Excerpt from Our Houses Are Our Castles: A Review of the Proceedings of the Nunnery Committee, of the Massachusetts Legislature, and Especially Their Conduct and That of Their Associates on Occasion of the Visit to the Catholic School in Roxbury, March 26, 1855 At the election in November 1852, however, the Whigs so far prevailed over the combined opposition as to secure a majority in the legislature, upon which body for several years had de volved the choice of Governor in default of any election by a majority of the votes of the people - and John H. Clifford, a sterling Whig, was chosen Governor for the year 1853. Ed ward Everett was chosen to the United States Senate, but re signed June 1, 1854. Meanwhile the coalition parties had al ready arranged for a Convention of Delegates to convene in the summer of 1853 for the revision and amendment of the Constitution, and at the elections in March they secured a large majority of the delegates. The Convention assembled in May, and sat through the three months of May, J nne and J uly, ma turing a thorough and complete change in the fundamental law of the Commonwealth. Their work was submitted to the peo ple at the State election in November, 1853, and the whole of it was rejected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.