18. Payson Protests Against an Increase of Salary.

Payson Protests Against an Increase of Salary

We may readily suppose that, possessing, as he did, so unselfish a nature, his people would never have any difficulty with him about salary. They had difficulty, however, but it came from him in the shape of strong protests against an increase of the salary voted him at the time of his settlement! And although he had calls from Boston and New York, with higher salary and position, he could not be tempted to leave his beloved Portland charge.