The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-03-20
A WORD FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE.
CONCORD, N. H., March 10, 1856.


Tomorrow will settle the question, whether
or not the present occupant of the Presiden-
tial Chair is to be put in nomination again for
the Office he now fills? have no doubt how
that question is to be settled and it will be SO
settled as to relieve the Democratic party from
the necessity of attempting to do what the
people of this country long since resolved they
would not do-give to the same man two terms
of the Presidential office. The National Ad-
ministration party will be overwhelmingly de-
feated and yet the nominee of that party for
Governor will poll 5000 more votes than could
possibly be secured for President Pierce to-mor-
row, were they to be asked for him for second
term of the Office he nov holds; and all this
when thousands will vote for the competitor of
Mr.. Wells with marked reluctance. But beg
you not to consider the reelection of Governor
Metcalf as "Know Nothing" or what is
called an American" triumph, for such it will
not be. The Republicans will have the right
to be merry, and they will at once take their
position as soon as the voting of tomorrow
shall be over. This is now well understood !;
and the few who desire to prefix the term
+" american" to the gell.selected name of " Re-
PUBLICAN" will hardly be accommodated in
that particular, as we have never been made
familiar with the terms of" American Whigs,1.
" american Democrats" or " american Fed
erdlists." We shall be simply "REPUBLI-
CANS"
There will not be the shadow even Of party
in favor of Willard Fillmore for President and
Andrew j. Donelson for Vice President, in the
Granite State; but there will be few who
will strive to dictate to the Republicans, as to
whom they shall put in nomination for those
offices. 1t is hoped here that the Republicans
will make such nominations as will inset the
appreciation and secure the support OF ali who
are opposed to the policy Of the present Ad-
ministration, and that thousands and hundreds
of thousands, who have heretofore acted with
the improperly styled Democratic party, will
rally around the Republican standard, and help
bear it to the triumph that surely awaits it in
November next.
Well-behaved citizens will not much longer
be reproached, in New England, because they
were born, as our honored forefathers were,
just where their parents happened to reside.
We still call our land "an asylum for the op-
pressed of all nations, and fit home for all
who would be Free" provided they seek it not
as criminals or as paupers, for us to watch, ar
rest, punish, or support. The names of Mont
go~ery, Lafayette, yea, of Columbus, are still
honored, though one was af iceland. one of
France, and the other born in the far-otf city
of Genoa, while Benedict Arnold and the &C
complished Aaron Burr have few, if any, ad-
mirers here, although one was born in New
England and the other in New York. Birth
place and sectarisn views are thought less of
by men of sense than are personal character,
moral worth, political integrity, and the good
men do for the age in which they live, and for
the happiness of those who are to come after
them.
We still cling to "freedom of speech and of
the press" and are ready to battle for "rel-
gious federation" even though we dislike Popes
ana oomineering potentates. We mean still
longer to be true Republicans, and will do
nothing to aid on the efforts of others to ire
ligious prosecutions in this country. x**