New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-11
NEW-HAMPSHIRE is TRUE

BY common consent, yesterdays election In
NEW HAMPSHIRE was expected from the ST.
John to the Pacific, to strike the keynote OF
the Presidential contest of 1868. AS the first
State to vote in the current year-as State
very equally divided and ever sharply con-
tested-as State peopled by eminently intelll-
gent and independent freemen-its decision
was awaited with an anxiety utterly dispro-
portioned to her material weight in the coun-
ellis of the Union.
The People of NEw-HAMPSHIRE are emlnently
and firmly conservative. Seven eighths OF them
were born on her soil, educated in her schools,
and a large majority own their own homes
and direct their own labor. They mean to
uphold and preserve the free institutions they
received from their fathers. They reverence
Order Law, Morality and the Constitution.
No reckless and perilous innovation can ever
secure their support. They are Conservatives
of Justice and Liberty, Equal Rights and Ma
tional Integrity. If the impeachment OF Presl-
dent johnson were such a revolutionary out
rage as his hackers pronounce it, nowhere
would it be resented and resisted more sternly,
more effectively, than in NEw-HAMPsHIRE'
The State was never more thoroughly can
vassed than during the last month. Its 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. We presume there are few voters
in the State who have not attended at least
| three mass meetings. If anybody could
persuade them to renOunce their princi-
pies, Doolttle might do it, while Connecticut
contributed two or three renegade oilice-holders
to haunt 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 "level best"-made its mightiest exer-
tions, polled its last vote. Had thousand
more meetings been held, and addressed by the
ablest speakers of both parties, we presume
the majority would not have been varied a
hundred votes.
It has been loudly claimed that "great re-
action" has taken place-that the Republican
party has forfeited and lost the confidence OF
the People We denied this, saying" The Peo-
| " Mo have NOT changed they are weary of strug-
Cling to no purpose and battling to no end;
| thousands have allowed themselves to be d.
"verted from National by local issues, or have
&" in despair refused to vote; but give them q
"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 strilhngly evinced by the result
| of Yesterdays Election in NEwHAMPsHIRE.
In several of the elections of the last ten years,
the notwithstanding that they were to be
beaten-have failed to call out their full vote
but whenever this has not been the case, the
Republican majority has ranged from Three to
Four Thousand when it has not Gas in 1862
been reduced far below it. In the Spring of
1856, it was barely carried against the DEM
Ocrats; in the ensuing Fall, Fremont carried it
on a full vote by Five Thousand. If any one
is besotted enough to bet on a Democratic
gain next Fall in any State, we are very sure
that he cannot be fool enough to squander his
money on NEW HAMPSHIRE.
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