Excerpt from New Hampshire: An Epitome of Popular Government Such a chronicle I have sought to present, rather than a volume of consecutive annals, which spares us no event, however trivial. Trifles are often the hinges on which great revolutions turn; but the tendencies that develop a free state of free citizens are not shaped by trifiers nor depicted in minute analysis. Men that lead and men that follow are there needed, and it has been the good fortune of New Hampshire that she has ever had leaders, and never lacked the modest good sense to follow where they led. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.