danforth Hodges and his neighbors . elinghuysen celebra-tion in Boston on September 10, 1844, to which Rhode Islandsent a large delegation. He saw the long procession of horse-men and footmen and bands of music, with a great profusionof flags and of banners inscribed with mottoes and streets were lined with crowds, and the houses weredecorated with flags, streamers, flowers and evergreens. Heattended the big, fervent mass meeting on the Common, whichvociferously applauded Daniel Webster and other impassionedspeakers from all parts of the country. Not until the CivilWar was
. Almon Danforth Hodges and his neighbors . elinghuysen celebra-tion in Boston on September 10, 1844, to which Rhode Islandsent a large delegation. He saw the long procession of horse-men and footmen and bands of music, with a great profusionof flags and of banners inscribed with mottoes and streets were lined with crowds, and the houses weredecorated with flags, streamers, flowers and evergreens. Heattended the big, fervent mass meeting on the Common, whichvociferously applauded Daniel Webster and other impassionedspeakers from all parts of the country. Not until the CivilWar was there another such enthusiastic political gatheringin New England; never since that date has there been apolitical meeting at which so many representatives from somany different States have been present. On September 6, 1842, my father journeyed to Tauntonand six miles beyond, and visited a Mormon Camp Meet-ing. But as to what was done there, or how he was im-pressed, the Journal is silent. * He had had a five-weeks attack of this in
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