Brownlow's Knoxville Whig. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-18
From the New York Tribune
New HamDshire Is True,


BY common consent, yesterdays election
in New Hampshire was expected, from til,
81 John 60 tho Pacific. "a strike tha ~,
note of the Presidential confest 80 feao
As the first State to vote in the a,,,ra,,
years. State very equally divided an
ever sharply contested-aS State people.
| by eminently intelligent and indepeHden
! freemen-its decision was awaited with al
anxiety utterly disproportioned to her ma
terial weight in the councils Of the Union
Tho people Of New-Hampshire are EN-
lnently and truly conservative. Seven
/ eighths Of them were born on her soil. edu
Gated in her schools, and large majority
own their own homes and direct their owl
LABOR They mean to uphold and preserve
the free institution they received from then
fathers. They reverence Order, Law, Nor.
atty and the Constitution. No reckless and
perllous innovation can ever secure their
support. They are Conservatives of JUS
tlce and Liberty, Equal Rights and Ma.
tonal integrity. If the impeachment oil
President johnson were such revolution
airy outrage as his hackers pronounce it,
nowhere would it be resented and resisted
more sternly, more effectively, than IN New
Hampshire
canvassed than during the last month. It's
area is not large, and it is well chequered
with railroads. Two newspapers to each
family is probably below the average; and
the tidings that able and eminent men of
either party were to speak at this or that
point, at the season when rural labor is
lightest, drew them together from night to
night by thousands Wepresume there are
few voters in the State who have not at
tended at least three mass meetings If
anybody could persuade them to renounce
their principles, Doolittle might do it ;
while Connecticut contributed two or three
renegade Office holders, to faunt in the faces
of the steadfast the Offices they held the
emoluments they enjoyed, as the wages of
their shame. Each party has done its
A" level best made its mightiest exertions,
polled its last vote Had thousand more
been held, and addressed by the
ablest speakers of both parties, we presume
the majority would not have heen varied O
hundred votes.
1t has been loudly claimed that great
reaction" has taken plaee-that the Repub-
liean party has forfeited and lost the con
fdence of the People We denied this say
The people have not changed they
are weary of struggling to no purpose and
battling to no end thousands have allowed
themselves to be diverted from National by
local issues, or have in despair refused to
vote; but give them a chance to vote to any
purpose, and they will show you that the
fires of 1860 and 1864 still burn in their
breasts" That this was the simple fact, is
evinced by the result of yester-
lays Election in New Hampshire. In
several of the elections of the last ten
years, the Notwithstanding that they
we're to be beaten-have failed to call out
heir full vote; but, whenever this has not
been the case, the Republican majority has
'anged from Three to Four Thousand when
t has not Gas in 1852 been reduced far be-
ow it. In the Spring of 1856, it was bare
y carried against the Democrats; in the
ensuing Fall, Fremont carried it on full
yote by Five Thousand. If any one is be-
otttd enough to bet on q Democratic gain
lext Fall in any State, we are very sure
hat be cannot be fool enough to squander
lis money in New Hampshire.