HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.
Charles Brooks, Ed.

Another amendment was proposed in 1840, relating to the basis of representation in the Senate and House of Representatives. On this “thirteenth act of amendment of the Constitution of Massachusetts,” Medford voted eighty-one yeas and one nay.

In 1852, a Convention was called for revising the Constitution of the State; and, March 7, 1853, William Hoskins was chosen delegate.

Nov. 14, 1853: The town voted on the acceptance of the amended draft of the Constitution as follows:--

We seem to be in the midst of prophetic political saltations. The secret, sudden, and effectual dismemberment of the Whig, Democratic, and Free Soil parties, in this State, by the agency of an association improperly called “Know Nothings,” gave a new character to the political affairs of Medford; and, at the last gubernatorial election, the votes stood thus:--

To the honor of Medford it should be recorded, that amid the fiercest contentions of political parties, and at their caucuses, and at their ballotings, there have never been instances of ruthless violence, or passionate menace, or systematic corruption. The meetings have been marked with that decorum and self-respect which evince an intelligent and virtuous community.

Votes in Medford for representatives in Congress.