...have deemed it my duty to myself and to my readers to state these, my conclusions, for they have tinged if not permeated every public aim of my life, and every private aim also, I hope. Coming to Lowell at the early age of less than a dozen years, when it was a small manufacturing town, I became a part of the beginning. But the town had grown so marvellously that in 1836 it had become the second c...