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Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
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Editorial anticipates Democratic victory in upcoming election reminiscent of 1838, mocks Whig and Federalist efforts including figures like Tull Jinn and Dudley S. Palmer, accuses opponent newspapers of falsehoods about Democratic Convention, defends against claims of disturbance, notes discontinuation of Herald of Freedom, and mentions libel indictment.
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There are indications of a renewal of the political battle of 1838, in that which is to come off at the next election. The result, we have not a shadow of doubt, will now as then be favorable to the Democracy.
"Tull Jinn" is already in the field with "whip and spur"--having come home all the way from Iowa, to be made a member of Congress by the federalists (abolitionists and independents included) of his district. The report is current that he has already liberally contributed $200 for the campaign. Dudley S. Palmer, too, has been raised from the dead (we had supposed that he was permanently and decently buried at the expense of the whigs of the last legislature)--and placed at the head of a new federal-abolition-high-tariff-anti-war-disunion-temperance campaign paper, issued from the office of the Statesman under the superintendence of the whig central committee and yclept "The True Whig"--price 50 cents. All "true whigs" are requested to walk up and subscribe: otherwise the whig central committee's funds must suffer or the editor starve--one or the other.
The allied newspapers seem to be striving with each other to see which will tell the most infamous and the greatest number of falsehoods, made out of whole cloth, in relation to the recent Democratic State Convention. Thus far, the Deacon of the Statesman, with the assistance of his theological "man Friday," seems to have borne off the palm, and will probably receive a medal from the federal association for the diffusion of Roorbachs. Even the Munchausen Secretary of State, who receives $800 per annum from the State Treasury for conducting Hale's state organ, is left entirely in the shade--and the bully editor of the Granite Freeman, who assisted last June to transfer the Liberty party over to the whigs for a consideration, can't hold a candle to the Statesman. In the matter of getting up Roorbachs the Statesman is something fabulous. The practice which it had in 1840 and 1844 in getting out Pennsylvania "news"--(in the latter case the Deacon was obliged to stay at home from meeting so as to print the "Extra" on Sunday)--may perhaps account for the facility with which it out-vies all its federal coadjutors in the present case.
*(His interference at the head of the federal mob at the Democratic Convention entitles him to the appellation
Mr. F. Low, in yesterday's Courier and Gazette, in relation to a paragraph which appeared in our last relative to the disturbers of the Democratic Convention, writes--"I was at no meeting or convention whatever on Thursday, the 15th inst.; neither was I in the State House at any time during that day." Now we happened to stand within ten feet of Messrs. F. Low and R. Morse in the State House yard (not "in the State House,"), a few minutes before the adjournment of the Democratic Convention. Morse called out for "three cheers for Barstow," which he and the said Low gave, accompanied by the voices of a few other federalists stationed at different points in the crowd. This we saw with our own eyes, heard with our own ears, and are ready to testify to before a magistrate. We noticed this matter last week, with no other personal motives than to show who, and what kind of "Independent Democrats," certain individuals engaged in disturbing the democratic convention were. If some of the parties concerned feel a little sore, we would advise them to put the best possible face on the matter, and keep clear of such rows in future.
The publication of "The Herald of Freedom," in this place, has been discontinued, Mr. Rogers, its late editor, having deceased. Pillsbury's "Herald of Freedom" has been discontinued for some time.
The editor of the Courier says--"We learn from The Herald of Freedom that we have been indicted for a libel on the character of John R. French." Mr. French is a prominent non-resistant of this town.
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Renewal Of 1838 Political Campaign Favoring Democracy
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Pro Democracy, Anti Whig/Federalist, Satirical Mockery
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