The Annexation Question

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Excerpt from The Annexation Question: Closing Argument of of B. W. Harris, Esq., For the Remonstrants Against the Annexation of Dorchester to Boston, Before the Committee on Towns of the Massachusetts Legislature, Tuesday Evening, April 27, 1869 I had hoped to be allowed the privilege, after having made the arrangement, which is certainly not agreeable to any of us, to make the closing argument for the remonstrants in the evening, - I had hoped, I say, to be allowed the privi lege of addressing a full committee. Circumstances seem to have interfered to prevent it, and I now enter upon the closing argument in the hepe that, if I cannot reach each member of the committee here, there may be some other mode by which the facts which I present and call to their at tention may reach them. I had not the privilege of being present at the first hear ing in this case, nor of listening to the opening argu ment of the learned 'counsel for the city of Boston, and the gentleman who appeared here for the petitioners from the town of Dorchester made no opening. I am left, therefore, somewhat to conjecture as to what are the grounds - the main grounds - upon which they propose to rely in the closing argument. I am obliged to take the case as I find it, and to present those considerations which seem to me to bear directly upon the question. I may be obliged to tres pass upon your time longer than I should be called upon to do, did I know the grounds really relied upon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.