Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Bedford Sesqui-Centennial Celebration, Aug; 27, 1879: Historical Discourse
This distribution of the whole country into towns secured, at an early day, the emphatic approval of that very acute republican statesman, Thomas Jefferson, the third in the line of our Presidents. He speaks of them as the Vital princi ple of our government, and says, they have approved themselves the wisest inventions ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and for its preservation These little republics, he says, are the main strength of the great ones. We owe to them the vigor given to our Revolution in its commencement in the Eastern States, and by them the Eastern States were enabled tob'
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