New Hampshire Statesman And State Journal

BALTIMORE, Md., July 7, 1847.

To the Editor of the N H Statesman: I learn from the papers that James K. Polk, as President of the United States, last week paid a flying visit to the capital of New Hampshire, and that he was there received with prolonged shouts and heartfelt cheering. In this respect it would seem that he was much more fortunate there than in Baltimore. On his journey north his arrival at the Mount Clare Depot was announced by guns from the Artillery stationed at the intersection of Cove and Pratt Streets, and nearly opposite the old Woodfolk slave prison, the escort being ready in Cove Street to receive him. The car with the President and suite on board soon approached, but the people there assembled were all very quiet. When the President passed from the car to the barouche, an attempt was made to raise a hurrah, but it all fell flat. His friends it seems had not taken the precaution to appoint managers to attend to that business, and the hurrahs would not come spontaneously. I had not seen Mr Polk, to observe him particularly, for about two years, and I think I never saw any man before who had grown old so much in looks and appearance in that space of time. The Presidency of the United States, with the bloody and expensive Mexican war on hand, I should not regard a very desirable station. From Pratt street the procession moved in a zigzag direction up Cove, down Lombard, up Hanover, and Gay streets to the Exchange. I went with the crowd on the route, and left Mr. Polk in the rotunda of the Exchange, shaking hands and bowing to the sovereign people, rejoicing in my liberty to escape from a crowded room and suffocating atmosphere. The military companies in the escort made a brilliant display, and the bands of music performed their parts well. But as to enthusiasm on the occasion, it existed only in the imagination of some of the writers for the papers. Some of the Baltimore volunteers have returned from Mexico. Their sufferings have been great, especially they say for the want of water. I hear of none of them who will return to the wars. From the scope and tone of some of the administration letter writers from Washington to this city, it appears that Mr. Polk and some of his cabinet are themselves growing horrid sick of the war, and that their plan now is for Scott, if possible, to set up in Mexico a man-of-straw government with which to make a treaty something like perhaps the treaty got up by Schermerhorn with some of the Indians, under cover of which to back out from Mexican territory. But no project of this kind can bring about a permanent peace.

T.