The book New Hampshire : An Epitome of Popular Government was written by author F B Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Here you can read free online of New Hampshire : An Epitome of Popular Government book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is New Hampshire : An Epitome of Popular Government a good or bad book?
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" Whatever Langdon's other talents were, he had THE GREAT AND LITTLE MEN 269 the talent for success, and the modesty which too rarely goes with it. His party, to which he ad- hered as faithfully as he had championed the pa- triot cause in the Revolution, would have elected him Vice-President in 1812, had he not declined. He had wished, the year before, to decline reelec- tion as governor, but so great was the wish of his friends to vote for him that he was persuaded to stand, and it was while i...n this office that he refused to be Vice-President. He told Plumer, his successor, that " if his motives were purely selfish, and regarded his own reputation, he should never again appear in public, and was impatient to retire to private life. " In his two letters declining the vice-presidency, he said : — " I beg leave to add that I am now [June, 1812] seventy-one years of age, my faculties blunted, have lived the last forty years of my life in the Avhlrlpool of poh- tics, and am longing for the sweets of retirement.
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