Inaugural Addresses of the Mayor of Boston, Volume 1

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Página 273 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 133 - I therefore turn from these painful reminiscences, and refer you to the day when Independence, mature in age and loveliness, advanced with angelic grace from the chamber in which she was born into the same balcony, and holding in her hand the immortal scroll on which her name and character and claims to her inheritance were inscribed, received from the street, filled with an impenetrable phalanx, and windows glittering with a blaze of beauty, the heartfelt homage and electrifying peals of the men,...
Página 292 - October, 1899, and show cause why the prayer of said petition should not be granted, and why the proceedings directed in said act of Congress should not be taken.
Página 97 - And now, gentlemen, standing as I do in this relation for the last time in your presence and that of my fellowcitizens, about to surrender forever a station full of difficulty, of labor and temptation, in which I have been called to very arduous duties, affecting the rights, property, and at times the liberty of others ; concerning which the perfect line of rectitude — though desired — was not always to be clearly discerned ; in which great interests have been placed within my control, under...
Página 86 - ... of giving a high classical education, equal about to a college education, to all the girls of a city, whose parents would wish them to be thus educated at the expense of the city, was just as impracticable as to give such an one to all the boys of it at the city's expense. Indeed, more so, because girls, not being drawn away from the college by preparation for a profession or trade, would have nothing except their marriage to prevent their parents from availing of it. No funds of any city could...
Página 78 - ... interests it crossed? Who could doubt that from these causes there would in time come an accumulation of discontent; that, sooner or later, the ground swell would rise above the land-marks with a tide which would sweep it from its foundations? In the first address which nearly six years ago I had the honor to make to the City Council, the operation of these causes was distinctly stated almost in the terms just used, and the event which has now occurred was anticipated. Nothing was then promised...
Página 25 - And it shall be the duty of the mayor to be vigilant and active at all times, in causing the laws for the government of said city to be duly executed and put in force ; to inspect the conduct of all subordinate officers in the government thereof, and, as far as in his power, to cause all negligence, carelessness, and positive violation of duty, to be duly prosecuted and punished.
Página 98 - rejoicing, not, indeed, with a public and patriotic, but with a private and individual joy ' ; for I shall retire with a consciousness weighed against which all human suffrages are but as the light dust of the balance.
Página 89 - Where, in a city of equal population, are there fewer instances of those crimes, to which all populous places are subject ? "Doubtless much of this condition of things is owing to the orderly habits of our citizens ; but much, also, is attributable to the vigilance which has made vice tremble in its haunts, and fly to cities where the air is more congenial to it ; which, by pursuing the lawless...
Página 108 - ... assert, that, at no time in the course of my life, have I been present at any meeting of individuals, public or private, of the many or the few, or privy to correspondence, of whatever description, in which any proposition, having for its object the dissolution of the Union, or its dismemberment in any shape, or a separate confederacy, or a forcible resistance to the government or laws, was ever made or debated ; that I have no reason to believe, that any such scheme was ever meditated by distinguished...

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