The New Hampshire Gazette

THE IDENTICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE FEDERAL BLUE-LIGHTS OF 1814.

The Whigs of New York have come out with masks off, and nominated for a seat in the Legislature, David E. Ogden, the blue lights opponent of his country, during the last war. We make the following quotation from a New York paper, for the especial benefit of such members of the whig party in this country as profess to be democrats, and who opposed the election of Mr Van Buren, under the false impression that he had once been a member of the federal party. The best evidence of genuine democracy, is to renounce former or existing errors, and to cut loose entirely from federal whig associations. Read the following extract, and see if the nomination of such a man as David B. Ogden by the whigs, does not furnish sufficient inducement for every member of that party who believes himself a democrat, to turn from the error of his ways.

"On the 29th of January, 1814, during the last war with Great Britain, Mr Charles King offered in our house of Assembly his celebrated resolutions, which were finally passed by that body, the federalists having the majority, declaring that the war with England, in which our country was then engaged, was disastrous, destructive and ruinous.

On the 28th of January, 1814, as appears from the proceedings of the House of Assembly, reported for the Albany Register, Mr King's resolution came up for discussion, and Mr David B. Ogden, then a member of the House, said, in allusion to the war: "Had it been pronounced unjust, as well as destructive, I would, before God and my country, support the resolution." In the same articles, as appears from the same report, the same gentleman said, "that he had no disposition to disguise his censure of the war. He did not know whether the House was yet prepared to disapprove of it, but that the time would come when there would be but one sentiment on this subject." "Whatever might be the opinion on this subject, now, the people must eventually learn, they must know, that this is an iniquitous war, commenced with views very different from those avowed by its advocates; commenced, he believed for the purpose of humbling the importance of the Northern States. If gentlemen on the other side expect to amend these resolutions, so as impliedly to approve the war, they are mistaken."