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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: on the municipal building: Becker denies this; I am sorry; my
information obliges me to suppose he is in error. Sewall, with
post-mortem loyalty to the past, insisted that this flag should be
continued. And Becker immediately made his point. He declared,
justly enough, that the proposal was hostile, and argued that it
was impossible he should attend a meeting under a flag with which
his sovereign was at war. Upon one occasion of urgency, he was
invited to meet the two other consuls at the British consulate;
even this he refused; and for four months the municipality
slumbered, Martin still in office. In the month of October, in
consequence, the British and American ratepayers announced they
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