New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-31

In oden time when Martin the First and Last
was king. there was DO Democrat so stiff so strong,
SO unapproacbable by argument or persuasion as
the Democrat of New Hampshire. That State was
the citadel into which the flying forces Of the Ad
mnistratOn Ietreattd-the State which was 70 its
party what Vermont was 10 the Wings; the State
which was reckoued, and not without reason, TO be
sure. Such political fidelity we are willing to ad-
nit, proved certain degree Of cOn.cientiousness,
ard an unwliDgness to discard for trivial causes,
settled conviction. But such qualities Of cAarac-
ter were dangerous ones to aparty determined upon
undertaking new and questionable policy; and
the discontinue which has fallen upon the Doug
lasites Of New-Hampshire at every election since
1854. and which has hurled them from their
ancient position Of security into one of hopeless
ness has proved how dubious thing il is to trife
with hODt 81 ard sincere constituencies The peo-
pie of the Granite State have discovered that Doug
las and Democracy are by no means synonymous;
and hsyiD. come to that conclusion, they have ut
tery refused TO discard it, although sundry slave
holders of very soft speech have been deputed By
the bereayed Pierce to lecture them into obedience,
although sundry Democrats of that ilk have dis
avowed Douglas and all his ways, and al.
though Butterfed, the Administration whipPer-
in, has cracked his whip with extra
ordinary force, and alternately cried snd
curstd with the utmost JUNCTION. 1t has
all been, to use popular and expressive phrase,
"no CO." The offrehOlders of the Boston Custom
House might just as well have parted with their
yellow eagles, (Which they did joyfully in the hope
of gathering them up with usury after not many
days., for the purpose of blowing up Mt Washing
ton as for that OF carrying the State for the Sage
of Lancaster. The men who were so firm in
faith which we believed to be heerOdOx, have proved
lust as firm in faith which we believe to be Ortho
doN: and thus ii happens that State which gave
President Pierce above seven thousand majority
over Gen. Scott, gave John c. Fremont the can
didate of Freedom and FreemeD, above five thou
sand majority over Buchanan In some counties
the change has been astonishing. Belknap, which
in 1852 only gave ~ votes for Scott, and only 262
for lIse in lSj6 gave Fremont 2,O62; Carol,
which gave Scott 49l, in the last election gave
Fremont , l5: Rockingham mounted from 2,5O6
votes for Scott to ; 9l4 for Fremont. These will
suffice for specimens. They indicate revolution,
and there are further indications that il was one
Of the revolutions which do not GO backward. Not
the least Of these are the admirable resolutions
adopted BY the Republican State Convention, held
at Concord on the 9Th inst, and which We publish
in THE TRIBUNE OF this morning. This was
Convention of the people Of New Hampshire op-
posed 10 the leading measures OF the Nation.
al Administration" 1t embraced the best
men OF the state, and its proceedings were
harmonious and enthusiastic. Those who sup
pose that the New-Hamp.aire Republicans recOg-
nize divided duty-that they are s.great deal
for the old Know Nothing policy, and only measur
ably for the MOI. Extension of Slayery-are very
i'll acquainted with the politics of the State. Dur
ing the canvass in March l-J6, when NetcaI ran
ostensbly as the American candidate for Governor,
but really as the Republican candidate, the whole
discussion was Of the comparative advantages Of
Free and of Slave Territory; and while the var was
hotly waged. the voice Of Sam" was not heard in
the lsnd, and every stump speaker disted upon the
Kansas question, aid for or against the Kansas
iniqulties. In the Presidential election it the
same. Fillmore received In the whole State only
IT, votes. A.! the friends Of Freedom united the
Republicans absorbed the 1900 vote, throrn for
Goodwin in March, the Straight Wings declining
the kindly advice If the little Baltimore Convention
70 20 ioi NiLa-j; AID the result ia uII,ed party