George H. Moore
Published: 2017-09-03
Total Pages: 82
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From the PREFATORY NOTE. This pamphlet is a second issue of the third Appendix to my second paper on the Old State House, from which it is reprinted with some additions. It is intended chiefly for gratuitous distribution to the members of the Bostonian Society and the City Council of Boston. In the latest edition of Mr. Whitmore's Old State House Memorial, he charged me with having assailed the City Council in my first paper by "offensive" criticisms, which he characterized as "an unworthy return for their great liberality." Being promptly called upon to point out the offensive criticisms, he was unable to do so. The only important criticism which he has ever quoted was in these words of my first paper- "No such division of the space on the second floor, as the present, existed at any time during the official use of the building by the Legislature, Colonial, Provincial, Revolutionary, or State." The chief purpose of the appendix now reprinted was to demonstrate the truth of this statement. I think that purpose was accomplished; and that nothing yet produced by Mr. Whitmore has shaken it in the least. For the rest, when he points out anything I have written on this or any other subject, which can be justly characterized in such terms as he has seen fit to use, it may be my duty to pay further attention to him and his complaints. I do not think that any other member of the City Council has discovered or been rendered unhappy by what he calls my " attacks" on them or the Old State House; and the estimate placed upon my papers by our associates in the Bostonian Society, has been shown very conclusively to me; in the first place, by their cordial reception of them when read, and again, by their large orders of printed copies for distribution. It is hardly necessary for me to add that I entertain a very grateful sense of their kindness and liberality, which has not been disturbed in the least by the unanimous disapprobation of Mr. Whitmore....