Ancient Middlesex with brief biographical sketches of the men who have served the country officially since its settlement . -,in his recently-published Sixty Years of Public Life, says that thepolitics of Mr. Butler, being a Whig, caused him to lose both the officeof Postmaster and that of County Commissioner. It is related of thelatter that when the news came that his fellow-townsman, Mr. Boutwell(a Democrat), was elected Governor in 1851 as a fusionist, he ex-claimed, God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts! Politicalanimosities were strong in those davs.—[

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