New Hampshire Statesman

ONE OF THE FRAGMENTS.

For the N. H. Statesman.

POLITICAL CONSISTENCY.

Mr. Editor.—You never can expect to excel your learned brother of the Patriot, in the judicious selection of well written authentic articles (e.g. memoirs of the Countess of Guernsey) discussion of literary subjects, or in the length and breadth and height and depth of your thoughts on the tariff question; but you may hope to equal him in the consistency and integrity of your political course.

To read Mr. Hill's abuse of the federalists one would think that he could not draw his breath easy in the same state with a federalist, and yet it is not quite forgotten that he last March caused the name of a federalist to be printed with his old republican types, and circulated by his old republican mail carriers—and this he did, although two republicans of his own party had been put in nomination for the office of Representative to Congress.

Within a month, Mr. H. has abused the federal party for having more than twenty years ago allowed the Legislature to appoint the Electors of President of the U. States, and by so doing to use his own language, prevented the people of this State from having any more influence in the election of a President than the people of Great Britain have in the choice of a King.— And yet Mr. H. has been rejoicing in the Albany Argus account of the success of his Crawford brethren in New-York, whose avowed object is to prevent the people electing the electors.

Mr. H. recommends to the federal party to speak of their political opponents with more respect, and yet he has recently called all those of his own party, who oppose a caucus—mushroom republicans.

Mr. H. professes to be a great stickler for the rights and powers of his own State, and yet advocates a caucus through fear that if the election of a President should come into the House of Representatives, New-Hampshire will have more power than she ought to have.

AN OLD REPUBLICAN.