New Hampshire Statesman

We would ask the editor in question, (the Statesman) whether, supposing a vacancy should occur in Mr. Peaslee's district at this time, the people of Bow, Dunbarton, Henniker and Hopkinton, could participate in a new election there.-Haverhill Republican.

If a vacancy should occur by the death or resignation of Gen. Peaslee, "the people of Bow, Dunbarton, Henniker and Hopkinton, could participate in a new election there," and why not? These four towns comprised a part of the district that elected Gen. Peaslee, their votes helped elect him, and he is their representative, and if an election is to be held to fill a vacancy vacated by the death or resignation of Gen. Peaslee, of course these towns are a part of that vacancy. The new district law can only apply to the next Congress, and as the towns above named were never any part of the constituency of Gen. Wilson, of course they ought not to participate in an election to fill the vacancy of Gen. Wilson. We repeat, if Gen. Peaslee should vacate his seat, these towns have an undoubted right to vote to fill the vacancy, for they are a part of it, but not being nor never having been any part of the constituency of Gen. Wilson they have no right to vote to fill his vacancy. We leave it to the astute editor of the Republican to make a different show of the matter if he can.