The New Hampshire Gazette

Politics and piety, or rather Impiety.--This Tristram Burges, of Rhode-Island, has some curious things in his late speech at the Pawtucket barbecue. Clay has given the cue to all his partisans throughout the country. Eating drinking and praying are all the go now-a-days. At the close of his late speech, Tristram, alluding to Jackson's election, followed the Premier's suit in the following strain:

"If the God of our fathers have not clean forsaken his children, we shall be saved from this disastrous destiny, [the election of Jackson.]"

These impious appeals to Heaven have often been made, by the same person too, but we never yet heard that they were listened to. This same gentleman, even Tristram Burges, some years after the elder Adams was driven from power for political errors and blunders, pronounced an oration from which we extract a passage as follows.

"When Adams [old John Adams] surrendered up to Jefferson, the sanctuary of our liberty, honor and union, it was pure and undefiled, a praise and a glory to the whole earth. It has since been polluted with the ceremonial of democracy."

Surely God [here comes the piety] for some strange purpose has permitted the dark mist of strong delusion [of democracy] to be spread over our country that we might believe a lie.

In less than a year, Tristram will have an opportunity to repeat this passage in his next oration, thus--"when Adams surrendered up to Jackson, &c. It will fit the times admirably.---But one word on the idea here conveyed. Is not such impiety shocking to moral ears--such unscrupulous appeals to high heaven for mere ambitious, mere personal objects? Too much learning and too little good sense have certainly made the Adams party mad.--N. Y. Enq.