Identifier: centennialofbulf00massa (find matches)
Title: Centennial of the Bulfinch State House. Exercises before the Massachusetts legislature, January 11, 1898
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Massachusetts. General Court
Subjects: Massachusetts -- Capital and capitol
Publisher: Boston, Wright & Potter Printing Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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some can recall the long debates in thisbuilding as to whether it should be spared, ornot. Standing in yonder doorway was a repre-sentative,^ afterward an honored justice of oursuperior court, when a destructionist was makinghis familiar remarks on the desirableness of ring-ing out the old and of ringing in the new; thevalue of the site of the ancient edifice for busi-ness purposes; whereupon the subsequent judgerepaired to his own seat, and thence addressingthe Chair, in just one sentence, uttered in hischaracteristically hesitating manner, effectually dis-posed of all opposition. These were his words:Mr. Speaker, as near as I can make out, thewhole trouble with these folks is they arent will-ing that God Almighty should have a corner lot.In spite of opposition, however excited, long andbitter, these buildings, to paraphrase the wordsof the dying Webster, still exist; and to-day we Charles P. Thompson of Gloucester, member of the House ia 1871-72, latera judge of the superior court.
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