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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3.
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Chapter 29: Society in Boston.
1845-1860.
A view of the society of Boston,—of the character and tendencies of its ruling class,—at the close of the first half of this century is essential to a just comprehension of the position of an agitator in such a community for moral and political reforms.
The subject has only been touc arles Sumner's career.
For a description of Boston in 1825, see ante, vol.
i. p. 45. The characteristics of the people and society were much the same from 1820-1860.
There are touches of Boston in 1860 in the Life, Letters, and Journals of Ticknor, vol.
i. pp. 315, 316.
The population of the city grew between 1845 and 181860 in the Life, Letters, and Journals of Ticknor, vol.
i. pp. 315, 316.
The population of the city grew between 1845 and 1850 from 115,000 to 137,000, and five years later exceeded 160,000.
Its territory was still confined to the peninsula,—Charlestown, Roxbury, and Dorchester being as yet suburban towns.
Mansions surrounded by gardens had disappeared, and had given place to blocks.
Fort Hill, long a residential quarter of rich people, had been aba<
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Chapter 29: Society in Boston.
1845-1860.
A view of the society of Boston,—of the character and tendencies of its ruling class,—at the close of the first half of this century is essential to a just comprehension of the position of an agitator in such a community for moral and political reforms.
The subject has only been touc m 1820-1860.
There are touches of Boston in 1860 in the Life, Letters, and Journals of Ticknor, vol.
i. pp. 315, 316.
The population of the city grew between 1845 and 1850 from 115,000 to 137,000, and five years later exceeded 160,000.
Its territory was still confined to the peninsula,—Charlestown, Roxbury, and Dorchester b e intervention of Prescott was necessary to restore good relations, broken in consequence of an offhand and overheard remark.
The prison-discipline controversy of 1845-1847, treated later in these pages, will show how family sympathies gave a personal direction to public controversies.
Bancroft, the historian, escaped from a <