...Describing the town-meeting in the Old South Meeting-house, when Warren gave his second oration. 5 These townships in New England are the vital principle of...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. . . . Where every man is a sharer in the direction of his townrepublic, and feels that he is a participator...

...says: "These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, aud have proved themselves the wisest invention, ever...the perfect exercise of selfgovernment and for its preservation."2 In the constitution which Michigan adopted on becoming a State, in 1837, the governor...

...Virginian, reared in the midst of another system, aristocratical and central in its character, who said : " These wards, called townships in New England, are...exercise of selfgovernment and for its preservation." The New England town-house, therefore, is significant of more than its predecessor in England or Germany....

...becomes almost fierce in the earnestness with which he urges Virginia to adopt the township. " Those wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. .... As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words ' Carthago delenda est,' so do I every opinion...

...extending, so that the prophetic injunction of Thomas Jefferson seems likely to be fulfilled:— " Those wards, called townships, in New England are the vital...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. ... As Cato then concluded every speech with the words ' Carthago delenda «•/,' so do I every opinion...

...becomes almost fierce in the earnestness with which he urges Virginia to adopt the township. "Those wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. .... As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words ' Carthac/o delcnda est,' so do I every opinion...

...becomes almost fierce in the earnestness with which he urges Virginia to adopt the township. " Those wards, called townships in New England, are the vital...exercise of self-government, and for its preservation. . . . As Cato, then, concluded every speech with the words ' Carthago delenda est,' so do I every opinion...

...England, are the vital principle of their governments; and have proved themselves the wisest inventions ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation." The American believes in Home Rule down to the smallest divisions, and has shown an admirable dislike...

...England, are the vital principle of their governments; and have proved themselves the wisest inventions ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation." The American believes in Home Rule down to the smallest divisions, and has shown an admirable dislike...

...recommended the division of the counties of Virginia into wards of six miles square. "These wards," he says, "called townships in New England, are the vital principle...exercise of self-government and for its preservation." The officers of the county are three Commissioners, a Judge of Probate, Clerk of the Court of Common...