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VOL. 13. SALEM, APRIL, MAY, JUNE, 1881. Nos. 4, 5, 6. 



MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1881. 



MEETING this evening. The PRESIDENT in the chair. 

 Records read. Donations and correspondence announced. 



Charles R. Wood and Lavinia D. McKeeu, both of 

 Saleria, were elected resident members. 



Henry F. Waters, of Salem, was elected a member of 

 the Publication Committee, in place of James Kimball 

 deceased. 



AMOS NOTES, of Newburyport, read a paper on 



"TiiE FRENCH REPUBLIC." 



IN language and in race, the French were nearer the 

 Americans than any people in Europe, except the Eng- 

 lish. Equality was the passionate longing of the French, 

 and they esteemed it more than liberty, in this sentiment 

 differing from the English who put liberty first. This 

 was exhibited in the property laws. The French legis- 

 lated so as to promote the diffusion of property, and to 

 this end restricted the power to make wills, more 

 narrowly than we did. France in the treatment of 



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