576 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



his advocacy of the repeal of the Corn Laws, he 

 became obnoxious to the Conservatives. He im- 

 mediately exchanged his office for that of Chief 

 Secretary of Ireland, and in a new election again 

 appealed to the constituency of South Notts, 

 which he had for some years represented. The 

 canvass was a most animated one, the old Duke 

 of Newcastle, a large landholder in the county, 

 and an uncompromising Tory of the old school, 

 using his powerful influence against his son, 

 and resulted in the defeat of Lord Lincoln, who 

 soon after accepted a seat for the Falkirk dis- 

 trict of burghs, which was in the gift of his 

 father-in-law, the Duke of Hamilton. He re- 

 tired from the cabinet with Peel in the autumn 

 of 1846, but retained his seat in the House of 

 Commons nntil 1851, when he succeeded to his 

 title and became a leading member of the Up- 

 per House. In 1852 he entered the Aberdeen 

 ministry as Colonial and War Secretary, and 

 upon the division of the office in 1854, retained 

 the War Department. In this capacity he was 

 obliged to share the odium falling upon the 

 ministry in consequence of the gross misman- 

 agement for which the first months of the 

 Crimean war were noticeable. He retired from 

 office with his colleagues in January, 1855, hav- 

 ing first vindicated himself in an able speech, 

 and in 1859 reentered the cabinet as Colonial 

 Secretary. In 1860 he accompanied the Prince 

 of Wales in his tour through the United States 

 find Canada, and in both countries won many 

 friends by his intelligence and unassuming man- 

 ners. He was married in 1832 to the only 

 daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, from whom, 

 in 1850, he was divorced; and subsequent to 

 his return to England from America, ill health, 

 caused in a measure, it is said, by domestic un- 

 happiness, prevented him from appearing often 

 prominently before the public. He was a judi- 

 cious, if not a brilliant statesman, of late years 

 a decided liberal in politics, and is said to have 

 been the model of Disraeli's " Coningsby." 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. The annual election 

 for Governor and other State officers took 

 place on March 8th, with the following result : 



Joseph A. Gilmore, Republican 37,006 



Edward W. Harrington, Democrat 31,340 



Republicans 

 Democrats.. 



iio 



123 

 8T 



.olnt Bal 

 219 

 120 



93 



Republican majority. 



In 1863, when three candidates for Governor 

 were in the field, Gilmore was 3,V98 votes be- 

 hind his Democratic competitor ; and there be- 

 ing no choice by the people, he was elected by 

 the Legislature. It was charged by the Demo- 

 crats that the large Republican majority of 

 1864 was caused by the return of New Hamp- 

 shire soldiers to vote at the State election, 

 those only being furloughed who were Repub- 

 licans. Their opponents admitted that many 

 soldiers had returned on furlough to vote, but 

 denied in positive terms that any discrimina- 

 tion, suggested by the political opinions of the 

 soldiers, had been exercised in granting the 

 furloughs. The Legislature chosen at the elec- 

 tion of 1864 stood as follows : 



Republican majority.. 6 



There was no election in 1864 for membera 

 of Congress. 



The Legislature assembled on June 1st, and 

 on the same day Governor Gilmore was inaugu- 

 rated and delivered his annual message. He 

 stated that the State debt, including $600,000 

 paid to the families of volunteers, amounted to 

 about 81,900,000, an increase of $600,000 sinco 

 the last annual message, and recommended the 

 funding of this by the issue of six per gent, 

 bonds, payable in fifteen or twenty years. Ex- 

 cept in financial matters, the condition of the 

 State was represented as prosperous. The ac- 

 tion of the Legislature appearing to the Gov- 

 ernor incomplete on financial and military mat- 

 ters, he summoned an extra session on August 

 9th, and in his message showed that it was ex- 

 ceedingly difficult to raise money to supply the 

 immediate wants of the State, and suggested a 

 forced loan from the banks for that purpose. 

 On the merits of the military bill passed at the 

 previous session, to provide means to fill the 

 New Hampshire quotas under the various calls 

 for troops, he expressed himself in strong terms 

 of disapprobation, characterizing it as incom- 

 prehensible, cumbrous, and inefficient. He 

 showed that at the date of his message the 

 quota of New Hampshire lacked 5,000 men of 

 being full, that but twenty- three working days 

 remained to raise that number by voluntary 

 enlistments, and that unless the Legislature 

 authorized larger bounties, and put a stop to 

 the extravagant competition between cities and 

 towns, some of which were offering as much as 

 $1,000 for a one-year recruit, the State would 

 be subjected to the rigors of the draft. 



The Legislature and the Executive failed to 

 agree in their views of the course to be pursued 

 to place the credit of the State on a healthy 

 footing. A resolution was adopted recom- 

 mending the Governor to apply to the banks 

 and other moneyed institutions of the State for 

 a temporary loan ; and in case this project was 

 unsuccessful, to apply " elsewhere." To this 

 the Governor replied, " that he regarded the 

 scheme of obtaining so large a sum of money 

 as the State immediately requires by the pay- 

 ment of exorbitant rates of interest, regulated 

 only by the option of the lender, as wholly im- 

 practicable ; and he recommended the appoint- 

 ment by the Legislature of a Committee of Fi- 

 nance to raise the amount of money necessary 

 and sufficient to save the credit of the State 

 from disgrace." 



In response to this, the Special Committee 

 on Finance reported that the appointment of 

 such a commission would involve a radical 

 change in the financial system of the State, 

 which it would be inexpedient to inaugurate 

 at this late day of the session. The committee 

 were also of opinion that proper effort under 

 the existing laws would readily obtain the ne 



