Richmond Enquirer

The Boston Atlas, which, by the way, is one of

its most reckless and infamous prints published this side

of New York, in announcing the triumph of the people

in the Old Dominion, uses the following language:

"Virginia has gone for Van Buren by a considerable

majority. The Old Dominion has become about as de-

graded in her political character as New Hampshire."

Does the beardless fop of the Atlas know the history

of the State that he calls politically degraded? Does he

know that such an event is recorded in the history of

America? We think not; or he never would have slan-

dered a people that have made so many sacrifices upon

the altar of Freedom, as have the sons of the Granite

State. Degraded: did you say? New Hampshire degra-

ded! The State, that in the darkest hour of our country's

history, poured forth her blood like water, pronounced

degraded, by an insolent, impudent, reckless advo-

cate of Revolutionary toryism!

Will the citizens

of Massachusetts countenance this foul libel upon the

character of their sister State? upon the State which

was the first to rush to the rescue in their hour of peril?

Look at your boasted Bunker Hill: Whose blood lies

there, mingled with the patriots of the Bay State?-

Who were the men in that fearful period that breasted

the fiery storm and struck the first efficient blow in de-

fence of the rights of man? Who were they? They

were the sons of the very State which a wretched thing

of yesterday calls "degraded!" New Hampshire can

proudly stand up amongst the independent sovereignties

of the Union and challenge them all to show a more bril-

liant succession of patriotic sacrifices than glows up-

on the pages of her history. It was her lassies

that equipped her Stark, and enabled him to lead

her citizen soldiers to check the onward rush of the

hosts of Britain and her myrmidons at Bennington -

To this gallant achievement was the Western part of

Massachusetts indebted for safety. This act, trifling

though it was, turned the tide of victory in favor

of the patriots, and resulted in the utter prostration

of their oppressors. No State of the Union furnished

more soldiers in proportion to her inhabitants than New

Hampshire, and history testifies that none were better.

Virginia and N. Hampshire in that trying period, fought

side by side; and when Britain with iron-handed despo-

tism again attempted to encroach upon the rights of the

Union, the Old Dominion and the Granite State were

found upon the side of their country. Where then was

Massachusetts? Where! In the hands of domestic trai-

tors, plotting treason with John Henry, and endeavoring

to dismember the sacred Union, the ark of our political

safety. And last, not least, at the present trying period,

when the old enemy of our free institutions is again in

the field, goaded on by the concentrated venom of half

a century, and armed to the teeth with every device that

political cunning can engender, Virginia and N. Hamp-

shire come arm in arm to the rescue, and strike home in

defence of the people. May it ever be thus with these

two gallant States. When their banners shall be array-

ed on opposite sides, then indeed shall we tremble for

the safety of the Republic.

It ill becomes the boy editor of the Atlas to apply

such foul slanders to this State, when, in his own City,

at every step, he must stumble upon some one of the

worthies, who, in the second war of independence, de-

graded themselves by degrading their country. If there

is any thing for which New Hampshire should blush, it

is, that one of her recreant sons should become the rail-

ing point of the treasonable Whig toryism of Massachu-

setts. Should the Granite State ever consent to be moved

about like Vermont, by the overbearing Aristocracy of

Boston, we will echo the sentiment of their wretched

caterer of the Atlas, and pronounce her "politically de-

graded."—N. H. Gazette.