Des Arc citizen., 1859-01-15
POLITICS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.

I ter Tn response 10 note rom commute tee of the Convention informing him of his nomination, in which he expresses with great cIearncss and directness his views on several of the leading topics of l political discussion at the present time. As the election in New Hampshire does not take place till March next, the issues thus presented will have ample consldera- ton, and we presume be fully discussed before the people. We make few ex- tracts from the letter of Mir. George:
 II deprecate the interference by Con- gress, directly or indirectly, in the domes- tic affairs of the people of either the States or the Territories. hold most firmly to the cardinal doctrine of State rights and popular sovereignty. recognise in its broadest sense, as just and salutary, the principle that to the people of every State and organized Territory belongs of right the prerogative of regulating for them selves their own domestic and local affairs within the limits of the Constitution.
 "In this connection 1 desire to express my full conviction that it is the duty of Congress and of the Legislatures of each and all of the States and Territories to pass all laws required of them respective ly by the letter or the spirit of the Consti- tution, and to abstain from all enactments in conflict with any of its provisions; for l am wholly unable to perceive any middle ground which can be honestly assumed by any rehectng man between the position of those who totally disregard its provis- ions, believing it to be "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell" ' 1 With regard to the admission of new States, am in favor of the adoption by Congress of uniform rule by which no new State shall be admitted with less population than is sufficient to elect a member of Congress under the ratio of representation. l believe this to be im- peratively required both from considera- tons of the inability of the people of sparsely settled Territories to properly bear the burdens of State government, and oflhe manifest injustice which would result from allowing comparatively small constituency the same political power in the House of Representatives as one twlce or three times as numerous. regard Kansas proper exception to this rule, 1t having been once conditionaly admitted to the Union, and am in favor of its admission as State whenever t shall present 10 Congress a constitution republ- can in form, which has received the sanc- ton of a majority of it's people.
 am further of the opinion that, when ever any Territory having the requisite population, as above suggested, shall pre- sent constitution republican in form, which has been approved at the ballot-box by majority of its people in the free ex- ercise of the right of voting thereon. Con- gress should admit that territory 10 an equal footing with the other States, with out regard to the specific provisions of it's constitution
 MT. George presents with great force some of the affects upon New England interests of the slavery agitation. He says:
 "I believe, further, that no section of the country has so large an interest in the accomplishment of the these results as New England, for, upon no other section have the evils of slavery agitation fallen with equal force. The commercial, man. ufacturing and mechanical interests upon which the material prosperity of New England is based and mainly depends. have each and all been paraIyzed to greater or less extent by the sectional an- imosities which the political abolitionists of New England have been so efficient in producing. While New England ships are seeking employment and profit in the transportation of the products of slave labor, New England demunciations of the South and Southern institutions have oc- casoned discriminations to be made Tn favor of Southern ships to.such an extent that many vessels, built and owned here, are registered in New Orleans, in order to obtain employment as Southern ships. While New England manufactures are wholly dependent upon the cotton raised by slave labor for the employment of their operatives and their looms, and are to a large degree dependent upon the South as market for their manufactured goods, political virulence has caused the con sruction of manufacturing establishments in Georgia and other Southern State. and thus diminish the employment of oul factories and the market for our goods Our shoe manufacturers are glad to obtain the proceeds of slave labor by making brogans for Southern negroes; but South ern prejudice, excited by New England folly, compels the manufacturer to pay
 tax to the New York commission mer' chant who sells his shoes under false
 marks to his Southern customers. Oul
 machinists and mechanics have all lel the consequences of the establishment 0 machine shops in Maryland, Virginia ant
 Tennessee. Our merchants have seer Southern trade concentrate at New York , Philadelphia and Baltimore. They know that to great extent the establishment of these shops and the diversion Of thl' trade is owing to this miserable negro , agitation, originated and kept up, at suci : an enormous sacrifice of New Egnlant 1 interests for the selfish purposes of sec tional agitation"
 , "I have as little respect for that cheal U philanthropy which, while 1t clutches a