 | Old Residents' Historical Association of Lowell - Lowell (Mass.) - 1884 - 472 pages
...Jan. 25, 1830, Mr. Cogswell, of Ipswich, remarked : " Railways, Mr. Speaker, may do well enough in old countries, but will never be the thing for so young a country as this. When you can make the rivers run back, it will be time enough to make a railway." Notwithstanding the pathetic remonstrances... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 420 pages
...Jan. 35, 1830, Mr. Cogswell, of Ipswich, remarked : " Railways, Mr. Speaker, may do well enough in old countries, but will never be the thing for so young a country as this. When you can make the rivers run back, it will be time enough to make a railway." Notwithstanding tile-pathetic remonstrances... | |
 | John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1888 - 842 pages
...January 25, 1830, Mr. Cogswell, of Ipswich, remarked: "Railways, Mr. Speaker, may do well enough in old countries, but will never be the thing for so young a country as this. When you can make the rivers run back, it will be time enough to make a railway." Notwithstanding the pathetic remonstrances... | |
 | John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1888 - 902 pages
...January 25, 1830, Mr. Cogswell, of Ipswich, remarked: "Railways, Mr. Speaker, may do well enough in old countries, but will never be the thing for so young a country as this. When you can make the rivers run back, it will be time enough to make a railway." Notwithstanding the pathetic remonstrances... | |
 | Manchester Historic Association (Manchester, N.H.) - Manchester (N.H.) - 1899 - 330 pages
...astonishing that so much reluctance exists against plunging into doubtful speculation. The public is itself divided as to the practicability of the railroad."...for so young a country as this. When you can make the rivers run back it will be time enough to make railways." The waters of the Merrimack continued... | |
 | Frederick William Coburn - Lowell (Mass.) - 1920 - 454 pages
...so cogent an argument as that of Representative Cogswell, of Ipswich, who averred that: "Railways, Mr. Speaker, may do well enough in the old countries,...never be the thing for so young a country as this." Despite such antagonism from vested interests, the plan that was proposed by Patrick Tracy Jackson... | |
 | Alvin Fay Harlow - Travel - 1926 - 520 pages
...in the Legislature Mr. Cogswell of Ipswich asserted, "Railways, Mr. Speaker, may be well enough in old countries, but will never be the thing for so young a country as this. When you can make the rivers run backward, it will be time enough to make a railway. 11 But the railroad enthusiasts... | |
 | Alvin Fay Harlow - Travel - 1926 - 546 pages
...in the Legislature Mr. Cogswell of Ipswich asserted, "Railways, Mr. Speaker, may be well enough in old countries, but will never be the thing for so young a country as this. When you can make the rivers run backward, it will be time enough to make a railway." But the railroad enthusiasts had... | |
 | Andrew Dow - Reference - 2006 - 384 pages
...Library, 1915, 1916. 563.2 Rail-ways, Mr Speaker, may be well enough in old countries, but will never be a thing for so young a country as this. When you can...rivers run backward, it will be time enough to make a railway. Mr Cogswell, Representative for Ipswich, Massachusetts, House debate, c. 1829; Quoted by... | |
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divided as to the practicability of the railroad." A member of the Massachusetts legislature was on record as saying: "Railroads, Mr. Speaker, may do well enough in the old countries, but will never be the thing for so young a country as this. When you... 