He earnestly resisted, in the Convention of 1820, the abolition of the property qualification for voters, and of the obligation of all citizens to be taxed for the support of religious worship.

His rules of public and private conduct were strict and austere.

He favored the suppression of the sale and use of intoxicating liquors, and desired that the whole force of the State should be brought to bear to accomplish that end.

He was the inveterate foe of oppression, and in his later years, opposed every compromise with slavery.

But he had no sympathy with reforms which seemed to him to be devised merely as political instruments to advance the fortunes of persons or parties.

But I think everybody who knew the town will agree with me that there never was in the world a better example of a pure and beautiful democracy, in the highest sense of the term, than the town of Concord from 1826 to the close of the war.

If there were any aristocracy, it was an aristocracy of personal worth.

The richest man in town took an interest in the affairs of the poorest as in those of a kinsman.

It never occurred to the poorest that he must, for that reason, doff his hat to any man.

It is interesting to observe how little the character of the gentleman and gentlewoman in our New England people is affected by the pursuit, for generations, of humble occupations, which in other countries are deemed degrading.

When the necessity was over, and the man or the boy in any generation got a college education, or was called to take part in public affairs, he rose at once and easily to the demands of an exalted station.

The life and character of a country are determined in a large degree by the sports of its boys.

The Duke of Wellington used to say that the victory at Waterloo was won on the playing- fields at Eton.

I have no doubt a Roman boy two hundred years before Christ, or an Athenian boy four hundred years before Christ, lived quite as well as I did, if not better.

I am afraid the sympathy of the people who told the story was with the pump-maker and not with the lawyer.

No boy of that day will think there is any flavor like that of roast turkey and chicken or of the doughnuts and pancakes or griddle-cakes which were cooked by these open fires.

The fireplace was the centre of the household, and was regarded as the type and symbol of the home.

Let every critter jine To praise the eternal God.

They had heard John Buttrick's order to fire, which marked the moment when our country was born.

So you will understand how few lives separate you from the time when our country was born, and the time when all our people were British subjects.

I remember studying Caesar there with George Brooks, afterward judge, and reading with him an account of some battle where Caesar barely escaped being killed, on which Brooks's comment was "I wish to thunder he had been!

We understood the law to be that all apples that grew on the branches extending over the highway were public property, and I am afraid that when the owner was not about we were not very particular as to the boundary line.

The chief weapon of torture was the ferule, to the efficacy of which I can testify from much personal knowledge.

I quite agree with Hosea Biglow when he says, "There is a fun to a Cornwallis, though; I aint agoin' to deny it.

He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.