. Almon Danforth Hodges and his neighbors . making his markand being appointed chairman of several important commit-tees, and then, things having calmed down, declined anothernomination. In 1856, when the Republican party, fighting for principleswhich he earnestly advocated, was in a minority and his de-feat was practically certain, he ran for the legislature inMassachusetts. He lost the election, very much to mycomfort. But when immediately thereafter he was offered * 1838, April 12. Taken sick with inflammatory rheumatism and con-fined to the bed nearly five weeks. April IS, Election Day. Di
. Almon Danforth Hodges and his neighbors . making his markand being appointed chairman of several important commit-tees, and then, things having calmed down, declined anothernomination. In 1856, when the Republican party, fighting for principleswhich he earnestly advocated, was in a minority and his de-feat was practically certain, he ran for the legislature inMassachusetts. He lost the election, very much to mycomfort. But when immediately thereafter he was offered * 1838, April 12. Taken sick with inflammatory rheumatism and con-fined to the bed nearly five weeks. April IS, Election Day. Did notvote — the first time since I have had the privilege of voting [i. e., during16 years]. 122 BUSINESS LIFE IN PROVIDENCE. the nomination on the Republican and American tickets forMa^or of Roxbury, with good chances of success, he posi-tively declined. ^.,™. r>,^.r,r.^.r^,^., Hls poHtlcal convictious CITY CONVENTION, ^ RHODE-ISLxiND TICKET row, and he never was a mere partisan. Unswerv-ing loyalty to the govern- 1844. \ • \ I /. ment and obedience to thelaw formed apparently thefirst article of his creed,and the next was helpfulkindness to his be a good citizen, hedeclared, one must be agood neighbor. He wasoriginally a Whig; whenthe Whig party dissolved,he united with the Re-publicans. He was mild-ly conservative, objectingboth to radicalism andto Bourbonism, as theseterms were applied in hisdays. He was slow to an-ger and abhorred war, theevil effects of which wereearly impressed on him byhis father, who neverthe-less had served in the Rev-olution. When the irre-pressible conflict was beginning, he counselled deeming slavery a sin and an error, he would endit rather by purchasing the slaves from their owners and set-ting them free, than by employing violent measures. While FOR SENATOR, •SJLBEUT C, GSEEJVE, FOR REPRESENTATIVES, ESEK ALDRICH,SAMUEL. AMES,STEPHEN BKAl«Cir,JABEZ OORHAM,ALMON D. HODGES,SHUBAEIi HUTCHIJ\S,JAMES T. RHODE
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