We have talked of elections until there is nothing more to say about them.
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Remarks in Response to a Serenade
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The expediency of any legislation upon the subject is submitted for your consideration.
With deep gratitude to my countrymen for this mark of their confidence; with a distrust of my own ability to perform the duty required under the most favorable circumstances, and now rendered doubly difficult by existing national perils; yet with a firm reliance on the strength of our free government, and the eventual loyalty of the people to the just principles upon which it is founded, and above all with an unshaken faith in the Supreme Ruler of nations, I accept this trust.
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.
He has gone in again at Savannah, and I propose three cheers for his coming out gloriously.





