The Financial History of Massachusetts

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Excerpt from The Financial History of Massachusetts: From the Organization of the Massachusetts Bay Company to the American RevolutionThe figure of Massachusetts is no unfamiliar one upon the stage of history. She has in fact occupied a prominent posi tion there on many important occasions, and if her audience have not always been able to express an unqualified approval of her choice of parts, they have at least not failed to be impressed with the wide range of her histrionic capabilities, or with the intensity with which she impersonates the char acter Of the hour. It is generally conceded that in the varied and trying roles of persecutor of the heretic and champion of the slave, of punisher of witchcraft at home and defier of op pression abroad, Massachusetts has had few equals and no superiors. But there is another role in which she made her début at an early day, for the adequate sustaining of which, though it is far less spectacular than any of those above men tioned, unremitting rehearsal and many public performances during a period of over two hundred and fifty years have scarcely su¿'iced to prepare this venerable histrionic dame. The performance of Massachusetts as public financier demands our attention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.