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was followed by a mob of Democrats, or Van Buren men, for about three miles, who filled the air with curses and heaped all manner of imprecations upon the heads of the Whigs. The cabin and horses were guarded by a file of policeman on each side, so that no harm was done, although at some distance outside the city a powder mine had been laid to blow up the cabin with its occupants, and a villain was about to apply a match to it when he was seized by a policeman and hurried off to the lockup. About this time the mob found it convenient to disperse.

CHAPTER XIX.

CHANGES IN BUSINESS AND A NEW WIFE.

R. Hildreth's publications in Lowell were

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the Morning News," (daily.) the "Literary Souvenir." (weekly.) and Ladies' Literary Repository." (semi-monthly.) The daily paper was not sufficiently supported, and after a while its publication was discontinued. But the Souve nir" and Repository" were quite popular, and had a good circulation both in Lowell and throughout New England.

After the death of his wife discouragements came and Mr. Hildreth sold out his subscription lists and business in Lowell to a Methodist clergyman and an Abolitionist lecturer. These men paid but little at the time of purchase and gave their notes for the balance. But the notes were never paid. This was in the winter of 1842.

After selling out in Lowell Mr. Hildreth removed to Boston, where he connected himself for a time with the celebrated printing house of Mr. S. N. Dickinson, on Washington street, a man who did more to improve the art of printing than any other one in America had done previous to that time. In the mean time Mr. Hildreth had

married again, this time to a young lady named Olive Freeman Fuller, of Paris, Oxford county, Maine. This young woman possessed great sweetness of temper and amiability of character, and once more happiness seemed in store for the newly married couple.

In the fall of 1842 Mr. Asa Low of Bradford, Orange county, Vermont, then visiting Boston, sought and found Mr. Hildreth, and induced him. to remove to Bradford and there establish the printing and publishing business. This Mr. Low was one of the most energetic and active business men in Vermont. He was a large wool-buyer, and had for many years bought wool raised by Mr. Hildreth's father, Of course he knew the family well, and especially the son who had attended school several terms in the Bradford Academy.

On one occasion, after Mr. Hildreth had commenced the newspaper business in Lowell, he happened to be in Bradford, and, passing the office of Mr. Low, some one in there remarked, "there goes Mr. Hildreth." "Call him in," said Mr. Low. After inquiry about his Lowell business, Mr. Low took two dollars from the money drawer and handed it to him, saying, "I want to help you a little-send your paper to my two daughters, Helen and Caroline Low."

Mr. Low had a high opinion of Mr. Hildreth's fidelity and capabilities. He was engaged in the manufacture of paper quite extensively, also blank books and book-binding generally, and this was in addition to his large mercantile establishment and

various other branches of business. He wished to start the work of printing and publishing school books; and being a strong Whig and protective tariff man, he desired the publication of a Henry Clay, Whig, Tariff, Protection Newspaper. This all comported with the views of Mr. Hildreth and he readily agreed to the arrangement. For ten years he carried on the business of printing and publishing in Bradford. He not only printed school books of different kinds, but published also a monthly magazine called the "Green Mountain Gem," and two different weekly newspapers, one called the "American Protector," a high tariff or protectionist paper, which advocated the election. of Henry Clay for President, and next, the "Vermont Family Gazette," a literary and family paper which was substituted for the "Protector" after the defeat of Henry Clay in 1844.

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The labors, both mental and physical, performed by Mr. Hildreth during these ten years in Bradford were the most exacting and arduous of his whole life. Times were hard and money scarce. The Protector" newspaper did not pay expenses, although the doctrine of protection to American industry, as put forth by Henry Clay and advocated by this journal, was popular in Vermont.

With the defeat of Clay in his aspirations for the Presidency, subsided the hopes and energies of the protection or Whig party in Vermont, as well as throughout the Union. It was therefore found necessary to discontinue the publication of the

"Protector," and the Family Gazette" took its place. This latter journal soon became popular throughout Vermont, had a good circulation, and. in connection with the Green Mountain Gem." gave its enterprising publisher a comfortable support. The publication of these two works was continued till 1852, when a favorable opportunity for selling out the business presented itself and Mr. Hildreth availed himself of it. The purchaser was Elizur Southworth, a returned Californian. who paid for his purchase in gold. He removed the establishment to White River Junction, Vt.. and in a short time afterwards the entire property was consumed by fire.

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