The Portland daily press., 1868-08-29

CONCORD, N. H., Aug 26, 1868
To the Editor of the Press: rr- er.fi-
An unusual and very stirring interest is felt
here in the Granite State in relation to the re-
suit of your election, which occurs in two
weeks from next Monday. We have no fears
of defeat to the Republicans upon the 18th
of next month, but it would be sad thing for
the best interests of the country if the Repub-
licans of Maine should lose one or more of
their Representatives in Congress, or suffer
the majority for their State ticket to be less
than it was last year, as in such an event, the
rejoicings of the Democrats would be great all
over the country; and especially so in the close
States of Pennsylvania, Ohio California. Con-
necticut and several of the lately reconstruct
ed Southern States. Indeed, in every one of
the lately seeded States nothing can protect
union men, white or colored, from the worst
possible treatment, from now to the Sd of No
vember, at the hands of rebel Democrats there,
but the certainty that the defeat of the Demo-
cratic party on the Sd of November is sure
The election in Maine will be every thing to
union men South; and then it will have much
to do with the result of four State elections
which occur upon the 18th of October viz:
those of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Iowa; and the elections in the last named
States will settle the Presidential election of
November Sd and if they settle it right the
last Fl days of the contest will be peaceful
days throughout the South. z5u.i .1t5gsg
In this State all is quiet, so far as our own
matters interest us, but the day after your
election we shall commence a smart contest in
the Granite State, and the fifty days from that
day to November Sd will be stirring days with
us in every part of the State The Republi-
cans have no doubt but they can give Grant
and Colfax 4,500 majority, in this little State
over Seymour and Blair, and after election our
Democratic friends will see n,ore( Seymour) and
6tdre (Blair) less than they do now We feel.
to-day, far greater interest in your election
than we do in our own. We fought our battle
last winter, and gave a record of our position
on the 10th of March last; and we are 1000 ,
votes better to-day than we were on that day.
The young men are mostly Republicans to-
day, however they may have voted last March.
They believe the party that opposed the Sc
cession war of 1865, will share the fate of the
party that opposed the war of 1925; and they
believe the war lasted two years longer and
cost $1600,000000 more than it would have
Listed and cost, had the entire North been
united in its support. Again, the candid
young men OF Democratic parentage are dis
gusted with the policy adopted by the Demo-
Gratis South, and approved by the Democrats
North, of compelling the colored men South
to vote as they bid them, or else give them no
employment and compel them to leave their
native homes, while the Republicans of the
North do noe thus prescribe the hundreds of
the cities and manufacturing villages i'm the
Northern and Western States, who vote the
Democratic tickets. ~ DEFY
Ii your people will give Gov Chamberlain
10000 majority on the the 14th of next month,
over the Hon. Mr. Pilsbury, the Democratic
nominee for Governor, it will virtually settle
the Presidential question, and it will save a
vast amount of sutfe"ings, of crimes and MUIR
ders in the Southern States, as well as settle
rhe results of the elections in Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and
secure to the Republicans nearly every electo-
raj vote in the seven recently reconstructed
Southern States, and keep all quiet in the nom
reconstructed States OF Virginia, Mississippi
and Texas from this time until they shall &C.
cept reconstruction. ~
Business in the city is good and our people
are beginning to feel strong desire to do
something to secure d more direct connection
with your city, through the agency of an ex-
tension of the Portland aud Rochester railroad
to Concord via Pittsfield, and then to continue
the route west ola Claremont, N. H., Wind
soy, VT, all the way to Chicago, Illinois,, and
of course to the Pacific Ocean. This route
would secure, north of it, for Portland and the
West, much profitable business to the advan-
tage of the East and the West, f.;-. .4..f i
In what l have penned above of political
matters do but feebly express the deep feel
ing of the Republicans of New Hampshire in
the result of your coming election, and every
Maine voter who may be temporarily in this
State the first of November will be urged
home by our people to vote to save the coun-
try from riots, mobs and murders.