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Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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Upcoming New Hampshire election draws intense interest amid efforts by Democrats using money and patronage to defeat John P. Hale's supporters, following surprise last election result; Washington correspondent reveals fundraising by office-holders and Southern members against Hale's abolitionism.
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The result of your last election astonished everybody here; and nobody more than the New Hampshire delegation. On your next election all eyes are turned. And were it not for violating the confidence of private intercourse, I could tell you of some other things which nearly affect your present position. Everything that money and the patronage of the government here can do, will be done to break down the friends of Mr. Hale. At this time, a large sum of money is being raised among the office-holders, and certain Southern members of Congress, for these purposes of your election. It is this golden fleece which drew so many of your Democratic editors to this city, in the early part of the session. One of the Virginia members said to me yesterday, 'I have forty as good niggers as ever hoed tobacco; and I had rather hear to-morrow, that every mother's son of them lay a corpse on my plantation, than that John P. Hale should come his d—d abolition stuff in New-Hampshire.'
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New Hampshire, Washington
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Intense interest in the upcoming New Hampshire State Election focuses on equal rights. The pseudo Democratic party seeks victory through money and government patronage to defeat friends of Mr. Hale. A Washington correspondent reports astonishment at the last election result and efforts including funds from office-holders and Southern Congress members. A Virginia member expresses strong opposition to Hale's abolitionism.