If Boston should be startled by hearing to-day that pestilence had appeared in one of our new-found possessions, as in Charlestown,--or even in Brookline, which will not be annexed,--we should feel the ties of neighborhood.
Sumner reflects on the interconnectedness of communities in times of crisis.
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