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432 Washington street. 19 Colchester street. 224 Aspinwall avenue. 44 Harvard avenue.
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Heath street.
20 Kent street.
20 Kent street.
20 Kent street.
217 Walnut street.
411 Washington street.
27 Chestnut Hill avenue. 1546 Beacon street.
Rawson road.
Newton street.
11 Davis avenue.
Warren street.
Warren street. 56 Thorndike street.
54 Dudley street. 72 Park street.
25 Gardner road. Harvard street. 125 Buckminster road. 15 Columbia street. 187 Gardner road.
Heath street. Kennard road.
*Deceased.
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Davis, George P. Dearborn, George F. Doliber, Thomas +Doliber, Mrs. Ada Ripley Dolliver, Mrs. Ella Augusta Driscoll, Michael · Duncklee, Charles B.
Estabrook, Willard W. + Eustis, Miss Elizabeth M. t Eustis, Henry D. Eustis, Joseph Tracy t Eustis, Miss Mary S. B.
Fay, James H. 1Fish, Mrs. Clara P. Fish, Frederick P. FitzGerald, Desmond +Fitzpatrick, Thomas B. Flanders, Mrs. Helen Burgess Fleming, John F.
*Folsom, Albert Alonzo Folsom, Mrs. Julia E. Francis, Carleton S. (M. D.)
Francis, George H. (M. D.) Francis, Tappan Eustis (M. D.) French, Alexis H.
Gaither, Charles Perry tGay, Frederick Lewis Gibbs, Emery B. #Goddard, Miss Julia #Goddard, Mary Louisa Gray, William H.
Griggs, Mrs. Susan Vining Guild, Mrs. Sarah E. M.
Hedge, Frederick H. 1 Hill, William H.
Hoar, David Blakely
Hobbs, Franklin W. Hopkins, Charles A. Hook, Miss Maria C. Hough, Benjamin Kent
Howe, Miss Harriet Augusta Howe, Miss Louise Hunt, William D. Hunt, Mrs. William D.
16 Emerson street. 125 Park street. Goddard avenue. Goddard avenue. Humboldt avenue, Roxbury.
9 Kent street. 683 Washington street.
60 Longwood avenue. 1020 Beacon street. 1020 Beacon street. 93 Ivy street. 1020 Beacon street.
Linden place.
9 Prescott street.
9 Prescott street. 410 Washington street. 15 Winthrop road. 37 Auburn street. 295 Pond avenue. 23 Garrison road. 23 Garrison road. 26 Davis avenue. 295 Walnut street. 35 Davis avenue. 35 Cypress street.
1100 Beacon street. Holland road. 42 Alton place. Warren street.
6 Commonwealth ave., Boston. 73 Middlesex road, C. H. 555 Washington street. Elm place.
440 Boylston street. 81 Marion street. 100 High street. 78 Upland road. 80 Winthrop road.
Newton street. 29 Bartlett crescent. Linden street. Linden street.
30 Warren street. 30 Warren street.
*Deceased.
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Jones, Mrs. Clarence W. + Jones, Jerome
Kenrick, Alfred Eugene t Kimball, Miss Helen Frances tKimball, Lulu Stacy tKittredge, Mrs. Martha A.
Lamb, Henry W.
Lamb, Miss Augusta T.
Lauriat, Charles E.
LeMoyne, Macpherson
Lincoln, Albert L.
Lincoln, William E.
Lincoln, Mrs. William E.
Lincoln, William Henry
Little, James Lowell Longyear, John M.
Luke, Otis H. Lyon, William Henry (D. D.)
Mann, George Sumner
Mason, Frank H.
Maxwell, George Frederic Merrill, Frank A.
1 Merrill, Luther M.
Mortimer, Sara White Lee
Mowry, Oscar B.
McKey, Joseph
McKey, Mrs. W. R.
Murphy, James S.
Norton, Fred L.
O'Brion, Thomas L. Otis, Herbert Foster
Palmer, Mrs. Emma L. Parsons, William E.
Pattee, Mrs. Eleanor T.
Pearson, Charles Henry #Perry, Arthur Poor, Miss Agnes Blake Poor, Mrs. Lillie Oliver Poor, Mrs. Mary W. Poor, James Ridgway
Pope, Arthur Wallace Porter, Georgia M. Whidden
101 St. Mary's street. 101 Summit avenue.
71 Gorham avenue. 294 Kent street. 294 Kent street. Gardner road.
138 High street.
138 High street.
1049 Beacon street.
93 Pleasant street.
Walnut place.
54 Gardner road.
54 Gardner road.
Beech road.
Goddard avenue.
Leicester street.
1223 Beacon street. 353 Walnut street.
1760 Beacon street.
21 Fuller street.
37 Harris street. 123 Dean road.
62 Green street.
1410 Beacon street.
136 St. Paul street.
24 Stearns road. 18 Stearns road.
1575 Beacon street.
147 Winchester street.
9 Regent circle. 165 Fisher avenue.
Newton street. 92 Marion street. Ivy street. 350 Tappan street.
389 Walnut street. 201 Buckminster road.
389 Walnut street.
201 Buckminster road.
1763 Beacon street. 69 Longwood avenue.
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Read, Charles French
12 Keiffer street.
t Richardson, Frederic Leopold Wm. Warren street. Richardson, Henry Hobson Ritchie, Andrew Montgomery Rooney, James C.
Cottage street. 268 Walnut street. 50 Kent street.
Sabine, George K. (M. D.) Salisbury, William Cabot Gorham tSargent, Charles Sprague Saunders, Joseph H. (M. D.) Saxe, John W. Seaver, William James
30 Irving street. 3 Parkman terrace. Warren street. 219 Harvard street. 324 Tappan street.
76 Longwood avenue.
Sedgwick, William T.
20 Edgehill road.
Shaw, James F.
Sherburne, John H., Jr.
Snow, Franklin A.
523 Washington street.
1 Harvard street.
Stearns, Charles Henry
Stearns, James Pierce
Stearns, William Bramhall
*Stevens, Mrs. Mary Louise Stone, Galen L. Storrow, Charles Swan, Reuben S. *Swan, Robert T. Swan, Mrs. Robert T.
112 High street. 91 Babcock street. `1015 Beabon street.
1015 Beacon street.
tTalbot, Fritz B. (M. D.) Thayer, Frank Bartlett
131 Sewall avenue. 1668 Beacon street ..
Utley, Charles H.
23 Regent circle.
Walker, Nathaniel U.
Buckminster road. 1 Perrin road.
Ware, Henry
Warren, Edward R.
76 Walnut street. Goddard avenue.
Watson, Miss Mary
Watson, Mrs. Eliza Tilden Goddard Goddard avenue. Wead, Leslie C.
Whitcomb, Lawrence
220 Aspinwall avenue. 128 Crafts road.
White, Charles F.
Warren street.
White, Mrs. Louie D.
Warren street.
White, Francis A. White, William H.
Warren street. 93 Dean road.
White, William Howard
White, William Orne (D. D.) Whiting, John K.
164 Chestnut Hill avenue. 222 High street. Longwood avenue.
Goddard avenue.
Whitman, William Whitney, Henry M.
619 Boylston street.
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Spencer, Charles A. W.
152 Harvard street.
31 Pleasant street. 43 Pleasant street.
39 Columbia street. Buckminster road.
Powell street. 262 Walnut street.
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Wight, Lewis
+ Wightman, George H.
Willcut, Levi Lincoln
Williams, Charles A. Williams, Mrs. Elizabeth Whitney Williams, Moses
. Woods, J. Henry (M. D.).
Rawson road. Hawes street. 9 Longwood avenue. 35 Walnut place. 50 Edgehill road. Warren street. 39 Salisbury road.
Young, William Hill
21 John street.
CORRESPONDING MEMBER.
Ricker, Mrs. Emeline Carr Dorchester.
BROOKLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
BY-LAWS.
ARTICLE I. .
NAME.
The name of this corporation shall be Brookline Historical Society.
ARTICLE II. OBJECTS.
The objects of this Society shall be the study of the history of the town of Brookline, Massachusetts, its societies, organizations, families, individuals, events; the collection and preservation of its antiquities, the establishment and maintenance of an historical library, and the publication from time to time of such information relating to the same as shall be deemed expedient.
ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP.
Any person of moral character who shall be nominated and approved by the Board of Trustees may be elected to membership by ballot of two-thirds of the members present and voting thereon at any regular meeting of the Society. Each person so elected shall pay an admission fee of three dollars, and an annual assess- ment of two dollars; and any member who shall fail for two con- secutive years to pay the annual assessment shall cease to be a member of this Society; provided, however, that any member who shall pay twenty-five dollars in any one year may thereby become a Life member ; and any member who shall pay fifty dollars in any one year may thereby become a Benefactor of the Society, and thereafter shall be free from all dues and assessments. The money received from Life members and Benefactors shall constitute a fund, of which not more than twenty per cent, together with the annual income therefrom, shall be spent in any one year.
The Society may elect Honorary and Corresponding members in the manner in which annual members are elected, but they shall have no voice in the management of the Society, and shall not be subject to fee or assessment.
ARTICLE IV. CERTIFICATES.
Certificates signed by the President and the Clerk may be issued to all persons who become Life members, and to Benefactors.
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ARTICLE V. OFFICERS.
The officers of this Society shall be seven Trustees, a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary (who shall be Clerk of the Society and may also be elected to fill the office of Treasurer), and a Treasurer, who, together, shall constitute the Board of Trustees. The Trustees, Clerk, and Treasurer shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year, and until others are chosen and qualified in their stead. The President and Vice-President shall be chosen by the Board of Trustees from their number at their first meeting after their election, or at an adjournment thereof.
ARTICLE VI. MEETINGS.
The annual meeting of this Society shall be held on the fourth Wednesday of January. Regular stated meetings shall be held on the fourth Wednesday of February, March, April, May, October, November, and December.
Special meetings may be called by order of the Board of Trus- tees. The Clerk shall notify each member by a written or printed notice sent through the mail postpaid at least three days before the time of meeting, or by publishing such notice in one or more newspapers published in Brookline.
At all meetings of the Society ten (10) members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
The meetings of the Board of Trustees shall be called by the Clerk at the request of the President, by giving each member personal or written notice, or by sending such notice by mail, post- paid, at least twenty-four hours before the time of such meeting ; but meetings where all the Trustees are present may be held with- out such notice. The President shall call meetings of the Board of Trustees at the request of any three members thereof. A majority of its members shall constitute a quorum for the transac- tion of business.
ARTICLE VII. VACANCIES.
Vacancies in the offices of Trustees, Clerk, or Treasurer may be filled for the remainder of the term at any regular meeting of the Society by the vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting. In the absence of the Clerk at a meeting of the Society, a Clerk pro tempore shall be chosen.
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ARTICLE VIII. NOMINATING COMMITTEE.
At the monthly meeting in December, a Nominating Committee of three members shall be appointed by the presiding officer, who shall report at the annual meeting a list of candidates for the places to be filled.
ARTICLE IX. PRESIDING OFFICER.
The President, or in his absence the Vice-President, shall pre- side at all meetings of the Society. In the absence of those officers a President pro tempore shall be chosen.
ARTICLE X.
DUTIES OF THE CLERK.
The Clerk shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duties. He shall notify members of all meetings of the Society, and shall keep an exact record of all the proceedings of the Society at its meetings.
He shall conduct the general correspondence of the Society and place on file all letters received.
He shall enter the names of members in order in books or cards kept for that purpose, and issue certificates to Life members and to Benefactors.
He shall have charge of such property in possession of the Society as may from time to time be delegated to him by the Board of Trustees.
He shall acknowledge all loans or gifts made to the Society.
ARTICLE XI.
DUTIES OF THE TREASURER.
The Treasurer shall collect all moneys due the Society, and pay all bills against the Society when approved by the Board of Trustees. He shall keep a full account of receipts and expendi- tures in a book belonging to the Society, which shall always be open to the inspection of the Trustees; and at the annual meeting in January he shall make a written report of all his doings for the year preceding. The Treasurer shall give bonds in such sum, with surety, as the Trustees may fix, for the faithful discharge of his duties.
ARTICLE XII.
DUTIES AND POWERS OF TRUSTEES.
The Board of Trustees shall superintend the prudential and executive business of the Society, authorize all expenditures of
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money, fix all salaries, provide a common seal, receive and act upon all resignations and forfeitures of membership, and see that the by-laws are duly complied with. The Board of Trustees shall have full powers to hire, lease, or arrange for a suitable home for the Society, and to make all necessary rules and regulations required in the premises.
They shall make a report of their doings at the annual meeting of the Society.
They may from time to time appoint such sub-committees from their own number as they deem expedient.
In case of a vacancy in the office of Clerk or Treasurer they shall have power to choose the same pro tempore till the next meeting of the Society.
ARTICLE XIII. STANDING COMMITTEES.
The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint four standing committees, as follows :-
Committee on Rooms.
A committee of three members, to be styled the "Committee on Rooms," to which shall be added the President and Clerk of the Society ex-officio, who shall have charge of all arrangements of the rooms (except books, manuscripts, and other objects appro- priate to the library offered as gifts or loans), the hanging of pictures, and the general arrangements of the Society's collection in their department.
Committee on Papers.
A committee of three members, to be styled the "Committee on Papers," who shall have charge of the subjects of papers to be read, or other exercises of a profitable nature, at the monthly meetings of the Society.
Committee on Membership.
A committee of three or more members, to be styled the "Com- mittee on Membership," whose duty it shall be to give information in regard to the purposes of the Society, and increase its mem- bership.
Committee on Library.
A committee of three or more members, to be styled the " Com- mittee on Library," who shall have charge of the arrangements of the library, including acceptance and rejection of books, manu- scripts, and other objects tendered to the library, and the general arrangement of the Society's collections in that department.
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These four committees shall perform their duties as above set forth under the general direction and supervision of the Board of Trustees.
Vacancies that occur in any of these committees during their term of service shall be filled by the President.
ARTICLE XIV. FINANCE COMMITTEE.
The President shall annually, in the month of January, appoint two members, who, with the President, shall constitute the Com- mittee on Finance, to examine from time to time the books and accounts of the Treasurer, to audit his accounts at the close of the year, and to report upon the expediency of proposed expenditures of money.
ARTICLE XV. AMENDMENTS.
These by-laws may be altered or amended at any regular meeting by a two-thirds vote of the members present, notice of the subject- matter of the proposed alterations or amendments having been given at a previous meeting.
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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
5 Rufus G. F. Candage.
II. REPORT OF THE TREASURER 17
III. REPORT OF THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE 19
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MILESTONES IN AND NEAR BOSTON
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Charles F. Read.
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Rufus G. F. Candage.
VI. CHARTER OF CORPORATION 63
VII. OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1909 . · 65
VIII. ROLL OF MEMBERS 67 · IX. BY-LAWS i
RUFUS G. F. CANDAGE President of the Brookline Historical Society, 1901-1909
BROOKLINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING.
The eighth annual meeting of the Brookline His- torical Society was held in the G. A. R. Room, Town Hall, Brookline, Mass., on Tuesday, January 26, 1909, at 8 p. m., in accordance with a notice mailed to every member. President Rufus G. F. Candage was in the chair.
The records of the last annual and monthly meet- ings were read by Charles F. Read, who was elected Clerk, pro tem, in the absence of Edward W. Baker, Clerk of the Society.
The President then read his annual address.
PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL ADDRESS.
Members of the Brookline Historical Society :-
Ladies and Gentlemen, -We have met at this eighth annual meeting of our Society to hear reports of officers and com- mittees of the year passed, elect officers for the current year, and to confer and consider plans for the future. In the year just closed the Society has carried forward its work, and has held regular meetings at which the following papers have been read :-
January 22, The President's Annual Address.
February 26, "The Edward Devotion Fund," by Edward W. Baker. April 1, "Some Interesting Events Preceding the Battles of Lexing- ton and Concord," by Alexander Starbuck of Waltham. Mass.
May 27, "Milestones In and Near Boston," by Charles F. Read. October 28, "Mrs. Amanda Maria Edmond, a Brookline Poetess," by Rufus G. F. Candage. .
November 25, "Gouverneur Morris," by George S. Mann.
December 23, "Old Harvard Street, The Road from Boston to the Colleges," by Edward W. Baker.
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The Society entertained the Bay State Historical League on April 18, 1908. The meeting was largely attended and the courtesy of our Society was appreciated.
THE SOCIETY'S MEMBERSHIP
There are at present one hundred and seventy-five mem- bers in the Society. We have lost by death two members, Caleb Chase and McPherson LeMoyne, who died at their homes in Brookline near the close of the year.
DEATHS IN BROOKLINE IN 1908
There were 390 deaths in Brookline during the past year, ten less than in 1907. Of that number 99 had reached and passed the three score and ten limit; 34 were between 70 and 75; 28 were between 75 and 80; 17 were between 80 and 85; 14 were between 85 and 90; one was between 90 and 95, and 4 were between 95 and 100. Of the latter, one was 96 yrs. 7 mos. 6 dys .; one 97 yrs. 9 mos. 4 dys .; one 98 yrs. 6 mos., and one 98 yrs. 7 mos. 14 dys.
During the past year many persons of prominence in this and other countries have died, and the appalling loss of life in Italy and Sicily, December 28, 1908, by the earthquake, which called forth the aid and sympathy of the civilized world, will take place in history as a shocking calamity.
SOME HISTORICAL OCCURRENCES OF THE PAST
This is probably the last annual address I shall write for this Society, and I wish to thank the members for their uniform courtesy, friendship and forbearance to me in the eight years of my incumbency as president. I have in the past been deeply interested in the Society's welfare and shall continue my interest in it, but am warned by advancing years that the direction of its affairs should rest upon younger shoulders, with more active bodies and minds to carry forward the work so happily begun and maintained to the present time.
I shall now call your attention to some historical occur- rences of the past, which have transpired since my life began, in the year 1826. John Quincy Adams, the sixth President, then sat in the Presidential chair of a nation of twenty-nine states and 11,500,000 people. Since then twenty others have filled that high office, and on March fourth President-elect Taft will be inaugurated the twenty-seventh President from
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Washington, the Executive of forty-six states and a popu- lation bordering upon 90,000,000!
Massachusetts had in 1826 a population of 575,000; it now has over 3,000,000; Boston then had a population of 58,000, it has now 600,000; Brookline then had a little over 900 population, while today it has 25,000 or more. Chicago, now the second city in our country in popu- lation and the fourth upon the globe, with its present 2,050,000 inhabitants, had no existence even as a town until. 1833. London, New York and Paris, in the order here named, only exceed it, and the latter by less than half a million. To have reached its site from Boston would have been a long journey by stagecoach, canal and lake conveyance, and would have taken as many or more days than it now takes hours by modern railway transportation.
In 1826, at the date of my birth, there was not a foot of steam railroad in our country, and scarcely any on the globe. Now, in this country alone there are 250,000 miles, equal to a belt wound round the globe at the equator more than ten times, and representing an invested capital of $13,000,000,000. This vast achievement, all accomplished within the lifetime of many persons now living, with its graded roadbeds, its cuttings, fillings, tunnelings and bridges, with the iron required for them, for the rails, rolling, etc., then ore in the bowels of the earth, has been brought out and wrought into use for this stupendous work within the period mentioned.
Were this the only great achievement, it would be mar- velous to contemplate; but there have been many, and our minds have become accustomed to think of things which to a past generation would have exceeded imagination.
The steam railroad displaced the stagecoach and revo- lutionized travel on long distances, then came the horse rail- road on short routes, abolishing the omnibus, and this in turn has been superseded by the electrical trolley car. This does an amount of work which would seem incredible were it not sustained by figures and reports. A vast amount of capital is invested in this enterprise, and every city and large town in the country is webbed with radiating and cross lines of rails and wires. What they are doing in the way of trans-
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porting passengers may well be illustrated by a glance at what is being done in Brookline.
Previous to 1848, when the Brookline branch of the Boston & Worcester Railroad went into operation, an hourly omni- bus accommodated public travel between here and Boston. As travel increased, the omnibus was displaced by a single line of horse-cars via Tremont street, and later that was superseded by the trolley cars, and instead of one line there are now entering and crossing the town nine or ten lines of cars, making more than 500 daily trips, and all are well patronized. Even now, at certain hours of the day, the cars are too crowded to obtain seats or even standing room. And all this notwithstanding the number of automobiles seen passing and repassing! It is a convincing proof of the fact that "facilities invite travel."
In 1840 the Cunard steamship line was established, pre- vious to which, mails and passengers were carried across the Atlantic in sailing ships, with average passages of 30 to 40 days. It then took a year for a merchant in this country to receive answers from letters sent to China and India, and it was not an unusual occurrence for his ship to make a voyage out and home without reporting her arrival outward. The first Cunard steamship made passages of 18 to 20 days, a gain of nearly one half the time taken by the sailing ship. Now the Cunarders make the passage in a week or less, and other steamship lines in a little longer time. The sailing ship has been abandoned for Atlantic mail and passenger service, and in fact for most other service, the steamship having taken her place.
In 1844 the electric telegraph was patented and put into operation, and spread over the world, across deserts, ravines, rivers, over mountains, under the sea, its tiny wires stretch- ing from city to city, from state to state, from nation to nation, in the iron grasp of friendliness. It is a vehicle of human speech outdistancing the wind, competing with the lightning's flash, swift as thought,-the wonder of the past . and of the present. Along its wires with lightning speed human speech flies to the uttermost parts of the globe, in all languages, gathering intelligence for the merchant, scientist, statesman and all conditions of men, to be pub- lished in the daily morning paper, so that he may read at
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home, upon the train, or elsewhere. It has put an end to time and distance in the matter of disseminat- ing human intelligence, and with the steam engine has done more than any other agency to unify the nations of the earth. Through its wires the merchant sends his message to China and India, and instead of waiting nine months or a year for a reply, as was once the case, the reply comes in a few hours, or a few days at most.
The accession of Texas to the Union, the Mexican War and the acquisition of territory, including California, with the discovery of gold there in 1848, set many new enter- prises in motion, of which I shall mention one,-our mer- chant marine.
The ships under the American flag in the Atlantic packet service, in the China and other trades, held a prominent position on the ocean, and culminated in the clipper ship called into being by the demand for shorter passages round Cape Horn to California. She was the pride of her owner and master, the pet of her crew, and her fine lines, graceful model and tapering spars were the admiration of landsmen. She was the leader of the world's fleets in sailing and in freights; her flag was seen and honored on every sea. Other nations recognized her superiority, bought her, built after her model and lines, and the day of her supremacy was a glorious one for the flag and country. Then came the Civil War. Ala- bamas and Floridas, with aid and sympathy of those who by ties of blood, religion and humanity, should have been our friends, destroyed many and drove others to shelter under foreign flags. Steamships got the ascendancy during the nationalstruggle; the war ceased, after lasting four years ; and the sailing ship in the struggle against steam was driven from the ocean; Congress looked on and did nothing; and the consequence now is that steamships flying alien flags do our for- eign carrying trade, and the flag of an American ship, which once flew so gracefully on every sea, is now seldom seen many leagues from our coast on a merchant ship.
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