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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



doctrines, its methods, and its controlling minds as 

 the persistent enemy of our free government ; and we 

 especially denounce that most infamous act of usurpa- 

 tion whereby the fairly-determined will of the Amer- 

 ican people, constitutionally expressed at the polls, 

 was most outrageously defied, and the shameless crea- 

 tures of conspiracy and fraud installed in the places 

 of the lawfully chosen President and Vice-President 

 of the United States. 



We unite with our brethren throughout the land in 

 asserting the sacred right of free elections the right 

 of every citizen to cast his ballot unintimidated "by 

 Federal bayonets or any instrumentality of force or 

 fraud. We call upon the representatives of the people 

 in Congress to persevere in the maintenance of that 

 right, and the people everywhere to assert their deter- 

 mined purpose never again to be defrauded of the le- 

 gitimate result of its exercise. 



With full confidence in the judgment and patriotism 

 of our delegates this day chosen 2 we believe in the ex- 

 ercise of wise discretion conjointly with the repre- 

 sentatives of the Democracy from all the States, that 

 they will select as the standard-bearers of the party at 

 Cincinnati men who will command the hearty and en- 

 thusiastic support of every honest Democrat and sin- 

 cere patriot in the land, to the end that the party of 

 usurpation, corruption, and fraud shall be defeated, 

 and honest constitutional government reestablished in 

 our midst. 



On motion, subsequently made by a member, 

 the assembly voted " that it is the sense of 

 this Convention that the National Convention 

 adhere to the two-thirds vote." 



The Republicans assembled at Concord on 

 the 6th of May, to choose their delegates to the 

 Republican National Convention that would 

 meet at Chicago on June 2d, to nominate the 

 Republican candidates for President and Vice- 

 President of the United States. Of the eight 

 competitors balloted upon for delegates at large, 

 William E. Chandler, David H. Buffurn, Ruel 

 Durkee, and Benjamin F. Prescott were an- 

 nounced chosen, the most numerous votes being 

 cast for them. As their alternates, Benjamin 

 A. Kimball, John H. Broughton, James A. 

 Wood, and Augustus A. Woolson were, on 

 motion, selected by acclamation. 



For district delegates the following selections 

 were made by Republicans of the several dis- 

 tricts, who met among themselves for that pur- 

 pose: First district, Charles M. Murphy and 

 Joel Eastman, delegates; Charles B. Gaffney, 

 of Rochester, and Stephen Girard Northross, 

 of Conway, alternates. Second district, Charles 

 Holman and James E. Sturgiss, delegates; 

 Charles Williams, of Manchester, and David H. 

 Goodell, of Antrim, alternates. Third district, 

 S. W. Hale, of Keene, and A. L. Brown, of 

 Whitefield, delegates; E. G. Gustine, of Keene, 

 and H. L. Tilton, of Littleton, alternates. 



The following preamble and series of reso- 

 lutions were reported by the chairman of the 

 appropriate committee, and unanimously adopt- 

 ed by the Convention : 



Whereas, The Republicans of New Hampshire, in 

 State Convention assembled, desire once more to attest 

 their devotion to the cardinal principles of the party, 

 and to place them upon record, that the whole world 

 may see the very foundation of their belief and action ; 

 therefore 



Resolved, That we are in favor 



1. Of a currency based upon gold, upon which the 



prosperity of the country, individually and collec- 

 tively, largely depends. 



2. Of one free and untrammeled ballot for every 

 legal voter, North and South free from intimidation 

 or control of every sort as was contemplated by the 

 founders of our Government. 



3. Of equal rights for every citizen, everywhere, and 

 the securing of those rights, if absolutely necessary, 

 by the strong arm of the General Government, in ac- 

 cordance with the letter and the spirit of the constitu- 

 tional amendments. 



4. Of such conduct of the civil service as shall re- 

 sult in giving to the country a thoroughly honest and 

 efficient administration of every department of the 

 Government. 



Resolved, That we arraign the Democratic party for 

 its recreancy to the principles of free government, 

 amply attested by its adherence to the doctrine or 

 State supremacy ; its connivance at the nullification 

 of the laws for the protection of the rights of the 

 freedmcn in the South ; its attempt to count out, by 

 fraud and force, the fairly and legally elected Legisla- 

 ture of Maine ; and its subserviency to the Southern 

 oligarchy, now endeavoring to secure by legislative 

 methods what it failed to achieve by a resort to arms 

 in 1861'-64. 



Resolved, That we heartily approve of the present 

 attitude of the Administration upon all the great prin- 

 ciples of the Republican party, and most especially 

 and emphatically of its conduct of the national finances, 

 by that great financier, Hon. John Sherman, of Ohio. 



Resolved, That we congratulate Ulysses S. Grant 

 the most renowned and illustrious citizen of the 

 public, on his safe return from a tour of the world 

 and we fervently wish that the afternoon of his 

 markable life may be made serene by exemption 

 strife, and happy in the respect and affection of a g ... 

 ful country, whose unity he did so much to presen 

 and whose great destiny he did more than any of ' 

 compatriots to advance. 



Resolved, That while we are in favor of sending an 

 uninstructed delegation to Chicago, it is our earnest 

 belief that the man for the times, above all others, em- 

 bodying every element of a triumphant candidate and 

 a successful Administration, is the Hon. James G. 

 Elaine, of Maine. 



Resolved, That any unit rule which seeks to com- 

 pel a delegate to vote for a candidate not his choice, or 

 the choice of his constituents, is tyrannous and unre- 

 publican, and we request our delegates to Chicago to 

 so vote on all questions as to leave every delegate free 

 to follow an unfettered and honest judgment. 



Resolved, That our delegates to the Chicago Con- 

 vention are requested to call the attention of that body 

 to the propriety of a change in the existing basis of 

 delegate representation in future National Republican 

 Conventions, to the end that hereafter the number of 

 delegates from the different States may be determined 

 by the actual Republican vote cast therein at the last 

 preceding State or national election. 



Resolved, That the Republicans of New Hampshire 

 pledge .themselves to give the nominee at Chicago their 

 hearty and enthusiastic support, and a rousing majc 

 ity at the polls next November. 



Preparatory to the general election of Nov( 

 her, 1880, for State officers, the Republicans c( 

 vened at Concord on September 7th to nomi 

 nate their candidates, 545 delegates being ii 

 attendance. The nominations for the severs 

 State offices were as follows : For Governor, 

 Charles H. Bell, of Exeter, was, on motion, de- 

 clared the Republican nominee by acclamation; 

 State Councilor, First District, Thomas G. 

 Jameson, of Somersworth ; Second District, 

 Lyman D. Stevens, of Concord; Third Dis- 

 trict, John W. Wheeler, of Salem ; Fourth 

 District, George H. Stowell, of Claremont; 



