Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-02-25
New lIamushire Election.


The election in the old Granite State is the
ird important contest that awaits US, aud the
serdfct which is people will cast will have an
all important influence, for good or for evil, as
It's issue may be II will take place on the sec
ond Tuesday of the coming month, or in a ittle
more than four weeks. The battle will be fought,
and the victory won, directly, openly, aud bold
", upon the one great issue 81 PEACE and
FREEDOM, or WAR and SLAVERY. The
old divisions Of party, of Wing and Lot o Foco,
the old dividing lines Of high or low tariff bank
or no bank arc all to great extent lost sight Of
and the naked question will be presented to the
people on the l4ih of March ncNt:--Shall we
sustain the cigning dynasty, and thus pronounce
for war aud the endless enlargement of the area
Of slavery or shall we declare for the upright
aud true patriot, Berry, aud peace and freedom
Shall we suffer the real and worst enemies OF
our country to choose n legislature which may
disgrace New Hampshire for six years more,
with Charles g. Atherion in the United Siates
Senate, or lower deep OF degradation Of our
States honor-for there is lower deep even
than Atlerion---or shall we, as we can, eleut one
that will send true MAN-one who will not
crnge and fawn on Southern taskmastcrs or do
the bidding Of the slaveryspcedcrs-o who
will truly and faithfully represent, Ike the indie
pen,lent and manly Hale. the true sentiments OF
Inc people of New Iiampshirel These are the
questions to be presented to the people Of That
State in four weeks from nest Tuesdny
On such an issue can the result be doubted,
when we look back upon the past? No, not IL
the friends Of freedom there are doing their du-
ty--not IL such towns rs last year failed IA are
doing their duiy--not II Portsmouth and Salem,
Meredith, Gimnnton, Alton and SanhOrnton,
and host of others. are at work and prepared
10 secure their redemption. The friends OF
Berry and LIBERTY have everything TO en-
courage, their opponents everything to cast
them down. The one are sustained by right
eous cause the remembrance Of their signal tn
umphs last July, and the conviction that the
sympathies Of the friends Of peace and Freedom
the whole Union over, are with them The oth
or must know that they have to sustain bad ana
a sinking cause, cause abhorrcd by every 'rne
christian and pairioi-only sustained W money
fraudulently wrung from the national treasury
and cause, too, that they feel Is touenhs ."
a final fall.
The startling disclosures OF the speeulau.o.oes
on the treasury, nominally 70 rhy inspectors IN
inland towns, but actually to buy up Tue Peopie
Of The State to fcikism ana ,he u ~. ni
and siavery-hnyc rung the hhm hme'' VI wv
sAvcocrats Of New Hampshire. Their iasi
-.rust' has been already divided, and they have
nothing left but defeat and expulsion IRON the
power they have 20 shamofully abused.
We are confident we cannot be mistaken in
The signs Of the times in the Granite Stale. We
believe thai signal victory awaits the friends Of
freedom in New Hampshire. We trust that the
friends Of Liberty will be true 10 themselves.
their country. and the noble cause they sustain
and bei;e,ing tbis We an confident that yicto-
~ i. in store for them. Of magnitude and ex-
tcnt such as thew li,tle imagine themselves Ev-
crythinp tell. tbs. everything assures us Of it
The ouaking. fear-coniisine cndeavors Of the
enemy. their tremulous efforts to affect a cour-
age they do no, feel. tell us plainly as could their
ffnnkesi confession. their own apprchcnsions Of
their uolitical doom. Like drowning men, they
grasp nj every floating straw, and in ,leir fren-
~ viii even at times grab hold Of the bottom to
save themselves Witness the most stupid Of all