5898. NEW HAMPSHIRE, Republicanism in.—
Although we have not yet got a
majority into the fold of republicanism in your
State, yet one long pull more will effect it,
* * * unless it be true, as is sometimes said,
that New Hampshire is but a satellite of Massachusetts.
In this last State, the public sentiment
seems to be under some influence additional
to that of the clergy and lawyers. I
suspect there must be a leaven of State pride at
seeing itself deserted by the public opinion,
and that their late popular song of “Rule New
England” betrays one principle of their present
variance from the Union. But I am in hopes
they will in time discover that the shortest road
to rule is to join the majority.—
To John Langdon.
Ford ed., viii, 161.
(W.
June. 1802)
