The Merrimack River: its source and its tributaries. Embracing a history of manufactures, and of the towns along its course; their geography, topography, and products, with a description of the magnificent natural scenery about its upper waters./ By J. W. Meader.

ITS SOURCE AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
opponent; and thus, before he had reached his forty-eighth year, he
was president-elect of this great nation.
During the campaign which resulted in his elevation he encountered obloquy, vituperation, and even calumny, unsurpassed, perhaps,
by the fierce and heated canvasses of Jefferson and Jackson, while his
administration was assailed, as all administrations before and since
have been, with or without cause. Still it may be considered as
proof, as far as it goes, that this persistent and malignant opposition
was groundless, as retrospection and the lapse of time have softened
political asperities, and a land burdened with grief, taxation, debt,
and sectional animosity would rejoice at the return of those palmy
days of the Republic.
Gen. Pierce being remarkably urbane and courteous by nature, as
well as from a sense of duty, to all men, friend and opponent alike,
without regard to station or position, very properly, when it is his
legitimate and unquestioned right, exacts it for himself; and, recently,
when a person in high official station offered him a gross and premeditated indignity, it afforded even his opponents pleasure to see him
-only a private citizen - bring the official offender promptly and
humbly to his knees.
Ex-President Pierce has been a resident of Concord for the past
thirty years, and has been uniformly an active promoter of all its
interests. Generous to a fault, he dispenses his moderate means in
the most effective way to alleviate suffering and want, and sad hearts,
filled-ith gloom and dark despair, are illuminated by his sympathy
and gladdened by his material bounty.
Hon. Isaac Hill was a resident of Concord for more than forty
years. Hie commenced life as a journeyman printer, but rose to be
an editor, and wielded a powerful political influence in New Ilampshire for mnany years. Energetic, enterprising, and benevolent, most
decidedly democratic in all his notions, and possessed of good intellectual abilities of the positive kind, he vaulted into popular favor
and was honored with many positions of trust and profit, among
which may be mentioned State and United States Senator and
Governor of New Hampshire.' He died in 1850. Ex-Governor
Kent, of Mlaine, a gentleman of superior abilities, was also a native
of Concord.
That Concord is not a transient place is shown by the fact that the
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