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Updated: July 4, 2025
Bijah Bixby paid a visit to the Harwich bank and went among certain Coniston farmers looking over the sheep, his clothes bulging out in places when he began, and seemingly normal enough when he had finished. History repeats itself, even among lions and jackals. Thirty-six years before there had been a town-meeting in Coniston and a surprise.
A jackal reconnoitered the lair to see how badly the lion was crippled, and conceived with astounding insolence the plan of capturing the lion's quarry. This jackal, who was an old one, well knew how to round up a quarry, and fled back over the hills to consult with a bigger jackal, his master. As a result, two days before March town-meeting day, Mr.
If it were afternoon one of the spectrally sunny afternoons which often bewitch that region he would be only the more convinced that there was something inexplicable in the whole matter of this man whom nobody knew, who was never once seen at town-meeting, and concerning whom it was whispered that he did not constantly attend church all day, although he occupied the reverend parsonage of the village and had unmeasured acres of manuscript sermons in his attic, besides the nearly extinct portrait of an utterly extinct clergyman.
"It would be an intrusion at such a time, Elvira. The effusions of even the best-intentioned friends are injudicious at the inopportune moment of domestic reunion." Mrs. Caukins subsided on that point. She was always depressed by the Colonel's grandiloquence, which he usually reserved for The Greenbush and the town-meeting, without being able to account for it.
"Why, I've got a brother Tom," said Mr. Onthank. "Cu'rus, isn't it?" Considering that Tom is by no means an uncommon name, it could hardly be called very remarkable, but Tom politely assented. "Is he older than I am?" he inquired. "Yes, my brother Tom is twenty-one years old. I expect he voted at the last town-meeting. I'm four years older than Tom."
Sum up the differences between local government in Virginia and that in New England as to the management of local affairs and as to the choice of local officers. What did Jefferson think of the principle of township government? What was the equivalent in Virginia of the New England town-meeting? What was the value of this frequent assembling?
The Bourbon theory required that kings should speak and that subjects should obey. One direct consequence of a system so uncompromisingly despotic was the loss of all local initiative. Nothing in the faintest degree resembling the New England town-meeting ever existed in New France. Louis XIV objected to public gatherings of his people, even for the most innocent purposes.
In the North, the general occupation in laborious and gainful pursuits, and the wide variety of social interests which competed for attention, education, reform, the debating society, the town-meeting, all acted to hold men in other fields than those of national politics.
He presented, as proper to be censured, the Moderator of the town-meeting, Otis, the Selectmen, Jackson, Ruddock, Hancock, Rowe, and Pemberton, the Town-Clerk, Cooper, the Speaker of the Convention, Gushing, and its Clerk, Adams.
He knew that all the other men had gone to the town-meeting, where he had had no heart to intrude himself that free democratic parliament where he had often gone with his father in childhood; where the boys, rejoicing in a general assembly of their own, had played ball outside, while the men debated gravely within.
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