Memoirs of John Adams Dix; comp. by his son, Morgan Dix.

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MEMOIRS OF JOHN ADAMS DIX.

Tammany Hall: Ratification.............. Speech published.
' 150,000 copies published
Newburgh, N. Y....................July 26. 0,00 copie
0Ne brh N.YJuy2 by National Committee.
White Plains, N. Y................Aug. 7.
Hillsborough, N. H................. " 19. Speech published.
Trenton, N. J........................Sept. 15.
Augusta, M e........................... 22.
Washington Valley...............Oct. 5.
K ingston............................... " 11.
U tica.................................... 13.
Onondaga Hollow................. 14.
Seneca Falls.................... 15.
Rome......................... 16.
P ulaski................................ 18.
F ulton.................................. 19.
Oswego................................. 20.
M anlius................................ 21.
Ogdensburgh................... 23.
Watertown....................... 25.
Brookfield............................ 26.
Sangerfield............................ " 29.

The autumn elections brought victory to the Democrats.
The rout of the Whigs under their gallant and distinguished
leader, Major-general Winfield Scott, was complete: four
States only were carried by his friends. It was one of those
sweeping triumphs which result from the perfect union of a
party, and place the successful candidates under a moral obligation of the strongest kind to all who have aided in making
the victory complete.
F Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth President of the United
States, was a native of the State of New Hampshire; he came
i of one of its most respected families; an ancestor fought in the
j War of the Revolution; the descendants were Democrats of
I the Jackson school. A lawyer by profession, he had represented his native town in the Legislature and his State in the
j Senate; he had also seen service in the army under General
Scott during the operations against the city of Mexico. In
view of the hereditary and traditional sympathies between