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The Rutland Herald
Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont
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The New Hampshire Loco Foco State Convention convened in Concord on Thursday, nominating Hon. John Atwood of New Boston for governor with 95 votes. Unanimous resolutions deprecated sectional issues and approved the state's congressional members' support for the Fugitive Slave Law.
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A series of resolutions was adopted unanimously, one of which deprecates sectional issues in our national councils, &c., and another approves of the course of the New Hampshire Locofoco members of Congress at the late session, both of whom voted for the Fugitive Slave law.
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Concord
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Thursday
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john atwood nominated for governor with 95 votes out of 174; resolutions adopted unanimously
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The N. H. Loco Foco State Convention met at Concord on Thursday, and nominated Hon. John Atwood, of New Boston, for Governor, by the following vote: Whole number, 174; necessary for a choice, 88. John Atwood 95, Thomas P. Treadwell 49, Noah Martin 21, Richard Jenness 7, scattering 1. A series of resolutions was adopted unanimously, one of which deprecates sectional issues in our national councils, &c., and another approves of the course of the New Hampshire Locofoco members of Congress at the late session, both of whom voted for the Fugitive Slave law.