New Hampshire Statesman And Concord Register

THE STATESMAN.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1831.

STATE CONVENTION.

The call of the Central Committee of the Republican Party for a State CONVENTION in this town, on Wednesday last, was very generally responded to by our friends in the various sections of the State. Almost every town, as near as we can learn, appointed Delegates—but the severity of the storm, the day preceding, was so great as to prevent many from attending. As it was, however, the Convention numbered about 200 and a better spirit we have seldom if ever seen manifested. The Convention was organized by choosing the Hon. JOSHUA DARLING, of Henniker, Chairman, and RICHARD BARTLETT and David Steele, Esqs., Secretaries.—

We do not undertake to give the official proceedings, not being present ourselves, and not having had access to the necessary documents—but we learn that a Committee was appointed to examine credentials—a Committee to report the proper business to be acted upon by the meeting—several spirited Resolutions and an Address were adopted—and the Convention in the course of the day and evening was addressed in an eloquent and impressive manner, by the Hon. James Wilson, Jr. of Keene, Leonard Jarvis, Esq. of Claremont, and Richard Bartlett, Esq. of Concord. The remarks of some or all these gentlemen will hereafter be given in substance to the public—but we would now take occasion to observe, that those which fell from Dr. Jarvis were of peculiar force, from the fact that he is a recent convert from Jacksonism—that two years ago he presided at a Jackson dinner in his town or county—and such is his engagedness in the good cause of the Union of the States and the protection of Domestic Industry, and such his strong apprehension of the subversion of them by the undermining policy of the present corrupt administration, that he came through the severity of the storm, fifty miles, as a volunteer to the Convention, to make public the reasons of his change, and to warn the people against submitting to the prostration of their dearest rights and interest. His remarks are said to have been listened to with great attention & respect.

The Convention in the course of its sitting balloted twice for a candidate for the office of Governor. On the first balloting the votes were nearly all cast for Gen. UPHAM, who, however, through Mr. Parrott, of Portsmouth, declined the nomination. On the second balloting, 188 out of 193 votes were given for the Hon. ICHABOD BARTLETT: and we are happy to learn that he has submitted himself to the disposal of his friends, in this matter, and will receive the cordial support of the National Republican Party at the coming election.

The nominations for Congress were made by the delegates from the respective Counties, in district meetings and reported to—and approved by the State Convention. The candidates are such as to give personally very general satisfaction. The only dissatisfaction we have heard expressed has arisen from the fact of there being on the proposed ticket a large proportion of the profession of the law. This circumstance, which we confess is to be regretted, and by none perhaps more than by some of the very candidates themselves, arose not from any disrespect to the farming or mechanical interests, in the minds of the Convention, but from the manner in which the nominations happened to be made. The County Conventions being held at the same time, no one County could know on whom the choice of another County had centered—and, when the reports came to be made to the General Convention, the result was as it is. The proportion of legal gentlemen is no greater than has heretofore, in our most republican times, been discovered on our Congressional Ticket—but still we admit it is an undue proportion. The Ticket, however, in any event—whether all Lawyers, or all Doctors, or Farmers, or Mechanics—must be better than our present ring-streaked and speckled Representation. This the people well know, and are therefore prepared to support any respectable Ticket for a change.

The other nominations published in this day's paper will be found to exhibit a good proportion of representatives of the farming and other important interests. As a whole we commend our ticket most cordially to the hearty support of every true citizen of the Granite State, and pray for the people a good deliverance from the present misrule and misrepresentation of a portion of our public servants.