History of New Hampshire, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from History of New Hampshire, Vol. 3 Population - The Country Boys - Industries - Political Rivalry - Vilifying of Candidates - Mr. Plumer's First Political Machine - Triumph of Organized Effort - Property and Education Rule - The Republicans Come to Power - Their First Legislative Acts - Senator Nahum Parker - Concord the State Capital - Decline of Business Affects Politics - The Embargo of 1807-9 - The Federalists again in Office - Hon. Jeremiah Smith - Opposition to President Jefferson - Election of Gov. William Plumer - His Inaugural Address - Sound Advice about Corporations - Accusations against Great Britain-State Prison Built in 1812 - Change in Courts - Sketch of Hon. Jeremiah Mason - The New Hampshire Patriot and Isaac Hill. The opening of the nineteenth century found New Hampshire with a population of 183, 868, about enough for a respectable city of the present time. These were scattered all over the State, wherever there was arable land, and many rocky slopes of its hills and mountains yielded scant returns to hard labor. But wants were few then, and farmers' boys were many, therefore the thrifty farmers, with economy and with scorn of privations, accumulated money enough to send their sons to college, the latter aiding by teaching school and doing farm work during vacations. Colleges for girls were then unknown, and so they took the earliest promising opportunity to get married, not often to the college boys, who went into the cities, but to some neighboring farmer or mechanic. The rural districts from that time to this have been raising live stock and boys. The latter have become the leaders of this and other States. Somehow the boys reared in the cities have not done their proportionate part in professional and political careers. The age of mechanical industries had not yet come. At Portsmouth there had been from the first settlement considerable shipbuilding, and also in the towns of Exeter, Durham, Dover and wherever tide water reached. Next to agriculture lumbering and shipbuilding were the principal industries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.