FOOTNOTES:
[23] I gather these facts from a Review of Major Poussin's Belgique et les Belges, depuis 1830, in a foreign journal. The condition of the merchant manufacturer I know not.
[24] Subsequent events (in 1850 and 1851) show that he was right in his statement. What was thought calumny then has become history since, and is now the glory and boast of Boston.
[25] Mr. Robert J. Walker published a letter in favor of the annexation of Texas. In it he said: "Upon the refusal of re-annexation ... the Tariff as a practical measure falls wholly and for ever, and we shall thereafter be compelled to resort to direct taxes to support the Government." Notwithstanding this foolish threat, a large number of citizens of Massachusetts remonstrated against annexation. The House of Representatives, by a large majority, passed a resolve declaring that Massachusetts "announces her uncompromising opposition to the further extension of American slavery," and "declares her earnest and unalterable purpose to use every lawful and constitutional measure for its overthrow and entire extinction," etc. But the Senate voted that the resistance of the State was already sufficient! The passage in the text refers to these circumstances.
[26] It was then thought that the aqueduct would cost but $2,000,000.
[27] I refer to the Report of M. Villerme, in the Mémoires de l'Institut, Tom. lxxi.
[28] This was printed in 1846. In 1850, and since, these men have publicly gloried in a similar act even more atrocious.
[29] Keble, in one of his poems, represents a mother seeing her sportive son "enacting holy rites," and thus describes her emotions:
"She sees in heart an empty throne,
And falling, falling far away,
Him whom the Lord hath placed thereon:
She hears the dread Proclaimer say,
'Cast ye the lot, in trembling cast,
The traitor to his place hath past,—
Strive ye with prayer and fast to guide
The dangerous glory where it shall abide.'"
[30] It is the custom in Massachusetts to tax men in the place where they reside, on the first day of May; as the taxes differ very much in different towns of the same State, it is easy for a man to escape the burden of taxation.