Lafayette In Massachusetts In 1824 – September 3 West Boylston
This is part of a series on Lafayette’s visit to Massachusetts August 23, 1824 to September 3 1824. Lafayette made a short stop at West Boylston where another company...
Lafayette In Massachusetts In 1824 – September 3 Sterling
The multitudes that hail your march through this part of our country are not the assemblages of idle crowds, seeking to gratify a morbid curiosity, but, Sir, the men around you are independent possessors of their fields, and the defenders of their homes. From hoary age to lisping childhood, our whole population are eager of contributing deserved honors to the companion of Washington, the benefactor of our country, and the friend of mankind.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.