Williams, Sherman · Boston, Ginn & Company · leaf 181
ion as the greatestpossible evil, and he was prepared to make any necessarysacrifice to avert it. He said : , I owe a paramount allegiance to the whole Union, — a subordinateone to my own state. When my state is right—when it has causefor resistance, when tyranny and wrong and oppression… … Benjamin Franklin 172 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I706-1790 For more than three centuries there Hved in the littlevillage of Ecton in Northamptonshire, England, a familyby the name of Franklin. In every generation the eldestson became a blacksmith. Josiah, the father of Benjamin,was a dyer, but on coming to…
