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NEW HAMPSII1EE. 



and Kailroad Commissioner. The convention 

 had a full attendance, 532 delegates being 

 present from all parts of the State. The nomi- 

 nations were as follows: for Governor, Person 

 0. Cheney, of Manchester ; for Eailroad Com- 

 missioner, William A. Peirce, of Portsmouth. 

 The nominations of the live candidates for 

 Councilors were remitted to district conven- 

 tions. The following platform was reported 

 from the Committee on Kesolutions, and unani- 

 mously adopted : 



The Republicans of New Hampshire, in conven- 

 tion assembled, declare in regard to national issues: 



1. The States are one arid indissoluble as a nation. 

 All citizens are equal under the laws, and entitled to 

 their fullest protection. 



2. Ours is a Government of the people, for the 

 people, and by the people. The national Constitu- 

 tion, and the Government established under it, the 

 State constitutions, and the governments established 

 under them, are the creation of the people, in their 

 primary capacity, and supreme in their respective 

 relations. 



3. The General Government is bound by the most 

 sacred obligation to preserve republican government 

 in all the States, and to protect tlie freedmen of the 

 South in the full, fair, and free exercise of every 

 right of citizenship. 



4. A just, generous, and forbearing policy toward 

 those lately in arms against the integrity of tne 

 Union, yet demanding a full recognition, in prac- 

 tice as well as in theory, of the letter and spirit of 

 the constitutional amendments, and all the laws of 

 Congress made in pursuance thereof. 



5. A tariff for revenue which shall be so adjusted 

 as to be the least burdensome and most favorable 

 to home industry and labor. 



6. A currency based on coin and which shall be 

 made redeemable in coin. Every consideration 

 which affects the common weal demands the speed- 

 iest possible return to specie payments. An irre- 

 deemable currency is a national evil, involving a 

 constant fluctuation in values, placing the earnings 

 of labor in the power of speculators, and working 

 untold demoralization in every department of hu- 

 man endeavor. 



7. Regarding as conclusive the President's decla- 

 ration that he is not a candidate for renomination, 

 and with the profoundest gratitude for his patri- 

 otic services in both military and civil life, we re- 

 affirm our unalterable opposition to the election of 

 any President for a third term. 



8. That the course of the present Administration, 

 in preserving peace with all nations, in liquidating 

 so large a portion of the public, debt, in conducting 

 the affairs of the nation with energy, economy, and 

 impartial justice, and in exposing and punishing 

 fraud and corruption wherever found, with the de- 

 termination to " let no guilty man escape," meets 

 our highest approbation, and commands our undi- 

 vided support. 



9. Our free public-school system is the bulwark 

 of American liberty. "We approve, therefore, the 

 proposed amendment to the Constitution of the 

 United States, declaring that "no money raised by 

 taxation in any State for the support of public 

 schools, or derived from any public fund therefor, 

 shall ever be placed under the coiitrol of any reli- 

 gious sect; nor shall any money so raised ever be 

 divided between religious sects or denominations." 

 We believe it to be the duty of the State, not only 

 to maintain the integrity of the common -school 

 system, but to do all that is needful so to increase 

 its efficiency as to secure the blessings of wise and 

 generous education to every child within Us bor- 

 ders. 



10. That the Republicans of New Hampshire ear- 



nestly desire a true reconciliation with their breth- 

 ren in the South, and welcome gladly all assurances 

 that this Centennial year will be made to contribute 

 to that end. 



11. That we cherish gratefully the services of our 

 veteran soldiers, and hereby express our unqualified 

 abhorrence of the action of the Democratic majority 

 in the national House of Representatives, in remov- 

 ing from places of employment about the Capitol 

 maimed Union veterans, and filling the vacancies 

 thus made with men whose only claim upon the ma- 

 jority is, that they fought to destroy this Union. 



12. Prudence and patriotism alike require that the 

 administration of the Government should continue 

 in the hands of the political organization which has 

 tilwuys been true to it, and not be given over to the 

 control of a party which has given ample evidence 

 of its purpose to falsify every profession of loyalty 

 to the amended Constitution, and of reform, wrung 

 from it by constant defeat. 



Touching matters relating especially to our own 

 State, this convention declaies: 



1. That the action of the Democratic Governor 

 and Council last June, in the matter of the vacancies 

 in senatorial districts two and four, was an open, 

 palpable usurpation of power, an overt encroach- 

 ment of the Executive Department upon the Legis- 

 lative branch of the Government, and a deliberate 

 subversion of the elective rights of the qualified 

 voters of this State. 



2. That we are in favor of a Constitutional Con- 

 vention, having for its olject such changes in the 

 constitution as are required by the progress of the 

 State in population, wealth, intelligence, and politi- 

 cal ideas. 



3. That we hail with unbounded satisfaction the 

 temperance reform movement which is making 

 such wonderful progress in our State, and we hereby 

 express our full and hearty sympathy with this and 

 every other moral reform which will tend to elevate 

 the character and promote the welfare of our people. 



4. That in presenting the name of our honored 

 Chief Magistrate, Person C. Cheney, for reelection, 

 we but give expression to the wish of every Repub- 

 lican of New Hampshire; and that his honest and 

 upright character, his generous public spirit, his 

 sympathy with every reform that can conduce to the 

 good of the people, and the dignity and capacity 

 with which he has discharged the duties of the office 

 of Governor during the past year, commend him 

 preeminently to the suffrages of the people. We 

 pledge him our undivided support, and a triumphant 

 reelection. 



5. That in nominating William A. Peirce as Rail- 

 road Commissioner, we present a candidate emi- 

 nently qualified for that position, and in every way 

 worthy of our suffrages. To him, also, we pledge 

 our full party strength . 



The convention then adjourned sine die ; and, 

 immediately after its adjournment, the dele- 

 gates from each district formed themselves 

 into separate conventions to choose candidates 

 for State Councilors, their several nominees 

 being as follows : First district, Charles A. 

 Foss, of Barrington; second district, Charles 

 A. Hackett, of Belmont ; third district, John 

 M. Parker, of Goffstown; fourth district, Al- 

 bert S. Scott, of Peterborough ; fifth district, 

 Evarts W. Farr, of Littleton. 



The Democratic State Convention was held 

 at Concord, on January 12th, with the very 

 full attendance of 625 delegates, representing 

 all the towns in the State. The nominations 

 were as follows : for Governor, Daniel Marcy, 

 he having received 614 votes out of 622, the 

 whole number cast; for Eailroad Commis- 



