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Excerpt from The Granite Monthly, Vol. 9
Mr. Burns has been a Republican since the formation of the party. His father was an active and prominent worker in that little band of anti-slavery agitators which existed in Milford before the great Rebellion, and as a boy young Burns was deeply impressed with the teachings of Parker Pillsbury, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, and Fred Douglass. When quite young his interest in the Republican cause, to gether with his aptitude for public speaking, led him to take the stump for his party. For years he has performed in this way the most efficient service for the Republican party, and, to-day, is one of its ablest and most eloquent stump speakers. In 1864 and 1865 he was elected county treasurer of Hillsborough County. In 1873, and again in 1879, he was a member of the New Hamp shire State Senate, serving during both terms as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and taking a prominent part in directing and shaping the legis lation of those years.
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