Speech Delivered in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, February 3, 1851: Upon the Question of Granting Two Thousand Dollars to Aid the Town of Acton in Building a Monument Over the Remains of Capt. Isaac Davis, Abner Hosmer, and Jas. Hayward,

Excerpt from Speech Delivered in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, February 3, 1851: Upon the Question of Granting Two Thousand Dollars to Aid the Town of Acton in Building a Monument Over the Remains of Capt. Isaac Davis, Abner Hosmer, and Jas. Hayward, Acton Minute Men, Killed at Concord Fight, April 19, 1775

Sir, are you prepared for this? Is this House prepared for it? Are the people of the old Bay State prepared for it? Why, that marble bust of General Washington, in his regi mentals, that stands in the well known niche of this State House, would answer, and the answer would be, an empha tic, indignant No! We are prepared, Sir, as I humbly think, to do no such thing. The government of this Com monwealth, upon that theory, could not stand one hour. She 'would, being just as 'it is, need force to govern it, and must have force to govern it; or else, it is very certain, it will not be governed. Run out this theory to its consistent, legitimate conclusions, and there would never be another law passed in this Commonwealth armed with penalty; and without penalty, there is not, and there cannot be, any law.

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